Hi there, I was on the +1 maintenance shift on the week of March 4th, 2024. Most of my time was spent helping Steve move the armhf 64-bit time_t archive rebuilds.
The following is a summary of all the packages I worked on: ## Fixed FTBFS ### `openmpi` This package was very poorly scripted and allowed file installation failures to present. Multiple files were absent from the final binary packages because the binary packages were renamed to have `t64` suffixes. This led to `mpi4py` having strange test failures. I have corrected the installation behaviors to install the previously missed libraries. The fix can be found at https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/openmpi/+git/openmpi/+merge/462375. ### `mpi4py` This package had a documentation build failure and also a test failure during the build. The documentation issue was caused by the `sphinx` behaviour change after the Python 3.12 transition (where `sphinx` was also upgraded). This issue was addressed by removing a previous `PYTHONPATH` overriding hack and using the InterSphinx index from the local filesystem instead of downloading from the Internet. Unfortunately, due to a file installation issue in the `numpy` package, the `numpy` package lacks an InterSphinx index file, so I have to disable the cross-module documentation indexing for `mpi4py` -> `numpy`. The test issue was caused by the `openmpi` package not having the correct library files installed. The details are described in the `openmpi` section above. You can find the documentation fix at https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/mpi4py/+git/mpi4py/+merge/462361. ### `gnuplot` This package had a documentation build failure during the build process. It was due to a broken documentation converter that somehow worked fine before `glibc` was upgraded. That documentation converter had an out-of-bound memory read when reading `gnuplot.doc` (note that this is gnuplot format, not MS Word format) because the input file contained an unexpected syntactic layout. I have provided a fix at https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/gnuplot/+git/gnuplot/+merge/462273. ### `libabigail` This package contained a redundant `dh_makeshlibs` call in `debian/rules`. It made the package uninstallable after the binary packages were renamed to have `t64` suffixes. I have submitted a patch to get this segment removed: https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/libabigail/+git/libabigail/+merge/462286. ### `jackd2` This package was un-buildable after the Python 3.12 transition due to its source code tree containing an outdated copy of the `waf` build system. I have backported the upstream fix as a distribution patch here: https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/jackd2/+git/jackd2/+merge/462267. ### `gobject-introspection` This package was fine, but the library itself was not designed to handle a `time_t` size that is wider than the register width. After the `armhf` `time_t` transition, `armhf` will have a 64-bit `time_t` type, which is 2x the size of the register-width (32-bit). I have proposed a fix to the upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/merge_requests/451 and also kept a distribution patch to fix the issue in Ubuntu: https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/gobject-introspection/+git/gobject-introspection/+merge/462175. The upstream seemed to have issues with turning platform-dependent types into platform-sized G-I primitives, so Simon McVittie from Collabora submitted an improved patch here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3966. ### `hdf5` This package had an issue with the dependency declarations, where the non-`t64`-suffixed dependencies were used. I have submitted a patch to address this issue: https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/hdf5/+git/hdf5/+merge/462287. ### `qt6-webengine` and `qtwebengine-opensource-src` These two Chromiums, with different coats of Qt paints, suffered from the Python 3.12 transition, which broke many of their build scripts. I have to backport several batches of Chromium patches to fix the build issues. - https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/qt6-webengine/+git/qt6-webengine/+merge/462543 - https://code.launchpad.net/~liushuyu-011/ubuntu/+source/qt6-webengine/+git/qt6-webengine/+merge/462529 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2058066 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtwebengine-opensource-src/+bug/2058117 There are still some issues with building on `armhf` due to several vendored 3rdparty libraries having `time_t` allergies pending investigations. ## Archive Bootstrapping for `armhf` As part of the archive rebuild for `armhf`, we must start from the dark and cold status before properly building anything clean. With the help from Steve, Vladimir, Benjamin and Michael, I have prepared and uploaded the following packages for bootstrapping the archive: - `vala` - `gtk+2.0` - `gtk+3.0` - `gtk-4` - `samba` - `json-glib` - `librsvg` - `libqrtr-glib` - `libqmi` - `libmbim` - `libgudev` - `modemmanager` - `libsoup3` - `php8.3` - `cups` - `libwacom` - `pygobject` - `gjs` - `xterm` - `groff` - `libsdl2` - `vim` - `graphviz` - `ghostscript` - `avahi` - `poppler` - `libdbusmenu` - `gssdp` - `gupnp` - `neatvnc` - `freerdp2` - `gupnp-igd` - `weston` - `libnice` - `tesseract` - `colord` - `sane-backends` - `enchant-2` - `gdal` - `leptonlib` - `ffmpeg` - `ogre-1.12` - `nodejs` I will still check the `armhf` bootstrapping progress in the coming weeks to help accelerate the rebuild process. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
