Bill Allombert:
[...]Users are using dpkg to build packages that are not part of unstable and testing, and so have not beed considered by the November tests. What will happen to them ? Will they simply FTBFS ? Cheers, Bill.
There is no "Yes/No" answer to this question.The outcome depends on the package in question. Guillem and I identified the failure modes in the preparation for the MBF (see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/11/msg00535.html for details). As an example, a `dh` package will generally successfully rebuild without any changes. However, the most common failure more is a FTBFS. It was rare for in-archive packages (2.5%) and I have no reason to believe it would be notably different for out of archive packages.
Note this transition only applies to `dpkg-buildpackage` based builds. Any direct use of `dpkg-deb` outside of `debian/rules` (to hand craft debs) is unaffected.
Best regards, Niels
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