Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 11, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Close. Because there is no aging requirement it moves much more quickly and as a result, there's much less risk of multiple transitions getting entangled and delayed. Ubuntu explicitly defines the $ RELEASE-proposed pocket as 'not meant for

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 10.05.2013, 16:05 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw: For the 13.04 release, Ubuntu made a change to its procedure whereby source-only uploads to the development release (e.g. raring) actually go to e.g. raring-proposed first. The builds are attempted and only if they succeed,

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-11 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org writes: For the 13.04 release, Ubuntu made a change to its procedure whereby source-only uploads to the development release (e.g. raring) actually go to e.g. raring-proposed first. The builds are attempted and only if they succeed, pass their autopkgtests,

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 11.05.2013, 12:00 +0200 schrieb Christoph Egger: Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org writes: For the 13.04 release, Ubuntu made a change to its procedure whereby source-only uploads to the development release (e.g. raring) actually go to e.g. raring-proposed first. The

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 10.05.2013, 16:05 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw: For the 13.04 release, Ubuntu made a change to its procedure whereby source-only uploads to the development release (e.g. raring) actually go to e.g. raring-proposed first. The

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org wrote: Hi! Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org writes: For the 13.04 release, Ubuntu made a change to its procedure whereby source-only uploads to the development release (e.g. raring) actually go to e.g. raring-proposed first. The builds are attempted and

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 03, 2013, at 04:38 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: - source-only uploads They are pushed to the buildds, and the produced binaries (including arch:all) are put in a staging area (much like incoming.d.o). These binaries can be downloaded, but the .changes cannot

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 05, 2013, at 01:12 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: There's definitely an open bug for adding this, and I'll be happy for it to be added. It shouldn't be too hard to implement, though we would probably want to make it configurable whether the repeat build failing should fail the build as a whole.

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:38:40PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 03 mai 2013 à 09:18 +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : While we're at it, can we also have source-only uploads? Uploading potentially huge binary packages that just go to /dev/null seems like a pointless waste

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:11:35PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org [130502 12:28]: People do this all the time: upload packages built against local packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. /me shivers. This hurts. There is no reason

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:18:44AM +0100, Wookey wrote: The harder question is how/when to do that QA. The time to do QA is now and always. Otherwise it just collects and becomes too much. I resisted making the suggestion of doing it by default on all builds as that seemed a step too far,

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de, 2013-05-08, 11:53: We already know we can't trust all maintainers to build binaries in a clean chroot. Nor can we trust them to test binaries they upload. What makes you think maintainers will not simply blindly create changes files for buildd build

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 09:33:14PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:53:59PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I think there's a consensus, the problem is who's going to do the work for automating dropping of binaries and rebuild. Not implying that I am the one doing this

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/05/2013 03:33 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: what needs to be touched to achieve aspects of the following features: (Again not implying that they are all desired.) * Permitting source-only uploads. While there is a consensus about dropping binaries, there is none about permitting source-only

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:40:50PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: what needs to be touched to achieve aspects of the following features: (Again not implying that they are all desired.) * Permitting source-only uploads. While there is a consensus about dropping binaries, there is none about

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/04/2013 05:10 PM, Wookey wrote: This is a result of maintainer's workflows never doing this, I presume. Yeah! Probably git-buidpackage getting more adoption has something to do with it too. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:49:33PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:40:50PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: what needs to be touched to achieve aspects of the following features: (Again not implying that they are all desired.) * Permitting source-only uploads.

