It would have been very easy to have spend my entire +1 shift on the Python
3.10 transition but as other people are actively working on that, I tried
to look at other things too.

hdf5 ftbfs on s390x, failing test test_aws_canonical_request (not what I
expected!), retried, failed in same way. The build log gives very little
indication what the failure is about, so I built on a canonistack instance.
Some gdb time time later I found an out of bounds write that could have
affected any architecture and filed
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/1168. I applied a simple patch and
uploaded and it built fine. Then a confusing dolfin/armhf autopkgtest
failure which went away on retry and this migrated.

subversion fails on ppc64el because ruby uses gcc-10 on ppc64el and this
leads to LTO-related failures. Apparently this will all become irrelevant
when ruby3 is the default but I don't know what the ETA on that is.

zodbpickle breaks with python 3.10. There is a patch upstream but Debian
seems way out of date and there are no reverse dependencies so it's a bit
hard to care. Maybe I'll come back later in the week (I didn't).

siphashc is another package broken by python 3.10 with one upload in debian
and no reverse dependencies.

sphinxbase ftbfs i think because python 3.10 added a deprecation warning to
the distutils module. This turns out to be a problem from
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_python_devel.html. Graham
uploaded a new version of autoconf-archive but sphinxbase still required
some hacking to use the ax_python_devel.m4 from there. This migrated
eventually.

pythonmagick also has autotools problems. I tried a local build with
dh-autoreconf but that didn't seem to help. Graham uploaded some related
things but then the package still doesn't work because it links the
python3.9 extension to the python 3.10 version of the boost_python library
for some reason.

h5py failed tests on armhf with a bus error (turned out this had been
reported upstream already at
https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/1927#issuecomment-963639147) This was
an unaligned access that was easy to find on canonistack with gdb and I
uploaded a simple patch to fix it and it built fine. The autopkgtests were
very angry but not, afaict, particularly because of h5py, more just fallout
from the python transition.

There were a few packages (eckit, fckit, metkit) that upstream no longer
supported on 32 bit, so I got an AA to remove the lingering armhf binaries
and they migrated.

supertuxkart ftbfs on arm because an assembly file used vfp instructions
without passing an -march option or using a .arch directive to enable FPU
instructions (something that only became necessary fairly recently). I
patched it to use a .fpu directive (but maybe .arch would have been better
-- oh well). It built and migrated after this.

ncurses was blocked by an autopkgtest failure in cunit. I found a patch in
the Debian BTS fixing this so I nmu-ed this to debian's DELAYED/5 queue. We
could upload this to Ubuntu as delta but it will end up in Ubuntu soon
enough so I don't know if it's worth it.

I retried lots of r things, mostly successfully.

Something in the R stack had regressed on s390x (and probably all big
endian systems). It showed up in r-cran-s2 and its dependencies, but I
suspected the problem was actually in r-cran-wk (whose autopkgtests have
never passed on s390x, sigh, so there was no reported regression for this
package). After a bit of hunting I found the problem and filed
https://github.com/paleolimbot/wk/issues/105 (spoiler, it may cause a
laugh/snort, it certainly did for me). I uploaded the simple fix and it
helped, with r-cran-wk itself migrating followed by a couple of other r
packages.

Cheers,
mwh
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