Reference Vm Campaign Full Grind

VM campaign — the full grind, three targets

The whole ungated profile set (scripts/vm_campaign.py), run 2026-08-30 on Parrot, Debian 13 and Kali in parallel, then retried per-fix until every failure was either converted or filed as a verdict.

Standing after retries

Target	First pass	After retries
Parrot	122 / 128	128 of 128 installable units confirmed (code/codium correctly refused: third-party apt repos are unimplemented)
Debian 13	102 / 107	105 of 107 confirmed (same two honest refusals)
Kali	136 / 147	143 of 147 confirmed (four refusals: code, codium, and cqrlog/cwdaemon which have no Kali candidates — archive facts)

wsjtx-improved remains the one declared-conflict verdict everywhere jtdx is installed, refused at plan time by design.

What the grind taught, in fix order

• cmake children inherited an undefined cwd — rtlsdr-airband's version script ran git describe from wherever the engine started. Pinned to the source tree; shallow tag fetches now recreate the tag so describe answers with the pin.
• cmake caches outlive the source tree — a fixed source kept failing on the previous source's cached try_run verdict. --fresh on every configure; idempotent re-runs need fresh configures too.
• kalibrate-rtl had no configure to run — autoreconf: true closes source-build-gaps #3, with the planner injecting the autotools toolchain.
• Kali's GCC 15 defaults to C23 — void f() now means zero parameters, which is AHRL's original ardopcf error a compiler generation later, and gsmc's and qtsoundmodem's too. -std=gnu17 pins the dialect old C was written in; expect this class on every rolling target from here on.
• liquid-dsp 1.8 broke dumphfdl's version check twice over — its header needs stdarg.h under GCC 15's tightened includes, and it byte-packs the version number the check reads as decimal. The catalog's second real patch, two hunks, measured on Kali where 1.8.2 ships while Debian's older liquid passes untouched.
• sdrpp had transcribed libairspyhf-dev out of AHRL's dep list — the first real Debian build put it back.
• The hybrid units went three-for-three — supersdr and radiosonde-auto-rx installed and confirmed on every target, radiosonde's demodulators compiled by upstream's own script run from its own directory, its launcher demanding station.cfg exactly as documented.

Raw per-target tables live in the campaign outputs; this file records the conclusions and the fixes, per the runbook's recording rule.