[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: rustc: FTBFS on mips*: test failures

[Aron Xu]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:36 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 07/17/2018 02:29 PM, Aron Xu wrote:
> > As a temporary solution to unblock, I've built the package on a
> > loongson-3a box and uploaded. It is the same hardware as eberlin.d.o,
> > which in turn suggests this could be related to Cavium hardware.
>
> Unless DSA is willing to blacklist the rustc package on the buildd hardware
> where it doesn't build (if that's actually the case), this won't work and
> will cause the package to FTBFS if it hits the wrong buildd.
>
> For Debian Ports, this would be acceptable. Don't know about release architectures
> though. The policy could be different there.
>

Binary only upload from porter is allowed but not encouraged, it works
similar to an initial upload with source+binary. As said this is
temporary, blacklisting is needed and we are just relaxing Rust
maintainers from being worried too much about migration.

Cheers,
Aron