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

2024-05-04 Thread Robie Basak
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 02:08:16AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > But, I also expect very few of our users would use -proposed. What > percentage do you expect? I'm guessing less than 1%. I agree. But making it easier to test proposed for that tiny percentage of users would benefit all users[1] in

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

2024-05-02 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Often I see apt-get update downloads exceeding 100 MiB. That is without a > single package download. I think it might be worth quantifying this. Right now, for amd64 proposed pocket Packages.xz files for the following: Jammy:

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

2024-05-02 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:15:59AM -0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > I'd like to suggest that we start setting NotAutomatic: yes for the > proposed pocket with hirsute+1, such that things like SRU verification > will be easier, and all those people who enable proposed in sources.list > for I

pastebinit default target on Ubuntu

2024-04-15 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, Prior to Noble, the pastebinit command defaulted to paste.ubuntu.com. In Noble, this has changed to dpaste.com due to an upstream change[1]. What do Ubuntu developers think the default should be? If it should remain paste.ubuntu.com, we can ask upstream to change it back, or add a delta for

Re: mirespace's Server Package Set Uploader Application

2024-04-04 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:34:31PM +0200, Miriam Espana Acebal wrote: > I'm sending this as my formal announcement to apply for Server Upload > Rights, in retrospect. On 18 March the DMB moved to approve Miriam's application. Congratulations, Miriam! On behalf of the DMB, Robie signature.asc

+1 maintenance report

2024-03-22 Thread Robie Basak
As usual my feeling about doing +1 maintenance is that I'm not able to be helpful. I'd be happy to take specific work items ("fix this build" or "figure out this test failure") but I'm just flailing around trying to find something to do. Most threads I pull on seem to be things that either someone

Re: Unresolved tomcat9 issue

2024-03-11 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Troels Arvin wrote: > In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat9/+bug/2047933 I have > raised the issue and also proposed a fix, but nothing seems to happen. Thank you for volunteering to fix this in Ubuntu! I see that you were already

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2024-02-16 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 11:25:24AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > I also posted here yesterday, having forgotten about this thread: > https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improving-the-git-ubuntu-based-sponsorship-workflow/37964 Both of these threads died, and sorry again for accidentally spl

Re: PAM module ordering with pam-auth-update

2024-01-31 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Philip, On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 05:13:41PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Looking at the Perl, it doesn't seem like that difficult a change to make. > > Is it worth filing a bug, and how likely is this to be fixed? Thank you for the suggestion. This doesn't sound like something we'd

Re: gedit: problematic 'gnome-text-editor' alternative

2024-01-18 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:02:19AM -0500, Amin Bandali wrote: > We received https://bugs.debian.org/1057184 last month about gedit's > 'gnome-text-editor' alternative becoming problematic now that there is > an actual gnome-text-editor package/binary. It sounds like this is being looked at

Re: I hereby am applying to become a MOTU developer.

2024-01-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:45:33AM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > I am submitting my application for MOTU upload permissions. The Developer Membership Board moved to approve Aaron's application during today's meeting. Congratulations Aaron, and thank you for your continued contributions to

Re: Choice of the openssl version for 23.10 and 24.04

2023-12-11 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 10:28:02AM +0100, Adrien Nader wrote: > We talked about creating a new "openssl" package that is whatever the > most recent version is (in universe, and probably with no ESM-guarantee > attached somehow). This might need a bit of fiddling with packaging > though and in any

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

2023-10-24 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 09:57:26PM +0200, Laurent Lyaudet wrote: > I found this list while searching contact information for this package: > https://packages.ubuntu.com/lunar/python3-uinput > Search Ubuntu MOTU Developers on the web page. > I think there must be a good number of packages where

Re: SRU requirement to fix post-LTS stable releases

2023-09-29 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 07:10:53PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > > Imagine you land a bugfix in an SRU to Focal today, but leave out > > Impish even though it is also affected. A user who subsequently > > installs

Re: Contributing Developer application: Vladimir Petko (vpa1977)

