Bug#848063: ri-li: FTBFS 99% of the time outside buildd.debian.org

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2016, Markus Koschany wrote:

> Control: severity -1 important

Dear Debian Games Team:

Please provide an explanation for this downgrade, preferably one that
shows clearly where exactly the technical disagreement lies, as I'm
required to provide such a summary when appealing to the T.C.

We all know that bugs which happen in buildd.debian.org are RC, but
the opposite is not true. Bugs which do not happen in
buildd.debian.org are not automatically not RC, so please don't use
this as a rationale because it's a bogus one (A => B is not the same
as B => A).

Last time I tried to build this package (one month ago), I used nine
different autobuilders. I've put all the build logs here for everybody
to see:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/ri-li/

Summary: Tried 200 times. Failed 198 times.

Please also do not forget that this also fails in the reproducible
builds autobuilders, which, I repeat, are different and independent
from my own autobuilders:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/ri-li.html

Thanks.