britney

  1. Bug #1672545
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1672545

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: [Bug 1672545] Re: update_excuses: show why a package "does not have binaries"

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:52:21PM -0000, Balint Reczey wrote:
> Having PTS and tracker in Debian helps greatly in getting an overview
> per source package, but are not, and I think can't really be used for
> visualizing queues, like the migration queue.
>
> update_excuses.yaml can already be useful for example I used it to
> create re-run links for failed autopkgtests due to missing versioned
> dependencies [1], but making such features globally available would be
> better than running private helper scripts.
>
> [1] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24356986/

I'm not suggesting a private script.

I'm saying: consider building on top of britney rather than building
more things into britney.

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