+1 Maintenance report (Dec 8-12)

[uralt]

This was technically my second +1 shift, but the first one was post-feature freeze last cycle which tends to be quiet. I mostly focused on items that were blocking the migration of pytest, as well as some miscellaneous FTBFS issues.

Sponsorship needed:

• sip-tester: Merge into ubuntu/devel : lp2134582 : lp:~uralt/ubuntu/+source/sip-tester : Git : Code : sip-tester package : Ubuntu
  • This package was failing to build on ppc64el due to the new C standards introduced by GCC15 turning some string overflow warning into an error. Thankfully the issue was due to overzealous optimization and can be fixed by dropping the optimization level for ppc64el only, instead of lowering the C standard being used.
  • Bug #2134582 “sip-tester: FTBFS on ppc64el with GCC15” : Bugs : sip-tester package : Ubuntu
• courier-unicode: https://code.launchpad.net/~uralt/ubuntu/+source/courier-unicode/+git/courier-unicode/+merge/497371
  • This package was also failing to build on ppc64el but this time due to a symbols issue. There is a new version in Debian experimental with a number of symbols related changes, but syncing that would have started a transition ahead of Debian and appeared to fail to build on ppc64el for Ubuntu anyway.
  • We used to carry delta for this package which fixed the aforementioned symbols problem, but it appears this delta was lost in the past cycle. My MP reintroduces the dropped delta.
  • Bug #2134963 “courier-unicode: FTBFS on ppc64el” : Bugs : courier-unicode package : Ubuntu
• zict: Merge into debian/sid : lp2134546 : lp:~uralt/ubuntu/+source/zict : Git : Code : zict package : Ubuntu
  • This is a trivial merge pulling in a new version of zict which addresses breaking changes by the new version of pytest.
  • Bug #2134546 “Merge zict 3.0.0-4 from Debian unstable for resolu...” : Bugs : zict package : Ubuntu

Full log:

• spectral-cube: this package had regressed its autopkgtests against joblib/1.5.2-1 due to some breaking changes in the latter and was keeping it from migrating. Upstream had already addressed the changes so I cherry-picked the fix.
  • Once joblib is allowed to migrate, it will most likely need a patch to update it for the new pytest version. I will submit an MP for this next week.
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spectral-cube/+bug/2135015
• python-throttler: this package had both regressed against pytest/8.4 (which introduced some breaking changes when dealing with async tests) as well as being FTBFS against python3.14. Neither of these are addressed upstream yet so I wrote a small patch to update the async tests as necessary.
  • Bug #2134573 “autopkgtest regression against pytest 8.4” : Bugs : python-throttler package : Ubuntu
• python-parameterized: this package had long had tests that have been skipped due to relying on the yield keyword, which had been unsupported by pytest since version 4. As of version 8.4.0, usage of yield started being treated as an error. I removed the previously skipped tests.
  • Bug #2134961 “python-parameterized: autopkgtest regressions agai...” : Bugs : pytest package : Ubuntu
• I unblocked python-trio’s migration. The new version required pytest to be updated which was not reflected in the test triggers. Using the proposed version of both packages was enough for tests to pass.
• I also ran a full retry of all current autopkgtest regressions which fixed a couple dozen failures and removed some of the (many, many) blockers of python3-defaults.

Thanks to @ginggs for sponsoring these changes.