Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:42:18AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> What about if each freshly uploaded package which contains architecture any
> packages would enter kind of a staging area first and buildds grab these
> files from there. After each buildd was able to build a package the whole
> set with all architectures enters unstable at once.
>
I cannot see any real advantage for that, but for avoiding a FTBFS
reports proliferation. Also
a. Packages could become FTBFS later, when their dependency pkgs change.
b. They are already kept off testing (if there is a regression),
so what's the problem?
c. Very few packages are seriuosly broken on some archs. Their problems are
generally due either to compiler/binutils problems or upstream
coding. In both cases removing them on some archs could be a
profitable solution for releasing.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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