Hi. Il 17/08/2013 14:14, Paul Wise ha scritto: > On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 12:16 +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > >> Personally I'd prefer to have the link for all packages rebuilt with >> clang, but do as you wish. > > Could you explain why knowing that a package is Needs-Build for clang > based builds is useful to you? Needs-Build is useful for the official > gcc based buildds because this state has other effects on the package, > like not being able to transition to testing. For the clang based > builds, clicking on the clang link just to find out that the clang-based > buildds haven't yet built it is basically a waste of maintainer time as > far as I can tell. The PTS has traditionally tried to avoid doing that. Mostly I don't like PTS links to be too volatile; for me, the presence of a "clang" link just says that the clang service is meaningful with respect to this (source) package. It is reasonable to add another small piece of information to avoid wasting the users' time, but just loosing the link to clang is (in my opinion) not very friendly. Anyway, I think it is not the first time I have a different opinion from the design principles of PTS. I can live with it, my opinion is not really strong. Gio. -- Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it> Pisa, Italy Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani Jabber: g.mascellani@jabber.org / giovanni@elabor.homelinux.org
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