Re: Bug#886450: tracker.debian.org: Separate subscription for official and non-official architectures builds

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Hello Mike,

On Sat, 06 Jan 2018, Mike Hommey wrote:
> I like to subscribe to the `build` keyword for some of my packages,
> essentially to get notifications of build failures. The sad result is
> that because some buildds are dumb, I'm being spammed by them trying
> and failing to build over and over. Which would be kind of okay if those
> were builds for official architectures supported by debian, but they
> aren't.
> 
> So I would very much be interested by a separation between build for
> official architectures and build for unofficial architectures.

Thanks for the report, but I doubt that this will be implemented
in tracker.debian.org anytime soon. I would suggest that the buildd should
add headers so that people with very specific requirements can filter out
some mails with procmail or similar.

I'm putting debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org in copy to hear their thoughts
about this. Do you think it's possible to add headers like:

    X-Debian: buildd.debian.org
    X-Debian-Architecture: powerpc
    X-Debian-Suite: sid
    X-Debian-State: failed

> PS: In case you're interested: see all the Maybe-Failed on this page:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=firefox&arch=powerpc
> I received a mail for every single one of them. And they are mostly failed
> because of disk space...

Maybe the behaviour of the mail notification could also be rate-limited to
one per day per version per arch...

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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