Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/06/06

[adrien]

Distro

• openssl 3.2: https://code.launchpad.net/~adrien/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+git/openssl/+merge/466581
  • Simon reviewed and has a comment about dropping patches related to simplifying maintenance of FIPS packages
  • unfortunately the patches don’t apply cleanly and will require some work to re-introduce
• published a post about plans for upcoming ubuntu/openssl versions: Upcoming openssl versions in Ubuntu: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
• cinder: drop python-oauth2client dependency in favor of python-googleauth (same purpose but newer and maintained), thanks @tsimonq2 for sponsoring
• python-googleapi: also drop python-oauth2client for python-googleauth, again thanks @tsimonq2 for sponsoring
• discussions around removing pydrive which also depends on python-oauth2client and has been replaced with pydrive2 (which also uses python-oauth2client however) but I still need to open a bug about its removal

Misc

• Work on https://adrien.dcln.fr/misc/update_excuses_2.html : fetch build status from LP which can show updated and more detailed infos like
  • “Successfully built (Britney said ‘missing’)”
  • “Failed to upload (Britney said ‘missing’)”
  • build failures which britney didn’t report(!)
• Stumbled upon and reported Bug #2068011 “ppa-dev-tools creates __pycache__/sitecustomize.cp...” : Bugs : ppa-dev-tools
• Created next week’s status report topic: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/06/06