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bug#65391: Acknowledgement (People need to report failing builds even th
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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bug#65391: Acknowledgement (People need to report failing builds even though we have ci.guix.gnu.org for that) |
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Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:12:08 -0400 |
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Hi Arne,
"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
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> Please don’t remove packages that are broken on the CI. I often had a
> case where no substitute was available but the package built just fine
> locally. This is not a perfect situation (nicer would be to track why it
> doesn’t come from CI — sometimes it’s just a resource problem on the
> CI), but if you removed a package I use that would break all updates for
> me.
I agree! It'd be important, if we decide to have such a policy, to add
add guards such that packages are only removed as a last resort, after
options have been considered, and when it's been broken for a while with
an issue opened for it, and when it's a real problem with the package,
not with our CI.
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Thanks,
Maxim