[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#796731: freecontact: FTBFS on mips (test suite failure)

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Fri Aug 28 15:49:00 UTC 2015


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 17:42:10 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Julien,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:20:55PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 17:05:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > 
> > > Any chance to do a manual build on a more powerfull MIPS box which might
> > > not run into this problem? 
> > > 
> > NAK.  We need packages to build reliably on our buildds.
> 
> The reliability of a build can be proven by passing the test suite.  So
> in this case we need buildds that can reliably build the package.
> Otherwise the package should probably be excluded from this architecture
> at all.  BTW, the package is now available for mips since some kind soul
> managed to build it.
> 
Having the package available because it's been built on a non-buildd is
strictly worse than not having the package available.

Cheers,
Julien
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