Hi Axel, On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Ok. I tend to only remove it if I don't care about the actual > severity, i.e. as a hint to the maintainer to decide on the severity > on its own and that I won't argue on severity changes.
That also makes sense. Much of the time though arguing about severities is wasted time that is better spent on fixing the thing. ;) > I mostly asked because FTBFS is usually of RC-severity and from my > point of view, FTCBFS is not that far away from FTBFS. Quite far actually. Cross building is very similar to porting to a new Debian architecture. What kind of architecture would it compare to? Certainly not a release architecture and thus not RC. Possibly a debian-ports architecture, but probably lower. And then FTBFS on ports are severity important at best when it happens to be a regression. I actually do file FTCBFS at severity important for severe regressions occasionally. But really, most debian-ports FTBFS should be severity normal. To ever raise that, the "cross building" port would need a bus factor > 1. Porters are hard to find unfortunately. So not much we can do beyond fixing FTCBFS on a best-effort basis. Helmut