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 6. Mai 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: While there is a consensus about dropping binaries, there is none about permitting source-only uploads (and I'm not in the favor of it myself, not because I don't trust others, but because I think it should be possible to add some more QA

Uploading only arch:all (Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes)

2013-05-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 06.05.2013, 16:57 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: Maybe as an intermediate and imediate step we could switch to uploading only arch:all debs for mixed packages. That is already supported by DAK and the buildds and would drop a lot of locally build debs. sounds

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Arto Jantunen
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Arto Jantunen vi...@debian.org, 2013-05-03, 11:12: Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with maintainers not even build testing their packages. [citation needed] Indeed. I was fairly certain that a policy decision about

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wookey
+++ brian m. carlson [2013-05-03 21:39 +]: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:10:25AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the software we distribute but no longer the possiblity to do so on

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Julian Taylor
On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder option for --build-twice would make testing a very simple

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Wookey woo...@wookware.org, 2013-05-04, 10:10: I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder option for --build-twice would make testing a

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 04/05/13 at 10:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ brian m. carlson [2013-05-03 21:39 +]: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:10:25AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the software we

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Xavier Roche
Le 02/05/2013 20:12, Russ Allbery a écrit : Yes, speaking as someone who has, on several occasions, uploaded arch: all binary packages with source package problems and not discovered that until months later via a FTBFS bug from an archive rebuild, I think we should rebuild all arch: all

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Xavier Roche
Le 04/05/2013 15:37, Xavier Roche a écrit : something that you can not detect unless you setup a complete chrooted build environment, which is a bit cumbersome to do) Replying to myself - I should have pointed out that pbuilder was actually a really straightforward way to do that (sudo pbuilder

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: We've always treated FTBFS if built twice in a row bugs as important: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild The real question is whether or not there is a consensus within the project

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: We've always treated FTBFS if built twice in a row bugs as important: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild The real question is

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 11:53:04AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: We've always treated FTBFS if built twice in a row bugs as important: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild The real question is whether or not there is a consensus

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 11:53:04AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: We've always treated FTBFS if built twice in a row bugs as important: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Again, as Thijs argued somewhat eloquently already earlier in this thread, computational time is not the scarce resource to worry about; human time is. The one thing Debian is comfortable about spending money on is hardware,

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Again, as Thijs argued somewhat eloquently already earlier in this thread, computational time is not the scarce resource to worry about; human time is. The one thing

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Gilbert The one thing Debian is comfortable about spending money on is hardware, so if we expect to see double build times, then there should be an associated doubling-down on buildd hardware. One thing is the cost to buy the hardware. Other costs (monetary or otherwise) are

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 13, 00:30:00, Ben Hutchings wrote: I assume you're concerned that there may be undeclared build- conflicts. But testing in the maintainer's development system is not a particularly good way to find those. Testing in a maximal environment (everything with priority = optional,

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:18:36AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: While we're at it, can we also have source-only uploads? Uploading potentially huge binary packages that just go to /dev/null seems like a pointless waste of bandwidth to me, and the only for argument I've heard (which I don't

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 04-05-13 17:53, Michael Gilbert wrote: And/or on the technical side, make the buildds always build twice. Not Going To Happen[tm] on my buildd hosts. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:53:59PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I think there's a consensus, the problem is who's going to do the work for automating dropping of binaries and rebuild. Not implying that I am the one doing this work, I would like to learn more about what needs to be touched to

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ryan Kavanagh r...@debian.org, 2013-05-04, 13:48: If Debian and its users trust developers with that kind of responsibility, it should also be able to trust developers to follow a basic guideline of Please test-build your package and check the resulting binary before doing a source-only

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wookey
+++ Julian Taylor [2013-05-04 11:48 +0200]: On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder option for

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:18:44AM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Julian Taylor [2013-05-04 11:48 +0200]: On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/05/13 at 12:27 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Again, as Thijs argued somewhat eloquently already earlier in this thread, computational time is not the scarce

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: We've always treated FTBFS if built twice in a row bugs as important: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild The real question is whether or not there is a consensus within the

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 05/03/2013 03:18 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On 02/05/2013 18:48, Neil Williams wrote: After Wheezy is released, we can talk about throwing away all binary uploads again... if we can't prevent people doing the wrong thing, we might have to send bits of what gets uploaded to /dev/null.

