Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental
On Oct 05, 2015, at 02:51 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>In other distributions (Red Hat and Ubuntu), everyone is aware of this
>kind of issue before uploading, and this kinds of things don't happen.
Ubuntu at least does have a technical solution that helps ameliorate
archive-wide breakages, and that is -proposed migration. When you upload
e.g. to wily, it gets diverted to wily-proposed and to get promoted it has to
pass a number of tests. The package and their reverses have to build. DEP-8
tests have to pass, etc. You can get a nice report about which -proposed
promotions are failing:
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html
The downside is that you should probably be proactively checking this list
(poll vs ping) and it can sometimes be difficult to figure out why a promotion
fails or how to fix it.
But this does mean that the archive itself is very rarely broken, and it can
be a convenient way to stage package updates that may have effects in parts of
the archive you might not be aware of.
Cheers,
-Barry
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