Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2025/01/09

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Distro

Upstream work

Apport

proposed migration

Distro

Misc

  • Lots of catching up for discussions and upstreaming patches and discussing (faketime, dotnet, liboqs, …)
  • First work day of 2025, catching up.
  • Nothing significant to report yet.

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.

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.

Rust

Distro

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

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

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.

Thanks to @tsimonq2 and @sudipmuk for merging libcamera and libtraceevent MPs over the holidays

  • 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

autopkgtest-cloud

error-tracker

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

Plucky

misc

  • Hiring