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   Message 26,848 of 28,835   
   Santiago Vila to James McCoy   
   Bug#1046849: Fails to build source after   
   09 Feb 26 01:10:02   
   
   From: sanvila@debian.org   
      
   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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