Re: New tzdata release for ubuntu 20.04 lts (and higher)

2024-02-19 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
tzdata should be updated in legacy releases via Ubuntu Pro, which you should be able to gain access to via ubuntu.com/pro On Mon, 19 Feb 2024, 17:19 Dauren Sarsenov, wrote: > Hi, guys. > > Good news, I can see that an updated version of tzdata has been released > for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. > > Can

Re: Bumping apt RSA key length requirements to 3072-bit (2048 w/ warning) for 24.04

2024-01-22 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 18:02, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hi, > > we just noticed again that we are still trusting 1024R keys for > signing repositories in APT, arguably because we do not have a > means to tell gpgv the minimum key size. > > While the upstream bug[0] is being worked on, >

Re: Request for Update: NVIDIA Driver Version 535.146.02 for APT

2024-01-02 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, This version of this driver has been available in the proposed pocket since 2023-12-15 and is undergoing testing. It will be released to updates once regression and certification testing is completed. Note we do not release routine updates like these over the winter holidays period which was

Re: Choice of the openssl version for 23.10 and 24.04

2023-12-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 12:34, Adrien Nader wrote: > > (stripping the quotes a bit) > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 09:28, Adrien Nader wrote: > > > The issue is that we do not know when will be the next openssl LTS. We

Re: Choice of the openssl version for 23.10 and 24.04

2023-12-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 12:34, Adrien Nader wrote: > > (stripping the quotes a bit) > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 09:28, Adrien Nader wrote: > > > The issue is that we do not know when will be the next openssl LTS. We

Re: Choice of the openssl version for 23.10 and 24.04

2023-12-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 09:28, Adrien Nader wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 at 15:35, Adrien Nader wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, Adrien Nader wrote: > > > > Hi, > >

Re: Choice of the openssl version for 23.10 and 24.04

2023-12-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 at 15:35, Adrien Nader wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, Adrien Nader wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A few weeks ago, openssl maintainers announced moving to a time-based > > release (April and October): > > > > https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/09/29/OpenSSL-Update-ICMC23/ >

Re: Intermittent superblock checksum mismatch during resize2fs

2023-10-05 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
This was causing us headaches like since forever. Our reproducers were very intermittent to catch it. I think we might want to backport this everywhere we can. On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, 17:50 Krister Johansen, wrote: > Hi, > My team runs Ubuntu 20.04 on EC2. We use the cloud images that > Canonical

Re: Amendment: Update on reducing initramfs size and speed up

2023-07-31 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 20:41, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-07-27 at 11:51 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 09:21, Benjamin Drung > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2023-07-26 at 17:53 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > A few weeks

Re: Amendment: Update on reducing initramfs size and speed up

2023-07-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 00:51, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 09:21, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2023-07-26 at 17:53 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > A few weeks ago, I posted an idea how to reduce the initramfs size and >> > speed up the

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 at 02:03, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:17:27AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > If you want to test it yourself, you can find initramfs-tools > > 0.142ubuntu7bd2 for mantic in my PPA: > > https://launchpad.net/~bdrung/+archive/ubuntu/ppa > > What blocks

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 21:08, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 07:33:58PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > If it is a concern that v5.15 jammy kernel may potentially be used > > after partial / incomplete upgrade to Mantic, we can opt into using XZ >

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 13:34, Adrien Nader wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > I was wondering if it make sense to construct a zstd dictionary for > > compressing kernel modules but I didn't realize they need to be available > > at decompression time, I'm not sure the

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-21 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 17:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:28:28AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Okay. It works now. The not-compressed cpio archive must not be the last > > > > one. So the order is now: > > > > > > > > * AMD/Intel microcode cpio archive (on amd64)

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023, 22:37 Benjamin Drung, wrote: > On Thu, 2023-07-13 at 08:32 +0100, TJ wrote: > > Is there a specific reason why the focus is on trying to shoe-horn > > everything possible into the initrd.img and then compress rather than > > winnow out the files an installed system will

Re: Turning on phased update support in chroots in 24.10 (24.04?)

