Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A
Santiago Vila wrote:
> I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built
> using "dpkg-buildpackage -A".
>
> This is not only a violation of policy, but also prevents the package
> from being uploaded in source-only form, as the architecture-independent
> packages are generated by a dedicated "Arch: all" autobuilder which
> does exactly "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and nothing else.
Thanks for checking this and for filing bugs on this.
> As the number of bugs is going to be greater than ten, I hereby
> announce my intent to report as many bugs of this type as I found.
Please do.
> I think those are clearly bugs, and they should be reported.
> The only thing that may be unclear is the severity. I would like this
> to be RC in some not too distant future (to be on par with ordinary
> "dpkg-buildpackage"), but for now I think "severity: important" would
> be appropriate here.
These bugs represent policy violations; by definition, policy violations
default to "Severity: serious".
I would suggest filing these bugs as "serious", but also explicitly
tagging the versions affected, as the bugs almost certainly affect the
versions in testing as well. As long as you tag the affected versions,
the bugs won't actually prevent migration to testing.
- Josh Triplett
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