display of time of removal requests is ambiguous - can be read as time for removal was time of request

[William Grant]

After having vlc redemoted (to finish the saga replayed in my previous Soyuz bug), the superseded SPP declares that it has had its removal requested... tomorrow. I find it somewhat scary that it should know this.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Willian, this is normal, the publication in universe 'dominated' the one in multiverse, since it had no binaries at that moment it it could already be removed from disk after waiting 24 hours (stay-of-execution time used for the ubuntu PRIMARY archive).

The death-row code will realize it's not really a removal but yet a move when it's time.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Ah, so it's not like the other timestamps. 'Published on somedate' means it was published on that date, while 'Removal requested on somedate' doesn't mean the removal was requested on that date, but rather it was requested at some other time that it be removed on that date. I see.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This is confusing. I suggest instead saying "Removal requested 1 hour ago — will be removed in 23 hours". For removals that have already happened, this would be "Removal requested 30 hours ago — removed 6 hours ago" etc.