"No change" rebuilds and archive skew

[Scott Ritchie]

On 11/04/2010 01:14 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Yesterday I had to re-upload gdk-pixbuf and atk1.0 to pick up the new gobject-
> introspection on powerpc.  This enabled a reasonable number of powerpc FTBFS 
> (~half a dozen) to be fixed.
> 
> It looks like when they were initially uploaded, gobject-introspection was 
> built on amd64, armel, and i386, but not powerpc and as a result, these 
> packages ended up incorrectly built against the older gobject-introspection on 
> just powerpc.  Misbuilds like this can be difficult to detect.
> 
> Please: If you aren't going to wait until the library you are rebuilding 
> against is built on all architctures, add a minimum version to the build-
> depends so that it won't build against the wrong one on slower architectures.
> 
> Scott K
> 

How did gdk-pixbuf move ahead of the already-uploaded build dependency
in the queue?  Or was it building at the same time?

Scott Ritchie