[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#631060: Bug#631060: sbuild: Please highlight lintian failures

[Cyril Brulebois]

Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> (19/06/2011):
> As mentioned on IRC, it might make sense to fail the build
> outright if lintian fails.  While probably not appropriate
> for buildds (it would depend upon the lintian version on
> the host, which could be too old or too new and hence result
> in false positives) it would be useful for developers
> building packages for upload.  OTOH, maybe just highlighting
> in red would be sufficient for most cases.

Not all builds target the Debian archive. Not all archives implement
lintian-based autorejects. Build host's lintian might be buggy (and
overriding for a lintian bug which wouldn't be triggered on ftp-master
looks bad). I can probably come up with a few more reasons not to do
that.

Mraw,
KiBi.
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