Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mike Hommey | On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:18:25AM +0200, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | For the first, there are well working mirror scripts that prevent that, | | Why on earth aren't they in place on official mirrors ? I *always* get | 404 errors for new packages at the time

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050403 14:55]: I think he's talking about mirrored Packages files being updated before all the packages get mirrored and/or arch all packages reaching the archive before arch specific builds (except the maintainer's arch), because of buildd queue. For the

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:18:25AM +0200, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050403 14:55]: I think he's talking about mirrored Packages files being updated before all the packages get mirrored and/or arch all packages reaching the archive before arch

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, April 3, 2005 05:39, John Hasler said: For instance, let's say we are a food company. Why not check to see if the food is rotten before it gets to the consumer? That's what Unstable is for. Why, if tests can be automated, do we have a need to go through the process of spreading a

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Petri Latvala
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Sun, April 3, 2005 05:39, John Hasler said: For instance, let's say we are a food company. Why not check to see if the food is rotten before it gets to the consumer? That's what Unstable is for. Why, if tests can be

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: It seems there are only minimal checks, so developers can unwittingly upload broken packages. Any numbers where you can proof your claim? Developers are required to test the packages before upload, and I havent noticed any uninstallable package in years.

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:28:36PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: It seems there are only minimal checks, so developers can unwittingly upload broken packages. Any numbers where you can proof your claim? Developers are required to

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Sun, April 3, 2005 05:39, John Hasler said: For instance, let's say we are a food company. Why not check to see if the food is rotten before it gets to the consumer? That's what Unstable is for. Why, if tests can be

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Why, if tests can be automated which tests? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
It seems there are only minimal checks, so developers can unwittingly upload broken packages. Wouldn't a nightly $ for package in all_of_debian do apt-get --print-uris install $package; done /dev/null 2errors_for_inspection done at Debian Headquarters 'catch' them before they are allowed to go

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-02 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: ...Debian Headquarters... There is no such place. Why isn't this same apt-get check that the user does, also get done beforehand by the archive patrol? The users of Unstable are the archive patrol. For instance, let's say we are a food company. Why not check to see if