Bug#784845: libdevel-gdb-perl: autopkgtest failure in t/expect.t

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:13:55PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:

> IMHO, buildds need to be able to build the packages at any given time,
> which means they should always succeed.

I agree that they should. I'm just saying that this is not the
traditional threshold for release criticality and I'm not aware
that this has changed.

> So in some sense, I'm already applying not the policy which I believe
> is the correct one (packages should build with 100% probability), but
> the unwritten policy that packages should autobuild with "very high
> probability", it's just that the probability of this package in
> particular is certainly too low for what I would consider reasonable
> (as I managed to get failed logs in reproducible builds and my own
> autobuilder).

This was not clear from your earlier mail, which I read as unconditionally
requiring 100% success probability. Thank you for the clarification.

> Please note that I'm not even asking that the .deb package is always
> the same (that would be the goal of the reproducible builds project) I'm
> just saying that package building should not be a lottery.

I'm well aware of the difference, thank you very much.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org