On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > > Remember that the buildd queue is not FIFO at all. The queue has a > > completly static order. Any changes to the queue are just packages > > hiding because they are not "needs-build". I consider that the biggest > > flaw of all in wanna-build. > This is news to me. > It means that when one is told "just wait, your package will get > rebuilt"; it is not necessarily true at all. There is no upper bound > at all on time to wait for building, and that's a disaster. People > should stop repeating the fiction then that "just wait" means "your > package will eventually get built". Er, packages *do* eventually get built; they just don't get built in any kind of FIFO order. I don't particularly care for this arrangement myself (it means there are plenty of times that a high-priority bug in a low-priority package stays on the release team's watchlist for far too long), but I don't have any proof that a different queue ordering would actually work better for the project, and the buildd admins *are* committed to keeping up with the queue even though hardware circumstances sometimes prevent it from time to time. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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