Bug#830997: release.debian.org: Permission to consider dpkg-buildpackage -A bugs as RC

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:

> > It is resolved in the sense it was agreed to make this RC,
> > but I still expected the release policy to be updated accordingly:
> > 
> > https://release.debian.org/stretch/rc_policy.txt
> > 
> > before closing this report.
> 
> I looked at that when I acked this, but I concluded that the policy already
> includes arch:all as there really is nothing arch:any specific. My attempts at
> mentioning arch:all only made the text too complicated.
> 
> I think things are fine as is.

Ok, I understand (and share) the goal of keeping the wording simple.

Now we "just" need to agree on the meaning of "packages must autobuild".

Some people still claim (even if it's not written anywhere) that it's
ok to downgrade FTBFS bugs when they didn't happen in buildd.debian.org.

My understanding of "packages must autobuild" is that the build should
succeed on any policy-compliant autobuilder which is sane and not
misconfigured.

Do I need another bug like this one so that Release Managers clarify
the meaning of "packages must autobuild"?

Thanks.