Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2025/01/23

[hyask]

autopkgtest-cloud

• Finalized building riscv64 testbed image for Plucky:
  • It just started to work without me finding a particular issue. Might have been caused by something in the archive.
  • Deployed all 96 workers for riscv64.
• Improved the traceback reporting on request.cgi, for better feedback from users: https://git.launchpad.net/autopkgtest-cloud/commit/?id=c24324d5d098256e53386f110015685dedd30b70

error-tracker

• Started a terraform plan to deploy the retracers at scale.

Ubuntu

• Fixed and SRU’d (still ongoing) a zip bug: Bug #2093024 “[SRU] zip crashes when using options -T and -TT” : Bugs : zip package : Ubuntu
• Sent the zip delta to Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1093629
• Monitoring and kicked shadow and util-linux until they migrated. Please watch your updates around those two packages, because the login binary package moved from the former to the latter.

Noble .2

• Worked on the release checklist

misc

• Travel preparation
• Hiring