Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. I will put all the bugs that I report about this issue here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=binary-indep;users=sanv...@debian.org So far there are one that I reported 19 days ago as a "test report" and 162 that I reported today. I'm intentionally excluding packages having

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 00:41:35 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:42:14PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least > > > “serious” severity. > >

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Ben Finney
Santiago Vila writes: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:29:19AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > I'd use "severity: serious", just like for a normal FTBFS. > > The problem with making them "severity: serious" is that I would be > deciding on my own that those bugs are RC. Normally, the

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least > “serious” severity. > The release team's RC policy decides which policy violations we consider "severe" in the sense of "gets a serious severity bug". Cheers, Julien

Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Santiago Vila
Greetings. I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built using "dpkg-buildpackage -A". This is not only a violation of policy, but also prevents the package from being uploaded in source-only form, as the architecture-independent packages are generated by a dedicated

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Santiago Vila , 2015-11-23, 10:52: I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built using "dpkg-buildpackage -A". [...] I think those are clearly bugs, and they should be reported. The only thing that may be unclear is the severity. I would like this to

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:29:19AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Santiago Vila , 2015-11-23, 10:52: > >I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built using > >"dpkg-buildpackage -A". > [...] > >I think those are clearly bugs, and they should be reported. The

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 08:48 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least > > > “serious” severity. > > This is one way that a

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:42:14PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least > > “serious” severity. > > > The release team's RC policy decides which policy violations we

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 05:51:44PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > As the number of bugs is going to be greater than ten > > Do you have the exact figures? How many packages are affected? I don't have exact figures yet, but I estimate about 300, more or less. I considered the source packages

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/23/2015 10:52 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: > Greetings. > > I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built > using "dpkg-buildpackage -A". > > This is not only a violation of policy, but also prevents the package > from being uploaded in source-only form, as the

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Triplett
Santiago Vila wrote: > I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built > using "dpkg-buildpackage -A". > > This is not only a violation of policy, but also prevents the package > from being uploaded in source-only form, as the architecture-independent > packages are generated

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Ben Finney
Julien Cristau writes: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least > > “serious” severity. This is one way that a bug can be determined “Severity: serious”, by definition. In other