sanity_checks: Skip check for platform specific dependencies

README.md

@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ meson compile -C builddir
     only on Linux CI.
   - `fatal_warnings`: (Optional) If set to `false` removes --fatal-meson-warning.
     Use this only when there is no other way to fix the warning.
+  - `skip_dependency_check`: (Optional) List of platform specific dependency
+    names that are not always provided by the project.
 
 - Test locally by running `tools/sanity_checks.py` script. It will be executed
   on the CI and must always return success before merging any PR.

ci_config.json

@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@
     "_comment": "- Disable unit tests because upstream does not run them on Windows and some are flaky on Linux.",
     "build_options": [
       "glib:tests=false"
+    ],
+    "skip_dependency_check": [
+      "gio-windows-2.0",
+      "gio-unix-2.0"
     ]
   },
   "harfbuzz": {

tools/sanity_checks.py

@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ def check_new_release(self, name: str, builddir: str = '_build', deps=None, prog
         elif not ci.get('build_on', {}).get(system, True):
             expect_working = False
 
+        skip_deps = ci.get('skip_dependency_check', [])
+        deps = [d for d in deps if d not in skip_deps]
+
         options = ['-Dpython.install_env=auto', f'-Dwraps={name}']
         options.append('-Ddepnames={}'.format(','.join(deps or [])))
         options.append('-Dprognames={}'.format(','.join(progs or [])))