On 2023-02-06, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > On 03/02/2023 03:45, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Sounds like the default should at least be bumped to a larger value, >> then. >> >> That has been the value since at least 2006, picked by finding the right >> value at the time for the biggest profile I ever tested and doubling >> it... there have been quite a few packages added to Debian since then, >> so it is no surprise that it would need to be updated! >> >> Feel free to propose a higher value grounded in a current real world >> use-case, and double it. :) > > I opened a merge request on Salsa: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/simple-cdd/-/merge_requests/10 > > I just doubled the value and made it 40. > > From the Kali Linux build logs I can see, the number of attempts goes > from 11 to 20. Unfortunately we don't keep daily build logs, only those > that fail, so I can't really tell what's the average number of attempts, > for example. I just know that "sometimes" we reach 20.
Seems reasonable. It really depends on what is in the profile(s) and how complicated the dependency graph is... >> Help is definitely appreciated! I have not really looked at simple-cdd >> much since the previous release, and simple-cdd surely needs some help >> now that we are into the early phases of a freeze cycle! > > And thanks for the quick feedback! > > By the way, as I see that simple-cdd is in Salsa's debian group: are you > Ok if we (Kali Linux developers, that would be Raphael Hertzog or me) > release the package from time to time, or do you prefer to be taking > care of that? I would be fine with that. I do not actually use simple-cdd ... other than to test simple-cdd... so someone who actually uses it for something real would probably keep it in better shape... :) Feel free to put yourselves in the Uploaders field! live well, vagrant
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