Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/03/21

[adrien]

Misc

• Working on a rewriter for update_excuses.html; memory usage is now similar to the original page unfortunately but features are at least as good
  • current page rewritten: https://adrien.dcln.fr/misc/update_excuses_2.html (updates every several hours because the “regular” pages does so)
  • code at https://gitlab.com/adrien-n/update_excuses_rewriter/
• Created next week’s status report: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/03/28

Distro

• Final changes before openssl 3.0.13 was uploaded; thanks @tobhe and @schopin in particular
• Triggering tests again dozen of times, targetting tests with only armhf failures as soon as logs say “badpkg” or something like that
• Doing the same for arm64 and ppc64el because queues are empty

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

• Went over a list of packages needing merges in Ubuntu and dumped/diffed the ABI for more than a dozen in order to know if we can skip merging them (around 10 could be skipped)