0923

No Meeting This Week

Activity reports

Colin Watson

  • Some more minor assistance with boot problems: fixed run-time expat libraries to install to /lib.
  • More attempts to get Wubi working, integrating a grub.d script and adjusting grub2 to ignore the usual Linux handling for loop-mounted filesystems, and explicitly calling update-grub on lupin-support installation.
  • Installer:
    • Fixed dh-di #430724 (manual partitioning is not shown in ubiquity).
    • Ported ubiquity's init scripts to Upstart.
    • Fixed ubiquity #431048 (crash on OEM end-user setup).
  • Merged: dpkg (#427854)
  • Sponsorship:
    • fsl #402174 (universe)
    • xscreensaver #129769.
    • rsyslog #430220 (not quite yet).
    • cdrkit #430190 (not quite yet).
    • quilt #428657.
    • edubuntu-addon-meta #404608.
  • Resurrected ia64 (fairly simple dbus link order fix plus some buildd babysitting).
  • Eucalyptus:
    • Fixed #425933 (Eucalyptus, avahi-publish component discovery, and eucalyptus configuration not functional if front-end machine has more than one interface).
  • Blitzed TB actions from last meeting.
  • GRUB:
    • Investigated blinking cursor on boot. Not a GRUB issue.
    • Fixed grub2 #431179 (GRUB_DEFAULT="label" is ignored).
    • Stop throwing away errors from os-prober, to help see what's wrong with Wubi.
    • Fixed grub-installer #433259 (/etc/grub.d/ contains both 30-otheros and 30_os-prober).

Evan Dandrea

slideshow

  • Finally got reflections using javascript and css in the slideshow working for the Firefox icon, solving the derivative works problem.
  • Released a new version of the slideshow.

ubiquity

  • Released two new versions of ubiquity.
  • Fixed a few bugs in ubiquity:
    • Suppress Pango warning about not being able to open /root/.pangorc.
    • Use the page name instead of the new step name when considering both partitioning pages.
    • Fix broken conditional statement that prevented process_autopartitioning and info_loop from being called.
    • Disable the forward button for the usersetup page when coming from both the automatic and manual partitioning pages, rather than just the latter.
    • Open a browser window when links are clicked on in the slideshow (LP: #432145).

usb-creator

  • Got my patch to devkit-disks upstream. davidz fixed the other and released a new devkit-disks, meaning that we could finally re-enable the format button.
  • Fixed a few bugs in usb-creator:

    • Add PolicyKit support (LP: #273483).

    • Move logging back to the home directory, now that usb-creator is run as a regular user (LP: #431266).
    • Use GIO instead of gnomevfs. Only lookup GNOME device names and icons as needed.

    • Remove the device in the DeviceKit-disks backend when it's removed from the system.

    • Only set the non-size columns to expand to fill available space in the GTK+ frontend. Set a minimum width of 75px for all columns.
    • ifdef out some Linux-specific code that was breaking the Windows binary.
    • Add the missing retry dialog to the GTK+ frontend.
    • Fix a deadlock when the failed dialog runs.
    • Always return something from get_gnome_drive.
    • Explicitly depend on mtools, just in case someone removes it and expects usb-creator to still work.
    • Re-enable the format button now that Devicekit-disks 007 has been released.

misc

  • Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, OR.

James Westby

Distributed Development

  • Reviewed more work from Muharem. THanks.
  • Worked on some failures to import.

Daily Builds

  • Triaged some bugs filed by Neil. Thanks.

Kerneloops

  • Nothing.
  • No bugs have been filed. It doesn't seem like there is anything left to do here, just keeping an eye on it.

Other

  • Archive admin day.
  • Sponsoring from Bazaar merge proposals.
  • Debugging some karmic bugs that are getting in my way.
  • Looked at the gnome-system-tools changes to make it less hostile to ecryptfs. Saved by Kees, thanks.

Lars Wirzenius

  • Looked briefly at Haiku, the BeOS re-implementation as free software. The live CD boots very quickly even under kvm (mere seconds), but the installed system does not boot at all.
  • Verified that Computer Janitor actually removes old kernels (yup, it does).
  • Computer Janitor UI de-threading does not seem to have fixed mysterious random crashes, but also there are no new crashes. Still detesting the difficulty of writing threaded code.
  • Upgraded to current karmic. Things broke. Fixed some, worked around some, upgraded again. Works now.
  • Worked on getting debdelta working on hardy + hardy-security.

