Archive rebuild proposal for Lucid

[Matthias Klose]

On 29.10.2009 11:04, Michael Bienia wrote:
> On 2009-10-29 10:25:39 +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
>> In addition, I suggest that the rebuilding script files a bug on LP
>> when a package FTBFS. This will help us get the problems fixed in the
>> normal work-flow, and the bug-fix history of the package will be
>> recorded under +source which will help Debian maintainers and ourselves.
>
> Please don't or only if you can filter out false positives. Some FTBFS
> are caused by one arch being faster than an other and thus a
> build-dependency being temporarily not installable.

but a lot of these would point out to build dependencies which should be more 
tight. seen at least with many gnome and kde uploads where pkg-config did 
complain about a version not recent enough. catching this with a build 
dependency puts the package is dep-wait, and then is retried after some time.