First Impish Indri test rebuild / GCC 11

The first test rebuild of Impish Indri was started on August 05 2021 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild is finished on amd64 and i386 for all components, and finished for all architectures for the main component. Still running for universe and multiverse for non-x86 architectures.

Impish Indri is now open for development

We’re pleased to announce that impish is now *open for development*. auto-sync has been enabled and will run soon. As usual, we expect a large influx of builds and autopkgtests in this initial period, which will cause delays. Please help with fixing any breakage that occurs. The release schedule c

Second Hirsute Hippo test rebuild

The second test rebuild of Hirsute Hippo was started on March 25 2021 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild is finished for the main component, it's still running for the other components. Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at https://people.canonical.co

First Hirsute Hippo test rebuild (and GCC related test rebuilds)

The first test rebuild of Hirsute Hippo was started on December 20 2020 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild is almost finished. It is still running for the multiverse component on some architectures. Thanks to everybody keeping the buildds going during the end-of-year break. Result

Hirsute Hippo is now open for development

Hirsute Hippo is now open for development, with the uploads collected in the queue now approved, and syncs from unstable enabled. The development version starts with one change: - Python 3.9 is now added as a supported Python3 version, with the goal to ship Python 3.9 as the only Python3 vers

Second Groovy Gorilla test rebuild

The second test rebuild of Groovy Gorilla was started on September 25 2020 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild is finished for the main component. It is still running for the universe/multiverse components. Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at https:/

Second Focal Fossa test rebuild

The second test rebuild of Focal Fossa was started on March 27 2020 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild is finished for the main component, still running for the universe/multiverse components. Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at https://people.canon

First Focal Fossa test rebuild

The first test rebuild of Focal Fossa was started on December 20 2019 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild is finished except for some pending universe/multiverse builds on armhf and arm64. A first glance at the test results shows some missing dependencies for i386 builds, and some m

Focal Fossa is now open for development

Focal Fossa is now open for development, with the syncs from unstable done and built, and autopkg testers trying to catch up. The development version starts with only a few changes: - Python 3.8 is now added as a supported Python3 version, with the goal to ship Python 3.8 as the only Pytho

Second Eoan Ermine test rebuilds

The second test rebuild of Eoan Ermine was started on September 06 2019 for all architectures, all components. The rebuild of the main component is finished, the other components (restricted, universe, multiverse) are still building. Unfortunately we see 1300+ build failures, and still countin

First Eoan Ermine test rebuilds

The first test rebuild of Eoan Ermine was started on June 16 2019 for all architectures, all components. Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at https://people.canonical.com/~doko/ftbfs-report/test-rebuild-20190614-eoan.html The report uses some additional color codin

Second Disco Dingo test rebuild

The second test rebuild of Disco Dingo was started on April 04 2019 for all architectures, just the main component. For technical reasons we were not able to start that rebuild earlier, and a rebuild for the universe component wouldn't finish before the 19.04 release. The usual comment about incr

Call for Testing: OpenJDK 11 packages in bionic-proposed and cosmic-proposed

updates for 18.04 LTS as long as we provide them for the 16.04 LTS (xenial) release. On behalf of the OpenJDK 11 transition team, Matthias Klose -- List of packages in -proposed: activemq afterburner.fx android-framework-23 android-platform-art android-platform-build android-platform-dalvik android

Disco Dingo test rebuilds

The first test rebuild of Disco Dingo was started on December 21 2018 for all architectures, all components. The number of build time failures unfortunately is again high, even higher than for the last Cosmic Cuttlefish test rebuild. Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be foun

Disco Dingo is now open for development

Disco Dingo is now open for development, with the syncs from unstable done and built. The development version starts with only a few changes: - Python 3.7 is now the default Python3 version, and the only supported Python3 version. - Perl was updated to version 5.28 - Merged-usr is now the

Cosmic Cuttlefish test rebuilds

The first test rebuild of Cosmic Cuttlefish was started on September 11 2018 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). The number of build time failures unfortunately is again high. The test rebuild was done using the op

