Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 04:35:16PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Nov 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If I would report hundreds of "dpkg-buildpackage -A" FTBFS bugs against 
> > stable, would you consider that a valuable contribution to unhide problems?
> 
> Packages in stable must build in stable.  If a package from stable FTBFS
> in stable, then yes, you should report these bugs: they are relevant for
> stable updates and security updates.

There must be hundreds of packages in jessie that build ok with
"dpkg-buildpackage" but not with "dpkg-buildpackage -A". That's why
being able to build with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" was made a release
goal for stretch (but not retroactively for jessie).

Thanks.