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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

The Developer Platform team has need for a tool to facilitate mass
bugfilings for package build failures on ARM.  Requirements:

 - process the output of periodic rebuilds (e.g.
   http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20110107-natty.html)
   to identify build failures that are specific to armel (obviously this
   requires an armel rebuild as input... the above example rebuild is not)
 - tag resulting bugs with 'ftbfs' tag and an 'arm-porting-queue' tag
 - avoid filing new bugs on a package when there is an existing open bug on
   that package with these tags
 - script must be runnable from the commandline / cron

Nice-to-have features:

 - recognizing when a build failure is not a regression from the last time
   the script was run, to avoid filing a new bug report (since a build
   failure may be a bug in a *different* package, and have been reassigned
   to a different package as part of triage)
 - allow filing 'ftbfs' bug reports for non-armel build failures

This is a prerequisite for having an effective porting queue for handling
ARM package build failures.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
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