Re: +1 Maintenance Report

2024-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 06:24:48PM +0100, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Adrien, > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Adrien Nader wrote: > > > For rust, I'm wondering if it's worth working on the packages unle

Re: +1 Maintenance Report

2024-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
r them. I guess IRC and providing retry > links would have been more efficient but it still requires involving > several people which will lead to latency and frustration. Except by > broadening retry rights, I'm not sure how to really fix that however. we should in general be broa

Re: [Technical Board] Feedback requested: draft policy on third party software sources included by Ubuntu

2024-10-04 Thread Steve Langasek
rability it makes sense to go for in the installer. The admin can always customize the install after reboot by adding and removing packages to taste. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, an

Re: SRUs and the importance of validating upstream release tarballs

2024-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
nt of it at the archive level (this wouldn't even be meaningful), so in the devel series we rely on individual uploaders to check/enforce this (just as we do in Debian). The SRU process however has an additional review step with the SRU team, so it is possible to impose such a check at that po

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
g/ > > [2] https://www.percona.com/blog/is-oracle-finally-killing-mysql/ > > [3] > > https://jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2023/11/thoughts-on-october-2023-mysql-releases.html > > [4] > > https://www.percona.com/blog/do-not-upgrade-to-any-version-of-mysql-after

Re: +1 maintenance report

2024-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
ests (rationale is in the bug report): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nield/+bug/2079349 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glosstex/+bug/2079355 Removed. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sslh/+bug/2079513 Follow-up question added. -- Steve Langasek

+1 maintenance report

2024-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
e less locked memory available than on other archs, due to a kernel difference. Provided a partial patch to let tests be skipped when locked memory can't be allocated, but one test still fails. Uploaded, and forwarded the patch to Debian. https://bugs.debian.org/1081220.

Re: +1 maintenance report - 2024 week 31

2024-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
#x27;s not really consistent with the schema we use in Ubuntu. I've moved these packages to multiverse altogether (source and binary). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the w

Re: many systemd units failing in oracular LXD containers

2024-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
est/edge for LXD. I confirmed the fix myself just now. We don't deploy from latest/edge in production, nor should we. Do we have an ETA for when this will land in the stable channels for LXD that are used by default in the Ubuntu LTSes? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: +1 Maintenance Report

2024-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
is to remove those packages from the archive and > reintroduce them once the `ruby-rack` v3 transition is completely > finished. The main issue with this is that we have no way to track when such packages should be re-added. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek

Re: Make proposed available by default? [was: Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed]

2024-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
would certainly be prioritized accordingly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ s

ubuntu-dev-tools and `ubuntu-build`

2024-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
list is: was anyone using this script, and if so, are you attached to the non-"batch" mode? If not, I would like to make the "batch" mode the mode, dropping the requirement for the --batch argument. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS De

Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
are removed from > > Ubuntu. > I think that would be a very good policy, actually. You *personally* think that there should be such a policy. Many other Debian maintainers would be very angry to receive such notifications. And we currently don't have any mechanism for such not

Re: Can we collaborate with Debian better?

2024-05-05 Thread Steve Langasek
I would consider this. It would require an actual SRU process for mrbuild, since that package has other reverse-build-dependencies in noble (libdogleg, mrgingham, vnlog) which should not be allowed to regress; but provided there is a proper SRU test case to assert this, I think it's a sensib

Re: pastebinit default target on Ubuntu

2024-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ted while logged in can be viewed > anonymously and a paste created anonymously (e.g. by pastebinit, which I > don't think supports logging in?) requires a login to view. Ok, I was unaware of this nuance. That being the case, I don't think "login required" is a soun

Re: pastebinit default target on Ubuntu

2024-04-15 Thread Steve Langasek
uiring authentication on the SUBMISSION side is sufficient reason to change the default pastebin, then that of course isn't something we should second-guess; we don't need to be reinvesting anonymous ftp servers. But in that case, I think there should have been a discussion about who the de

Re: pastebinit default target on Ubuntu

2024-04-15 Thread Steve Langasek
ile, and I don't like this pointing to a service we don't control. And if there are issues with the usability of paste.ubuntu.com, uh, we own that service? So let's work with our IS team to make it fit for purpose. (I don't know why it currently requires a login to *view* pas

Re: help needed -- fixing hard-coded dependencies on shared library packages

2024-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
the Debian bug tracker. > > Thanks, Matthias > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enou

Re: early +1 maintenance: jupyter-notebook FTBFS, jupyter-client update ahead of debian

2024-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
n you verify that the previous version of the package in Ubuntu builds in noble? See also https://bugs.debian.org/1059658 -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2024-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
eded: > https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+git/ubuntu-helpers/tree/rbasak/clear-review-slot.py Please submit this to ubuntu-dev-tools :-) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.

