Hi Gioele
On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 11:27:03AM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Currently dinstall is run only once every 6 hours. This means that many
> operations are blocked for a long time. For instance uploading a -2 version
> after a package has cleared the NEW queue.
Can you please show the error you got from the upload? Package
acceptance and dinstall are not tightly coupled, at least for unstable.
What we call dinstall is just the process of bundling everything up and
shipping it out for everyone to use.
> Such long delays tend to ruin the development flow, especially of volunteers
> that happen to have just a couple of hours at their disposal. This is a well
> known source of frustration [1].
Not sure what you mean. Can you please explain the workflow you are
talking about?
> Given that a dinstall run generally takes only few minutes, it should be
> feasible to run dinstall at least hourly.
It takes up to three hours. This process includes the overall updates
to all the mirrors outside of Debian.
Bastian
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