Bug#818148: bullet: Out of memory errors do not make the build to stop

[Markus Koschany]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Am 15.03.2016 um 16:01 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> severity 818148 serious
> thanks
> 
> Per Policy 4.6, "Error trapping in makefiles", I'm setting the
> severity to what it should be.
> 
> Policy 4.6 says:
> 
>   Every time you put more than one shell command (this includes using
>   a loop) in a makefile command you must make sure that errors are
>   trapped.
> 
> Note that it says "must", so the serious severity is completely appropriate.
> 
> Feel free to keep the "unreproducible" tag if you like, but this
> is a serious bug according to Debian policy.
> 
> Lack of memory is not the problem, it's just the way we discovered
> that this package does not trap for errors during the build.
> 
> The errors may be produced by any other reason other than lack of
> memory, but the fact that the makefiles do not trap errors remains the
> same.

I suggest that you calm down a little. It is obvious that you disagree
with my assessment but that does not justify your aggressiveness and
your actions.

For the record: As the main uploader of this package I strongly disagree
with your bug severity. The package is not affected and the
documentation is complete, all images are present as expected. Just
because the images are not generated with graphviz on a low memory
system does not make this a release critical issue. The build system
clearly told you that your memory is insufficient and that you should
rerun graphviz. If you ignore those error messages and my advice, then I
am unable to help you.

Please avoid changing the bug severity again but feel free to forward
this issue to Debian's Technical Committee after having slept over it.

Regards,

Markus


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