On 2023-01-28 15:55:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org> writes: > > > As with all mass bug filings, discuss the issue first on debian-devel. > > See developer's reference 7.1.1. This discussion could have both > > answered the questions whther RC severity is appropriate for this type > > of bug and whether it's a bug at all. > > Historically, we have not treated FTBFS bugs as falling into the category > of mass bug filing or requiring this pre-discussion. Various folks have > been mass-filing FTBFS bugs near the release freeze for many years now and > they generally don't get a debian-devel discussion first.
I don't think that those are comparable. Rebuilds with modified base chroots have been discussed here before filing bugs. [1] is one of the oldest examples I was able to find. Cheers [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00869.html -- Sebastian Ramacher