On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:25:01PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > In your opinion, how much of the archive should be fixed before one can > start bumping the severity?
I don't know, but I think we should have better statistics before deciding about that. Quoting Holger: "This is a lie" (pointing to a graph that was being shown on the screen). The current figures we are handling right now refer to a modified build environment (i.e. sid + the special sources.list line from alioth). Also, we should better categorize the reasons why packages do not build reproducibly. For example: I am asked in gettext that xgettext honors the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable (see ##792687). This could be a good idea by itself, but so far the packages where I see that this change really helps are packages providing a .pot file in the source that also regenerate it in the build process as well. This is probably a bug even if we don't take R-B in account: Packages should ideally not modify their own source in the build process. However, if I apply the suggested patch, those bugs would be hidden and we would never know about them. So, let's see how things evolve before playing with severities.
