Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 16 February 2023

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The previous status is here: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 09 February 2023

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ubuntu-image

Miscellaneous

  • Candidate interview
  • Sponsored golang-1.19 sync for @zhsj
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Distro

Netplan

Misc

  • compliance trainings
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Distro

  • +1:
    • many re-triggers, especially because many tests failed due to connectivity issue
    • ddnet needs to move to big_packages
    • python3-cssutils FTBFS (same in Debian), package version hasn’t been updated for more than 6 years, maintainership has changed, compatilbity between versions unclear; will remove cssutils for now
  • re-working my patch to fix anacron 2.3-33’s disabling of service and timer
  • looked at xz-utils’ migration but in the meantime another version has been uploaded and queues haven’t made it possible to get results on that version
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Distro

  • Golang security update in Lunar (1.19.6 and 1.20.1) (sponsored by @jawn-smith )
  • Merge kmod 30+20221128-1ubuntu1 (sponsored by @slyon)
  • Sync golang-github-containers-toolbox 0.0.99.3+git20230118+446d7bfdef6a-2 (sponsored by @tsimonq2)
  • Removed golang-go-semver from Lunar
  • Removed cadvisor from Lunar
  • Watching the autopkgtest results for (golang*|libselinux|kmod), but they are just waiting in the queue.

ROCK

  • Get start reading related documents.
  • Play with chisel and rockcraft.

Misc

  • Preparing VISA documents for the upcoming sprint.
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  • Still looking at migration of sbuild (LP: #2003201)
  • Uploaded apt-clone to clear proposed migration of lsb-release-minimal (LP: #2007566)
  • Worked on libcamera support in lunar:
    • got v0.0.04 of libcamera working with the v1 and v2 Pi cameras (LTO issue; disabled for now but working on “proper” patch for upstream)
    • built libcamera-apps against v0.0.4 of libcamera (with some upstream patches); works well
    • tested against proposed 6.2 kernel, also works well
    • v3 camera module still not working on either kernel version (on 5.19 definitely due to missing d-t overlay, but something else is broken on 6.2)
  • Pi meetings
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  • I took over looking at fuse vs ostree proposed migration (LP: #2006483). I managed to reproduce the failure in Ubuntu and Debian and confirmed it was a bug in fuse3 3.13.0. Still need to look at a fix, but concentrating on things that need doing before FeatureFreeze.
  • Lunar Lobster pre-FeatureFreeze Merge Party :partying_face:
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Desktop installation on RISC-V

StarFive VisionFive 2

EDK II Shell

  • The EDK II should be packaged as binary. I discussed the requirement with the Debian maintainer. Next step is to create a pull request on salsa.debian.org.

Soft lockups when booting with Radeon GPU on RISC-V

  • Pull requests created for livecd-rootfs and debian-cd.

python-cryptography

  • Unmaintained package python-omemo-backend-signal was dropped form the archive to allow migration of python-cryptography.

Lenovo X13s

  • Created a preinstalled image. It runs fine from NVMe but running from USB still suffers from a Linux 6.2 kernel issue.
  • Tested a new kernel with EFI variable support.
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  • glibc: Keeping an eye out on the glibc transition, but work is a bit slow due to the autopkgtest infrastructure being somewhat broken these days.
  • Rust: Multiple small rounds of reviews on @liushuyu-011’s efforts to get rustc 1.66.1 and cargo 0.67 into Lunar
  • apport: the GH backend PR led me to post my first actual PR for apport, instead of just doing reviews!
  • hibernate: packaged a snapshot of the upstream repo to fix FTBFS as well as other outstanding issues.
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  • subiquity
    • Subiquity 23.02.1 released
    • PR: 1536 (LP: #1952926) - review, add tests and expand fixes for grub and swap handling when using “guided” storage in autoinstall, thanks to @itjamie for getting this started
    • PR: 1541 - improve wording on some UI strings
    • PR: 1558 - merge latest curtin & probert for 23.02.1 release
    • PR: 1562 - fix all existing usage of asyncio.create_task - it is unsafe to use this to run a background task unless a reference to the task is saved. Thanks to @ogayot for the previous work on a convenience function to maintain references to background tasks.
    • LP: #2002427 - test rebuild of Subiquity with a fix from Snapcraft for arm64+64k pages
    • LP: #2004659 - fix in progress on detecting when we have network or not. Failed some integration tests, investigating.
    • LP: #1907128 - mockups and API planning for what to do about LVM handling + full disk guided install
  • mini-iso-tools
    • PR: 6, PR: 7, PR: 8, PR: 9 - work to improve JSON handling, recognize cdimage and releases, recoginize desktop and server
  • proposed-migration: notcurses - failed migration due to test flakiness, while investigating that found and fixed FTBFS (LP: #2006772)
  • kiwi - merge and upload
  • retroarch - syncpackage
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This is my first week at Canonical, and I am still working on the onboarding tasks/reading the documentation on how to contribute.

Until now, I mainly worked as a .NET developer and will focus on maintaining/improving the .NET tooling for the Ubuntu ecosystem.

