+1 maintenance June 2nd-5th

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 8:29 PM Bryce Harrington <
bryce.harrington at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:11:40AM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > #### php-horde
> >
> > Next was a look at php-horde-* which is not only split into many packages
> > but also has plenty of autopkgtests due to that.
> > 10/10 tests that I checked were blocked at the same issue: "E: Package
> > 'php-horde-test' has no installation candidate"
> > If there is another issue, then I need this to resolve to be able to see
> it
> > :-)
> >
> > It turned out to be rather easy: php-horde-test isn't in groovy-release -
> > not even an older version.
> > Due to that the tests fail to find anything.
> >
> > 104 source packages and counting :-). The reason for all that was that
> the
> > status was a mixed feeling before [6] and removed from focal.
> > It was removed from Debian as well [7] and the current flurry of
> > builds&tests is caused by re-uploads to bring it back.
> > Some bits are still hanging in Debian's new queue like the core
> "php-horde
> > 5.2.21+debian1-1" itself.
> >
> > We should give it a chance now, but if it looks as bad with proper test
> > triggers it likely should be removed until this has resolved to a proper
> > state in Debian (gladly the package was adopted, so this will become
> better
> > over time).
> >
> > For now we can't go on, this will need to wait until php-horde passes the
> > new queue and is in groovy-proposed.
> > Then we want to run something like the following to properly restart the
> > tests.
> >
> >   $ wget
> >
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html
> >   $ for p in $(grep -Hrn '>php-horde-.*</a> (- to <a href='
> > update_excuses.html | sed -e 's/.*>php-horde-/php-horde-/' | sed -e
> > 's/<\/a>.*//' ); do retry-autopkgtest-regressions --series groovy
> --blocks
> > "${p}"; done | sed -e
> >
> 's/$/&trigger=php-horde-test%2F2.6.3%2Bdebian0-5&trigger=php-horde%2F5.2.21%2Bdebian1-1/'
> >
> > ---
> >
> > #### php-horde
> >
> > Still waiting in Debian new queue, due to that still nothing to do.
>
> php-horde was dropped in focal, and should be for groovy as well, and
> blacklisted:
>
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-horde/+bug/1880776
>
> php-horde-* wraps a vast number of other system packages, so whenever
> there are any changes in plumbing, invariably some chunk of php-horde
> ends up broken.  We don't see a high enough usage of php-horde to
> warrant the effort maintaining it has been taking.
>


Hi Bryce,
thanks for the background.
I remember and even read the old removal bug when looking at the case this
week.
I thought we could give it a chance if it is better now, but I'm fine to
remove it if that is still the right thing to do.
So you are saying we should re-remove and more actively block further
syncing then?
I can do so next week, just please confirm to me that this is the path to
go on this.


> Bryce
>


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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