On 23/11/06 at 13:39 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 23 November 2006 at 20:21, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > | On 23/11/06 at 13:17 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > | During a rebuild of all packages in etch, I discovered that your package > | > | failed to build on i386. > | > > | > 0.5.9 is outdated. 0.5.10 builds fine. > | > | 0.5.9 is still in testing, that's why I filed this bug (so we don't > | release etch with 0.5.9). I suspected that 0.5.10 would fix this bug, > | thank you for confirming this. > > Well,, you could have checked by looking at the build log, or buy building a > simple heuristic of analysing whether it exists in unstable on N out M > architecture, or, for crying out loud, by keeping a second chroot for > unstable!!
The fact that the bug exists in the testing version is important from the release management POV. The only thing I can be blamed for is that I didn't test the unstable version (and issue the notfound command as you did). I take full responsibility for this :) I usually don't file bugs when there's a newer version in unstable which is going to get into testing soon (I plan to run another tests later, so I prefer to not spend too much time investigating such failures now). With rmysql, it wasn't clear if the version would get into testing soon (25 days in unstable, out-of-date on some archs). So I filed the bug, hoping that it would also force the maintainer to look at the package status and react accordingly. Which worked perfectly, I must say ;) > I find this testing-rebuild-exercise useful, but 'too early' as we haven't > frozen -- so I take some exception to the overly harsh severities. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. Before freezing, testing must be in a good-enough state. And archive-wide tests are good indicators to know if testing is in a good-enough state. I try to avoid filing bugs about transient issues if the issue is really transient, but it wasn't clear with this bug. Thank you for being that fast to reply :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
