Status for 2019-03-01 -> 2019-03-07

Fri:

• APT
  • Fixed a few bugs in never pinning in apt/trusty git branch
  • Uploaded SRUs for all releases

• PackageKit:

  • Merge new version from unstable
  • Forwarded frontend-locking patch to upstream

Mon:

• autopkgtest-cloud: Change request.cgi to sort printed fields by name, so output is in stable order
• python-mechanicalsoup: Fixed tests, forwarded to Debian

• PackageKit: SRU crash fix to bionic and cosmic (LP: #1818201)

• apport: Introduce support for non-positional arguments (LP: #1732962)

• livecd-rootfs/bionic: new minimize-manual merge proposal https://code.launchpad.net/~juliank/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs/+merge/363932

Tue:

• apport: Fixup for style issue in yesterday's upload that broke the build
• update-notifier / apt esm hook thinking, fixes

Wed:

• apt:
  • SRU verifications
  • Another small fix and translation updates for 1.8.0 (release ETA 2 days)

Thu:

• apt: Follow up fixes to the SRUs, verification / bug finding
  • auth.conf.d directory is missing (LP: #1818996)
  • seemed like auth.conf.d support in trusty and xenial did not work for https, only http; turned out I forgot to upgrade apt-transport-https to proposed ...

Status for 2019-03-08 -> 2019-03-14

Fri:

• apt:
  • 1.8.0 release
  • cherry-picking of the new fixes from 1.8.0 to stable branches

  • merging translations down the branches (1.8->1.7->1.6->1.2->trusty)

    • - probably should do 1.6->1.4 then 1.4->1.2, though.

Mon:

• apt 1.7.4 and 1.6.30 stable release updates
• python-apt 1.8.4 release, fixing a few locking bugs

Tue:

• apt 1.2.31 and 1.0.1ubuntu2.22 stable release updates

Wed:

• Updated socket-activated debconf client helper for PackageKit (https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/pull/289)

• some trello card splitting

Thu:

• Investigated ubuntu-drivers for aptdaemon usage -> only in tests

• Merged minimize-manual for live-cdrootfs/bionic
• Discussed private ppa support for add-apt-repository with ddstreet and cjwatson (bug 645404)
• More work on ESM UX

Status for 2019-03-15 -> 2019-03-21

Fri:

• Re-verified APT SRUs

Mon:

• ooo

Tue:

• ESM UX review

• Some PackageKit merge review

• Improve PackageKit error handling (https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/pull/321)

• Tighten APT dependencies on its own libs (https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/merge_requests/56)

• Rebase APT proposed update branches against master and do some more stringview cleanup

Wed:

• More ESM UX bikeshedding
• Analysis of aptdaemon use in software-properties

Thu:

• First stab at PackageKit driver installs in software-properties-gtk - (updates works already)

  • - Not sure about QApt vs PackageKit in the Qt backend

Status for 2019-03-22 -> 2019-03-28

• Followup SRU for apt/trusty to fix regression in previous one (LP: #1821308)
• Messaging adjustments for update-notifier-common's motd
• Reviewing some documents

• Uploaded fix for aptdaemon crashes with "raise StopIteration" (LP: #1811694)

• Fed the desktop team a new bug 1822082