Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/03/28

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

  • Click-click-click on test retries, trying to be mindful of the test queues (not overloading, nor letting them empty), which I guess was useful useful this week
  • Reporting issues with test runners and following their status (thanks a lot to @hyask, @andersson123 and @juliank)
  • Took part in the archive unstucking; in particular but not limited to:
    • forensics-extra-* which testsuite is only to install all its depends (and recommends?), which is useful for the packager but probably a terrible test at the distribution level: a single issue with Qt and linssid became an opaque error for zlib
    • report-tracker4/5 for which one test fails and which has blocked dozens of perl packages but the use of all-proposed on all arches makes it difficult to track: Test failures in noble-proposed (all-proposed)
    • follow-up for the removal of some R packages which are marked as not supporting 32-bit arches anymore: triggered migration-reference/0 test in order to make the revdep test non-regressions
    • overall, many test retries which have been made much easier by my rewritten excuse page
  • Discussion with Helmut about the details of abi-compliance-checker analysis and its output

Life besides armhf

  • There is no such thing

Misc

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