Re: +1 maintenance report

2024-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
e locally but it fails to > build on LP due to dh_missing complaining. Are you using up-to-date debhelper on noble? There have been recent changes in debhelper's handling of systemd units, precisely for the /lib vs /usr/lib question. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: libgcrypt20 delta now dropped

2024-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
nd we are dropping the patch, it would seem to have the opposite effect to what you've written. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Is there a good solution for this: release-upgrade with dependency moved to universe

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
etween releases, and the release upgrade is the time for the user to discover this is the case and deal with it (as part of a maintenance window). Otherwise, you're really just shifting the pain. Ubuntu X went EOL, I have to reinstall, I install Ubuntu X+1 which is what I had installed before,

Re: NBS kernel removals: round three

2024-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 08:20:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:22:37PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Removing obsolete NBS kernels from trusty as described in June [1] went > > without any problems being reported. > > I am therefore plannin

Re: NBS kernel removals: round three

2023-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:22:37PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Removing obsolete NBS kernels from trusty as described in June [1] went > without any problems being reported. > I am therefore planning to proceed with the same cleanup now of NBS kernels > from xenial-{updates,sec

NBS kernel removals: round three

2023-12-10 Thread Steve Langasek
need to be retained because 16.04.7 was an update only for UEFI architectures (amd64 and arm64). I am planning to start removing the other NBS kernels from xenial this coming Friday, December 15. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Running Britney locally against a PPA, how to keep Britney from thinking my PPA package is in main?

2023-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
smoothly as possible. We typically wouldn't even do a +really upload, but instead just remove the broken version from -proposed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, a

Re: Running Britney locally against a PPA, how to keep Britney from thinking my PPA package is in main?

2023-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
on, but I have > absolutely no clue how I would go about doing this, and suspect it's not > even possible. It is not possible. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Merge ubuntu-motu@lists into ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists?

2023-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
l) and the volunteer > support in #ubuntu and #ubuntu-next would not be too keen to lose that one. > But, again, that's a discussion to be had with the IRC council. What would be the process for asking #ubuntu-motu to be closed/redirected? -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Merge ubuntu-motu@lists into ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists?

2023-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
, maybe a few others?). I'd therefore like to propose we close this mailing list and forward the address on to ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com, which at least has a larger subscriber base and is more likely to result in users getting help with their questions. Opinions? -- Steve Langas

Re: Fetching source code in Ubuntu: apt source, pull-lp-source, and git-ubuntu

2023-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
ew field for this. If we are going to change the Sources file at all, the existing "Vcs-Git" field already has the correct semantics. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the worl

Re: dropping various grub targets

2023-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
the thread together. > On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 00:13, Steve Langasek > wrote: > > To be clear, it would make a lot of things easier if we did determine we > > could drop not only BIOS boot support from our images, but also El-Torito > > ISO boot support treating these

Re: dropping various grub targets

2023-10-10 Thread Steve Langasek
El-Torito ISO boot support treating these images as only for flashing on USB drives. It would remove one significant barrier for us adopting ubuntu-image for the mastering of our installer images. But we should do the work to establish that these things are no longer needed! -- Steve Langasek

Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs

2023-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 06:38:06PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 04:53:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 03:22:59PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > Moreover, there are other use cases beyond test failure fixing. >

Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs

2023-09-26 Thread Steve Langasek
ransfer to the main archive and all have to be run again, and it's the second run that actually matters for proposed-migration. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the

Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs

2023-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
facilitate Ubuntu development, for things not yet landed in the main archive. It certainly shouldn't be used for long-lived PPAs whose contents are not targeted for inclusion in Ubuntu. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Migrating to deb822 sources on upgrade to Mantic

2023-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
> classic sources.list, you should be able to do so with: > $ cp /etc/apt/sources.list{.distUpgrade,} > $ rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources Is this entry in the mantic release notes still accurate? * add-apt-repository now adds PPAs as deb822 .sources files (Improvements to PPA ma