2023-07-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 11:42, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:09:02AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 10:27, Julian Andres Klode > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I just go

Re: Turning on phased update support in chroots in 24.10 (24.04?)

2023-07-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 10:27, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I just got reminded that when we wrote the initial phasing code > we made it not apply in chroots to avoid breaking builders and > things. > > I'd like to remove that check because it's a bit unexpected. To > do that, I'll

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-07 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Sat, 8 Jul 2023, 02:49 Benjamin Drung, wrote: > On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 01:25 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 at 01:19, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > a year ago we changed the default compression

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

2023-07-07 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 at 01:19, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Hi all, > > a year ago we changed the default compression and level for the > initramfs to zstd -1. This fixed the very slow creation times on > development boards (see bug #1958148), but that leads to bigger > initramfs sizes that triggered

Re: Open-SSH server

2023-06-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 19:39 Matthew Wilson, wrote: > Hi there, > > > > 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 means our server is currently non-compliant. > Non complaint with

Re: Symbols files for C++ libraries for Ubuntu main

2023-06-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 20:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Seb, > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 02:27:02PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > I would like to ask if there is any chance the MIR team would reconsider > > their position on the topic (at least until the day we have a somewhat > > working

Re: NBS kernel removals: round two

2023-06-01 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 21:08, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Well, we found out that removing all NBS kernel packages for stable series > was not altogether without its problems for users. We have modified the > removal policy going forward in response to feedback. > > Meanwhile, in

Re: Choice of the openssl version for 23.10 and 24.04

2023-05-17 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
We had similar dilemma around focal release. And I did SRU one off upgrade from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1. it was a minor disaster. (As in like the sad depressing songs in A minor scale). It is best to stick to one openssl version in a release. It is best to stick to longer supported one. It is best not

Re: linux-headers-5.15.0-1028-gke for Ubuntu 22.04

2023-05-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
a container\other > machine. > Now I see the same for linux-headers-5.15.0-1030-gke version. > Thanks > ________ > From: Dimitri John Ledkov > Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2023 03:03 > To: Elad Gabay > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > >

Re: linux-headers-5.15.0-1028-gke for Ubuntu 22.04

2023-05-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Please see this discussion over here https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-May/139336.html and the emails before/later in the thread. tl;dr Note you have access to headers on the host that you can bind mount in the container, you are using obsolete out-of-date kernel ABI. You can use

Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 16:19, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 02:20:39PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > > I am therefore intending that, for jammy and later releases, we start to > > > prune NBS kernel packages on an ongoing basis, not just at EOL time. > > > We already have

Re: Building grub2-unsigned from sources on bionic

2023-03-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 22:52, Vishwanath Pai wrote: > > Hi All, > > I noticed that with the latest update to grub2-unsigned, one of the build > dependencies is gcc-10. > But gcc-10 is not available on bionic. We build ubuntu packages in our build > system from source but > unfortunately we

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

2023-03-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 17:54, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > > On Monday, March 13, 2023 10:29:50 AM PDT Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Ideally all flavours would be at 6.2 already, but due to various > > reasons they are not. > > This is understandable

Re: Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

2023-03-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 17:54, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > > On Monday, March 13, 2023 10:29:50 AM PDT Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Ideally all flavours would be at 6.2 already, but due to various > > reasons they are not. > > This is understandable

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

2023-03-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Ideally all flavours would be at 6.2 already, but due to various reasons they are not. This is not unique to lowlatency flavour, and applies to kvm, azure, raspi, and many more kernel flavours all of which are still on v5.19 in Lunar. We pushed 6.1 out, and migrated, on generic only, to migrate

