Re: reporting FTBFS bugs
Adeodato Simó wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have some questions regarding FTBFS bugs. Sorry if they seem too
> naive but I'm always afraid of doing something wrong and I thought
> I'd better ask here then.
>
> 1. if a package fails in any buildd machine, thats a FTBFS bug per
> se, right?
Uuuusually. If it failed because the buildd admin killed it, it's not.
> 2. who can/should report FTBFS bugs when they occur in a buildd
> machine? I've mostly seen them reported by the buildd's admin,
> but cyrus-sasl2-mit failed on arm more than a month ago [1] (but
> I noticed today) and there has been no bug report.
I report them a lot.
> 3. is it tracked anywhere (other than the bug report, non-existant
> in this case) if this is being worked on?
Nope.
> Having a month
> passed, I'd assume that the maintainer isn't aware of this, but
> I really can't tell.
>
> So I'm mainly asking if it is OK to file the bug myself, and if
> that should be reported elsewhere.
>
> TIA and sorry for the annoyance,
>
>
> [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=cyrus-sasl2-mit
>
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