Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/02/29

Distro

  • node-expat proposed migration: migration failure due to testsuite errors with the new expat but also FTBFS due the testsuite errors; Steve agreed to remove it
  • ltx removed at the same time: it is the sole dependency of node-expat, is a library and nothing depends on it
  • reviewing patches related to FIPS support in order to reduce the delta between regular and FIPS packages (some FIPS patches are also being upstreamed)

armhf Y2038 support (a.k.a armhf 64-bit time_t)

  • Some more packages ABIs dumped and diffed
  • Prepared and shared a new report (the last one for Debian; there will be at least one for Ubuntu afterwards)
  • Serving .log files as text so that browsers display them rather than download them (not yet done but will be later today)

Misc

  • Tested xz-utils 5.6.0: single-thread decompression can be 60% faster on x86_64 and compression and decompressoin are now multi-thread by default
  • More work on higher-level interfaces and automation on top of git-ubuntu
  • Trying to use ppa-dev-tools test
  • Created next week’s status post: Foundations Teams Updates - Thursday 2024/03/07
  • A sick day and really looking for some time off :slight_smile:

Extra

  • Please tell me when you notice that one of the excuses HTML page becomes very large for browsers (you can also save the .html and .yaml file and share them with me :slight_smile: )
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