2023-09-04 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:00:58AM +1200, Vladimir Petko wrote: > I am applying to become a Contributing Developer... The DMB voted today to approve Vladimir's application. Congratulations, Vladimir! On behalf of the DMB, Robie signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- ubuntu-devel

git-ubuntu experimental commands

2023-09-01 Thread Robie Basak
In response to feedback, I have a branch up for review that provides two experimental commands directly in the git-ubuntu snap: * git-ubuntu.experimental-build (formerly gu-build, by Steve) * git-ubuntu.experimental-emptydirfixup (empty directory workaround - see LP: #1917877) These

git-ubuntu experimental commands

2023-09-01 Thread Robie Basak
In response to feedback, I have a branch up for review that provides two experimental commands directly in the git-ubuntu snap: * git-ubuntu.experimental-build (formerly gu-build, by Steve) * git-ubuntu.experimental-emptydirfixup (empty directory workaround - see LP: #1917877) These

git-ubuntu 1.1 released

2023-08-31 Thread Robie Basak
(LP: #1889248) add libfabric to whitelist Lena Voytek (1): Updates for inclusive naming Paride Legovini (1): snapcraft: drop --enable-experimental-package-repositories Robie Basak (135): Update release process to also close fixed bugs prometheus-alertmanager

git-ubuntu 1.1 released

2023-08-31 Thread Robie Basak
(LP: #1889248) add libfabric to whitelist Lena Voytek (1): Updates for inclusive naming Paride Legovini (1): snapcraft: drop --enable-experimental-package-repositories Robie Basak (135): Update release process to also close fixed bugs prometheus-alertmanager

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-08-23 Thread Robie Basak
I also posted here yesterday, having forgotten about this thread: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improving-the-git-ubuntu-based-sponsorship-workflow/37964 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

+1 maintenance report

2023-07-28 Thread Robie Basak
I've been also half-occupied with meetings this week as part of an internal Canonical event but I've managed to look at proposed migration for some of the time at least. On Wednesday I chose to do my SRU shift instead as I assume this is preferable. # apport This looked like it was holding up

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-30 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 10:03:56AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The one case where this is currently suboptimal is if the last comment on > the MP is from an Ubuntu dev saying it needs changes, but the submitter has > pushed new changes addressing that feedback without leaving a further >

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-29 Thread Robie Basak
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, and it's > the responsibility of the submitter to re-subscribe them (and patch pilots >

git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-29 Thread Robie Basak
Dear Ubuntu Developers, Currently it's unclear what patch pilots are supposed to do when an MP in the sponsorship queue cannot be resolved immediately. This relates to how the sponsorship queue behaves as MP state changes. It seems that we should have a "manual for sponsors" that explains what to

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-15 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:24:16PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I bristle at this being called an "expert" workflow, because it includes > steps that I expect every Ubuntu dev to do before uploading to the archive > :) That implies additional checkpoints beyond what you've outlined. > > I

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-14 Thread Robie Basak
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 07:41:13AM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > So how does a guy who's forgotten most of what he ever learned about > launchpad, bzr and Ubuntu source management catch up? Sorry. The problems you faced are valid. But git-ubuntu is so wide in scope, I've been focused on getting

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-14 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 02:35:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:37:56PM +0200, Adrien Nader wrote: > I feel this aligns with Bryce's comments about this being more of a > 'submission' workflow. It is an important distinction that none of the > other 'build' tools I

Re: SRU shift report: 2023-05-24

2023-06-14 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 02:27:12PM -0300, Mauricio Oliveira wrote: > A related topic/question. > > I recently wondered/asked whether uploading to stable releases > while the development release is marked Fix _Committed_ was OK. We don't have a good, general definition of what Fix Committed

Re: SRU bug subscription for sponsors

2023-06-14 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 09:51:22PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey Robie, > > While I understand the rational, that's putting the annoyance on the > sponsors and might decrease their motivation to help with the uploads. The > annoyance being that by helping reviewing/uploading some change we

