On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:38:35PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:35:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > FAILED > > But FAILED is an advisory state anyway; it doesn't directly benefit the > > port, at all, to have the package listed as "Failed", this is just a > > convenience for folks sifting through the build failures (like the rarely > > used "confirmed" BTS tag is for maintainers). In the long-term, one of two > > things needs to happen with each of these build failures: the package needs > > to be added to P-a-s so the arch no longer tries to build it, or the package > > needs to be fixed -- via porter NMU if necessary. > > So as you have the list of these packages, as a porter you can proceed with > > figuring out which of the two categories each falls into, and take the > > necessary action without worrying about the "Failed" state, yes? > Indeed, for practical buildd maintainance purposes, the distinction is > not that important -- though 'Failed' is known to not benefit of a > requeue, while 'Building:Maybe-Failed' might or might not, it's unkown, > most archs should have enough surplus buildd power that retrying > everything once in a while doesn't hurt. > The major benefit is though to make it apparant for porters what to look > into, without all the 'noise' in between of maybe-transient failures. > One could also make sure that the FTBFS bugs are tagged (user-tagged) > with debian-sparc@l.d.o (etc) for example (or $arch@buildd.d.o? There > doesn't exist a d-mipsel@l.d.o for example...), so that one can get a > nice overview of all the porting bugs. It'd make sense to synchronise > this across all architectures, so that it is consistent. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2005/12/msg00028.html Our porters can beat up your porters. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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