Five build fixes a day

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:16:09PM +0100, hugo shepherd wrote:
> The trouble with rebuilds is that more (new) bugs, appear to jump in
> the place of the ones you've fixed - and like the Forth Bridge in
> Scotland - its a never-ending job to paint it from end to end (well
> that used to be the case but now the painter's of the bridge have
> deployed a new strategy which speeds up the painting of the bridge)
> ;-) !

While this is true, I don't think we need to be defeatist and say that
means we can't improve the situation.  Also, in the run-up to Ubuntu
11.10 we can reasonably expect the influx of new build failures to be
significantly lower than normal.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]