Foundations Team Updates - 2025-05-08

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Previous updates in Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/04/24

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Questing

• Added cloud-init to fs_label deprecated bug and tagged qq incoming (LP: #2100232)
  • Appears the intent is (or was?) to remove it and only support cidata
  • Added use case and justification for the Pi’s current use of this configuration
• Generated a questing branch for lp:ubuntu-images
• Reviewed and sponsored @r41k0u’s flash-kernel 3.109 merge (LP: #2109835)
• Reviewed @r41k0u’s libcamera fixes (LP: #2109901, LP: #2110144)
• Worked on u-boot merge (LP: #2109512)

Plucky

• Discussed gnome-initial-setup changes with various parties including certification

Oracular / Noble

• rpi-eeprom changes landed (LP: #2085903)

Jammy

• Responsored backport for openvpn (LP: #2097688)

General

• Status covers a couple of weeks as last week’s status meeting was cancelled
• Patch Pilot shift on Monday
• Filed a PR to fix several issues in the ubuntu-images extension
  • Patched the ubuntu-boards-docs to temporarily incorporate those fixes

[enr0n]

Distro

• Mostly working on Bug #2109800 “systemd-fsckd functionality should be in plymouth ...” : Bugs : systemd package : Ubuntu

[mateus-morais]

I was off Thursday and Friday last week, so kind of a shorter pulse for me.

.NET

• Attended fortnightly .NET partners sync meeting.
• Fixed .NET plugin integration test (feat: new .NET plugin (v2) by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #1047 · canonical/craft-parts · GitHub)
• Tested the new .NET Plugin for crafts with regards to cross-building .NET application.

PowerShell

• Released PowerShell 7.5.1.
• Fixed bug where PowerShell version would not display correctly on start-up (Build snaps with `$ReleaseTag` by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #10 · canonical/powershell-snaps · GitHub).

Misc

• Sprint preparation.
• Written interview grading.

[levihackerman-102]

Go

• Working on syncthing for GUI snap testing of go-plugin
• Working on latest microreleases - 23.9 and 24.3 (released yesterday)

Distro

• Working on brial SRU
• Merge for vim

Misc

• Prep for Frankfurt sprint

[rkratky]

Documentation

Ubuntu for Developers

• Add article on Python dev env install and set up
• Add article on developing with Python
• Add developing with GCC
• Add installing GCC
• Zillion improvements
• Python example indent fix
• Build env updates
• Remove snowballstemmer pin

JAAS

• Fix logo display

Style guide vale

• Review: fix: rule 17 catastrophic backtracking
• Review: add reST-only ignore list for spelling checks

[juliank]

The rust coreutils by default changes are now in NEW

[andersson123]

I’ve been prototyping, testing and spec’ing a new graphical testing infrastructure, as well as preparing presentations and demo videos. That’s my only real update for the week

[r41k0u]

This week was mostly distro work

Lintian

• Merged lintian into questing: Bug #2109768 “Please merge 2.122.0 into questing” : Bugs : lintian package : Ubuntu. Thanks @vpa19771 for reviewing
• SRU to jammy, noble, oracular, plucky: Bug #2109817 “[SRU] Add questing as a known Ubuntu distribution” : Bugs : lintian package : Ubuntu. Waiting for uploads to *-proposed so I can submit verification report.

libcamera

• There is a new version of libcamera (v0.5.0), and (surprise!) it failed to detect camera modules on the Pi5. Patches up at Bug #2110144 “Raspberry Pi camera modules not being detected on ...” : Bugs : libcamera package : Ubuntu, Thanks @waveform for reviewing!
• EDIT: This patch eats up some hours whenever a new version lands, though the good thing is that it gets smaller with each version bump

rpicam-apps

• Bumped rpicam-apps version to fix FTBFS (thanks @jbicha for reporting): Bug #2109901 “rpicam-apps fails to build with libcamera 0.5” : Bugs : rpicam-apps package : Ubuntu
• Waiting for PPA builds (LP has been flaky with this today), but tested locally and works fine

flash-kernel

• Prepared the merge: Bug #2109835 “Please merge 3.109 into questing” : Bugs : flash-kernel package : Ubuntu and a couple of fixes: Bug #2097008 “[SRU] Add CM5 Lite to flash-kernel database” : Bugs : flash-kernel package : Ubuntu and Bug #2092737 “[SRU] Invalid entries in flash-kernel db” : Bugs : flash-kernel package : Ubuntu
• Thanks @waveform and @xypron for reviewing and merging. The SRUs will need a verification report after landing in *-proposed

misc

• Spent some time fiddling with automated hardware testing
• seriously behind on preparing my LT talk slides so must do that now

[vpa19771]

gradle8:

• working on kotlin2 configuration

openjdk:

• bug triaging
• filed removal bug for openjdk-19 in jammy

distro:

• sponsored lintian for @r41k0u

[hyask]

arsenal

• Lots of hackery to make that thing sort packages by team correctly again.
  • recent commits here: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~arsenal-devel/arsenal/2.x/
  • This is what generates the reports here: http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/

questing

• archive opening:
  • Updated the LP retracers: Merge into lp-retracer-config : lp-retracer-config : Code : Apport
• Merged zip: Bug #2110052 “Merge 3.0-15 into questing” : Bugs : zip package : Ubuntu (thanks @sudipmuk for the sponsor!)
• Merged shadow: Merge into debian/sid : skia/merge_4.16.0-7ubuntu1_4.17.4-2 : lp:~hyask/ubuntu/+source/shadow : Git : Code : shadow package : Ubuntu

misc

• Catching up after the holidays
• Hiring