Re: emacs-app-devel build fail on master not detected by buildbot

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 22, 2021, at 18:22, Nathaniel W Griswold wrote:

> So are you guys just gonna point to the new commit and otherwise keep it the 
> same? I think maybe it should change.

I'll just weigh in to say that the purpose of our buildbot setup (the way that 
it is currently conceived) is to build binary packages that are distributed to 
users when they install ports. The purpose of the buildbot is not to 
periodically rebuild ports to discover breakages.

In this case, the problem occurred because the maintainer of the port did not 
update it before it broke. The maintainer should get into the habit of updating 
the port before it breaks and/or the maintainer should set the fetch depth such 
that the port will not break before the next time they update the port.