Re: Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

2023-03-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Ideally all flavours would be at 6.2 already, but due to various reasons they are not. This is not unique to lowlatency flavour, and applies to kvm, azure, raspi, and many more kernel flavours all of which are still on v5.19 in Lunar. We pushed 6.1 out, and migrated, on generic only, to migrate

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Secureboot allows kexec, when using the recentish kexec_file_load syscall which performs kernel image signature verification. All of this just works under secureboot. On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, 20:20 Aaron Rainbolt, wrote: > > On 2/24/23 11:51, Dan Bungert wrote: > >>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54,

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

2023-01-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 17:05, wrote: > > Hello, > > I checked the wiki and docu but couldn't find that process described > somewhere. > > Is there a ticket system where I can open a wishlist-bug or something > else to ask for introducing a new package into the "main" repository? > > "universe",

Re: Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed

2022-11-22 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
In such cases it is usually best to bump version number, and do a fresh upload to lunar-proposed such that it is higher than any of (kinetic, lunar). Might make sense to still upload no change rebuild of dbus into lunar-proposed. On Tue, 22 Nov 2022, 18:45 Sebastien Bacher, wrote: > Hey there,

Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y

2022-08-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 18:29, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > > > On 8/9/22 18:38, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > >> We are in the process to upstream out changes. We got disrupted by other > >> work for our main product but will continue to send new patches soon.

Re: Ubuntu initramfs (Was: Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y)

2022-08-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 18:20, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > On my system, if the initrd isn't readable by the kernel, it results > in a kernel panic. Is that to be expected despite inird-less boot? Or > is that an indicator that at least Lubuntu (and probably Ubuntu > Desktop) does use an initrd?

Re: Ubuntu initramfs (Was: Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y)

2022-08-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 17:53, Richard Laager wrote: > > On 8/9/22 11:38, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > The fast majority of Ubuntu installations boot without initramfs at > > all. > > What makes you say this? Every Ubuntu system I've ever installed has an > initrd.

Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y

2022-08-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 16:24, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > Hi Dimitri, > > On 8/9/22 15:54, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 14:22, Bernd Schubert > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > &

Re: About Upstream version choice

2022-08-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Heya, On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 15:30, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm not directly involved with this in general, but if I understand > the question and some processes correctly: > > The package versions in a given Ubuntu release are (usually) a result > of a Time Based Release

Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y

2022-08-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 14:22, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to ask if there is a good reason Ubuntu builds fuse as > statically into the kernel instead of using a module? > > Reason I'm asking is that we are currently working on a couple of fuse > improvements and > > a) A

Re: VT console font

2022-07-18 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 13:36, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > > I find myself increasing the VT console font size on practically all modern > machines: > >sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > Is it perhaps time that Kinetic defaulted to a larger console font? > Is this upgraded machine, or

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

2022-05-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
In the past, when we did uploads into Ubuntu that we want to autosync, we simply used `+bN` as those are bigger than last debian source version, and get autosynced. It is a slight misnomer, as it is Debian's binNMU version number, but that also means none of debian's source versions may ever use

Re: isc-dhcp: should we start phasing it out?

2022-05-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 20:22, Dan Streetman wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:06 PM Steve Langasek > wrote: > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 02:34:30PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > > Alternatives that come to mind are: > > > - kea, of course (from ISC). dhcp server

Re: pv (a pipeline progress indicator) in main?

2022-04-23 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
During kernel package builds compressing debs often takes a very long time without any feedback. I was considering to start patching dpkg-deb to fork and compress things via pv to get progress output in the build logs. I can't remember where, but it would be nice for pv to output info after a

Re: Restoring debhelper dh5 compat for the LTS?

2022-03-23 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 18:50, Robie Basak wrote: > > 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 >

Re: Restoring debhelper dh5 compat for the LTS?

2022-03-23 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 15:02, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Le 23/03/2022 à 15:58, Dimitri John Ledkov a écrit : > > It's best to upgrade packaging to compat level 13. Sounds like a long > > overdue packaging upkeep. > > Yes it's better, but it requires work, do we ha

Re: Restoring debhelper dh5 compat for the LTS?

