How does universe works?

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:29:18PM +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote:
> How about a special category "universe" in the ubuntu bugzilla (or perhaps
> even a separate bugzilla) where any registered ubuntu user can post a bug
> *and also* modify it, e.g. close it after a successful fix.  In this way
> we would have a central place where to find problem reports for universe.
> 
> My anecdotal evidence with broken packages in universe is that most fixes
> involve replacing a broken package with a more recent working version from
> debian.  Real patches should be rare as most of them already happen in
> debian/unstable.  The way to investigate this is to get the more recent
> source from debian and build the binary packages on ubuntu.  When they
> work you have fixed the problem.
> 
> BTW, does the ubuntu build system make several attempts at building a
> package?  There may be other reasons for a package not building apart from
> errors within the package, e.g. power outages, system crashes, spilled
> coffee etc. pp.

Er, our buildds don't usually suffer from transient failures like that.
:)  If there's a power outage, then it'll get rebuild when the daemon
comes up (unlikely as we're in a proper hosting facility with redundancy
up the hizzle).  As for system crashes -- that happens for most packages
(copies of logs are easily available, and automatically sent to the
people responsible for that architecture), which will cause a retry, but
I don't believe this happens for universe.

I certainly wouldn't like 10,000 build logs to sift through in my inbox.

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Daniel Stone                                        <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
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