Bug#1116376: MBF: Packages which FTBFS when built with the nocheck profile
On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 08:37:16AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>...
> The devref recommends [2] to inform/discuss this on debian-devel@l.d.o. I
> recommend you follow the devref recommendation and state your intentions
> before doing such a new mass bug filing. I suggest to use some or all of the
> text from [1] in both the message to d-devel as well as in your bug reports;
> at the very least reference it.
One option would be linking to a wiki page listing common problems and
their usual solutions.
This is also more updatable than the text of an email.
> I'm slightly concerned about good
> communications here, because I believe this is delicate. For maintainers, the
> trivial way to avoid this RC issue is to no longer annotate Build-Depends with
> <!nocheck>, but we are also asking people to actively do that. Your mass bug
> filing should not lead to the wrong mindset.
That's only one class of bugs.
m68k and sh4 build with nocheck for years but do install <!nocheck>
build dependencies during the build, and while the resulting number
of (so far non-RC) FTBFS bugs filed and fixed for that over the years
was not huge it has been a constant source of bugs.
There are also non-FTBFS issues regarding nocheck:
The contents of the packages must not change with nocheck.
Is running tests despite nocheck now RC?
> Paul
>...
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Adrian
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