+1 maintenance report

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 11:51, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 11:06, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 05:48:25PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 4:02 PM Steve Langasek
>> > <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:36:32PM +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
>> > > > There is some stuff on NBS due to a ldc transition: r-to-d,
>> > > > appstream-generator, tilix, etc. AFAICT all of these packages have
>> been
>> > > > removed from Debian testing and I guess we should follow along.
>>
>> > > Unfortunately, Ubuntu Budgie has tilix seeded so a removal is not
>> > > straightforward.  Do you want to check with the Budgie developers
>> about
>> > > unseeding this?
>>
>> > ldc being broken is common and I don't think we've done a full removal
>> > from Ubuntu before for it. Although one thing that is different is
>> > that we allow libraries to smoothly migrate out of proposed in Ubuntu
>> > now.
>>
>> It is my understanding that ldc is not broken but that gir-to-d is not
>> compatible with the current version.  There are 6 source packages in the
>> archive that have successfully rebuilt against the new version of
>> libphobos2-ldc-shared, it's only gir-to-d and it's reverse-dependencies
>> that
>> are broken.
>>
>> And Debian has removed all of these from testing, which implies they agree
>> with this analysis.
>>
>> > Could we instead revert to an older ldc?
>>
>> We could, but what is going to get gir-to-d fixed to allow the transition
>> to
>> proceed later?
>>
>
> gir-to-d people appear to think this is a compiler bug:
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4000
>
> Not really sure what the takeaway for Debian/Ubuntu is here. A dh-dlang
> change?
>

I chatted briefly to the Debian maintainer on IRC and they said that
they'll upload a workaround to gir-to-d (roughly this
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/bVHGFXQRJF/) "soon". We can fix it in Ubuntu
sooner, clearly, but IMHO it's worth just waiting a few days to see if we
get the fix via Debian with no effort.

Cheers,
mwh
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