On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 04:14:50PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I ma bit confused: Is the manpage dpkg-buildpackage(1) up-to-date ? Does dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot still work as expected ? Is there a command-line flag to dpkg-buildpackage to revert to the bookworm behaviour ? At the very least the way to work-around this should be documented in the release note. Cheers, Bill.
