+1 maintenance report

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

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 showing
signs of all getting entangled together.

I re-uploaded haskell-hmatrix-gsl which had been uploaded too early (before
gsl has been published on riscv64). It built fine.

I found some more blockers for the gsl transition:
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/html/auto-gsl.html.
The cpl-* ones are semi-typical mysterious failures for a new port,
probably down to bugs in our emulated builders. The ea-utils one is a bit
of a mess though, in some ways: it should never have built in the first
place! There is a package (pegjs) in focal and groovy release that
Provides: nodejs. This means that things that transitively build-depend on
nodejs don't end up in depwait like they should. There is a pegjs in groovy
proposed that fixes this, I guess it needs to be forced to migrate and any
binaries this makes uninstallable removed (it's not like packages which
depend on nodejs and are erroneously installable are actually going to
_work_).

I fixed pbsuite's autopkgtest and sent a patch off to Debian, this has
migrated and been applied to the Debian repo already.

I looked at the pbcopper ftbfs on armhf and ppc64el. Debian has a report
about the armhf failure and the packaging repo on salsa already has changes
to disable the build on 32 bit architectures so I guess we should follow
that. The ppc64el failure was strange and I spent probably too long coming
to the conclusion that it's a bug in the "simde" header library Debian uses
to compile the x86-intrinsic-using code on other architectures:
https://github.com/nemequ/simde/issues/325. I've uploaded a workaround and
sent it to Debian.

I'm doing this again tomorrow, I expect I'll mostly keep on picking at
proposed migration.

Cheers,
mwh
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