On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 21:19:23 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Any progress on this? > > In case it helps, I made a list of bugs in this FTBFS-randomly category: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-randomly;users=sanv...@debian.org > > In almost all cases, the failure happens because there is a test which > fails. > > So: Why do we allow tests to make the package to fail if we then do > not consider the failure to be RC? > > IMO, either the program is ok when the test fails, or it's not. > I'm afraid it's more nuanced than this, and trying to make it all white or all black is not helpful.
Cheers, Julien