Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2025/01/09

Project Discussion Foundations
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Distro

Upstream work

Apport

proposed migration

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Distro

Misc

  • Lots of catching up for discussions and upstreaming patches and discussing (faketime, dotnet, liboqs, …)
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  • First work day of 2025, catching up.
  • Nothing significant to report yet.
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Various discussions with people about APT topics, particularly upstream too.

Found a weird bug in debconf it is believed where now tzdata questions get asked during both dpkg-preconfigure and postinst.

Presumably fixed a bug in APT’s OpenSSL code that made it treat some errors as EOF. Don’t know because reporter gave up and switched to http!

Reviewing a merge request to clean up code a bit and preparing the ABI break.

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Go

  • Go 1.24rc1 is uploaded to Debian new queue. Snap package is able to build but the tracks haven’t been created yet.
  • Fixing delve FTBFS on riscv64. Some tests are failing on Debian. Ubuntu doesn’t run tests but still has problem with its packaging script.
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Rust

Distro

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Short week, travelling in about 20 mins and will be working again Monday

autopkgtest-cloud

  • Investigating issue with amd64 in prod, and opened an RT
  • MP review for @uralt

ubuntu-geonames

  • This is a service used by the legacy installer. I’m taking over the maintenance of it, and I’ve charmed and modernised it. I’ve requested a new environment for it, as we’re moving it from an old machine running trusty, to somewhere new.

iso-testing

  • further work on windows installer automation, regarding drivers that aren’t included in the ISO
  • Kicked plucky desktop to promote
  • Working on a script to spawn VMs and run tests on them

misc

  • Getting ready for some company travel
  • confirmed a bug against subiquity
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docker snap

  • Now available for riscv64 in edge channel

LXD snap

  • Now offered in riscv64 subiquity installer

xubuntu-desktop

  • Fixed FTBFS for riscv64

Silicon vendor collaboration

  • Published instructions for generating Ubuntu based images
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autopkgtest-cloud

  • Updated the ppa-endpoint MP in staging, in final review.
  • Made an MP for displaying autopkgtest-web version info.
  • Working on allowing test requests from indirect members.

Misc

  • Reconfiguring dradis to run jenkins jobs after it migrated to the new data center.
  • After some light exorcising of my machine the zsh merge is unblocked.
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Thanks to @tsimonq2 and @sudipmuk for merging libcamera and libtraceevent MPs over the holidays

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  • Testing the ukify tool for multi-device-tree setups in the risc-v image building process.

Upstream work:

  • U-boot driver to manage multiple network interfaces
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autopkgtest-cloud

error-tracker

  • Remains finishing building a new charm for proper deployment in production.

Plucky

misc

  • Hiring