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Bug#717106: openjdk-6: doesn't stop on build failure

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From: Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:27:42 +0200
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> It seems the build process is using some debian/buildwatch.sh, but
> it never stops on a build failure, so the buildd is now just
> waiting for someone to notice that it's not doing anything useful

the buildwatch.sh is not a good way to handle changes to files which don'tappear on stdout. It would be good to have a general approach to handle filesto watch which don't have output. The packaging should only give a list offiles or patterns to watch.


> Please just rip out that whole script and let us deal with setting
> timeouts as needed.

has this been done?