+1 maintenance report

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

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?

Cheers,
mwh


> > appstream-generator also seems important since we use it to build
> > https://appstream.ubuntu.com/ although I guess it doesn't have to be
> > packaged in the latest Ubuntu for that service.
>
> It's a temporary removal, and it would have to remain unfixed for 2 LTS
> cycles to impact our ability to run appstream.u.c from debs.
>
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