[ Note: this is a reply to a message from reproducible-commits, trimming the subject just a little bit ]
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 04:49:10PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > +ftbfs_build-indep_not_build_on_armhf: > + description: | > + Package build-indep target will fail on armhf. > + deterministic: True > ftbfs_environment: > description: | > FTBFS with some unrelated values of the environment variables (lang, > timezone, ...) > diff --git a/packages.yml b/packages.yml > index 362d7b7..d417fcb 100644 > --- a/packages.yml > +++ b/packages.yml > @@ -1006,6 +1006,10 @@ bobcat: > version: 4.01.04-1 > issues: > - random_order_in_static_libraries > +bochs: > + version: 2.6-5 > + issues: > + - ftbfs_build-indep_not_build_on_armhf Hello Holger. This new issue is a little bit surprising. Sometimes, packages generating "Arch: all" binary packages have good reasons to require that those packages are built only under certain architectures. In the case of "bochs", there are some hints about the reasons in Bug #481147 (which I closed recently because, well, it seemed "as fixed as it can be" to me). A similar case also happens with the "aboot" package, which generates an "Arch: all" package which apparently may only be generated under the alpha architecture (see Bug #805988). An "issue" suggests to me "something which has eventually to be fixed", but frankly, I don't think we should really require that those packages generate their "Arch: all" binary packages from any other architecture. So, instead of "this package needs to be fixed", those packages would maybe deserve a "this package should not be built on such architecture because it is simply not supposed to work". Do you think it would be possible to achieve the same result with a "banned packages" list which is architecture-specific instead of this funny issue? (Or maybe your plan was to make the autobuilder to be aware of packages having this issue precisely to avoid the build?) Thanks. _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
