Re: graphics/libimagequant failure to build

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-10-13 at 00:14 BST, Mike Pumford wrote:

> Nasty. Is it helpful for people to call out failures as they find them 
> or does would it be better to hold off rebuilding things for a few 
> days until the dust has settled?

We have a number of platforms that perform daily bulk builds of pkgsrc 
trunk and post them to the pkgsrc-bulk@ mailing list, and in an ideal 
world folks would read those reports and act on any failures.  The gd 
issue can be seen here:

  https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2023/10/12/msg024425.html

That said, not everyone reads the bulk build reports, and sometimes it's 
not easy to spot new failures in amongst the forest of long-term issues.

So while I'd much prefer we invested effort into reducing bulk build 
failures, and improved tooling around highlighting new failures, for now 
it unfortunately does seem expedient to have duplicate bug reports on 
other mailing lists like this one as they often get seen by some 
developers sooner and fixed quicker.

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