On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 06:30:23PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 12:06:36AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > If a package written in C FTBFS with gcc-15, and it has foo.c and
> > bar.c, both of which requiring a fix, and the maintainer fixes foo.c
> > only (as only foo.c appears in the build log) would you say that it's
> > wrong to reopen because now it fails for a "different" reason? (bar.c)
> 
> Yes.

Well, I think nobody would do that.

If a package FTBFS with gcc-15, everybody would understand that the
bug is only fixed when the package builds again with gcc-15, not when
only the first foo.c is fixed.

> > BTW: I'm building subversion by adding this single file to debian/clean
> > 
> > subversion/tests/cmdline/.davautocheck.sh.stop
> 
> I'm seeing a failure completely unrelated to that, so I doubt it will
> be enough.

Well, my build succeeded after adding the above line. What's the
failure you see on your end?

Thanks.

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