On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 09:13:29PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 04:49:10PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > +ftbfs_build-indep_not_build_on_armhf: > > + description: | > > + - ftbfs_build-indep_not_build_on_armhf
probably this tag name should lose the 'armhf' word in it, anyway. > Sometimes, packages generating "Arch: all" binary packages have good > reasons to require that those packages are built only under certain > architectures. yes, it's an annoying thing, but it's true. I'd like to see https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/217427 for that. > 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. that was not the idea of this issue at all. It's called "issue", but it's better read as "tag" in these occasion. > 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". This issue, coupled with a change in jenkins code, makes possible for us to not export the failure notice towards tracker.d.o/DDPO, so maintainers should not be bothered with the "FTBFS" notice. https://anonscm.debian.org/git/qa/jenkins.debian.net.git/commit/?id=f5c5274cea8cc4d7b58e374c7114f01c07019035 > 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? nobody likes blacklisting packages :( -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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