Packages which FTBFS randomly (was: Bug#841362: maven-enforcer: makes several packages to FTBFS)
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 20/10/2016 à 00:06, Santiago Vila a écrit :
>
> > You are absolutely right. Sorry for the duplicates.
>
> No need to be sorry. Your reports and the reproducible build
> notifications help us greatly to detect and fix the build issues
> quickly, thanks a lot for your time.
Thanks a lot Emmanuel for those friendly words.
I really appreciate them.
In the particular case that the bugs are FTBFS, of random nature, and
difficult to reproduce, I can understand that this may be annoying or
irritating for the maintainers.
However, since virtual machines are very cheap these days, maybe that
would be a good way to end with the problem of unreproducible
failures, so I have included this paragraph in a recent report:
If you could not reproduce this using sbuild on a single CPU virtual
machine (as I did), please do not downgrade or mark as unreproducible,
I would then consider giving you access to a virtual machine on which
I can reproduce it so that you can as well. (In such case, please
contact me off-list for details).
I'd like to make this offer extensive to any FTBFS bug which I have
reported on any package maintained by you, Debian Java Maintainers.
So if there is any bug left of that type that is still tagged as
"unreproducible", please feel free to ask me for a virtual machine
where the bug happens.
Thanks a lot.
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