Hi Ian, On 03-05-18 14:12, Ian Jackson wrote: >
Skipped two point that Niels already covered. > 3. "Required age increased by 10 days because of autopkgtest" > seems to appear when either (i) when there are tests that should be > run but which haven't completed and (ii) when some tests newly failed ? > I wasn't able to see any examples of the latter. I gave an example link to python3.6 which worked at the time of writing, but of course (that how it goes) changed by an new upload. python2.7 seems to show one: libgnatcoll (bug filed: 895235) > 4. Can we have a way to trigger tests from updates of non-direct > rdepends ? At some point in the future maybe we will run tests of > whole batches of updates and then have some algorithm to chop out > what the failures are caused by, but for now it would be useful to > be able to declare a specific indirect dependency for test trigger. > Maybe an XS- header field ? Just add it as a test dependency in one of your tests? > 5. AIUI there is no automatic way for the maintainers of the > rdependency to be notified of a test failure which is blocking > migration of one of their dependencies. Is that right ? The result > is probably that if the maintainers of the dependency don't follow it > up, the regression will migrate and the rdepenency maintainers will be > left to fix it up. No, it's all manual and currently I am doing most triaging (bunk and ginggs have contributed multiple bugs as well). The last couple of weeks I was able to file most bugs before the short expiry of 5 days, now with 15 days the task gets easier. If error messages and output are clean, this isn't so difficult. However, quite often output is hopeless for a bystander and difficult to judge the root cause and the severity. I hope we can improve this in the future by pointing people to the right tools (do they exist (for all languages)?) such that output gets standardized a bit more than currently. > 6. This is really one for the wider project: as the blocking time > increases, we are going to want some more relaxed rules for NMUing one > of your rdependencies. (Right now that would be pointless since you'd > upload it to DELAYED/10 and it would hardly migrate before your own > timeout anyway.) ... Paul
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