2022-03-23 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
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 like a long overdue packaging upkeep. On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 14:34 Sebastien

Re: Proposal: revert recent debianutils changes for Jammy

2022-01-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Longer term it would be easier if we do a merge from debian now to preserve just the `export NO_PKG_MANGLE=1` delta (if that is still required), otherwise a forcesync. -- Regards, Dimitri. On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 1:40 PM Robie Basak wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 04:05:38PM +, Robie

Re: Revisiting default initramfs compression

2021-12-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, 17:13 Julian Andres Klode, wrote: > Hi all, > > some time ago, the default compressor for initramfs was changed > from lz4 -9 to zstd -19. This caused significant problems: > > - it is very slow > - it uses a lot of memory > > The former is a problem for everyone, the latter

Re: Add ubuntu-advantage-tools to Recommends on ubuntu-minimal

2021-11-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 1:52 PM Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:56:18PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 05:19:38PM -0300, Lucas Moura wrote: > > > We want to ask for opinions of this change to other Ubuntu developers, to > > > see if we are not missing

Re: Proposal: revert recent debianutils changes for Jammy

2021-11-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
I have been playing whack-a-mole trying to fix usage of those two commands in all the places. It will be a painful and long process, not only because we need to merge changes from Debian, but because we have Ubuntu-specific deltas that use those commands all over the place as well. I agree that

Re: package docker.io is broken

2021-11-18 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
It says right in the installation log why it is incompatible with your system: """ The aufs storage-driver is no longer supported. Please ensure that none of your containers are using the aufs storage driver, remove the directory /var/lib/docker/aufs and try again. """ The package prevents

Re: Feature Request: Remove fwupd in future versions of Ubuntu

2021-11-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, I sympathize with your experience. The firmware updates delivered via fwupd come directly from the OEM of your hardware. In this case Dell. The application of dell updates via fwupd, remote management consoles, or via manually downloaded firmware updates images from their website are

Re: OpenSSL 3.0 transition plans

2021-10-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 2:48 PM Simon Chopin wrote: > > Hi Robie, > > Quoting Robie Basak (2021-10-11 12:39:00) > > I think it's worth noting what happened with nodejs in Bionic: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nodejs/+bug/1779863 > >

Re: gnutls plans for focal LTS?

2021-10-01 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 7:02 PM John Cummings wrote: > > Hello, does anyone know what the plans are for gnutls in Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS > (focal fossa)? It is currently at 3.6.13, and I don't see an update in > focal-backports. The recent expiration of a root certificate used in older > Let's

Re: Packaging policy discussion: After=network-online.target

2021-05-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 4:12 PM Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi there, > > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 05:52:07PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers > wrote: > > There's an nfs-utils SRU¹ hanging around waiting for a policy decision on > > use of the After=network-online.target systemd unit

Re: General mechanism to supply "rich history" to git-ubuntu

2021-03-17 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
My preference would be to open up some refs of git-ubuntu repositories to uploaders to be read Such that one could created dgit like uploads and push the commit id, as a ref, into the git-ubuntu repository directly. Aka refs/heads/uploads/commit-hash as a branch. Then upon import git-ubuntu

Re: Updating SRU docs

2021-02-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 8:18 AM Heather Lemon wrote: > > Hi, > > Could we also mention that when you're doing SRU verification, [Verification > Done], that it needs to be a comment and not edited in the description. > Do you want it to be changed in the SRU policy ?

Re: autoinstall 20.04 with grub

2021-01-18 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
This mailing list is not appropriate for your questions. This mailing list is for developing the next release of Ubuntu itself. Not support or discussions around the stable series. Please join discourse.ubuntu.com to discuss Ubuntu Server installation options in the server topic -

Re: Ubuntu 20.04 kickstart

2021-01-07 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
live supports autoinstall with simple yaml files to describe the install which are a lot more simple than either kickstart or preseed. Have you looked into https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall and does that at all fit your needs? Alternatively if you have more than 3 servers to

Re: Should one be able to install with only release + -security enabled?

