Packages with same ENVR in stable and testing repos (Re: next testing -> stable move for EPEL4 and EPEL5 prepared, details inside)

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
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> On 12.02.2009 21:36, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>>> I think the cause of this may be that packages are not being removed
>>> from -testing after being pushed to stable, not because packagers are
>>> rebuilding without bumping release.
>> Agreed, I think that is what has happened.
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> Clicking 10 or 20 seconds in the browser would have told you two it's 
> not the case for at least some of the packages (I guess the majority, 
> but I didn't check). Just picked the first one in the list:
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> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/SRPMS/obby-0.4.4-2.el4.src.rpm 
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> 12-Dec-2007 14:55
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> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/testing/4/SRPMS/obby-0.4.4-2.el4.src.rpm 
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> 14-May-2008 11:18
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> And it are definitely different builds:
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> [thl at thl ~]$ repoquery --repoid epel4 --qf '%{buildtime}' obby.x86_64
> 1197477479
> [thl at thl ~]$ repoquery --repoid epel4-testing --qf '%{buildtime}' 
> obby.x86_64
> 1210359424
> [thl at thl ~]$
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> Spec files are identical, nevertheless that's not what we want.
/me does not get it. Does it mean that those packages passed twice the 
"make build" step ? And if the answer is "yes", why would that happen ?