Re: Open-SSH server

2023-06-10 Thread Robie Basak
[dropping Debian Cc as Debian isn't involved in security updates to Ubuntu] On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 11:54:24AM +, Matthew Wilson wrote: > Do you have an update as to when the repository for Ubuntu 22.04.2 > package Open-SSH will be upgraded from 8.9 to 9.3 to patch the > security issues as it

Re: git-ubuntu MPs in the sponsorship queue

2023-06-09 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 12:13:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 12:32:38PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 05:41:04PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > > > I've arranged for MPs against git-ubuntu repositories to appear in the > &g

Re: git-ubuntu MPs in the sponsorship queue

2023-06-09 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 05:41:04PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > I've arranged for MPs against git-ubuntu repositories to appear in the > sponsorship queue[1]. I was using the fact that ~ubuntu-sponsors is requested for review in a git-ubuntu MP to make it appear in the sponsorship

Re: debcheckout -a behavior in Ubuntu?

2023-06-08 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Steve, Thanks for raising this. I have no strong opinion on the behaviour for debcheckout you suggest. From my perpective though, I think it would be useful if "git ubuntu clone" were to read the Vcs-Git field and add a sensible remote for it. Currently, even if the primary Vcs for a

SRU bug subscription for sponsors

2023-06-01 Thread Robie Basak
Dear Ubuntu Developers, If you sponsor an SRU, please subscribe to its bugs so that you can respond to any enquiries from the SRU team, and step in as necessary. We're now also subscribing SRU sponsors automatically, but the initial implementation is racy, so this might not always occur if SRU

SRU shift report: 2023-05-24

2023-05-25 Thread Robie Basak
It's been a while since I did one of these. It takes a while to write it up that I could be spending on reviewing more SRUs, but I did also get feedback that my last post was helpful. So I'll try to continue doing these now and again. As with last time, unfortunately most of the SRUs I looked at

Re: cloud-init upload rights application

2023-05-15 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 02:41:33PM -0500, James Falcon wrote: > This email is to announce my application for membership as an uploader to > the cloud-init package. My application can be found at: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JamesFalcon/DeveloperPerPackageUploadApplication The DMB voted to approve

Re: Update python3-blinker

2023-05-15 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:26:48PM +, Jay Sridharan wrote: > The latest version of Flask now requires blinker >= 1.6.2, but the apt > repo python3-blinker is still on 1.4. Given that blinker 1.4 is almost > 8 years old now, I think perhaps the python3-blinker package can be > updated? It

git-ubuntu staged uploads

2023-04-26 Thread Robie Basak
Abstract Currently, a merge proposal of a branch against the git-ubuntu repository for an Ubuntu package is tightly coupled to the upload of the branch after it is approved. But uploading a package triggers additional process which isn’t always desirable. Ubuntu developers would like to stage

Re: Special One-Time SRU Handling request for torbrowser-launcher

2023-04-19 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:30:04PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > Here's the minimal patch for Focal, with thanks to the respective > upstream authors: Sorry, I think I might have missed the change that drops language from the composition of tarball_filename when I generated this

Re: Special One-Time SRU Handling request for torbrowser-launcher

2023-04-19 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 04:11:23PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > To cherry pick this would require extensive reverse engineering of the code > to figure out which pieces apply to the *older* versions of > torbrowser-launcher.  Unfortunately, since there are no *bugfix* releases of >

Re: Special One-Time SRU Handling request for torbrowser-launcher

2023-04-06 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Thomas, Thank you for caring for this package in Ubuntu! I'm not sure I follow why this is difficult to fix by cherry-picking fixes. It seems to me that there are two bugs mentioned - one which is a two line fix, and one which refers to upstream URLs changing, which presumably is a change in

Re: Icons on desktop

2023-03-06 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 10:18:19AM -0800, Coburn Ingram wrote: > Please bring back the desktop icons switch. On 22.04, I just disabled the Desktop Icons NG extension using the GUI. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Update for openssl? (CVE-2023-0286)

2023-02-26 Thread Robie Basak
That page shows that the package has already been updated. Not to 1.1.1t though. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Versions for the reason. On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Frank Heimes wrote: > Hi Philipp, > I recommend having a look at the Ubuntu CVE Tracker, which shows

Re: Replacing the telegram-desktop deb by a snap installer in stable series?

