On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:12:38PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 22:44 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> It's certainly true that we could do more to identify ftbfs situations
> earlier, but we've had mass rebuilds in most recent releases. Random
> failures years down the line really aren't a realistic concern.
I can think of specific cases where dependent packages failed to rebuild
6 months later because of an earlier change, and I'm sure we can find
some involving years at a time. Further, there are some noarch packages
that haven't been rebuilt in many releases, but that's another issue.
6 months isn't even one year, let alone many. Let's avoid hyperbole.
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