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Isn't that already possible? It is? I should try that out with my next upload. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Arto Jantunen
Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org writes: On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Isn't that already possible? It is? I should try that out with my next upload. No, it's not. Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with maintainers not even build

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/05/2013 16:12, Arto Jantunen wrote: Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org writes: On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Isn't that already possible? It is? I should try that out with my next upload. No, it's not. Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 09:01:51 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: On 05/03/2013 03:18 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: While we're at it, can we also have source-only uploads? Uploading potentially huge binary packages that just go to /dev/null seems like a pointless waste of bandwidth

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:01:51AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: After Wheezy is released, we can talk about throwing away all binary uploads again... if we can't prevent people doing the wrong thing, we might have to send bits of what gets uploaded to /dev/null. While we're at

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/03/2013 02:12 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Yes, speaking as someone who has, on several occasions, uploaded arch: all binary packages with source package problems and not discovered that until months later via a FTBFS bug from an archive rebuild, I think we should rebuild all arch: all

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 03-05-13 10:25, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On 03/05/2013 16:12, Arto Jantunen wrote: Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org writes: On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Isn't that already possible? It is? I should try that out with my next upload. No, it's not. Source only

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, May 3, 2013 15:09, Wouter Verhelst wrote: No, it's not. Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with maintainers not even build testing their packages. They do. They just ignore the issue; they can do that because it's a scalability issue that,

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 03 mai 2013 à 09:18 +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : While we're at it, can we also have source-only uploads? Uploading potentially huge binary packages that just go to /dev/null seems like a pointless waste of bandwidth to me, and the only for argument I've heard (which I don't

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org [130502 12:28]: People do this all the time: upload packages built against local packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. /me shivers. This hurts. There is no reason not to rebuild in sane environments. Can we please fix this for the

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Nick Andrik
2013/5/3 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: There is a solution to both the upload bandwidth problem and the the problem that buildd binaries are untested, but I’m afraid it implies changes to dak. This means configuring dak to accepting only two types of uploads: - source-only uploads

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the software we distribute but no longer the possiblity to do so on their own, the Free we are so proud on gets mood. Doesn't pbuilder make it easy enough for anyone to modify and build the

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:10:25AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the software we distribute but no longer the possiblity to do so on their own, the Free we are so proud on gets mood.

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.05.2013, 00:10 +0300 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the software we distribute but no longer the possiblity to do so on their own, the Free we are so proud on gets

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net writes: The issue with sterile build environments is not just for building packages for normal use. If I'm fixing a bug in a package, I may need to build that package several times, testing different fixes. If everyone assumes that packages will

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [130504 00:32]: The way to ensure that builds in non-clean environments work properly is to devise a method for testing them, and to do those tests on a regular basis and turn test failures into bugs. Noone is speaking about non-clean environments, but only about

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Arto Jantunen vi...@debian.org, 2013-05-03, 11:12: Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with maintainers not even build testing their packages. [citation needed] -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [130504 00:32]: The way to ensure that builds in non-clean environments work properly is to devise a method for testing them, and to do those tests on a regular basis and turn test failures into bugs. Noone is

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 01:05:06AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [130504 00:32]: The way to ensure that builds in non-clean environments work properly is to devise a method for testing them, and to do those tests on a regular basis and turn test failures into

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 15:09, Wouter Verhelst wrote: No, it's not. Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with maintainers not even build testing their packages. They do. They just ignore the issue; they

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (02/05/2013): On Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: People do this all the time: upload packages built against local packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. /me shivers. This hurts. There is no reason not to rebuild in sane

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2 May 2013 12:27:32 +0200 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, On Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: People do this all the time: upload packages built against local packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. /me shivers. This hurts. There

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (02/05/2013): On Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: People do this all the time: upload packages built against local packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. /me shivers. This hurts.

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:00:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: People do this all the time: upload packages built against local packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. /me shivers. This hurts. There is no reason not to rebuild in sane environments. Can we please fix this

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name writes: On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:00:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: We can by rebuilding all packages from source, including on the uploaded architecture. Then at worst they will be consistently broken across all architectures. :) Don't forget arch:all

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/05/2013 18:48, Neil Williams wrote: After Wheezy is released, we can talk about throwing away all binary uploads again... if we can't prevent people doing the wrong thing, we might have to send bits of what gets uploaded to /dev/null. While we're at it, can we also have source-only