Hello. After building all the archive (trixie/sid) with nocheck, I only found 33 new packages which fail to build with nocheck that were not reported before. Admittedly a little bit more than I expected, but certainly not "hundreds" as some people feared.
(The main reason there are not so many is that Helmut Grohne has been reporting those every now and then). My current plan for now would be to report them as "important" (using some usertag) with the following disclaimer: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This was going to be a release goal for trixie, but I'm reporting it as "important" because it's not clear how many bugs of this type are acceptable as RC at this point of the release cycle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- but of course I'm open to suggestions regarding the above text, particularly from Release Managers. On a personal note, I consider those bugs interesting to fix because I think there should be a safe procedure to build all packages in the archive in a way which minimizes build failures as much as possible. Currently such procedure would be to build all the packages in the regular way and then retry with nocheck those which fail to build. It would be more simple and straightforward if we were able to build everything with nocheck from the beginning. It would be a sign of quality and a milestone if one day we could get zero build failures doing that. Thanks.
