On 2024-08-16 17:46 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
From another perspective: what is the right thing to do in a situation like this? Trying to hunt down the problem, and thus causing all sorts of noise like this message? This is what the policy says, but still...
Or just exclude that architecture i. e., list all archs but armel?
You should at least inform the relevant debian-ports list (less noisy
than debian-devel, but as you can see debian-devel worked well in this
case so that's not an unreasonable choice), and not just turn the
architecture off. This can be via a cc:ed bug or just a mail. Bugs
help track issues so future maintainers can find their similar problem (arch-specific issues often appear in multiple packages, needing
similar solutions).
If you get no response after a couple of weeks and need to do an
upload then it is fair enough to disable the architecture until a fix
arrives, but idealy prod again and wait a while if you can.
One of the good things about debian is that we support a range of
architectures (to the best of our abilities). Packagers are not
expected to know how to fix arch-specific issues but they are expected
to ask someone who might if they can help, and not just degrade debian
by removing packages from arches without at least filing a bug + asking.
All IMHO of course, and recognising that porter responses can be both
slow and nonexistent, but I do think it's important that we try keep
debian as consistent as possible across architectures, and don't just
reach for the 'disable' button. For someone on a particular arch that
is the same as the 'remove from archive' button in effect.
Wookey
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