[Piuparts-devel] Bug#699059: Elevate broken symlinks to error status

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-01-26 22:37, Dave Steele wrote:
> Provide better visibility to problems with broken symlinks in packages
> by raising the condition from an issue to an error on piatti.

Another reason to run two different tests for sid:

* one for serious problems (e.g. (un-)installability problems, no
leftovers or broken symlinks), this needs to have a very high coverage,
i.e. low dependency-failed-testing count
  currently 73 failed, 23 dep-failed
* one for important problems (leftover files, broken symlinks)
  currently with leftovers check:
  138 failed, 244 dep-failed

> Per http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/piuparts-devel/2013-January/003424.html
> , the failed count will rise by no more than 500 due to this change,
> even if nothing is done to fix the errors.

I just added another section ... sid-bl
(--fail-on-broken-symlinks --warn-on-leftovers-after-purge):
failed: 597
failed with broken symlinks (and no other problems): 508
failed with broken symlinks and other problems: 51
dep-failed: 3846
(tested with python-support.pth being ignored)

> The rise will be gradual,
> taking about 6 months for all of the packages to recycle.

there is always
  grep -l ": Broken symlink" *.log | xargs -r rm -v

> Since both blockers and block-ees will migrate only as the packages
> are upgraded or recycled, it should be fairly easy to keep the
> dependency-failed count due to this error to well under 1000.

If we want to make this error visible, we should enable it at some point
*and* recycle the logs immediately *and* have a mass-bug-filing prepared
(i.e. discussed+agreed on debian-devel) beforehand, and someone should
be ready to file the bugs.

Andreas