Control: reassign -1 src:linux 6.7.9-2 Hi Niels,
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 05:19:43PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Salvatore Bonaccorso: > > Source: debhelper > > Version: 13.15 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: ftbfs > > Justification: Regression for other package builds, FTBFS > > X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org,debian-ker...@lists.debian.org > > Control: affects -1 + > > src:linux,src:linux-signed-amd64,src:linux-signed-arm64 > > > > Hi Niels, > > > > Not fully investigated, but starting to fill a bugreport. I noticed > > that the src:linux pipeline on salsa started to fail for the > > jobs in th build-signed stage (in the build-signed job). > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/carnil/linux/-/jobs/5527774 > > > > (and for saving the output): > > > > [...] > > > > (attached as well the raw log) > > > > I'm not 100% sure yet, this might be a problem in our packaging in > > which case we can re-eassign. But it only got triggered with the > > change recently in debhelper: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/commit/dec5cfad00e2abd9ee3594f90c93f3fa42bb73ff > > > > Regards, > > Salvatore > > Hi Salvatore > > It was a suggestion raised (I think on IRC) to have debhelper explicitly > check these parameters, because a lot of t64 breakage was "unnoticed" by > debhelper. That is, when people forgot to update --link-doc parameters > (etc.). > > The code for `--link-doc` uses `${binary:Version}` for the dependency, so > the package should really be from the same source[1]. In my view, it was > never a case that was expected to work between source packages. > > I think `linux` with `linux-signed` is doing something really special here > (especially considering it has worked so far), and I think the question is > whether `linux`/`linux-signed` should get a special-case or concluding that > the `--link-doc` is not suitable for the `linux`/`linux-signed` case. > > I would like to hear your case for what makes `--link-doc` sensible for the > `linux-signed` case. I know of `linux-signed`, but I have no idea what you > are dealing with in practice, so it is hard for me to make a judgement call > on this (other than my biased gut feeling of wanting to minimize > special-cases). Thanks for your very quick reply, this is much appreicated. I understand the reason and src:linux should not get really to be exceptionally handled. So for now I will re-assign it to src:linux and we can search for a solution in our package. Thanks a lot for your work on debhelper! Regards, Salvatore