Re: First Mantic Minotaur test rebuild

2023-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
s files. I would recommend simply dropping them rather than marking them optional, since if they come back again that indicates a DIFFERENT problem. If you need something upstreamable to Debian, then you'll need to mark them optional since Debian unstable is still on glibc 2.37. -- Steve Lang

Re: First Mantic Minotaur test rebuild

2023-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
nd if they don't have a versioned Depends: for some reason, it should be sufficient to manually add one. There had previously been mention on IRC of declaring Breaks: between libc6 and the packages. However, having thought this through just now I believe that's unnecessary, and also does

+1 maintenance, please look at NBS [Was: +1 maintenance report (Week of 2023-08-21)]

2023-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
Please keep the NBS report in mind as well: https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/nbs.html There has not been much progress on this list for roughly a month, and there are lots of packages here needing active attention of the kind that would not be blocked by a glibc migration :) Thank

Re: +1 maintenance report (14/Aug - 18/Aug)

2023-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
tarting point for someone to create a doc that distills this for just the Ubuntu architectures. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: +1 maintenance report (14/Aug - 18/Aug)

2023-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
* tests on armhf will have more memory available than on other architectures. But that memory is also shared across tests, so "noisy neighbor" effect is more of a problem. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
s this property that we haven't tampered with the last-known-good kernel and makes the system less resilient. We should prioritize resilience of boot recovery over reducing the size of /boot contents. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: +1 maintenance shift (07/AUG - 11/AUG)

2023-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 06:40:16PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > canonistack isn't an option. Why? Do we need to open RTs? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move t

Re: Flutter Installer and CUPS Frustrations

2023-08-10 Thread Steve Langasek
/ubuntu-23.10 980 $ Evidently there is something different in the way desktop-common is being handled for Edubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, that it's not being seeded there. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set i

Re: Duplicate Requests in autopkgtest-cloud

2023-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
the duplicate request check is > disabled. I made this quick change to unblock ginggs Excellent, thank you! > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 5:19 AM Steve Langasek > wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:10:05AM +0100, Tim Andersson wrote: > > >

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-07-28 Thread Steve Langasek
o be present as build-time deps). So this is a very common pattern for rust packages. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Duplicate Requests in autopkgtest-cloud

2023-07-27 Thread Steve Langasek
work > seamlessly but always expect the unexpected right :) Does the code also properly distinguish between tests queued with proposed=1 and those without, so that it's possible to queue both ways in parallel? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
or should remain unchanged for existing kernel+firmware packages, and it's therefore safe to push more widely. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ub

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
he zstd support onto jammy's 5.15 kernel. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
pendencies is not an improvement! I understand the reason for being concerned about keeping uncompressed firmware available is that not all kernels have support for compressed firmware. However we should work out a path that lets us switch to compressed firmware on releases where we know it'

Re: Drop armhf for ovn package

2023-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
e but a more lightweight process is to ask on #ubuntu-release on IRC for an archive admin to remove the binaries in such cases. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-09 Thread Steve Langasek
> Will the user still be able to add further modules and will machine specific > configuration files (e.g. for booting from iSCSI) still be included into the > initrd? I think a robust implementation of this on the initramfs-tools side looks like: - identify all the contents that belong

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
o archive. > > > > The drawback is that building the kernel would take longer, the package > > takes more space on the archive and mirrors, and downloading them could > > take longer on slow connections. > > > > Implementing my proposal would be relati

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-07-05 Thread Steve Langasek
an build needs to be adjusted for > this. > I have proposed a PR to fix this in Ubuntu, and forwarded to Debian. Looks like this has been sponsored. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:55:21PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 02:36:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I think the least-effort approach is for the handling of MPs for sponsorship > > to match the handling of bugs: ~ubuntu-sponsors is unsubscribed, a

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
member reviewer as Robie proposes, but to filter out any MPs from the sponsorship queue which have a negative review from a sponsor, and no further activity on the MP (either comments or commits) after that point. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

+1 maintenance report: the reportening

2023-06-16 Thread Steve Langasek
e new `r-base`, but this makes clear which ones those are. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-15 Thread Steve Langasek
mend to developers for the current setup. Buy-in and adoption of git-ubuntu as a tool is a necessary precondition for us getting away from working with source packages, so in my view we have to approach this incrementally. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lo

breezy behavior wrt lp: [Was Re: git-ubuntu build]

2023-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 03:29:11PM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote on 13/06/2023: > > This is the following in my ~/.gitconfig: > > [url "git+ssh://vor...@git.launchpad.net/"] > > insteadof = lp: > > This configur

Re: NBS kernel removals: round two

2023-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:55:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > Well, we found out that removing all NBS kernel packages for stable series > was not altogether without its problems for users. We have modified the > removal policy going forward in response to feedback.