2020-11-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:59 PM Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > Hi! > > I have been testing a network-isolated Ubuntu mirror inside our network and I > am trying to understand if what I envision should work or not. > > In particular, I am trying to minimize how much review is needed for package >

Re: Private home directories for hirsute onwards

2020-11-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 2:31 AM Alex Murray wrote: > > setfacl -m u:libvirt-qemu:rx $HOME > Similar to above for qemu are there similar setfacl commands, would something similar be also needed for: - sshd user to access ~/.ssh/authorized_keys , or nothing needed there? - in GNOME making ~/Public

Re: systemd PathExists triggers

2020-10-01 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Conditions* are unaffected at all, and are unrelated to the issue at hand whatsoever. On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 08:33, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:43 PM Brian Murray wrote: > > > > Recently there was a systemd change regarding PathExists for > > systemd.path units that

Re: Launchpad builder VMs upgraded to bionic

2020-09-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 11:35, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:22:05AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > chroot builders do call ~= `sudo chroot` at some point. > > The main work is done by sbuild, which uses schroot, not "sudo chroot". >

Re: Compiling system for Ubuntu

2020-09-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, May I ask you why are you trying to rebuild systemd? Note that CVE-2020-1712 is fixed in Ubuntu, in all series that it affects, including 18.04 see https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2020/CVE-2020-1712.html On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 18:15, rafi Moor wrote: > > > > > > Hello, >

Re: Launchpad builder VMs upgraded to bionic

2020-09-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 23:25, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > Failing that, can somebody advise on whether there's an appropriate way > > > to configure this in an image without having to maintain

Re: Launchpad builder VMs upgraded to bionic

2020-09-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 17:49, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 12:57:28PM -0300, Guilherme Piccoli wrote: > > Hi Colin et.al., first of all thanks for the builder update and > > heads-up! We've noticed a failure in building cryptsetup from source, > > reported in LP #1891473

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 and "sig_hashalgo: md4"

2020-09-07 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hey, linux kernel upstream has changed how signatures look like in v5.2-rc1, and only kmod 27 learned how to parse them. But bionic ships kmod 24, meaning with hwe / cloud kernels, the information printed by e.g. modinfo is incomplete. Normally bug reports should be opened in launchpad, i have

Track clarification in UbuntuSeededSnaps Policy

2020-08-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Currently https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSeededSnaps does not specify anything about tracks. Currently the status quo is to seed the default-track of the snap, aka "latest". Recently we have been approached by LXD upstream to use a different "LTS" track of the seeded lxd snap which has longer

Re: chromium-browser epoch bump for transitional package?

2020-08-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 13:32, Robie Basak wrote: > > In doing SRU reviews today, I came across LP: #1889106 which is a > request for a no-change rebuild to bump the version so it beats the > versions presented in previous releases. > > The problem is real, but it seems suboptimal to me to

Re: +1 maintenance report

2020-08-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 10:54, Michael Hudson-Doyle 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

Re: New coreutils release 8.32

2020-07-18 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 19:09, Nicholas Guriev wrote: > > Dear Ubuntu developers, > > GNU coreutils 8.32 have been released on March 6th, 2020, yet the > package is not updated in groovy. The new version has enhanced support > of file creation time in stat(1) and introduced the "--time=birth"

Re: Dependencies of ubuntu-desktop

2020-07-17 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 21:23, Andrei Rybak wrote: > > Hello, > > I like to use apt and aptitude for my Ubuntu installation. I was > surprised to find out today, that the packages ubuntu-desktop and > ubuntu-desktop-minimal do _not_ depend on the package ubuntu-minimal. > Description of the

Re: Installing python-is-python3 should affect pip as well.

