Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2023-04-11 Thread Andres Salomon
As someone with a PITA package that's frequently dealing every month with strange issues on lightly-used architectures, I'd support a Tier II system for i386/armel/etc. However, at the risk of making this overly complex - I would prefer to see a bit more granularity on a per-package or per-prio

Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-08 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Paul Gevers wrote on 08/09/2022 at 22:35:35+0200: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for 9C5C99EB05BD750A created at > 2022-09-08T22:35:35+0200 using RSA]] > Hi, > > On 08-09-2022 22:14, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> Would tier II be exclusively composed of builders that are currently >> suppor

Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 08-09-2022 22:14, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Would tier II be exclusively composed of builders that are currently supported by DSA? My current proposal is ONLY about splitting the current release architectures. And for the future, my idea for tier II (or Best Effort) would indeed be

Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-08 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Hi, Paul Gevers wrote on 08/09/2022 at 13:00:11+0200: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for 9C5C99EB05BD750A created at > 2022-09-08T13:00:11+0200 using RSA]] > Hi all, > > On 01-09-2022 14:18, Paul Gevers wrote: >> Of course there are details to figure out and agree on, but before >> diving in

Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 08-09-2022 13:59, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: So, maybe my main question is: if we don't consider issues on these semi-supported architectures RC but they have a testing equivalent, why don't the other ports architectures get the same treatment? Fair question. One big reason is that the s

Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-08 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2022-09-08 13:00:11 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi all, > > On 01-09-2022 14:18, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Of course there are details to figure out and agree on, but before > > diving into those I'd like to hear if you are open to support the idea > > (hopefully even in time for bookworm) or if t

Re: Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, On 01-09-2022 14:18, Paul Gevers wrote: Of course there are details to figure out and agree on, but before diving into those I'd like to hear if you are open to support the idea (hopefully even in time for bookworm) or if there are already deep concerns (that would take long to resolve

Opinion on splitting official architecture (tiers)

2022-09-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear DSA, ftp-master, release team, As you are probably aware, architecture qualification is a notorious hard problem for the Release Team and the project. This year at DebConf, we have been discussing [1,2] a potential change in the way we look at the (release) architectures. Although my orig