Hi,

GNU Make now has a --shuffle option that simulates non-deterministic ordering
of target prerequisites. See
https://trofi.github.io/posts/238-new-make-shuffle-mode.html and also previous
work in Debian by Santiago Vila:
https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/make-shuffle/

This package fails to build with make --shuffle=reverse.
This is likely to be caused by a missing dependency in
debian/rules or an upstream Makefile.

More information about this mass bug filing is available at
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS/Shuffle

Relevant part (hopefully):
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2025/05/05/shuffle/reverse/debarchiver_0.11.7_unstable_reverse.log

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

Hi Lucas

I'd like to understand a little more about this. I understand the option
and that if reverse order is used it may fail.
But this package is a rather small package and I do not think make -j will
ever be used.

Is this going to be a problem?

Cheers

// Ola

Hi Ola,

The bug has "severity:minor", so no it's not going to be a problem.

But it's also easy to fix with the following patch:

diff -Nru debarchiver-0.11.7/po4a/Makefile debarchiver-0.11.7+nmu1/po4a/Makefile
--- debarchiver-0.11.7/po4a/Makefile	2015-05-14 19:26:53.000000000 +0000
+++ debarchiver-0.11.7+nmu1/po4a/Makefile	2025-05-22 19:14:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
 debarchiver.pod:
 	podselect ../src/debarchiver.pl > $@

Got it, thank you!

// Ola