On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 07:14:16AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 03-05-18 04:32, Simon Quigley wrote: > > What is the reasoning for not making these blocking sooner? In my honest > > opinion, passing autopkgtests should be a release migration requirement, > > and not just with my Ubuntu hat on (because it has a correlation to > > higher quality packages). > > In my perception, the biggest reason is a social one. The is resistance > to the fact that issues with autopkgtests out of one's control can block > one's package (this is quite different than in Ubuntu).
Can you elaborate on how this is different than in Ubuntu? It sounds pretty similar to me, except for being a delay instead of a block. Or did you mean that the social consequences are different? (I echo Simon's thanks for doing this, though!) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
