Re: Building architecture:all packages

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Nov 11 2016, Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> b) This is a serious issue as John D. Rebuilder should be free to choose
>    on which architecture to build "src:foo".
>
> Personally, I tend to b) since
>
> * there is no sane way for the maintainer to tell the world which
>   architecture should be used to rebuild this package. The .buildinfo
>   file will solve this, still
> * it is certainly rather unfriendly to expect John to have a box for
>   that particular architecture just to be able to do the rebuilding.

That's a good theoretical argument. But in practice, I think the subset
of architectures for which bar works correctly will always include
amd64, and John D. Rebuilder will have access to such a box for sure.

> In my opinion "src:foo" should see a "serious" bug report FTFBS,
> although it's just a victim of "bar". What about "bar"?
>
> Other suggestions?

Just fix it in "bar", and don't bother worrying about the right
severity?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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