Bug#976545: Build failures on arm64 are release critical now

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi,

On 05/12/20 at 23:09 +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The package builds fine on amd64. I don't think it is correct to use severity
> serious in this case because ufoai-maps is an arch:all package. The same is
> true for Java packages. If we want to make this a release goal (making arch all
> packages buildable on all supported architectures), it should have been
> discussed months before the freeze. I saw that you have lowered the severity on
> some packages already. Can we agree to use severity normal for build failures
> on other architectures than amd64 if the package in question is arch:all?

I sent a message to similar failures, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976468#10
(I missed ufoai-maps because it hadn't finished building on amd64 yet
when I worked on this).

So yes, I'm fine with downgrading.

Lucas