Bug#534058: FTBFS on amd64

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, May  1, 2017 at 13:41:03 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 01:29:11PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 normal
> > 
> > On Mon, May  1, 2017 at 13:12:32 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > 
> > > retitle 534058 FTBFS on amd64
> > > severity 534058 serious
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > Packages must autobuild in our autobuilders. Because our Arch:all
> > > autobuilder is amd64, this is RC.
> > > 
> > No, it very much isn't.
> 
> Hmm, did you read the remaining of the email?
> 
Yes.

> It does not follow from Bug #830997 that being able to upload
> everything in source-only form is a release goal?
> 
No, and even if it did, release goals have no bearing on bug severity.

> What about just release policy when it says "packages must autobuild from source"?
> Does such statement suddenly not refer to our official autobuilders?
> 
I don't see that statement in the stretch RC policy.  Please don't make
up quotes...

> Anyway, if you absolutely must downgrade, please downgrade #861605 as
> well to be consistent, but IMHO, this would be much better handled by
> using stretch-ignore.
> 
I disagree.

Cheers,
Julien