[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#731940: buildd.debian.org: consider stderr as well as stdout before timeout

[Felipe Sateler]

Package: buildd.debian.org
Followup-For: Bug #731940

Hi,

Nicolas Boulenguez wrote:
> Some (admittedly faulty) build tools produce messages on stderr
> instead of stdout. However, sbuild only considers stdout to detect
> timeout and kill inactive builds.

I just spent some time wondering about this due to a build failure in
ardour3. This is a big time waster for everyone involved.

I'm CCing the sbuild maintainers because it probably needs to be fixed
there first.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash