buildd chroot creation: who should get notified of failures?

Hi folks,

Occasionally the buildd (and porterboxen) fail to debootstrap updated
chroots. Sometimes these are Internet problems, sometimes local network
 problems, sometimes mirror problems, sometimes archive problems. These
mails go to DSA but as far as I can tell, we always ignore them, I
certainly do. I have included below a sample of the error messages
since September so folks can get an idea of the errors.

Should they go to the buildd admins?
Should we stop recording them altogether?
Should we log them to disk instead of mailing them?
Should we be sending these mails to other locations?
Should DSA triage the mails and bounce them elsewhere?

Other thoughts?

W: Retrying failed download of http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-arm64/Packages.gz
W: http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-arm64/Packages.gz was corrupt

W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /srv/buildd/unpack/create-sid-Iu8qOr/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package libp11-kit0:kfreebsd-i386 is at fault)

+ chroot /srv/buildd/unpack/create-sid-QkPNAw apt-get update
E: could not load seccomp policy: Invalid argument - HttpMethod::Configuration (22: Invalid argument)

E: Failed getting release file http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release

E: Failed to fetch http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/pool/main/p/policyrcd-script-zg2/policyrcd-script-zg2_0.1-3_all.deb  Cannot initiate the connection to mirror.bytemark.co.uk:80
(2001:41c8:20:5e6::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2001:41c8:20:5e6::10 80]

W: Couldn't download package zlib1g (ver 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 arch armhf)
E: Couldn't download packages: zlib1g

E: Couldn't download dists/buster/main/binary-s390x/Packages

E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2  File has unexpected size (5503564 != 5506053). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 64.50.236.52
80]
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:5506053 [weak]
    - SHA256:619c777b9e48dc3b40072b3d5b69296be2929f9c304aafad266f50ee757f5a9f
    - MD5Sum:375174c54de2e90bb7861be479e2930e [weak]
   Release file created at: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 08:31:39 +0000

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