On Thu, 05 Jan 2017, Santiago Vila wrote: > It depends. My goal is to build 25000 source packages in a row and have > 0.5 failures on average in total (i.e. closer to 0 than to 1). > > If we have 50 packages which FTBFS randomly, they should fail less > than 1% on average. > > One week every 4 years is more than 7% of the time. Too much for my taste.
Your mathematics are broken :-) 52 weeks per year, 1 week out of 4 years = 1 / (4*52) = 0.0048 < 0.5% Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
