Desktop Team Updates - Monday 5th July 2021

  • Worked on a small autopkgtest-cloud feature, retrying “unknown” results a bit instead of just failing.
    • This was quite hard to test, as I didn’t know how to make one of these failures happen on demand. I eventually found the right spot in runner/autopkgtest to hack.
    • While testing this, I found out that our s390x images in bos02 were broken so there was a bit of yak shaving to fix that.
  • Did some focal-backports reviews for an internal Canonical team.
  • Packaged glib and glib-networking updates. The tests for glib-networking on s390x are broken. Spent some time investigating that but eventually just ended up reporting upstream. I dunno why it doesn’t happen on Debian, will come back to it later.
  • Bit more work on the ESM spec mentioned last week and very briefly began another one for some workflow improvements we’d like to make in the desktop team.
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