[Fedora-packaging] Include ia64 tracker bug in review guidelines

[Paul Howarth]

Michel Salim wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The package review guidelines [1] do not mention the tracker bug for
>> ia64 [2] to track 'ExcludeArch: ia64' packages. Should it not be
>> updated?

Yes, and the same for the sparc architectures IMHO.
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/251073)

> Isn't ia64 a secondary arch? It can be hard for the packager and
> reviewer to notice an ia64 build failure since Koji does not provide
> an ia64 build.

Well if a packager hasn't had cause to try a secondary arch build, they 
won't have found the need to add an ExcludeArch for that arch either. If 
they've added one for whatever reason, it needs to be tracked the same 
as any other arch.

The fedora-packager-setup script now includes koji configs for doing 
secondary arch builds for those that are interested.

The secondary arch maintainers do rebuilds of most packages to create 
the secondary arch releases, and the regular package maintainers get 
task completion emails from koji that may alert them to issues with 
their packages that they wouldn't have found themselves.

So I say yes, the trackers for secondary arches need to be referenced 
the same as the primary arches.

Paul.