Re: Problems found by piuparts

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi> writes:

> pe, 2006-02-24 kello 18:27 -0300, Gustavo Franco kirjoitti:
>> I would be glad to help with a web interface to show the piuparts html
>> results in a organized way
>
> Something like piuparts-report.py?
>
> Anyway, I think it is more productive if package maintainers run
> piuparts themselves, and then people running piuparts centrally
> reporting bugs. The lintian.debian.org experience seems to be that
> having lots of info on the web is nice, but filing bug reports actually
> gets things fixed.
>
> As it happens, however, there is work going on in getting a centralized
> machine to run piuparts testing, and that machine will be used to
> publish logs and statistics. I haven't done that so far because the logs
> are big, and I don't have gigabytes of disk space and bandwidth to spend
> on them.

I think it would be best for the buildd to run this and append the
result to the buildd log. Errors will be different on some archs and
buildd admins can sometimes catch serious issues before signing the
package.

MfG
        Goswin