Hi Santiago, On 13/07/16 18:21, Santiago Vila wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Release Managers: > > Back in November I started to check and report each and every source > package for which "dpkg-buildpackage -A" fails. > > Approximately 293 bugs so far have been filed about this issue: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=binary-indep;[email protected] > > Most of them (182) are already fixed and a bunch of the remaining ones > have patches available. > > > With this report I'd like to ask for permission to consider this as a > release goal for stretch. This way the bugs would be raised to serious > and they would be treated like any other FTBFS bug. > > Making this a release goal would mean that each and every package in > stretch (once it's stable) would be suitable to be uploaded in > source-only form. I think this feature would be particularly > interesting for the security team.
Thanks for working on this. I'm all for doing this. But before introducing ~100 RC bugs, can you give me the intersection of the remaining affected packages and the key packages? https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.cgi See the "Final list of 3345 key source packages" Cheers, Emilio
