Oxidizing Ubuntu: coreutils

Howdy

here's the spec for the migration to rust-coreutils as the new
default:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/migration-to-rust-coreutils-in-25-10/59708

Thanks to Helmut Grohne for feedback and ideas. There's also
a coreutils-from-busybox package for experimenting (and a
from -toybox one).

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+1 Maintenance Report (14 April 2025 to 21 April 2025)

Hi,

I was on +1 Maintenance from 2025-04-14 until 2025-04-21. This was the
release week, so we had a freeze in place and I had to test the RCs as
well. I don't expect a lot of these things to move until the archive
reopens.

## fastapi

fastapi had an FTBFS due to build test failures, which required a new
dependency (python3-bcrypt). Bug reported and MP attached at
https://pad.lv/2107374

## python-pynvim

requires neovim>0.10.0, while we have 0.9.5-10
which needs libtree-sitter-dev>0.20.9, we have 0.20.8-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tree-sitter/+bug/2103681 has
blocked its migration.
So I left it as it is.

## pynpoint

It builds fine and can migrate. I am not sure why update-excuses shows
an unsatisfiable dependency. Maybe a rerun will work.
Update excuses also say "uninstallable on arch amd64, not running
autopkgtest there", that is because tests are skipped in d/rules.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pynpoint/0.11.0-4/+build/30579337

## psychopy

bug open in debian,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/psychopy/+bug/2106418. I
left it as it is.

## pymupdf

The newer version has some new tests, of which 2 fail. One of them is
fixed by providing a test asset file in AUTOPKGTEST_TMP. The other
needs to be skipped. Bug and attached MP at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymupdf/+bug/2107882

## desmume

I spent a lot of time on this. Looks like desmume has support for
ALTIVEC, but that doesn't work on ppc64le. The macros fail at a lot of
places, the typing is inconsistent all over the project, and
attempting to fix it brings up more fresh errors. According to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100973, Debian does
not have desmume for ppc64, so I filed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desmume/+bug/2107907
I will file a bug upstream as well, but that's going to be a longer bug report.

## debugpy

dependency wait on pydevd (>=3.3.0), which seems to be removed from
plucky (last version in oracular was (3.1.0), so this must be removed
as well.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debugpy/+bug/2107920
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pydevd
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debugpy/1.8.12+ds-1ubuntu1/+build/30623792

## guestfs-tools

Based on https://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2025/03/msg00112.html
and https://github.com/gildor478/ocaml-gettext/issues/36, we must
rollback ocaml-gettext
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/guestfs-tools/+bug/2107756

## python-psutil

Based on the closure at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1101865, a debian
sync should work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-psutil/+bug/2106466

## atuin

Initially I thought that just bumping the fs-err version should work,
but this turned out to be a mess. It depends on rust-axum-server now,
which is not in the archive as it depended on a new version of
rust-axum, which depended on the migration of rust-multer. This also
led me to rust-rustls-pemfile, which looked like a sync should fix it,
until I saw that it breaks rust-reqwest's autopkgtests, which I'll
leave for someone else.
That's all; I might have to retarget the MPs once the archive reopens.
Thank you.

Best regards
Pragyansh

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Re: Call for testing: first set of 25.04 RCs ready!

Hello again,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM Utkarsh Gupta
<utkarsh.gupta@canonical.com> wrote:
> The first set of initial release candidate images for the 25.04
> release are now ready. They're available here:
> https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/467/builds
>
> Please note that we will re-spin once again in a few hours but hey,
> don't let that stop you from testing the current RCs - the next ones
> will be very similar to these ones.

The current set of RCs are now the final RCs - unless we discover
another critical bug worth respinning for, of course.

So please test your favorite images and submit the test results.

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Call for testing: first set of 25.04 RCs ready!

Hello everyone,

The first set of initial release candidate images for the 25.04
release are now ready. They're available here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/467/builds

Please note that we will re-spin once again in a few hours but hey,
don't let that stop you from testing the current RCs - the next ones
will be very similar to these ones.

So please pick up your favorite flavor images, start testing, and
submit test results on the tracker. Thank you!

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+1 Maintenance Report 2025-04-07 to 2025-04-11

Hi,

I was on +1 Maintenance Report from 2025-04-07 until 2025-04-11. The
week started focussed, but then I got sidetracked by a secret quest I am
not allowed to talk about.[1] But I can talk about the +1 progress:

# tiledarray 1.0.0-1 FTBFS

Still fails to build with btas 1.0.0-1. The issue is reported on Debian
as well.

# python-pyo / soundgrain

Updating to 1.0.6 will fix both open RC bugs. So I did this update with
my rusty Debian Multimedia Maintainers hat. I also [escaped backslashes
in docstrings](https://github.com/belangeo/pyo/pull/296) to make Python
happy. This should make soundgrain installable. I synced python-pyo
1.0.6-1.

# pysurfer

It FTBFS due to the unsatisfied dependency on python3-numpy-abi9. Filed
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1102297 for it and
imported it to Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pysurfer/+bug/2106387

# autopilot-gtk

Filed [autopilot-gtk 1.6.1ubuntu1 fails to build from
source](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopilot-gtk/+bug/2106392
). This package is only available in Ubuntu and upstream's last commit
was 2020-08-13. I'll leave that one for someone else.

# python-pysaml2

[python-pysaml2 7.1.0-0ubuntu3 fails to build from
source](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pysaml2/+bug/2106472
). Explicitly depending on python3-six will reveal more issues. I
stopped there.

# tinyxml2

The autopkgtest failed because [libtinyxml2-10: apparent ABI
break](https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/tinyxml2/+bug/2106467).
So I asked the archive admins to [remove tinyxml2 10.1.0+dfsg-1 from
plucky-
proposed](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tinyxml2/+bug/2106474
).

# hyprpaper

hyprpaper fails to build. I updated the build-dependencies, uploaded
0.7.0-1ubuntu1, and [forwarded the change to
Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1102375).

# cider

cider fails to build. It was removed from Debian. I [requested to do the
same for
Ubuntu](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cider/+bug/2106493).

# python-confection / python-srsly

python-confection does not migrate due to missing python-srsly. python-
srsly fails to build because cython3-legacy was removed. I [requested a
FFe](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2106497) to sync the new version
from Debian that was ported to Cython 3.

# btas

btas fails to build. That was already reported in Debian. So I [imported
that bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/btas/+bug/2106620).

# ruby-appraiser-rubocop

[ruby-appraiser-rubocop has invalid dependencies]
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-appraiser-rubocop/+bug/2039685).
Debian has removed it from unstable. So I asked the ubuntu-archive to
remove it as well.

# Related: ubuntu-dev-tools bug

Found bug in import-bug-from-debian:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-dev-tools/+bug/2106621

[1] I should probably plug a fight club reference here.

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