Bug#987658: unblock: openjdk-11-jre-dcevm/11.0.11+9-1
Le 03/05/2021 à 10:15, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit :
>> If your package is so tightly tied to the version of openjdk I would
>> expect mechanisms to be in place to warn you of the upload and to prevent
>> migration of openjdk-11 in case of breakage. E.g. autopkgtest is very
>> well suited to prevent the migration because it's integrated with our
>> migration software. Having an autopkgtest has the additional benefit
>> that at this stage of the release, you're package isn't blocked if it
>> passes on all architecture and you wouldn't need to bother us with an
>> unblock request.
>
> I agree that a better QA mechanism would be good. I'd be a bit reluctant
> to implement autopkgtest though, my understanding is that openjdk-11
> would be blocked from migrating if it breaks openjdk-11-jre-dcevm, but
> if DCEVM upstream lags to rebase its patches that would be unfair to
> delay the OpenJDK update, because OpenJDK has a much larger user base
> than DCEVM and the benefits of an OpenJDK update outweigh a temporary
> breakage of DCEVM.
I've noticed that openjdk-11 already has two autopkgtest failures
reported and they seem to be ignored. So I went ahead and uploaded
openjdk-11-jre-dcevm/11.0.11+9-2 with a simple autopkgtest test suite
that should catch similar failures in the future.
Emmanuel Bourg
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