I am looking forward to making my first contribution :slight_smile:

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systemd

  • Merged 252.5-2 from Debian: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/252.5-2ubuntu1 (thanks @slyon)
  • Preparing Focal SRU to include fixes for:
    • LP 1933090 “systemd/245.4-4ubuntu3.6 ADT test failure with linux-hwe-5.11/5.11.0-20.21~20.04.1”
    • LP 2002445 “udev NIC renaming race with mlx5_core driver”
  • Preparing Jammy SRU to include fixes for:
    • LP 2002445 “udev NIC renaming race with mlx5_core driver”
    • LP 2004478 “systemd-networkd’s dhcp4 client ignores local subnet routes”
    • LP 2003250 “networkctl reload with bond devices causes slaves to go DOWN and UP, causing couple of seconds of network loss”
    • LP 2000880 “systemd-networkd: ActivationPolicy ignored in VLANs”

ubuntu-release-upgrader

  • Working on a quirk to prevent auto-removal of flatpak if it is used (e.g. flatpak apps are installed)

software-properties

  • FTBFS in lunar-proposed was resolved with a retry
  • Working on adding support for editing/listing deb822 sources

Other

  • Booked travel for the next Engineering Sprint
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Netplan

  • Netplan SRU for Jammy and Kinetic (LP#1997467)
    – Found a few issues during the process that still need to be fixed (LP#2003727)
  • Working on some documentation for the Netplan everywhere project
  • Tested the Netplan integration and autopkgtests with the new NetworkManager 1.42.0
    – Continued investigating a bug where temporary connections are persisted by libnetplan (LP#1998207)
  • Worked on a fix for an improper handling of the lacp-rate option (PR#324)
  • Started some experiments with json schema validation as a way to improve netplan’s parser

Distro

  • Investigating a proposed-migration issue related to libgd2 and glibc
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Distro

  • devscripts: Uploaded 2.23.1 to Debian unstable. Merge to Ubuntu will be done later.
  • tzdata: Uploaded 2022g-5 to unstable. Merge to Ubuntu will be done later.
  • update-manager:
    • Make Python version PEP440 compliant (LP: #1991606)
    • Switch to Debian source 3.0 (native)
    • Replace transitional policykit-1 by polkitd and pkexec
    • Fix pycodestyle complains by formatting Python code with black
    • Drop imports only needed for Python 2
    • Replace lsb_release call with reading /etc/os-release directly
    • Upload 1:23.04.1 to lunar
  • python-distutils-extra:
    • Fix KeyError on .egg-info files in debian directory (regression in 2.48) which causes Apport to FTBFS
    • setup.py: Check that Debian version starts with DistUtilsExtra version (LP: #1919004)
    • Upload 2.50 to unstable and synced to Ubuntu
  • apport: Uploaded 2.25.0-0ubuntu1 to lunar
  • cloud-init: Add Apport general hook
  • pydocstyle:

Apport

Other

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subiquity

  • revisited autoinstall schema for PR 1552 - support for multiple candidate mirrors ; with automatic selection for autoinstalls and desktop installer. Added documentation updates and merged.
  • opened PR 1564 to optionally fallback to an offline install.
  • fixed unit test failing in chroot because of timedatectl: PR 1560
  • prevented CI from fetching SSH keys over the Internet. Used mocking instead. PR 1559
  • investigated another occurrence of curtin’s curthooks dropping user configuration. Opened PR 1565 to finally treat the root cause. Still needs testing.
  • spec review

distro

  • merged sysvinit using the git-ubuntu workflow. Sponsor needed :slight_smile: LP: #2007421
  • followed up mailman3 issue on ppc64el for a bit. Filed LP: #2006961 with steps to reproduce.

misc

  • upgraded to lunar
  • found out that parameterized unit tests using coroutines in python3.11 don’t run. Filed LP: #2007554
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Rust toolchain:

  • Rust and Cargo updated to 1.66.1 (LP#2005122) and 0.67.1 (LP#2005123) respectively. Currently, packages are being reviewed by @schopin
  • Rust coverage/profiling (LP#2002694 ) enabled in LL. The packages which enabled profiling are in a personal PPA and being reviewed.
  • Currently working on updating Rust to 1.67.1.

Ubuntu ROCK

  • Currently investigating the requirements of creating a Ubuntu image for Rust application development.
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proposed-migration

  • kicking around the edges of the autopkgtest backlog problem
  • cleaned up performous-composer from -proposed, left behind from an ffmpeg-related removal from release pocket
  • remove icingaweb2-module-pdfexport from -proposed, new Debian version has an insane dependency on chromium

Archive Admin

  • miscellaneous removal processing

Release

  • sync meeting to make sure we know what the secureboot critical path is for 22.04.2

General

  • investigation into ABI breakage across libraries for armhf 64-bit time_t
  • travel booked for Prague
  • short week, off Friday
  • next Monday is a public holiday
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Autopkgtests

Server Team

ISO testing

  • Landed MR enabling iso static validation for the new desktop installer
  • Removed old iso testing jobs from Jenkins (bionic)
  • ISO testing round for Jammy in view of the point release

Misc

  • Reviewed several candidate essays
  • Travel planning for sprints
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distro:

  • watching vim migrate
  • did cryptsetup merge

Ubuntu ROCK:

  • adding tests for chiselled JRE image
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Is the pre-installed image something you’d be willing to share with masochists who LOVE the idea of a “functional Pinebook on steroids,” have an X13s, and are dying to do something with it? (Note: “running Windows” doesn’t count as “something.”) Happy to test stuff, give feedback, etc.