[Qa-jenkins-dev] Bug#900630: jenkins.debian.org: reproducible Debian: unhelpful mails when diffoscope crashed

[Holger Levsen]

Package: jenkins.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: jenkins.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: reproducible
x-debbugs-cc: myon at debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

< Myon> fwiw, I'm pretty confused by all the mail notifications that link to pages that have no diffoscope output
< h01ger> | can you share such a mail on paste.d.n please?
< Myon> 2018-06-01 08:51 https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/armhf/postgresql-pgmp
< Myon> changed from reproducible -> unreproducible
< Myon> 2018-06-02 00:27 https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/arm64/orafce changed from
< Myon> reproducible -> unreproducible
< Myon> 2018-06-01 23:05 https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/amd64/pgq-node changed
< Myon> from reproducible -> unreproducible
< h01ger> | well, those packages (i assume, only checked the first) have notes, so the notes is displayed. if 
	    there wasnt a note, the diffoscope output would be displayed. so its a click away
< h01ger> | IOW: works as designed, not sure what to do
< Myon> it's not a click away, there is no link
< h01ger> | point
< h01ger> | guess diffoscope crashed then
< Myon> (on a sidenote, thanks for the Subject update in the mails, much more useful now)
< h01ger> | yup, postgresql-pgmp is on https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_breakages.html
< Myon> I got about 6 mails this morning/night, none of them worked
< h01ger> | mapreri rescheduled all packages where diffoscope crashed or ran into timeout…
< h01ger> | i guess what we should do is to create a page "diffoscope crashed, linking to index_breakages.html" 
  	    for such cases. then at least you can click and see what happened
< h01ger> | or not send such notification mails if this happens
< h01ger> | or both
< Myon> good idea, yes
< h01ger> | Myon: i'll put everything since 11:49 into a bug report. ok?
< Myon> and not call that status "unreproducible"
< Myon> ci.d.n calls it "tmpfail"
< Myon> ok
< h01ger> | also a good idea (though that will require db changes)


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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