[Wouter Verhelst] > Please remember that every time a package fails to function correctly > on a particular architecture, barring toolchain bugs, this is a bug > in that package itself.
"Barring toolchain bugs" is a pretty big caveat. Just as big as "barring kernel and libc issues", some other reasons for packages to fail to build or run on particular architectures. There is a perception, which may or may not be grounded in reality, that _most_ FTBFS from the Debian buildds are either toolchain, kernel, or libc issues. It is certainly my perception. And it seems to have been a toolchain issue that started this thread (some mips buildd simply cannot not build Java stuff, as I recall). Do you, as a porter and buildd admin, have a rough idea what percentage of FTBFS and arch-specific bugs you see that are ultimately a bug in the package, versus an externality like a bad build chroot, bad kernel, bad system library, or bad toolchain? If we're talking about 90% vs. 10%, for example, that would inform who should really be on the front line triaging this stuff. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100727220112.ga8...@p12n.org