Re: Revisiting default initramfs compression

On 12/8/21 09:12, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hi all, some time ago, the default compressor for initramfs was changed from lz4 -9 to zstd -19. This caused significant problems: - it is very slow - it uses a lot of memory The former is a problem for everyone, the latter means that zstd just

+1 maintenance report

This is the outcome of my first +1 week. Thanks to Graham for sponsoring the changes and his advice. slurm-wlm - The package showed spurious autopkgtest failures. I increased timeout in a unit test (LP #1961602). libclass-dbi-sweet-perl --- The upstream package

Re: Should we remove chromium-browser from the archive?

On 2/8/22 19:33, Olivier Tilloy wrote: The chromium-browser package has been a "transitional" package that installs the chromium snap since Ubuntu 19.10. Full-fledged deb packages are still being built for 18.04. The question of whether to remove this transitional package from the archive

Re: dropping various grub targets

Hello Julian, GRUB EFI for riscv64 seems to be missing in the list of targets to keep. Best regards Heinrich Julian Andres Klode schrieb am Do., 5. Okt. 2023, 18:40: > Hi > > some of us would like to drop the following grub targets > as we believe nobody uses them: > > * grub-coreboot > *

Re: libgit2 switch from mbedTLS to OpenSSL

On 6/29/22 10:33, Simon Chopin wrote: Hi! As part of our efforts to support the Rust toolchain in main, we need to have libgit2 in main (dependency of cargo). However, it currently links against mbedTLS for its HTTPS backend rather than OpenSSL, for licensing reasons IIUC. Those reasons would

Re: Jammy regressions

Doesn't intel_iommu=off imply a security risk because a thunderbolt device can access all of the RAM? intel_iommu=igfx_off should be enough to resolve issues with GPUs. On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:25 AM Daniel van Vugt < daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > Looking at jammy's remaining release

Re: VT console font

Thanks Daniel for bringing up this topic. We should choose a font that is easily legible on a 28" 4K monitor. Best regards Heinrich On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 2:36 PM Daniel van Vugt < daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > I find myself increasing the VT console font size on practically all >

+1 Maintenance report

Sep. 26th - 30th was my +1 maintenance shift. This is what I worked on: *python-exchangelib* Timezone “Europe/Kyiv” exists in tzdata but not in the webpage https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr/master/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml Added patch d/p/ubuntu-kyiv-quirk.patch to

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*pktanon* The paket failed to migrate because the Debian maintainer had removed the s390x architecture. After dropping the architecture from our Lunar repository with LP #2009165 pktanon 2~git20160407.0.2bde4f2+dfsg-10

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

On 7/8/23 21:42, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Heinrich, On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 10:44:58AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: Hello Benjamin, some of the Ubuntu supported boards (e.g. LicheeRV) have so little RAM that a default initrd cannot be decompressed. Some boards may need modules

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

On 10.07.23 00:29, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 04:28:42AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: Benjamin Drung schrieb am Sa., 8. Juli 2023, 02:19: Hi all, a year ago we changed the default compression and level for the initramfs to zstd -1. This fixed the very slow

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

Hello Benjamin, some of the Ubuntu supported boards (e.g. LicheeRV) have so little RAM that a default initrd cannot be decompressed. Some boards may need modules that are not in initrd by default. Best regards Heinrich Benjamin Drung schrieb am Sa., 8. Juli 2023, 02:19: > Hi all, > > a year

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*aespipe* The build failure on arm64, ppc64el, s390x can be avoided by disabling LTO with DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=optimize=-lto. LP #2019319 needs sponsering. *postfix* The installation of prerequisite postfix fails during autopkgtests of packages like fwlogwatch. Postfix post

Re: Make proposed available by default? [was: Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed]

On 02.05.24 15:30, Robie Basak wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:15:59AM -0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I'd like to suggest that we start setting NotAutomatic: yes for the proposed pocket with hirsute+1, such that things like SRU verification will be easier, and all those people who enable

Re: Make proposed available by default? [was: Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed]

On 02.05.24 16:46, Robie Basak wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: Often I see apt-get update downloads exceeding 100 MiB. That is without a single package download. I think it might be worth quantifying this. Right now, for amd64 proposed pocket

Re: Make proposed available by default? [was: Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed]

On 5/3/24 08:23, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 03:05, Heinrich Schuchardt <mailto:heinrich.schucha...@canonical.com>> wrote: On 02.05.24 16:46, Robie Basak wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: >> O