2020-07-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 00:14, Boris Verkhovskiy wrote: > > When I install python-is-python3, python becomes python3 but I still > have to type pip3. I think either python-is-python3 should make pip > into pip3 (which might be surprising to some, since pip3 is installed > separately) or I would

Re: default algorithm in package zram-config 0.5

2020-06-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, 20:42 Mitch 74, wrote: > Hello, > > Considering that now lz4 is by default enabled in kernel, wouldn't it be > better to use it as a compression algorithm in zram instead of lzo? > Can you benchmark the performance? When changing initrd compression we have done extensive

+1 maintainance

2020-06-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
finishing off boost1.71 transition boost1.67 -> boost1.71 was started last cycle, but there were a few packages still using boost1.67 in focal. Notably those that were still using boost-python2. Uploaded: regina-normal uwsgi libpwiz ompl freeorion mongo-cxx-driver-legacy frogatto innoextract. This

Re: +1 maintenance report

2020-05-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 11:02, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > Hi, > > I've spend today working on +1 maintenance > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlusOneMaintenanceTeam, > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlusOneMaintenanceTeam/Status). > > We have a few transitions ongoing (gsl, hdf5, perl, ...) which are

Re: Help understanding the package set we need to maintain for partial i386

2020-05-19 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 20:25, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The relevant germinate output is > https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/i386.groovy/i386+build-depends > > This shows the source packages that are in the set, as well as why they're > pulled in. > > rdma-core is

Re: deb2snap transitional packages and channel tracking

2020-05-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 15:00, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I've been reviewing some of ack's changes for the maas deb2snap > transitional package, and in the latest merge request > > - > https://code.launchpad.net/~ack/ubuntu/+source/maas/+git/maas/+merge/383411 > - > > a topic came up that I

Re: Ubuntu Focal Fossa hangs while systemd is setting up on ARM64

2020-05-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 01:56, Suniel Mahesh wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a board based on Rockchip RK3399 64-bit SOC based on ARMv8A. > The board can boot from the following devices: Micro SD, EMMC, USB, NVMe SSD. > I have installed Ubuntu focal fossa with LXDE Display manager(built a > headless

Re: Desktop installer is outdated

2020-05-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 07:34, Haug Bürger wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tested the latest 20.04 release in the hope that the installer > improved. It did not improve. The desktop installer really needs work. > > It prefers plain text vs encryption which is not appropriate these days > and makes Ubuntu

Re: groovy pre-open analysis | missing dists/groovy/cnf/

2020-04-27 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, 20:19 Colin Watson, wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 09:36:01PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > c-n-f service probably doesn't know about groovy yet. It is deployed > > as a service on that autopkgtest juju environment. Not sure which > > release,

Re: groovy pre-open analysis | missing dists/groovy/cnf/

2020-04-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 13:18, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I did some work to get python-apt in with groovy added to the > distribution metadata, so we don't end up with a lot of regressions > like last cycle. > > * Various packages needed retrying with new debootstrap, as they > missed the

Re: nvidia-340 incapable of single user mode in 20.04

2020-04-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 20:53, Jack Howarth wrote: > > I am finding on a 2008 MacPro with GTX680 that the installation of the > nvidia-340 package under Ubuntu 20.04 prevents single user mode boots from > working. While the nvidia-340 driver works fine from a normal boot, when > 'single'

Proposal to update UbuntuSeededSnaps Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
I would like to request the following updates to the UbuntuSeededSnaps Policy https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSeededSnaps 7. Bases Seeded snaps which use a base, must use "base: core18" or higher. Existing snaps are grandfathered, but are encouraged to update to "base: core18" or higher. 8.

