Santiago Vila wrote...
> Making a great percentage of packages in the archive to be "suddenly"
> buggy is unacceptable.
Nobody would consider making failing r12y "serious" at the current
state where 13 to 17 percent of the packages fail, depending on how
you read the numbers.
> We all want Debian to build reproducibly, but goals are achieved by
> submitting bugs, changing packages and making uploads, not by rising
> severities.
Yes, and this work is currently being done. Or rather, has been done
to a suprisingly huge extent. A *lot* of patches have been prepared
and submitted to BTS, just waiting for the maintainers to pick them
up.
The question is, how many packages do need attention beyond that, i.e.
fail for reasons that still need investigation? At the moment the
number is somewhere between 200 and (wild guessing) 1000. If it's less
than 50 in a year, this seems realistic, why not finish the job?
Setting these to "important" then seems acceptable. Making this a
release goal still could be left for stretch+1.
Christoph
