Track guessed as N from the FAILING STEP — line 17 of 35, if [ ! -f /usr/include/FLAC/stream_decoder.h ]; then \ echo "test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library: SKIP - no, which names test/test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library.npy. Not from the job's name or its src: those describe what the job is ABOUT, and this job's recipe spans 9 source file(s). The ranker reads frontmatter, so this line — not the body — decides who works it; correct it if the guess is wrong.

The SLUG names test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library, and that is not what broke. The slug is derived from the job's src: selector so that it stays stable across a renumbering — it is the dedupe key and the close key — but src: says what the job is ABOUT. The failing step names test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library. Read the Failing step: bullet, not the file name in the title, before you reproduce anything: the row the slug names may be passing.

origin/master has advanced 3 commit(s) since this sha. Re-verify at current HEAD before acting — the callback is tagged to the sha that was tested, which may no longer be the state of the tree.

regression: test-nilpy#src:test/test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library.npy at 62fc7c1e802a in step 17/35, if [ ! -f /usr/include/FLAC/stream_decoder.h ]; then \ echo "test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library: SKIP - n… (auto-filed by twatch)

• Type: regression (auto-filed by Track T watcher, host borg, twatch 97528b18bd0f). Untriaged.
• Found: 2026-10-05T05:03:58Z
• Test source: test/test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library.npy test/test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library.expected +7
• Failing step: line 17 of 35 of the job's recipe; it names test/test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library.npy test/test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library.expected.

  if [ ! -f /usr/include/FLAC/stream_decoder.h ]; then \ echo "test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library: SKIP - no /usr/include/FLAC/stream_decoder.h on this box (needs libflac-dev); the directory-derived soname is NOT covered by this run"; \ else \ ./compiler/pascal26 test/test_nilpy_a_header
  
  

Repro

tools/testmgr.py --tier full --job 'test-nilpy#src:test/test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library.npy' at 62fc7c1e802a126b623b3219bbaf6020750733e9

Range

The named sha 62fc7c1e802a CANNOT be the cause — it touches no buildable file (docs / tickets / tstate only). It is the sha that was TESTED, i.e. the upper bound of an untested range; the cause is somewhere below it.

bad 62fc7c1e802a, last good 2e07225c3cd1, 4 commit(s) in range — the watcher narrows this by idle bisect; check tstate/TSTATE.md for the current range.

Log tail

ok: /tmp/testmgr-scratch-2841954/test_nilpy_ffiunref26  [code=520161B  data=107400B  bss=68464B  procs=2466  codeseg=524000B]
test_nilpy_a_header_whose_library_is_not_spelled_like_its_file: DT_NEEDED libGL.so.1 resolves on this loader
test_nilpy_a_headers_directory_names_its_library: FAIL - it did not compile

Stub ticket: signal only. Track T agent (face 2) enriches or a dev track takes it from the repro line.

Log

• 2026-10-09 — the borg watcher saw test-nilpy#src:test/test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library.npy GREEN at 39225dde3632 (tier full) and did NOT close this: this is a repeat stub (regression-test-nilpy-test-nilpy-an-unreferenced-header-import-needs-no-library-2, not regression-test-nilpy-test-nilpy-an-unreferenced-header-import-needs-no-library) — the job already went red, was closed, and came back, so one green is the outcome a live intermittent bug produces most of the time. The green is recorded because it is evidence and because a ticket that stops moving with no reason reads as forgotten; closing this one is a human's call.