Matthias Klose

  • Work on OOo bug fixes
    • Two test builds on karmic, one test build on jaunty after backporting to jaunty (started the week before).
    • Rebuild tests of affected library with jaunty/karmic toolchains, bisecting toolchains, bisecting object files of the affected library.
    • Identify problem (either OOo or ARM binutils), and work around it for now.
    • Fix some other ARM bugs
    • Make sure that OOo works with OpenJDK on ARM.
    • Upload package.
    • Upstream bug reports
  • ARM soft float abi fixes, discovered while working on OOo, fixed known packages (OOo, OpenJDK, libffi, gcj-*). Upstream bug fixes.
  • Fixed OpenJDK buildability on powerpc and sparc (xulrunner build failures caused by redefinition of the `inline' word in an installed header of wireless-tools.
  • Fixed dpkg, uninstallability of emacs22 used as a b-d.
  • Fixed mountall micompilation on powerpc, applied suggested fix in gcc-4.4.
  • Work on package removal bugs
  • Some buildd maintenance, bug triage.
  • OpenJDK sound fix.
  • sun-java removal discussion
  • binutils update

Michael Vogt

software-store

  • bug triage
  • MIR report for software-store / aptdaemon
  • Fix software-store crash in on_iter_children()
  • review/merge the run-uninstalled branch
  • review/merge the disable-install-button
  • review/merge software-store branch from rugby
  • add i18n to the desktop file parser
  • fix corrupted entires from duplicated names (e.g. Terminal)
  • screenshort fetching fixes, database cleanup
  • create experimental pathbar-integration branch (lp:~mvo/software-store/pathbar-integration)
  • move common code into the softwarestore.db.database
  • Aptdaemon - fix bug in medium required
  • Aptdaemon - work on config file promp feature

  • Aptdaemon: debug/fix hang in InstallPackage

  • discuss posibility to get debconf support into packagekit this hopefully opens up a new possibility for karmic+1
  • fix i18n bugs (gtkbuilder/gettext interaction)
  • bug triage, fixing, dive into unicode sorting
  • Mail about screenshots.ubuntu.com
  • auto update version information
  • set user agent in the screenshot fetcher
  • fix crash in cancel handling
  • implement dbus interface in the update-software-store code to ensure that the store does not crash if a database update happens in the background (#430603)
  • implement #426252 (status bar updates string update on searching)
  • fixing bugs (#432645, #433520, #432704)
  • fix bug in on_iter_nth_child
  • debug debconf failure in aptdaemon (multiple-connection issue, no luck so far)
  • Debug/fix software-store failure with empty comment lines (#432995)
  • fix conffile prompting
  • fixes in media change requests
  • debug/fix gst import failure
  • aptdaemon - commit a bunch of fixes to trunk
  • add basic license information to the page
  • fix default focus (#433828)
  • implement basic arrow key moving in the categories view and get the missing up,down key handling from Stuart (thanks!)

alpha6

  • Command-not-found data update for alpha6
  • Apt-ddtp update work

misc

  • a bit of network/hardware trouble
  • Help OEM with update-manager and mini9 and push to lp:~mvo/update-manager/hardy-oem

  • Discuss old DynamicMirrorDessison spec again

  • Look into python-apt merge with debian, send comments to juliank
  • Port apturl to not use add/remove anymore and use software-properties-gtk
  • Work on compiz update (assert failure when core is loaded twice)
  • Upload new compiz
  • Look into more efficient way to publish changlogs (discuss with bigjools, loo kinto launchpadlib) lp:~mvo/+junk/lp-archive-crawler
  • Upload new synaptic with better differenciate between official supported and not supported

sponsoring

  • Merge compiz-fusion-plugins-main change (#402633)
  • Review/merge language-selector changes by arne (and upload)
  • "review"/upload xserver-xorg-video-ati upload for tormod

Mike Terry

  • Rsyslog: Fixed syslog user deletion that was causing some problems when purging old sysklogd

  • Fixed a couple ftbfs: 432470 & 404272

  • Ubiquity: Fixed Polish (and possibly others) lacking a default timezone
  • Researched sensible-browser vs xdg-open fallback behavior for 204858

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

  • alpha6 released

Packages

  • Fix cryptsetup to use usplash again as intended, and fix initramfs-tools to properly invoke the needed scripts. Bug #433773.
  • Fix dbus to not set rpath unnecessarily. Bug #432718.

Sponsorship

  • rsyslog, sysklogd (bug #401056)

Misc

  • sprinting with kernel team at LinuxCon

  • working with Scott on boot boogz
  • reading, on the bus at 7:30 in the morning on the way to LPC to arrive in time for the 8am foundations team meeting, an email informing me that there is no 8am foundations team meeting

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