Re: Use and abuse of the unreproducible tag
On 13.09.2016 18:25, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 2016-09-13 12:55, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 09/13/2016 01:49 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
>>> You can't reproduce it, or you don't want to reproduce it?
>>
>> I added the tag because I couldn't reproduce the issue in unstable where
>> we build our packages. It's great that it's reproducible in testing, but
>> we don't upload to testing.
>
> Sometimes we do...
>
> In any case, that's not the point. Testing is what will become stable. Packages
> in stable need to be buildable on stable (for security updates and point
> releases) and "does the package currently build in testing?" is the best
> approximation we can have to "will the package build when it's in stable?".
>
>> I consider the tag appropriate, if there is
>> consensus in the project that it's not feel free to remove the tags again.
>
> Regardless of whether there's consensus that you agree with, it's an RC bug to
> not build within the same release, and has been for several releases now.
so the solution is easy. just implement a check that the package still builds
reproducible in testing *before* it migrates to testing?
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