On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 20:32 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 14/04/20 at 19:40 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > I think we should be rebuilding everything at least once per release > > > cycle, so we don't have a nasty surprise when these "mature" packages > > > need bug fixes. > > > > There's enough automated testing to spot FTBFS, thus rebuilding would only > > recompile against updated toolchain. That's a good idea, but I say we need > > a human look once in a longer while. > > Those packages are also unlikely to have a test suite. They might build, > but the resulting binaries might not work.
Which is why I think we need to rebuild anyway, and have users of
testing/unstable report such regressions.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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