Package: buildd.debian.org Severity: normal Hello,
The self-service giveback is currently not available for packages in the Failed state. I wonder if such a restriction is really useful. The thing is: apparently only I do this, but I always set hurd-i386 package build failures in the Failed state with the appropriate failure log lines, which are very helpful for sorting out the porting work (see https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/graph-top.txt), and packages maintainers have already told me they appreciate this, because I know well the hurd-i386 failures and can thus easily point out the actual problems to maintainers. But if people can not giveback due to this even in cases where it's a transient failure or lagging dependency version, I'am afraid they will now not send a mail for giving back on hurd-i386, thinking that I have set the Failed state for a stronger reason than I actually meant. Put another way, this restriction on the Failed state leads me to think I should rather stop setting packages in the Failed state, but then it's detrimental to the porting work triaging. Actually, even when the Fail state has been set manually on archs (e.g. a know bug affecting all archs), it would still make sense to allow maintainers to trigger the giveback when the bug is known to be fixed by another package upload. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
