Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 28 Sep 2023

[bdrung]

Distro

• initramfs-tools:
  • 0.142ubuntu13: Support usr-merged library path when detecting mutliarch dir (LP: #2037156)
  • 0.142ubuntu14: Skip compression support check if /boot/config-${version} is missing (LP: #2018171)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-535: Reporting issues found during testing:
  • installed nvidia-kernel-common-535 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  • zstd compressed nvidia drivers not included in initramfs
• bladerf: Sync 0.2023.02-2 (Debian applied our patch)
• python-distutils-extra: Port from deprecated distutils to setuptools. Release 3.0 to Debian unstable.

Apport

• setup: replace deprecated distutils by setuptools

other

• Published Reduce initramfs size and speed up the generation in Ubuntu 23.10