Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:24:59AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
>
>> IMO, we should trust the maintainer and their decisions until there is
>> no experience that it doesn't work. Which means: keep the maintainer
>> fully responsible on the package, including the ability to lower
>> severity of a CI test or any other bug. Only if we experience that this
>> doesn't work, we need other measures.
>
> Well, it does not work:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843038#10
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841098#78

This comes out of different interpretations of whether builds that
sometimes fail (but often not) are RC buggy. You know that also I have a
different opinion here.

So, if you really want to have your interpretation to be the commonly
accepted one, you should discuss it here and see whether you reach a
common acceptance with your interpretation.

Otherwise it is IMO OK if a package maintainer has her own idea of
whether an occaisonal build failure is RC.

Best regards

Ole