Re: Let's start using standard Salsa CI instead of custom Go team custom `test_the_archive` job

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> On this list we have had several discussions about CI. Historically there has been a debian/gitlab-ci.yml that ran a custom Go `test_the_archive` job on a custom Go runner. As discussed on this list several times in past year, it does not seem to provide much value right now, as it does not fail even if the package itself is unbuildable.
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Could you do better research before proposing changes? The two CI have
different goals which I have explained in several emails. If people
want to improve the CI, they could spend time fixing the
test_the_archive job. If people want alternatives, now it has.
Debusine can test the reverse deps, although in an inefficient way.


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Shengjing Zhu