Le May 13, 2008 02:53:05 am Steve Langasek, vous avez écrit : > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:19:17PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > > > > Sorry for a stupid question, but how is it ensured in the Debian > > > > > project that all packages in stable are buildable in stable? > > > > > > > > The Debian project doesn't verify that. There are packages that FTBFS > > > > in stable. However, it's rare, because there are never large numbers > > > > of packages that FTBFS in testing to begin with. > > > > > > The Debian project does verify it. That doesn't mean there are no bugs, > > > but they're clearly bugs. > > > > There's a difference between having some release team members act at > > times on debcheck and/or FTBFS bugs and having project infrastructure to > > "ensure that all packages in stable are buildable in stable". I didn't > > mean that nobody does anything to avoid these bugs or that FTBFS weren't > > considered bugs. > > They're considered *RC* bugs, with all that implies. This is trivially > verifiable from <http://release.debian.org/etch/rc_policy.txt> or > <http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt>, either of which I would > expect someone to be conversant with before responding to questions on > debian-release. You must be conversant enough with release management to know that a bug being considered RC doesn't make it block the release. Also, reports aren't filed automatically, so only the bugs someone found the time to investigate are filed.
> > > If you don't understand the way release management actually works (and > > > it does work), please just don't answer on mail to debian-release. > > > > If you prefer denigrating my contributions to answering questions to the > > list, please do so more convincingly. > > I believe what he was denigrating were your research skills. I'm less interested in speculating about what he was denigrating than to see good reasons for denigrating whatever skill I would lack. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
