[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1043124: Bug#1043124: consider skipping trying to build on affected kernels?

[M. Zhou]

On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 14:12 +0200, Ari wrote:
> Have you, maintainers of zfs, considered configuring the packages so
> that it skips trying to build of affected kernels?
> This would at least reduce the time of installing any packages
> drastically - currently my system tries to build it for two kernels
> every time I install any package, because the kernel packages fail
> the configuration stage.
> Maybe with this approach it would be even feasible that the kernels'
> installation state would not be failed for which compilation failed?
> After all, the kernel installed correctly, but it's rather the zfs
> package that is broken.

While it indeed increases the speed of dpkg configuration steps,
skipping the build or silently leave the kernel installation without
failure is seriously wrong for many use cases, I believe.