On Wed, 2023-08-09 at 18:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 02:26:17PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-08-08 at 18:32 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > Manual opt-in for our > 11k -dev packages is a significant cost > > > that would have to be justified by the people who oppose opt-out. > > > > You could use the Janitor to do automatic opt-in where it works, > > IIRC the Janitor runs autopkgtests before filing merge requests, > > so it could easily try the tests and enable them when they work. > > > > Or the other way, enable them and have the Janitor submit merge > > requests to turn them off where they don't work. > > The cases where they would fail are either false positives or RC bugs. > > Janitor merge requests to silence the failures for all actual RC bugs > would not make sense. > > The immediate benefit of such a test would be a review of all failing > cases and filing of RC bugs (which might be > 200) for all that look > like bugs. > > After the MBF it should be clear how many RC bugs actually exist > in practice.
The information whether a failure is a RC bug or a false positive can be extracted from check-armhf-time_t [1] - at least for the packages that were analyzed. There are still 1385 packages [2] that are not analyzed yet. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/vorlon/armhf-time_t/-/blob/main/check-armhf-time_t [2] curl https://wiki.debian.org/ArmhfTimeTTodo?action=raw | grep -v merge_requests | wc -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
