On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:59:52 David Woodhouse wrote: > > Allowing partially-failed builds to make it through into the repo > > without user intervention is insane. Failures should _always_ be > > investigated. > > If there is nobody around for that secondary arch to investigate why the build > failed on that secondary arch, does that secondary arch need to continue > existing? Converse question: if a package-monkey is too lazy to even _look_ at a build or test failure and work out whether it's a generic problem which just _happens_ to show up in one build but not another this week, and if they're too lazy even to add the ExcludeArch: and file the corresponding bug, does that monkey's package need to continue existing? It's not as if we're asking _much_ of them. > It is entirely up to the community wanting to support $ARCH to be > on the hook to fix problems that arise in $ARCH. They should not just pass > that off on the package maintainer if said package maintainer isn't part of > the $ARCH movement already. Of course, and we currently strike a balance which is working very well. It involves package maintainers at least _looking_ at failures, and filing a bug if they end up satisfied that it's an arch-specific issue and using ExcludeArch. Then the people who care about the architecture in question can watch the FE-ExcludeArch-$ARCH bug and handle anything which comes up. It's working _extremely_ well at the moment -- there really seems to be no reason to change it. In the relatively rare case where a failure really is an arch-specific issue and not just a package bug, it's easy enough for the package maintainer to file the bug and exclude the offending architecture. Build failures should _always_ be investigated, at at _least_ a cursory level, before letting the affected packages get into the repository. To require anything less than that is completely batshit insane. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
