2011-02-25 builder incident - summary

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, February 25, 2011 09:00:05 pm Kate Stewart wrote:
> Dear Developers,
> 
>    Earlier today (14:39 UTC) our builders had their sudo package updated
> to 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.3 from Version: 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.8.  This had an
> unexpected side affect of setting the permissions with different
> defaults.  This resulted in bad permissions being generated for several
> packages that otherwise built successfully.  This change has now been
> reverted.
> 
> The affected packages have been rebuilt and the builders have been
> turned on again.
> 
> A list of the known affected packages between 14:39 UTC and 21:13 UTC
> (when we turned off the builders) can be found:
> 
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/572428/
> 
> If you are aware of other packages that could have been affected, after
> checking their permissions,  please join us on #ubuntu-devel to discuss.
> 
> Thanks,  Kate

It's not clear this is finished. Some additional suspicious builds were 
identified and the i386/amd64 builders are on manual again.

Scott K