Bugzilla and build bugs

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Sun Feb 19 02:52:00 GMT 2012


On Saturday 18 February 2012 16:44:41 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> I don't think this is a good practice; build bugs are bugs much like other
> bugs, which may be valid or user error and may or may not have sufficient
> information when first reported; they should be treated like other bugs.

i agree completely

> It probably makes sense to have a new component "build" for problems
> building glibc or reports that it's completely broken in a particular
> configuration.  For failures of particular testcases in the testsuite, I
> think existing components such as "libc" and "ports" are more appropriate.

sounds reasonable
-mike
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