[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#566319: Bug#566319: Acknowledgement (buildd: Don't auto give back packages that will fail anyway.)

[Philipp Kern]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:53:30AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> I also got a:
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libhdf5-serial-1.8.4_1.8.4-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> apt-get failed.
> 
> Which is also a case in which it shouldn't do an give-back.

As that's a bug in a (build-)dependency it's not the leaf who's at fault.
So I somehow think it's not entirely insane to auto-give-back on this
condition.  It might waste time on slow architectures, though, so maybe
one would want to make this configurable?

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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