Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 12 January 2023

Project Discussion Foundations
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Happy New Year!

Archive

  • Reviewed a new tool from Christian to identify removal candidates from the FTBFS reports. (Needs work, but a couple of old Ubuntu-only packages have gotten removed so far as a result.)
  • Tracking process-removals (for packages removed from Debian unstable). Got postgresql-14 removed from lunar, and moved removal of python2.7 forward.
  • Reviewed general removal requests.
  • Attempting to prune python-cryptography reverse-dependencies on i386 (livecd-rootfs; curl) to avoid having to bootstrap a stack of rust modules.

Release

  • Checked in on status of 22.04.2 blockers
  • Did some work to untangle transitions in lunar-proposed. Qt transition has landed, and packages entangling Qt with python3-defaults have been copied back. Rolled back protobuf to not entangle; now trying to get llvm-toolchain-15 releasable to get the qt6-base transition through, then all packages should be ok to copy back to lunar-proposed again for the big python3-defaults transition.
  • Code reviews for the proposed official Xubuntu Minimal image

SRU

  • Released the last round of grub SRUs for focal, unblocking an arm64 boot blocker
  • Reviewed the latest round of grub SRUs for jammy/kinetic (and accepted grub2-unsigned), for CVEs.

General

  • Did an interview for a toolchain squad candidate
  • Helped Legal generate some reports used for copyright registration of Ubuntu
  • Discussions around SecureBoot signing with the latest keys for the new SBAT level in the latest security updates
  • R(e-r)eview of a couple of specs for @bdrung
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