[Debichem-devel] Bug#851042: molds: FTBFS: liblapacke.so: undefined reference to `sgemqr_'

[Santiago Vila]

El 20/10/23 a las 17:19, Graham Inggs escribió:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 00:27, Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
>> OTOH, if this bug is being kept open to track something
>> different (what Graham Inggs called "a recurring problem"
>> in a previous message), maybe it would make sense to
>> retitle at least.
> 
> It seems a similar problem happened in #897488 [1] in May 2018.
> Unfortunately, that was before Adrian tagged this bug FTBFS, and molds
> was removed from testing for eight months unnecessarily.

AFAIK it is the severity of the bug (serious in this case) what
triggers the autoremoval from testing, not the "ftbfs" tag.

And the severity was set by Lucas Nussbaum in the initial report,
because he was reporting (as he usually does) "the FTBFS of the day"
(so to speak).

For the purposes of this bug, we can consider the report by Lucas
Nussbaum as if it was the action of an automatic mechanism. He detected
a package which did FTBFS at a given time, so he reported it as a serious bug.

So, I don't see an easy way to improve that. Lucas is amazingly productive at
reporting FTBFS bugs, so I would rather adapt to the way he report bugs than
ask him to do things differently to avoid cases like this one.

Thanks.