+1 maintenance report

2023-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
an. * `ruby-jekyll-github-metadata`: more network-based tests. Disabled in debian/ruby-tests.rake, uploaded, forwarded to Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Devel

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; PS: one improvement for gu-build would be to print to stdout the various > steps it goes through; a full, clean and pretty implementation is > probably fairly difficult but a crude one that is ~60% enough would > probably a matter of minutes. Any objections to this being under a -

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 09:27:47PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 06:41:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > As git-ubuntu sees increasing use, including for such things as requests for > > sponsorship of Debian merges, I've had an itch to s

Re: git-ubuntu MPs in the sponsorship queue

2023-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
through, or you're *not* taking it out of the queue and then you also don't need to be listed as a separate approver. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu De

Re: Symbols files for C++ libraries for Ubuntu main

2023-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
n't speak for the MIR team, I have no objection to them relaxing the requirement of .symbols files for C++ libraries in main. Just offering some suggestions on how we can do a better job of automating C++ ABI checks than we're doing today. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

debcheckout -a behavior in Ubuntu?

2023-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
as the wrong metadata gets fixed - ideally, by grafting the repo history into the git-ubuntu repos and then dropping the stale Vcs-* fields. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to se

git-ubuntu build

2023-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
t repository *and* apt source the package is meh) - getting the correct options to dpkg-buildpackage by hand for a package merge is tedious; this automates -v and -sa arguments. Enjoy, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
dy ignores tests relying on mongodb server. So it should expand the > ignore list. > > Patch https://launchpad.net/bugs/2022332, forwarded to > https://bugs.debian.org/1037035 Uploaded. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: NBS kernel removals: round two

2023-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
lings for removals of generic & lts-xenial kernels. Thanks for pointing this out, I naively assumed that we had rebuilt d-i in trusty against the last kernels published there before moving to ESM. I've locally implemented a stay of execution for the above kernel package versions. -- Steve L

NBS kernel removals: round two

2023-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
week. I will leave xenial as-is for the moment, and send further mail before making any changes to NBS packages there. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Deve

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 09:40:02AM -0700, Simon Chopin wrote: > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-gio/+bug/2020880 > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-graphene-sys/+bug/2020902 Thanks for tagging these update-excuse! -- Steve Langasek G

Re: incoming change to task handling in livecd-rootfs in mantic

2023-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
would enforce correctness of the list...) > ((Clearly we need something like germinate to generate the component > mismatches reports. But maybe not at image build time?)) That's already run on ubuntu-archive-toolbox independently of the image builds, so would continue to d

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; 3.6.3-1fakesync1 with only the version number changed. For future reference, copy-package from lp:ubuntu-archive-tools lets you resuscitate source packages with their binaries, in this case by doing: copy-package -b -s lunar-proposed --to-suite mantic-proposed -e 3.6.3-1 \ matplotl

Re: incoming change to task handling in livecd-rootfs in mantic

2023-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
an added ${SUITE}-proposed when building with PROPOSED=1) to get germinate to look at all the right pockets. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
els? The general policy for apport is to disallow bug report submissions if the executable or any of the loaded libraries are from out-of-date packages. But it will still be possible to download these older packages from Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+publishinghis

NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
NBS kernel packages on an ongoing basis, not just at EOL time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@

Re: +1 Maintenance Report

2023-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
ed. In the future, please focus more on the latter, as that's what's actually required to resolve the issues - few will read your email on ubuntu-devel in depth, fewer will remember what your analysis was (or be able to find it later). As a result, it's more efficient overall to

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-04-10 Thread Steve Langasek
weler/+bug/2015305 > > The ruby-oauth2 migration will also allow ruby-omniauth-google-oauth2 > migration. Removed! Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.