2023-02-24 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:40:09AM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le 23/02/2023 à 14:59, Robie Basak a écrit : > >Nobody else seems to have an opinion on this? It's feature freeze today, > >so as there doesn't seem to be anyone maintaining this delta, I propose > >to remove

Re: Replacing the telegram-desktop deb by a snap installer in stable series?

2023-02-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 03:43:38PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > Subject to further consultation, I suggest that if we recommend that > users switch to the snap, then that should require explicit user opt-in > (eg. via a debconf prompt) regardless of whether it's in Lunar or in a > st

Re: Replacing the telegram-desktop deb by a snap installer in stable series?

2023-01-26 Thread Robie Basak
Hi! [moving to ubuntu-devel@ for wider discussion] I think the appropriate answer here depends on careful policy decisions that would apply to both the development and to stable releases. I discussed this briefly with some other SRU team members earlier, and also with Seb. Subject to further

Re: Server Package Set Upload Permissions - Lena Voytek

2023-01-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:15:58PM -0700, Lena Voytek wrote: > I'm announcing my application for server package set upload > permissions. My application is located at: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LenaVoytek/UbuntuServerDeveloperApplication Today, the DMB voted to approve Lena's ubuntu-server-dev

Re: How to ask for introducing a new package into main?

2023-01-20 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:21:17PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > I think there is a misunderstanding here, but it clear to me exactly It *isn't* clear to me I mean. Sorry! -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: How to ask for introducing a new package into main?

2023-01-20 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 08:44:21AM +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > I assume I misunderstand something. I think there is a misunderstanding here, but it clear to me exactly what you want or why you want it. Could you expand on that please, and then maybe we'll be able to help you without

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

2023-01-10 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Benjamin, On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:01:05PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Aurelien and I assume that probably nobody is using them. We plan to > drop both directories. If nobody speaks up, I will remove them in the > coming weeks from the Ubuntu tzdata package prior to the feature freeze. >

Re: Bind 9.16.1 crash on Ubuntu

2022-12-08 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Ben, On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 11:56:48PM +, Ben Bridges wrote: > Unfortunately, when it comes to BIND, it leaves the users in a bit of a > precarious position. If you run the bind9 package, you incur the ire of ISC > and the members of the BIND users forum (who chastise you for "running

Re: Bind 9.16.1 crash on Ubuntu

2022-12-08 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 05:22:34PM +, Ben Bridges wrote: > This is bind9 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.11 running on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (fully > patched). Has this issue been seen before? If so, has it been fixed, or is > it being fixed? Is this the right forum for this posting? This is the

Re: +1 maintenance report

2022-12-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 05:06:30PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > However, sometimes you might find --apt-pocket=proposed=... *not* used, > > even when triggers appear to exist. I didn't get to the bottom of this. > > Maybe it's something to do with magic fallback behaviour I've heard > >

Re: +1 maintenance report

2022-12-05 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Seb, On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 09:01:32PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey Robie, your email was interesting to read, I've one question bellow > > Le 05/12/2022 à 18:04, Robie Basak a écrit : > > I thought I recalled a > >colleague mentioning something about t

+1 maintenance report

2022-12-05 Thread Robie Basak
Unfortunately due to interrupts and illness I didn't manage to get much actual +1 maintenance done in my shift last week. Another big factor was that I chose to focus deeply on obscure autopkgtest failures to a depth I've not done before. This, together with some waiting on some very long queues,

Re: Updated parameter

2022-12-05 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Dan, On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 08:09:40PM +, Dan Moore wrote: > I don't think a server OS should suspend when closing the laptop lid.   > I'd like /etc/systemd/logind.conf to have HandleLidSwitch=ignore in the > Ubuntu Server installation media.   Unfortunately this is not trivial to

Re: Extended call for Ubuntu Technical Board candidates

2022-12-01 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 07:07:26PM +, Torsten Franz wrote: > In > order to make a good decision in this selection, we would like to give the > candidates the opportunity to introduce themselves here and to say a few >

Re: Tomcat9 - Ubuntu 20.04 x64

2022-11-15 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 04:00:22PM +, Brad Turnbough wrote: > Ran a nessus scan against the box and am being told that verion 9.0.31 is > vulnerable to a DoS attack and that I need to upgrade to >=9.0.36. Problem > is, that version isn't available in the Ubuntu repos. > > Can someone

Re: Podman update?

