Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 22 Jun 2023

Project Discussion Foundations
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Short week, public holiday + PTO

+1 maintenance

  • rust-diesel: uninstallable on armhf because it depends on packages not built on any 32-bit arch. Added a build-dependency on these packages, so that the uninstallable binaries wouldn’t be built; and forwarded to Debian for consideration (either they should add the build-dependency or drop the runtime dependency, either way). LP: #2024059 However, it appears rust-diesel has just started failing to build on all architectures, so I filed Debian bug #1038138 for that and removed the package from mantic-proposed.
  • maxima: FTBFS on ppc64el, but not in Debian; so tried rebuilding gcl with -O3 disabled but it still segfaulted. Dumped some information in bug #2024061 after trying a few more things, and gave up.
  • cgreen: unsatisfied versioned build-dependency on libbinutils; we had done a no-change rebuild once before but this didn’t manage to migrate? So trying again. But also, it regressed in buildability on s390x, so filed Debian bug #1038145 about this.
  • calligra: build failure wasn’t reproducible locally. Retried and it succeeded.
  • rust-sequoia-net: unpick build-dep chain rust-sequoia-openpgp -> rust-nettle -> rust-nettle-sys. Current rust-sequoia-openpgp needs the newer rust-base64 in -proposed, but rust-sequoia-net needs the older one. Removed rust-sequoia-net from -proposed to let this settle out in Debian.
  • python-cogent: stuck in -proposed because Debian dropped 32-bit arch support and we have armhf binaries left behind; removed the binaries.
  • eztrace: LP: #2016471 identified that the test was broken because libomp was built with -Bsymbolic-functions but there was reluctance to disable this option. It’s legitimate to build without -Bsymbolic-functions when a package in the
    archive needs to intercept internal library calls. LP: #230460 is a prior example of this from when the hardening flag was introduced. Uploaded llvm-toolchain-15 with a targeted change to disable -Bsymbolic-functions only for libomp, not for all of llvm. But it somehow didn’t work. And somehow rebuilding llvm-toolchain-15 with no relevant changes also now fails. Giving up.
  • opm-simulators: stuck because the riscv64 build had been cancelled. Retriggered it, and it failed again with no build log. Between this and the changelog, seems like it might be OOMing the builders. Opened a bug.
  • Retriggered autopkgtests for packages involved in the r-base transition. There are packages not yet ready for the new r-base, but this makes clear which ones those are.

Distro

  • time_t work
  • fighting to do the time_t analysis of boost, keeps running out of memory in VM in canonistack and can’t allocate a larger VM

SRU

Full SRU day on Friday

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