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.
Jon.