On 17/03/09 at 10:14 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > First, real piuparts failures are usually real RC bugs. If they are only > > reported to the PTS, they won't be properly tracked by the release team, > > for example. Are you planning to actively report bugs on piuparts > > failures in addition to reporting them to the PTS? Have you reported > > bugs on the piuparts failures you found so far? > > This is comparable to build failures; buildd logs are linked from the > PTS.
Not really. Build failures on the buildds have a direct consequence on the package in Debian (=> it's not available). Piuparts failures are more unlikely to have consequences on the package. Also, many (most?) buildd maintainers are actively filing bugs. > > Second, since piuparts failures are real bugs, they should be "pushed" > > to the maintainer. I don't think that adding them to the PTS web page is > > a "pushy-enough" way to provide that information to maintainers. > > Instead, the PTS mail interface could be a nice way to inform the > > maintainer of failures. > > > > Third, in my experience, piuparts generates a lot of false positives, > > that are either: > > - minor bugs (like corner-cases related to symlinks) > > - bugs in other packages (packages failing because one of their > > dependencies is failing) > > Before information is provided automatically to maintainers, I would > > like to see numbers about percentage of false positives. Is piuparts > > really ready for that? > > I think the false positive problem is a good reason to avoid sending > emails and a good reason to link the logs from the PTS to allow > maintainers to read them if they like to. Or a good reason to improve piuparts before trying to publish the results automatically anywhere. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org