Adeodato Simó wrote: > hi, > > I have some questions regarding FTBFS bugs. Sorry if they seem too > naive but I'm always afraid of doing something wrong and I thought > I'd better ask here then. > > 1. if a package fails in any buildd machine, thats a FTBFS bug per > se, right? Uuuusually. If it failed because the buildd admin killed it, it's not.
> 2. who can/should report FTBFS bugs when they occur in a buildd > machine? I've mostly seen them reported by the buildd's admin, > but cyrus-sasl2-mit failed on arm more than a month ago [1] (but > I noticed today) and there has been no bug report. I report them a lot. > 3. is it tracked anywhere (other than the bug report, non-existant > in this case) if this is being worked on? Nope. > Having a month > passed, I'd assume that the maintainer isn't aware of this, but > I really can't tell. > > So I'm mainly asking if it is OK to file the bug myself, and if > that should be reported elsewhere. > > TIA and sorry for the annoyance, > > > [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=cyrus-sasl2-mit > -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
