On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 14:21, Scott Talbert wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > > Julian Sikorski wrote: > >> FTBFS bug was filed against mame [1]. Unfortunately, the corresponding > >> build [2] has already been deleted. This is not ideal from maintainer > >> perspective as it effectively is a bug with no info provided whatsoever. > >> Not to mention being quite wasteful from the resources perspective as > >> mame builds take quite a while. > >> While not much can be done now, can we make sure that the mass rebuild > >> builds do not get garbage collected, or at least the build logs are > >> saved somewhere? Thanks. > > > > This is a constantly recurring problem. I have run into this very > > frequently. The retention period for failed build logs is way too short. It > > needs to be at least 13 months (the approximate time we get to fix an FTBFS > > bug before the package is retired). > > I have to agree here. There is nothing more frustrating as a contributor > than going to investigate a FTBFS for a package and finding the logs are > gone. When it's a hard-to-reproduce issue on s390x, then I agree, it's a problem when the only info about the failure is gone. But the current situation is different. The mass rebuild failures are usually failures on every arch, due to changes in the buildroot (typically GCC 13, but sometimes other things that changed since the last successful build of the package). And the failures can be easily reproduced with a new scratch build, and then you have fresh logs. It's an inconvenience, sure, but I regularly encounter far more frustrating things to deal with as a contributor :-) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