Re: Question about submitting patches for repositories on Launchpad

2023-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 05:34:10PM +, Alexander Koskovich wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Which branches are you looking to submit to? There are lots of branches > > that unfortunately we don't have monitoring of. MPs are great, but I > > wouldn't want you to

Re: Question about submitting patches for repositories on Launchpad

2023-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
dly also under-managed at this time, so sometimes a ping on IRC (#ubuntu-devel@libera) or email is productive. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

+1 maintenance report

2023-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ith the rest of firefox debs. * `libsigc++-3.0`: mess of template symbols being listed in symbols file, causing build failures on various archs (specifically, LTO-enabled archs). Patched, submitted to Debian. * `cppad`: binary-indep build fails in Ubuntu and Debian. Removed from -proposed, let the m

Re: Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

2023-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
lot more problems for triage. I think it's reasonable for you to decide not to invest time in testing against a kernel that is not the final kernel for the release, where you believe that will result in wasted time due to false-positives. But 6.1 is also not the final kernel for the releas

Re: Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

2023-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
able release. Flavors are required to hit a beta milestone and a release milestone. How they conduct their activities to ensure that these milestones are releasable is for them to decide. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS De

Re: +1 maintenance: 6-10 March 2023

2023-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
python3.11 > $ python3-dbg-config --cflags --libs > /usr/bin/python3-dbg-config: 117: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.11/+bug/2009967 > with a patch. I would prefer if foundations uploaded this, as the > package is curre

Re: Fwd: +1 Maintenance report

2023-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
ask for Internet access, or if we instead manually mark as bad tests those that have requirements our testbeds don't meet. We can have the discussion with Debian about whether to have a more nuanced distinction between a 'needs-internet' restriction and a 'fails-to-

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
erface for doing signature verification of the payload. It does not disable the use of kexec as a feature. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
installer and so any divergences in the installed system would simply be a bug. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
and that made me > think the issues were unrelated to this package. Due to the size of the > queues, I didn't ask for re-triggers. This package has since migrated. I guess someone did retrigger and it passed. Please don't be shy about retriggering because of the queues; the tests

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
ted the packages from the NEW queue and synced the package from > > jammy with the following commands: > > > > $ copy-package --auto-approve -y -b -s jammy --to-suite lunar-proposed \ > > -e 0.17.0+ds-2 nim-regex > > $ copy-package --auto-approve -y -b -s jammy

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-02-13 Thread Steve Langasek
e and synced the package from jammy with the following commands: $ copy-package --auto-approve -y -b -s jammy --to-suite lunar-proposed \ -e 0.17.0+ds-2 nim-regex $ copy-package --auto-approve -y -b -s jammy --to-suite lunar-proposed \ -e 0.5.1-2 nim-unicodeplus Cheers, -- Steve Langas

Re: Upcoming change: rsyslog's apparmor enforced by default

2023-02-11 Thread Steve Langasek
avior changes are expected across release upgrades. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.co

Re: shim 15.7 and key rotation woes

2023-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
, having reviewed it from an SRU perspective, I can't find fault with the implementation. So we'll move forward with this approach. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I c

Re: Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed

2023-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
is redundant for newer releases, I don't immediately see anything incorrect there. If you can point out where it's wrong, I'll happily edit it to correct it but I don't have time just now to run through the full instructions there to find out what doesn't work. -- Steve Langas

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
to cross-check with the owning team to confirm, but I wouldn't block on them in such a case. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Dropping /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix and /usr/share/zoneinfo/right from tzdata

2023-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
inks in /etc/timezone or /etc/localtime. Even if the debconf automation never presented these as options to the user, we shouldn't break the default system timezone on upgrade. You may already have this in your plan, so just making sure! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lon

New +1 maintenance tool: find-proposed-cluster

2023-01-01 Thread Steve Langasek
ad. I've been using find-proposed-cluster in anger for about a month now, and it's given me quicker insight into what's happening in -proposed that needs attention. Please kick the tires. Suggestions for improvement welcome. Enjoy, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lev

Re: lxqt-sudo Ubuntu

2022-12-31 Thread Steve Langasek
d be picked up soon. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: OpenLDAP 2.6 transition

2022-12-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 07:15:21PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > On Monday, November 21 2022, I wrote: > > On Monday, November 21 2022, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 06:32:39PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > >>> Hello, &g

Candidate endorsement [Was Re: Extended call for Ubuntu Technical Board candidates]

2022-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
s > > questions. We will start the election on 6 December. All five seats > > (besides Mark) will be filled. > > > > Here is the list of candidates (by alphabetical order of surname): > > > > - Sebastien Bacher > > - Robie Basak > > - Ben Collins &

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >