Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> Hi Roger,
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Because unstable was changing between the rebuilds, some of the
>> failures are likely due to churn, including multiarch work, so a
>> failure does not necessarily implicate the patch being tested.
>
> I'm surprised that the build environment was continuing to track updates to
> unstable at this time, as opposed to using a static mirror.  That's an
> unfortunate source of noise in the data; how can we get the list of packages
> that failed to build with autodetection that didn't fail with 'debian/rules
> build', to determine if they are indeed false positives?
>
> Thanks,

The build process should pick a source and then build all flavours in
one go. Only then continue with the next source. Sources that FTBFS the
old way could skip all the other flavours.

MfG
        Goswin