Bug#932795: Ethics of FTBFS bug reporting
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:34:53AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>...
> This is a Makefile bug in gcc-8-cross, a package which would qualify
> as "big". Maintainer did not initially believe it was a real bug,
> maybe because he built the package a lot of times in the past and the
> bug never happened to him.
>
> See what the maintainer did afterwards:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928424
>
> Would we say in this case that the package "requires" more than
> one CPU to build?
Noone denies that these are bugs.
The actual problem is an ethical one, more specifically you wanting to
have your "Please reproduce on a single-core machine and fix this"
bugs RC so that other people are forced to spend their time on fixing
them if they want their packages to stay in testing.
> To me it seems like a bug which may happen to anybody, and the fact
> that it did not happen in buildd.debian.org yet is due to pure chance.
>...
This is not pure chance.
There are no single-core buildds for release architectures,
and there will never be in the future.
gcc-8-cross is only built on architectures with strong autobuilders,
it is not built on ports architectures like hppa where the build
would take weeks.
This is a bug, but the practical benefits of fixing it would be zero.
cu
Adrian
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