On 17/03/10 at 14:39 +0100, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:13:01 +0100
> Florian Hinzmann <f.hinzm...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > Do we have a policy or best practice on what to do about tests in
> > general and online tests in particular with respect to build daemons?
> 
> Kind of P.S.:
> I assumed the build daemons would both
> - have online access and
> - use nocheck to save cpu cycles. 
> 
> Thinking about it now, it might be good to run the tests
> with the builds, especially to check them on every architecture. 
> 
> So one question remains: May I assume to have online access when
> building packages.
> 
> Maybe I find a way to skip or timeout these non-fatally. 
> 
> AMD64 build fine otherwise (including the IPv4 online test):
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=libnet-dns-perl;ver=0.66-1;arch=ia64;stamp=1268659347

The build was not done on an official buildd. I run archive rebuilds on
a regular basis on a cluster, and do that to detect a lot of FTBFS bugs.

So far, failing to build because network is not available has always
been considered an RC bug.
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