Bug#830997: release.debian.org: Permission to consider dpkg-buildpackage -A bugs as RC

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Hi Santiago,

On 13/07/16 18:21, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Release Managers:
> 
> Back in November I started to check and report each and every source
> package for which "dpkg-buildpackage -A" fails.
> 
> Approximately 293 bugs so far have been filed about this issue:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=binary-indep;users=sanvila@debian.org
> 
> Most of them (182) are already fixed and a bunch of the remaining ones
> have patches available.
> 
> 
> With this report I'd like to ask for permission to consider this as a
> release goal for stretch. This way the bugs would be raised to serious
> and they would be treated like any other FTBFS bug.
> 
> Making this a release goal would mean that each and every package in
> stretch (once it's stable) would be suitable to be uploaded in
> source-only form. I think this feature would be particularly
> interesting for the security team.

Thanks for working on this. I'm all for doing this. But before introducing ~100
RC bugs, can you give me the intersection of the remaining affected packages and
the key packages?

https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.cgi

See the "Final list of 3345 key source packages"

Cheers,
Emilio