I also find the build farm spam quite annoying. I get the same notification
failure whenever anything on Kinetic breaks. :)

Glancing at the package.xml for map_msgs, could it be that the accented "é"
in the author field (Stéphane Magnenat) is breaking unicode parsing, not
the exclamation points?

https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation_msgs/blob/jade-devel/map_msgs/package.xml

I will look into sanitizing the characters so that we can support package
maintainers and authors with unicode characters in their names.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Tully Foote via ros-release <
ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:

> I think the exclamation points in your name are breaking the unicode
> parsing on the debian target. Looking at the documentation the maintainer
> field only supports ASCII characters.
>
> The debian maintainer field format is defined by RFC822
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Maintainer
> There's a note about problems with full stop.
>
> And RFC822 can be seen here
> https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/3_Lexical.html
>
> I think it's likely that debian is more strict in it's interpretation of
> the formatting. And the quickest solution will be to remove the characters
> from the maintainer name. It could either be patched in the jessie specific
> branch in the release repo. The simplest solution is a rerelease without
> the characters.
>
> You could open an issue on
> https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm and we could look at
> sanitizing the characters in that field, but developing the correct
> replacement/substitituion policy may be a challenge.
>
> B) Sourcedebs are triggered on a 15 minute cycle since people want them to
> come out quickly. We typically will roll back any releases which fail their
> sourcedeb jobs since it's rarely a platform specific issue. And if the
> sourcedeb is not working we might as well pull it from the farm.
>
> Tully
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:27 AM, David Lu!! via ros-release <
> ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
>
>> I am but a humble navigation code monkey, and am not trained in the
>> ways of the build farm. Can someone help me interpret what's going on
>> that's causing
>> A) A specific build to fail e.g.
>>
>> http://build.ros.org/job/Ksrc_dJ__map_msgs__debian_jessie__source/87/console
>> B) So many emails (see attached)
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