Bug#844264: release.debian.org: Please clarify "Packages must autobuild without failure"

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Any progress on this?

In case it helps, I made a list of bugs in this FTBFS-randomly category:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-randomly;users=sanvila@debian.org

In almost all cases, the failure happens because there is a test which
fails.

So: Why do we allow tests to make the package to fail if we then do
not consider the failure to be RC?

IMO, either the program is ok when the test fails, or it's not.

In the first case, a test failure should not make the package to fail.

In the second case, the package should not be allowed in testing and
the bug should be RC.

But what I see here (in some cases) is very inconsistent: We allow the
package to fail when a test fail, but we then do not consider the
failure to be RC. Please help me to put an end to such inconsistency.

Thanks.