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 8 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 4fbed6c4157e 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 1d5c476a6328). Untriaged.
• Found: 2026-09-18T10:54:49Z
• 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 4fbed6c4157ef53972bae9ffb923ecf029f50725

Range

The named sha 4fbed6c4157e 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 4fbed6c4157e, last good 7f86a12a6628, 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-3234959/test_nilpy_ffiunref26  [code=1359323B  data=86220B  bss=67328B  procs=2306  codeseg=1359584B]
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 - DT_NEEDED is [eam_decoder_delete], expected the DIRECTORY's libFLAC.so.<n> and not the file stem's libstream_decoder.so

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

Log

• 2026-09-18 — auto-closed by the borg watcher: test-nilpy#src:test/test_nilpy_an_unreferenced_header_import_needs_no_library.npy passes at 578ca3e81d91 (tier full); it was red at 4fbed6c4157e. Reopening is by a fresh NEW-RED stub, since a second red is a second finding with its own range.