2022-11-07 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 11:40:21PM +, Christian Bourque wrote: > Are there any plans to update the Podman package to the latest release > since it's now an official package of Ubuntu 22.04? Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for our policies on bumping major versions in a

Re: python3 cryptography package unavailable

2022-10-30 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 09:42:54AM +, Mathew Subin wrote: > The following dependency is not working / available > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/python3-cryptography > > > * python3-cffi-backend-api-max (>= 9729) > Package not available > > * python3-cffi-backend-api-min (<=

Re: freecad packages for Ubuntu

2022-08-31 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, [cutting out the Cc list since I don't know if they want this traffic] FreeCAD 0.20.1 is available as a stable snap, and 0.21-g2b5452d1 is available in edge. These are published officially by upstream. You can install with: "sudo snap install freecad" ...and then you'll have 0.20.1

Re: Core Dev application

2022-08-22 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 04:00:19PM -0600, Dan Bungert wrote: > I hereby apply for core-dev. Today, the DMB voted to approve Dan's core dev application. Congratulations, Dan, and thank you for your previous and continued contributions! On behalf of the DMB, Robie signature.asc Description:

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I'm concerned that this requires subscription to the package in Debian for > this to not fall off the radar. We have merges.ubuntu.com which tracks > which packages need to be updated, and the standing assumption is that the >

Re: Enablement of systemd-repart in Jammy LTS (post-release)

2022-08-17 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 05:43:33PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > ... We are not going to completely overhaul > our development and maintenance practices and commit to a ton of extra > work (forever)... As far as I can tell, it's a gross misrepresentation of the

Re: Enablement of systemd-repart in Jammy LTS (post-release)

2022-08-17 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 03:09:45PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > The difference is that here it's the upstream maintainers asking for > this, not just users. From our point of view, not including repart in > Jammy was an oversight - there was really no reason to keep it > disabled, other than we

Re: Enablement of systemd-repart in Jammy LTS (post-release)

2022-08-17 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 02:02:57PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > It's really a lot of work for nothing, > given the risk is really zero - it's a new command line program that is > inhert and doesn't do anything until it's called manually... On this point, I disagree.

Re: Enablement of systemd-repart in Jammy LTS (post-release)

2022-08-17 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 02:02:57PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > Unfortunately, they're currently blocked on this because 22.04 > > doesn't > > > ship systemd-repart. The upstream CI uses Github Actions which runs > > on > > > Ubuntu Jammy and will do so until the next Ubuntu LTS is released.

Re: Enablement of systemd-repart in Jammy LTS (post-release)

2022-08-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 11:38:35AM +0200, Lukas Märdian wrote: > I already suggested, that one option to get such an exception (by further > reducing the risk involved) could be to ship systemd-repart in a separate > binary package in universe, not installed by default. > And not as part of the

Re: rsyslog trigger?

2022-07-20 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:49:42AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > I was working on a few packages that had bugs related to rsyslog > logging, and noticed that they don't seem to restart or reload rsyslog > after they install a config snippet in /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf. I think it's

git-ubuntu MPs in the sponsorship queue

2022-07-05 Thread Robie Basak
I've arranged for MPs against git-ubuntu repositories to appear in the sponsorship queue[1]. Please could all sponsors handle these MPs just like any other sponsorship request? I appreciate that the git-ubuntu repo isn't the right place to push changes when there's a team maintaining a "more

Developer Membership Board Election Results

2022-06-16 Thread Robie Basak
Voting has concluded for the Developer Membership Board (DMB) restaffing. The following nominees have been elected for two year terms: Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Utkarsh Gupta Thomas Ward Robie Basak Dan Streetman has already stepped down. The DMB thanks them for their service as a DMB member

Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-06-08 Thread Robie Basak
: Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak William 'jawn-smith' Wilson (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jawn-smith/RunningForDMB) Utkarsh Gupta (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtkarshGupta/RunningForDMB) Thomas Ward Robie Basak (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RobieBasak/DMB/Platform2022) The vote closes on 2022-06-15 at approximately 18:00

Re: Core Dev application

2022-05-30 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 03:25:27AM -0700, Simon Chopin wrote: > I'm hereby applying for the Core Dev membership. In today's meeting the DMB voted to add Simon to ~ubuntu-core-dev. Congratulations, Simon! On behalf of the DMB, Robie signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- ubuntu-devel

Best practices for quilt patches

2022-05-25 Thread Robie Basak
Today on my SRU shift I spent some effort trying to see past quilt diff noise. Most of it seemed unnecessary and was only present because of gratuitous refreshes. I'm not sure we have best practices are documented anywhere. I'd like to define some guidelines that make reviews easier. I think many

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-05-24 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 01:45:54PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > Four members - Łukasz Zemczak, Thomas Ward, Dan Streetman and Robie > Basak - have completed their two year terms on the DMB. Dan has resigned > his seat, and the other three are continuing on a temporary extension to >

Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-05-17 Thread Robie Basak
Four members - Łukasz Zemczak, Thomas Ward, Dan Streetman and Robie Basak - have completed their two year terms on the DMB. Dan has resigned his seat, and the other three are continuing on a temporary extension to help the DMB continue operating pending an election. This is a call for nominations

+1 maintenance report

2022-05-13 Thread Robie Basak
Tooling: I don't know what others do already, but for bulk no-change rebuild uploads I left behind some of my usual one liners and put together a couple of quick tools: prep-rebuild: given a list of source packages, automate fetching, bumping the changelog and preparing the upload. This leaves a

Re: autopkgtest running wrong version of tests?

2022-05-12 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 04:08:48PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > That was a manual retry triggered by vorlon on 2022-05-09 [1]. The > only trigger was boost1.74/1.74.0-14ubuntu4, but > icinga2/2.13.2-1build2 in release is not installable with the new > boost in -proposed, so britney tries a

autopkgtest running wrong version of tests?

2022-05-12 Thread Robie Basak
On +1 maintenance this week, I noticed an unusual failure of icinga2 on kinetic with a trigger of boost1.74/1.74.0-14ubuntu4: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic/kinetic/arm64/i/icinga2/20220509_190945_354db@/log.gz icinga2 does have an unusual test here. It runs its own

Re: Log-rotation doesn't work for catalina.out in src:tomcat9 as intended

2022-05-09 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 01:20:30AM +0530, Utkarsh Gupta wrote: > a) This is Ubuntu-specific because of the changes introduced in > src:rsyslog over a decade ago, which basically doesn't let it run as > root, which is where I think the problem(s) started to originate. > However, I am kinda stumped

Re: Proposal: move byobu (and run-one) to universe

2022-05-09 Thread Robie Basak
I'm on the fence on this one. On one hand, if it's not really being cared for upstream, then you're right in asking about whether demotion is appropriate. On the other hand, it does Just Work, and I've been pointing inexperienced admins to it for years as a console-sharing leave-things-running

Re: +1 maintenance report

2022-04-05 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 10:35:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I unfortunately do not have a good place to publish it at the moment so that > it's more visible to developers. Suggestions welcome. On the server team, as an experiment we started a git repository to share this kind of "I wrote a

Re: Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-30 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 01:17:52PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > On IRC we talked about using the "Contact this user" feature of > Launchpad. Did you end up getting many more votes after doing that? Thank you for the suggestion! Yes, although unfortunately I don't know if the votes were prompted

Developer Membership Board Election Results

2022-03-30 Thread Robie Basak
Voting has concluded for the Developer Membership Board (DMB) restaffing. The following members have been elected for two year terms: Sebastien Bacher Brian Murray Lucas Kanashiro Simon Quigley, Rafael D. Tinoco and Eric Desrochers have already stepped down. The DMB thanks them for their service

