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/fossil_2.25-4_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

This issue has been reported upstream, with a patch.

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/8700a21fc2

Index: tools/makemake.tcl
==================================================================
--- tools/makemake.tcl
+++ tools/makemake.tcl
@@ -546,17 +546,20 @@
   writeln "\t\$(XTCC) -o \$(OBJDIR)/$s.o -c \$(OBJDIR)/${s}_.c\n"
   writeln "\$(OBJDIR)/$s.h:\t\$(OBJDIR)/headers\n"
 }

 writeln "\$(SQLITE3_OBJ):\t\$(SQLITE3_SRC)"
+writeln "\t-mkdir -p \$(OBJDIR)"
 writeln "\t\$(XTCC) \$(SQLITE_OPTIONS) \$(SQLITE_CFLAGS) \$(SEE_FLAGS) \\"
 writeln "\t\t-c \$(SQLITE3_SRC) -o \$@"

 writeln "\$(OBJDIR)/shell.o:\t\$(SQLITE3_SHELL_SRC)
\$(SRCDIR_extsrc)/sqlite3.h"
+writeln "\t-mkdir -p \$(OBJDIR)"
 writeln "\t\$(XTCC) \$(SHELL_OPTIONS) \$(SHELL_CFLAGS) \$(SEE_FLAGS)
\$(LINENOISE_DEF.\$(USE_LINENOISE)) -c \$(SQLITE3_SHELL_SRC) -o \$@\n"

 writeln "\$(OBJDIR)/linenoise.o:\t\$(SRCDIR_extsrc)/linenoise.c
\$(SRCDIR_extsrc)/linenoise.h"
+writeln "\t-mkdir -p \$(OBJDIR)"
 writeln "\t\$(XTCC) -c \$(SRCDIR_extsrc)/linenoise.c -o \$@\n"

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fossil, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1105310@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> (supplier of updated fossil package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:12:06 +0100
Source: fossil
Architecture: source
Version: 1:2.27-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Changed-By: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Closes: 1103921 1105310 1138485
Changes:
 fossil (1:2.27-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Update debian/watch to v5
   * Bump policy
   * Deal with cross build bad compiler options issue (closes: #1103921)
   * Quilt patches
     - make-shuffle-reverse.patch (closes: #1105310)
     - openssl-4.patch (closes: #1138485)
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