Cannot merge PRs with partial failure

[mfansler]

We previously could merge PRs that had failed runs, but this is no longer the case. What can we do?

This particularly impacts noarch recipes where some dependencies are not available on all platforms, but are on linux-64, which is what the feedstock will ultimately use. This is often the case for R ecosystem, where win-64 only has partial coverage, but we cannot add a skip on noarch due to prohibition of platform-specific selectors.

[mfansler]

For example, #30765

[carterbox]

Did you try skipping Windows builds and ignoring the lint that you shouldn't have platform skips in a noarch recipe? I believe that lint is just a warning and not a failure.

[mfansler]

@carterbox it's a failure, not a warning.

#30765 (comment)

[1minds3t]

Unfortunately it seems to require building on all platforms. The only solution I found was to make certain problematic requirements (such as python magic, due to windows not having the lib) optional in my package.

[mfansler]

To clarify, this is about a recent (6 months?) change to permissions of staged-recipes reviewers, rather than guidelines for package submission. In the R package ecosystem, it would require substantial and intrusive patching to convert required dependencies to optional.

The only workaround I see at the moment is to submit the recipe as non-noarch, use selectors to avoid problematic platforms, then convert it back to noarch once it hits the feedstock. I'd really like to avoid this as it wastes resources and time.

[mfansler]

Is there any way that we could redefine the CI so that noarch: generic only runs and tests on linux-64?