Updated archive rebuild results

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> where do you get this number?  It is definitely not 400 or more.

I may be completely off base here, but I got that number from two
independent methods.

First, by parsing the build logs at [1], I found a list of 434
packages which match a build failure of the following form:
/usr/bin/ld: XXXX.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XXXX'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'XXXX' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libXXXX.so.X so
try adding it to the linker command line

I placed a list of those packages online here [2]. Those FTBFS are
solely from the change that removes indirect linking, as they did
build in Maverick.


Second, from [3], there are 416 packages that have not been fixed in
Debian yet, so there is a high probability that those packages still
FTBFS in Natty. Those bugs include all forms of FTBFS caused by the
DSO linking changes. There are also an additional 298 packages that
have been fixed in Debian that may have been fixed in experimental
(because of the freeze) and would require manual syncing.

Those two data points, combined, leads me to believe that there are
400+ packages that are failing to build in Natty. Because of the
Debian freeze, we should not expect fixes to end up in unstable and
thus propagate to Ubuntu. Ubuntu would have to create diffs to fix
those FTBFS.

[1] http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_ftbfs.cgi
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottHoward/FTBFSreport
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=no-add-needed;users=peter.fritzsche@gmx.de
# Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Patch Available (22 bugs)
# Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Patch Available (7 bugs)
# Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Confirmed (2 bugs)
# Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (363 bugs)
# Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; More information needed (2 bugs)
# Forwarded bugs -- Important bugs (1 bug)
# Forwarded bugs -- Normal bugs (1 bug)
# Forwarded bugs -- Minor bugs (18 bugs)