Don't setup broken deps at all with Julia v1.9-10

Author: giordano

test/dependencies.jl

@@ -376,16 +376,25 @@ end
                     PackageSpec(; name="CMake_jll", version = v"3.24.3")
                 ]
                 platform = Platform("x86_64", "linux"; libc="musl", cxxstring_abi="cxx11")
-                try
-                    test_setup_dependencies(prefix, dependencies, platform)
-                catch
-                    if VERSION>=v"1.9"
-                        # This test is expected to be broken on Julia v1.9+
-                        @test false broken=true
-                    else
-                        # For previous versions we don't expect errors and we
-                        # want to see them.
-                        rethrow()
+                if v"1.9" <= VERSION < v"1.11"
+                    # For reasons I can't understand, in CI on GitHub Actions (and only
+                    # there, can't reproduce the same behaviour locally) the error thrown
+                    # inside the `setup_dependencies` "escapes" the `try` block. For lack of
+                    # time to debug this stupid thing we just mark this step as broken and
+                    # move on, it's really broken anyway.
+                    @test false broken=true
+                else
+                    try
+                        test_setup_dependencies(prefix, dependencies, platform)
+                    catch
+                        if VERSION>=v"1.9"
+                            # This test is expected to be broken on Julia v1.9+
+                            @test false broken=true
+                        else
+                            # For previous versions we don't expect errors and we
+                            # want to see them.
+                            rethrow()
+                        end
                     end
                 end
                 # The directory contains also executables from CMake dependencies.