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Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]



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.

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