On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:19:10 +0100 Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder how old a package build can be to be part of the release. > Some packages are built up to a year ago, and rebuilding them now > FTBFS. What to do, file a bug or accept status quo? > > Thanks! In summary: Everything released in Jessie must build on Jessie. That's why we have intermittent archive-wide rebuilds (which are typically only on amd64). We don't routinely rebuild the entire archive prior to the release but we need to be able to do so. Criteria are: * A package which FTBFS in a clean Jessie build environment and * on a release architecture and * where there is no existing bug and * the package has previously built on that architecture -> file a FTBFS RC bug with full build log. (arm64 & ppc64el are both release arches for Jessie but FTBFS in packages which have never built on either of those are not RC.) If it only fails on a non-release architecture, file a normal or possibly important bug. None of this is new for the Jessie release. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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