Re: packages expected to fail on some archs
Guillem Jover, le mer. 14 sept. 2022 13:38:01 +0200, a ecrit:
> Something else to consider is that, for packages that make sense
> porting, deny-listing them from building means we do not have build
> failure logs, so deciding what to port or trying to check for patterns
> becomes more costly for humans,
Yes!
> of course at the cost of potentially throwing at it buildd resources.
Ports buildd maintainers can blacklist packages easily if they are seen
to hog buildd resources. That's easier for them to maintain than having
to get a package uploaded.
> we already had something similar with the Packages-arch-specific file,
> but my understanding is that we are moving away from it?
Yes we are because it's tedious to update.
Samuel
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