Wednesday 5 August 2020

Re: +1 maintenance report

On 8/4/20 10:31 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 12:05:10PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 10:54, Michael Hudson-Doyle
>> <michael.hudson@canonical.com> wrote:
>
>>> Hi all,
>
>>> I noticed golang-gopkg-square-go-jose.v2 times out on armhf, filed
>>> https://github.com/square/go-jose/issues/326.
>
>>> Then I looked at the icu transition.
>
>>> 0ad fails to build due to gcc-10, I found the fix for this upstream and
>>> backported it.
>
>>> I retried some ucto builds which appeared to have run before a build
>>> dependency had been built (maybe fallout from the build farm outage).
>>> And retried "frog" builds when these completed.
>
>>> doxygen autopkgtests are failing because the json-c in proposed has
>>> moved its Doxyfile.
>
>>> multipath-tools has britney complaining about impossible depends --
>>> turns out its udebs are still in main but its dependencies are now in
>>> universe. Apparently a bunch of udebs turned up on component mismatches
>>> and got demoted, but shouldn't have. They got repromoted again and if
>>> they appear on mismatches again someone should debug it :) (or mass
>>> demote all udebs to universe or stop building or at least publishing
>>> udebs or or ...)
>
>> I'm not sure.
>
>> kpartx-udeb & multipath-udeb themselves are up for demotion. Unless
>> the reports I'm looking at are old. So it shouldn't be a problem....
>> Or as you say repromotion was incomplete.
>
>> Imho we should just demote all of udebs to the universe en masse.
>
> In general this is what we're doing, however this is driven by
> components-mismatches, and I'm also inspecting cases of source demotions to
> see whether these are Ubuntu-specific packages which should be removed as no
> longer used, instead of demoted.
>
> In the case of multipath-tools, the udebs are listed as candidates for
> demotion in the release pocket and NOT in the proposed pocket. This is why
> it wouldn't be an immediate obvious candidate for demotion. However I don't
> see anything that explains why it's being kept in main in -proposed, so I'm
> going to demote in both pockets and see if that gives us more information.

I did that on Monday for all udebs in both the proposed and release mismatches
reports (comm -12), then reverted that on Tuesday because it broke some image
building, requested by Dimitri and Iain.

Matthias

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