Re: UBUNTU ARM64 DEB PACKAGES on DEBIAN RELATED VERSION

2020-03-23 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
All of Ubuntu is available for arm64 & armhf Why bother with Debian, if all of Ubuntu is available anyway?! On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, 19:28 Onur GURSOY, wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > First of all you're great team. you done great jobs. > I'm lovers of arm and you're supporting arm platform. > I'm

Re: ICU version in Ubuntu 20.04

2020-02-26 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 03:23, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 12:26, Shane Carr wrote: > > > > Dear Ubuntu developers, > > > > I'm a member of the ICU TC (International Components for Unicode). > > Developers frequently get ICU

Re: Sugar desktop on Focal

2020-02-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 16:28, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > > Sorry to interject, and with all due respect, but at this point it's pretty > late in the game to expect anything to get done in Debian in time for feature > freeze/Debian import freeze in just under two weeks. Apart from that I am both

Re: Sugar desktop on Focal

2020-02-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 11:31, James Cameron wrote: > > G'day, > > Thanks for offering to be a "point of contact for upstream developers > to reach Ubuntu developers." > > I'm an upstream developer for the Sugar desktop. > > Sugar isn't in Focal at the moment, due to Python 3 transition and >

Auto-transition trackers

2020-02-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
In debian, they have a thing called auto-transition tracker which attempts to identify a change of library ABIs and automatically create a ben transition tracker. I have started to manually run that, and commit the trackers to our instance.

Re: ICU version in Ubuntu 20.04

2020-02-05 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 12:26, Shane Carr wrote: > > Dear Ubuntu developers, > > I'm a member of the ICU TC (International Components for Unicode). > Developers frequently get ICU from the apt-get package "libicu-dev". > > We have a special ICU release coming out in March/April, ICU 66. This >

Proposed Migration done oddly

2019-12-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
So cyrus-imapd. blocking lots of packages on arm64 and armhf. Looks odd, and sometimes passes, sometimes fails with a cryptic message that needs a library that has not been compiled make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/srv/dovecot.git/src/lib-lda/libdovecot-lda.la', needed by 'imaptest'.

Re: Supporting LZ4 as initramfs compressor

2019-10-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 11:13, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 21:25, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 19:59, Steve Langasek > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Dimitri, > > > > > > One point here: &

Re: Supporting LZ4 as initramfs compressor

2019-10-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 21:25, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 19:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Hi Dimitri, > > > > One point here: > > > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:15:48PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > - l

Re: preparing for the next archive opening

2019-10-10 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 14:36, Matthias Klose wrote: > > We usually tend to open the archive with a few prepared changes in place, for > the 20.04 cycle we are planning to open with > > - python3.8 as a supported version, maybe already as the default. > > - link time optimization enabled by

Re: How to further handle Openssl 1.1.1 in Bionic?

2019-10-10 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 17:41, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > Hi, > in recent weeks since [1][2] there were quite some bugs related to > rebuilds or feature requests. > Those kind of issues seemed to be partially expected quoting the bugs SRU > text: > > "OpenSSL 1.1.1 is ABI/API compatible with

Re: Second Eoan Ermine test rebuilds

2019-09-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 17:20, Matthias Klose wrote: > > The second test rebuild of Eoan Ermine was started on September 06 2019 for > all architectures, all components. The rebuild of the main component is > finished, the other components (restricted, universe, multiverse) are still > building. >

Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 21:37, Mike wrote: > > Today, to properly install rpm-packages on my laptops, I'm running Which rpm packages are they? For which architectures? Is .deb available? Or snap? If not, have you tried reaching out to the vendor to provide snap/deb? Do you want us to reach

Re: Supporting LZ4 as initramfs compressor

2019-06-05 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 19:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Dimitri, > > One point here: > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:15:48PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > - lz4 size weight over gzip is marginal (14%) but imho worth the > > improved boot time & initr

Re: Supporting LZ4 as initramfs compressor

2019-06-05 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 09:13, Seth Arnold wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:46:57AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > As if lz4 kernel & xz initrd would yield the fastest boot time? That > > I'm lacking some context here, but I think building the initrds is alre

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