Re: [binNMU] facile
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:13:02AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:02:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Anyway, this is certainly no worse than what happened with the maintainer
> > upload of ulex, which was uploaded before findlib was available on all archs
> > and had to be given back after a FTBFS.
> Well, sorry, but I consider this as a shortcoming in our buildd
> infrastructure and I'm not always willing to dilute my workflow because
> of that. When I upload something like ulex I provide all the information
> to discover that the build won't be possible. Why can't this be
> automatically detected and need manual work?
> I understand that this way I've cause additional work to someone else
> and I'm sorry for that, but having to dilute work on a set of related
> packages is sub-optimal for me. Maybe I can upload to delayed or
> something next time, but I'm convinced something about that can be fixed
> on the buildd side (but no, I'm not volunteering, I'm just replying to
> your complain).
Dude, I wasn't complaining, I was pointing out that the binNMUs I scheduled
are no different than the maintainer uploads.
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