On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:53 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> People often turn off a package on some arch due to a temporary
build
> failure, and then just leave it off for ages. I'd really like to see a
> policy of _having_ to have an open bug for such exclusions, in all cases
> except the true long-term reasons.
I agree. In fact, I'd go further and say every single use of ExcludeArch
or ExclusiveArch ought to be associated with a bug # in bugzilla. If it's
"it's yaboot, dummy" then that bug # can be CLOSED-WONTFIX from the start.
I favor this because it makes it straightforward to have automated
processes that troll the packages and complain about spec files that use
these tags without having a bug associated in bugzilla. I think having a
bugzilla report explaining why it was never a problem is preferable to
putting magic exclusion lists into any such automated process.
Hmm yeah, I hadn't thought of that. That seems like a fine plan.
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dwmw2