Re: Exclicitly or "implicitly" mark architectures a packages does not build
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 05:44:31PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I can confirm that it also affects arch:all packages. But why shouldn't
> > it be possible to detect this automatically also in this case?
>
> because a build on any architecture will make the arch:all package
> appear and then you cannot know whether it's a known missing feature
> that the package doesnt build on $arch
Sure you can know. You can calculate from UDD on what architecture
you can create the arch:all package and on what you can't.
> (or a new problem) or you would
> need to introduce state tracking and then you still wouldn't know
> whether a build failure on $arch is a new problem or an old problem,
> because maybe it's a temporary problem...
Since you can also query UDD whether a missing package has was there (at
least on a previous release) you can know this as well.
May be I should write an according query and than close all those
bugs ...
Kind regards
Andreas.
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