Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: www.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: scripts
Hi,
While working on rebuilding the website within stretch and buster, I've
noticed the following.
It was a bit surprising to see that many errors, either due to missing
dependencies, or missing data, were not leading to a global failure when
the top-level make returns.
It was also a bit surprising to see that some targets couldn't get
processed successfully.
It turned out that the former issue is at least partiallly fixed by
setting STRICT_ERROR_CHECKS=1; the latter can be worked around by
setting USE_SAMPLE_FILES=1, which sets up some sample data files for
files that would otherwise be set up by some sync scripts getting run
from cron. Examples include:
$(ENGLISHSRCDIR)/devel/people.names
$(DATADIR)/Maintainers
$(ENGLISHSRCDIR)/$(CUR_DIR)/data/%
$(L10N_DIR)/data/%
$(ENGLISHDIR)/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist
That was implemented in:
https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/commit/f0290accd46ee45383b56b9acc9624f5707f6b0e
(Thanks, Wouter!)
It seems to me it would make sense to mention both variables in the
top-level README, so that people interested in working on a full build
wouldn't have to figure out why some targets seem to be missing or not
defined, and to track down individual READMEs like:
english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist.README
FWIW, that's also what's getting used for CI, see:
README_CI.gitlab-ci.yml
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
