On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:54:23PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > >>What causes FTBFS bugs now: > >>1. Bad Build-Depends. > > These are handled by the current system - they're trapped on the buildd. > > I think the point at hand ist that such broken uploads will cause a broken > package in unstable thus (possibly) preventing other maintainer's from entering > testing. > > While all this is new, I think that testing adds a certain additional delicacy > to dependencies. This in itself isn't that new, either, but the two points > together seem to seem be problematic and not properly addressed in the current > system. [0] Then it's a cleverly disguised variation on the "We should build everything against testing, not unstable" one. That also comes up fairly regularly, and has another pile of associated issues. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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