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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Another reason to run two different tests for sid:

I agree we should do this, but I'd like to wait until piatti has been 
virtualised.

> 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.

yes. I think a good time for attacking broken symlinks will be once wheezy has 
been released and jessie is in its early days of development.

On Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2013, Dave Steele wrote:
> > 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.
> Agreed, except I consider a gradual mass migration to
> dependency-failed-testing to be a good thing.

filing bugs is easier in one big rush. And for discussing this MBF it's also 
better to have actual numbers (+names) of affected packages.

> I plan to work on the discussion intro.

great, thanks!


cheers,
	Holger