Re: Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-29 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:14:06AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > Do you have evidence that has actually happened to anyone in this > case? I was able to vote quite easily, and it seems (from your ML > comments) that both Christian and yourself were as well, and Christian > provided explicit steps

Re: Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-29 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 09:19:31AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > For example, in this situation; carrying out an election really > shouldn't be an exceptional event. Normally it isn't. Previous elections have run smoothly and with no issues that I'm aware of. However we now have an interaction

Re: Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-29 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 06:14:27AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > Where are the rules/policies written down about how elections should > be handled? The first time I ran an election I couldn't find much documentation at all, so I tried to follow what I could see of what had been done before, fixed

Re: Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-29 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > If you happen to activate the "wrong" email you'll just see: > > ``` > Email address successfully activated. > ``` > > But if you activate the right one (just as Robie said, usually the > @ubuntu.com one) you'd in the Web UI

Re: Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-29 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > If you happen to activate the "wrong" email you'll just see: > > ``` > Email address successfully activated. > ``` > > But if you activate the right one (just as Robie said, usually the > @ubuntu.com one) you'd in the Web UI

Re: Ubuntu Technical Board Call For Nominations

2022-03-29 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Torsten, On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 07:25:13PM +, Torsten Franz wrote: > [...] At the moment > there is one seat of the Technical Board vacant, which would have to be > filled. This seat will be re-elected with the other Technical Board

Re: Restoring debhelper dh5 compat for the LTS?

2022-03-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:58:27PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Please don't. There are many bugs in older compat level that may produce > debs no longer compatible with our OS. Especially around generated > maintainer scripts. > > It's best to upgrade packaging to compat level 13. Sounds

Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2022-03-23 Thread Robie Basak
The Developer Membership Board (DMB) has started a restaffing vote for three vacant seats. The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. It evaluates prospective Ubuntu developers and decides when to entrust them with developer privileges. There are five candidates:

Re: Nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-17 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:15:40AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote: > One way to leverage these volunteers is to deputise them and have them > participate in the activities as a shadow member. > > That way you have the opportunity to train these people and share the load > across more individuals. I

Nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-15 Thread Robie Basak
The following five nominations have been received to fill the three vacant seats on the Developer Membership Board. In randomized order: William 'jawn-smith' Wilson (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jawn-smith/RunningForDMB) Brian Murray Sebastien Bacher Lucas Kanashiro Utkarsh Gupta The new members will

Re: Nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-15 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:00:00AM +, Robie Basak wrote: > The following five nominations have been received to fill the three > vacant seats on the Developer Membership Board. In this email I'm speaking for myself and not for the DMB or the TB. It's great that we're doing so much

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:56:23AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote: > I would like to officially call for a DMB vote on extending DMB > eligibility to members of the ~ubuntu-sru-developers team. Previous discussion and decision here:

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 03:51:22PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > Three members - Simon Quigley, Eric Desrochers and Rafael David Tinoco - > have recently vacated their seats on the DMB. Subsequently, this email > is a call for nominations to fill their vacated seats. We don't yet ha

Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-01 Thread Robie Basak
Three members - Simon Quigley, Eric Desrochers and Rafael David Tinoco - have recently vacated their seats on the DMB. Subsequently, this email is a call for nominations to fill their vacated seats. The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers [1]. Candidates must be

Re: Rebuild pppd dependencies?

2022-02-28 Thread Robie Basak
Hi, On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 07:21:09PM +, Eivind Naess wrote: > Thank you for taking my patch to pppd. Unfortunately, it does introduce ABI > changes for any other dependent project that builds a plugin that is loadable > by pppd. From the top of my head, the following projects _does_

+1 maintenance report

2022-02-18 Thread Robie Basak
I was on +1 maintenance this week. It's been a long time (years) since I last did this. I'm not sure I had a good feel for what would be useful to work on, so rather than spending time changing my mind constantly I just focused on what I saw regardless. There seem to be a lot of delays waiting

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