On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:06:27PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >... > Packages tested: 29883 (I filtered out those that take a very long time to > build) > .. building OK all times: 24835 (83%) > .. failing somehow: 5048 (17%) >... > I wonder what we should do, because 5000+ failing packages is a lot...
I doubt these are > 5k packages that need individual fixing. What packages are failing, and why? I would expect some debhelper machinery being responsible for most of these, e.g. perhaps some dh-whatever helper might be creating this issue for all 1k packages in some language ecosystem. > Should we give up on requiring a 'clean' target that works? After all, > when 17% of packages are failing, it means that many maintainers don't > depend on it in their workflow. You are mixing two related but not identical topics. Your subject talks about "failing to build twice in a row", but the contents mostly talks about dpkg-source. Based on my workflows I can say that building twice in a row, defined as dpkg-buildpackage -b --no-sign && dpkg-buildpackage -b --no-sign works for > 99% of all packages in the archive. > Lucas cu Adrian
