libffi libnettle transitions request

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:20:14AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> To enable control flow protection (Intel CET) we need to kick of ABI
> transition for libffi and libnettle, because trampolines / shadow
> stack changes there change abi along with other changes that happened.

> libffi transition means rebuild of ruby python php haskell
> llvm-toolchains guile....

> I guess we should have opened with libffi transition, but oh well.

> Is it ok to proceed with libffi transition? It will be disruptive, due
> to rebuilds triggering autopkgtests of all languages with bindings
> effectively.

$ ./misc-transition-script libffi7 libffi7.1 --dry-run|grep 'but not fixed'
Package cpphs already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package darcs already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package ghc already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package gtk2hs-buildtools already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-aeson-diff already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-aeson-pretty already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-blogliterately already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-brainfuck already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-cabal-install already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-cracknum already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-dav already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-dbus-hslogger already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-debian already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-derive already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-doctest already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-ghc-events already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-gtk-sni-tray already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hakyll already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hindent already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hjsmin already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hledger already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hledger-interest already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hledger-ui already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hoogle already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hopenpgp-tools already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hspec-discover already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-hsx2hs already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-jmacro already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-lambdahack already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-lazy-csv already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-markdown-unlit already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-mueval already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-pandoc-citeproc already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-pid1 already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-pretty-show already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-raaz already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-simple already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-skylighting already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-status-notifier-item already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-swish already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-tasty-discover already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-termonad already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-tldr already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-unlambda already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-wai-app-static already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haskell-yaml already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package haxml already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package hscolour already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package lambdabot already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package llvm-toolchain-10 already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package mediawiki2latex already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package mighttpd2 already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package moarvm already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package pandoc-sidenote already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package taffybar already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
Package xmonad already present in groovy-proposed (but not fixed)
$

Are we going to finish this haskell transition first?  It's been in
-proposed for 33 days already, and starting the libffi transition without a
plan for finishing the haskell transition is just going to slow everything
down.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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