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Re: What should an autobuilder do?



steven.robbins@videotron.ca (Steve M. Robbins) writes:

> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:21:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> The main question is: what is the advantage of making the autobuilders
> so brittle that they fall over on the slightest mistake, causing their
> keepers a lot of extra work going through reams of failed build logs?

In the end, it makes the quality of Debian packages go up.  

It's intriguing how many of the packages that fail to autobuild do so for 
things that aren't even subtle.  We can, collectively, do better than that.

Bdale



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