Re: FTBS bugs -- MBF?
On 02/10/22 at 04:23 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Nǐmen hǎo!
> I did another _source_ rebuild of the archive -- checking if every package
> is capable of repacking its source. Ie, if you can unpack it, (possibly
> modify), and pack again.
>
> Putting aside packages that are broken in other ways as well (B-Depends
> non-installable, FTBFS or a RC bug), there seems to be no new fancy types
> of breakage that haven't been fixed in 2020.
>
> This leaves one big set: packages that fail the clean step due to
> undeclared B-Depends. According to the Policy:
>
> # "clean"
> # Only the "Build-Depends" and "Build-Conflicts" fields must be
> # satisfied when this target is invoked.
>
> ... which makes sense as you might be interested in only an arch:all or
> arch:any build, and we have no clean-indep/clean-arch targets.
>
> For sbuild, the incantation is:
> alias sbuild-source='sbuild -s --source-only-changes --no-arch-all --no-arch-any --no-run-autopkgtest'
>
> As 291 packages fail this requirement, I'm posting here before (instead?)
> filing bugs. There's also a question of severity.
Hi,
Are you saying that those 291 packages fail when only
Build-Depends/Build-Conflicts are satisfied, but do not fail when
Build-Depends-Indep is also satisfied?
FWIW, when I do archive rebuilds, I rebuild the source, but that's with
Build-Depends-Indep installed.
Lucas
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