Hi, On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:06:11 +0000, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> The current tools don't allow programs of arch X into testing if they >> fail to build on arch Y. I think that in general this is a good idea. > > I disagree. The net effect is that the program gets less testing, > resulting in less bugs found and fixed.
On the other hand, by failing to build on arch Y you already _have_ found a severe bug. If you propagate the "working" build of arch X, there is not much motivation for the maintainer, who is likely to have arch X also, to add a possibly-difficult patch. On the gripping hand, that bug often isn't the fault of the package in question, but of gcc/binutils/whatever. :-/ -- Matthias
