Stephen Kitt, who recently took over "make" from Manoj, is planning to upload make 4.4.1 for unstable, but some packages break because of small changes in make behavior.
Previously, I already built all packages in trixie/sid using make 4.4.1 with --shuffle option and found 847 packages with Makefile issues.
To check for packages potentially broken by make 4.4.1, we have taken those 847 packages and have rebuilt them with make 4.4.1 alone and without using the --shuffle option.
As a result, we know that approximately 35 packages will break with make 4.4.1. We plan to report those as severity:important as a first step.
Build logs are available here: build-logs
There is also a dd-list.txt file, ordered by maintainer address.
To reproduce those failures, use the "make" package from experimental.
Note: The build failures in the build-logs directory were created in a virtual machine with 2 CPUs and the failures happened very consistently.
Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>