On 26/04/08 at 20:20 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 01:57:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > And most of the bugs have been filed within days, and > > > fixed already. It's possible that some packages were broken in more > > > subtle ways not resulting in a build failure, but we still have 5 months > > > to find them. > > > > Wouldn't it be better to have 18 months to find them? This change could > > have been delayed 5 months with no downside that I can see. Instead > > we're left wondering how many packages might accidentially pass broken > > CFLAGS into subdirectories, build successfully, and yet change behavior > > in unknown ways. These bugs can be exposed at any time up till the hard > > freeze as a given package is uploaded and gets recompiled for the first > > time since the change. > > Also note that despite the archive rebuild that was done, I don't think > there was a full archive rebuild on all architectures. We could also > have surprises with packages setting necessary flags for some > architectures (we have such rules on mozilla stuff, for example, but > fortunately, they aren't hit by dpkg-buildpackage trying to be smart), > and we won't find out until all packages get built on all architectures, > which is not even remotely likely to happen before the release. > > > Effectively, we've chosen "it builds -- ship it!" > > Not even so, it's "it's built -- ship it!" (how many packages have not > been rebuilt since sarge, again?)
Not that many, according to what I found out in http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=242 (Summary: on 24/06/2007, 43% of the packages in unstable had been rebuilt since the etch release, 94% since the sarge release, and only one package was never rebuilt since woody, but it was removed since then) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
