glibc/eglibc: proposed promotion to security/updates

Adam Conrad adconrad at ubuntu.com
Wed May 25 08:56:07 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:49:10AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 
> I guess the best thing would be to actually fix tests :-) For most of
> the broken ones we earn from Debian we actually have overrides, but
> they tend to be maintained for the devel series only. E. g. a test
> might get fixed in devel, we drop the "force-badtest" override, but
> now the test would appear as a failure in stables. Perhaps we need
> per-series overrides to clean this up.

We have per-series overrides, but they seem rarely (if ever) used.

Britney looks at the hints-ubuntu-$series[1] branches for each series
it's processing, and those branches exist, they just need people to
mangle them.

... Adam

[1] eg: lp:~ubuntu-sru/britney/hints-ubuntu-xenial/



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