DRC and Not connected pins

[leoheck]

I have this setup with the USB connector having the Shield pin 6 with the not connected flag.

However, the footprint in use has multiple pads assigned to pin 6 as shown here:

But then the DRC complains about it. However, the schematic says they should not be connected.

Is this a bug or some sort of really important and required check?

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 7.0.10-7.0.10~ubuntu23.10.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.2
	FreeType 2.13.1
	HarfBuzz 8.0.1
	FontConfig 2.14.2
	libcurl/8.2.1 OpenSSL/3.0.10 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.3.4 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.3) libssh/0.10.5/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.55.1 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.6

Platform: Ubuntu 23.10, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Dec 31 2023 13:35:26
	wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.6.3
	Curl: 8.2.1
	ngspice: 40
	Compiler: GCC 13.2.0 with C++ ABI 1018

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

[mf_ibfeew]

for my clarification: I don’t see the ratsnest lines between the pads nr.6. ratsnest turned off?
In general this was the old v6/v7 (and maybe older) behaviour.

For v8 there was a gitlab issue which has changed the behaviour: Do not mark multiple no-connect pads of the same name as requiring connection (#15692) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab.

[leoheck]

@mf_ibfeew

for my clarification: I don’t see the ratsnest lines between the pads nr.6. ratsnest turned off?
In general this was the old v6/v7 (and maybe older) behaviour.

The picture I shared is the footprint from the footprint editor, this one if from the layout, see.

Since I don’t like DRC issues (there are tons of things)…

They are is hard to navigate. The DRC text is hard to read and issues are not foldable by type. Also, the popup window sucks pretty bad, it is really hard to work on them. they could turn this window a dockable window since they messed up with this window on linux. this window does not behave like other windows, I cannot resize with the window manager shortcuts.

… I used to connect “not connected pads” that are in the same footprint when they are connected to the device itself. running out of this kind of issue.