Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 25 January 2024

APT

  • Wrote an email and drafted a specification about revoking small signing keys in APT/Launchpad/3rd party repos.
  • Discussed having a field in release files to provide help to users in case of issues, upstream.
  • In merge request apt-team/apt!323, I have added an --audit option and corresponding error log level to apt to flag future deprecations and recommendations for repository owners.
  • Got a report about a new phasing bug in APT that causes Nvidia modules to be kept back for new kernel which ends up with black screens. Have written a fix but not finished the tests yet.

Boot

  • Reviewed and sponsored Debian upload grub 2.12-1 for @mkukri

Distro

  • Work on livecd-rootfs to enable deb822 sources by default in the image
  • Patch pilot
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