Cosmic Cuttlefish is now open for development

Cosmic Cuttlefish [1] is now open for development, with the syncs from unstable done and built. The development version starts with only a few changes: - The final GCC 8.1.0 release (not yet used as the default) - Only one transition almost done (ncurses) Please be aware about the planned com

Second Bionic Beaver test rebuilds

The second test rebuild of Bionic Beaver was started on April 08 2018 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). The number of build time failures unfortunately is still high. For arm64 and armhf the gcc-7 packages are ba

1000 New Year's pledges for 2018 (first Bionic Beaver test rebuilds)

The first test rebuild of Bionic Beaver was started on December 21 2017 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). The number of build time failures unfortunately is at an all time high around a four digit number. Time fo

GTK2 demotion

Similar to the Python2 demotion analysis, there is one done for GTK2 by Jeremy Bicha, at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=gtk2-demotion There are a few hard to fix issues, but please review the seeds if the input helpers in the seeds can be updated to avoid the GTK2 usage. Thi

Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

Python upstream announced the EOL of Python2 for 2020 https://pythonclock.org/ Getting Python2 demoted has been an ongoing task for several Ubuntu releases, now finally having a desktop CD image in Ubuntu 17.10 which ships without a Python2 interpreter. The next step is to get Python2 demoted

Bionic Beaver now open for development

Before heading on with Bionic Beaver, let's have a look at all the remaining build failures in Artful Aardvark [1], which is the highest number of build failures at the end of a release cycle we ever had. Please don't repeat that and plan to address these build failures in time for the Bionic Beav

Second Ubuntu Artful Aardvark test rebuild

The second test rebuild of Artful Aardvark was started on September 22 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). For arm64 and armhf the gcc-6 and gcc-7 packages are based on the Linaro 6-2017.09 snapshots. Results (plea

First Ubuntu Artful Aardvark test rebuilds (and upcoming GCC 7 transition)

The first test rebuild of Artful Aardvark was started on July 6 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). For arm64 and armhf the gcc-6 packages are based on the Linaro 6-2017.06 snapshot. Results (please also look at th

Second Ubuntu Zesty Zapus test rebuilds (all components, all architectures, GCC 7)

The second test rebuild of Zesty Zapus was started on March 22 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). For arm64 and armhf the gcc-6 packages are based on the Linaro 6-2017.03 snapshot. Results (please also look at the

First Ubuntu Zesty Zapus test rebuilds (all components, all architectures, GCC 7)

The first test rebuild of Zesty Zapus was started on December 02 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). For arm64 and armhf the gcc-6 packages are based on the Linaro 6-2016.10 snapshot. Results (please also look at t

Zesty Zapus open for development

Zesty Zapus [1] is now open for development, with syncs from unstable still running. The development version already starts with some changes: - GCC on armhf and arm64 now is built again from the GCC Linaro branch. - Starting with library transitions: openmpi, boost 1.62. Please check your up

Second Ubuntu Yakkety Yak test rebuilds (all components, all architectures, Linaro-GCC)

The second test rebuild of Yakkety Yak was started on September 16 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages mostly finished, unseeded packages still building). Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/tes

First Ubuntu Yakkety Yak test rebuilds (all components, all architectures, GCC 6)

The first test rebuild of Yakkety Yak was started on July 01 for all architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished, unseeded packages still building). Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbf

Yakkety Yak is now open for development

Yakkety Yak [1] is now open for development, with syncs from unstable still running. The development version already starts with some changes: - GCC is configured to build with -fPIE (and to pass -z now to ld) by default on amd64 and ppc64el. - Three library transitions are almost done: bo

Third Ubuntu Xenial Xerus test rebuilds (all components, all architectures)

The third test rebuild of Xenial Xerus was started on April 01 (no joke) for all architectures, all components (it is finished besides some pending builds for powerpc and armhf). Compared to the last test rebuild this sees some new build failures introduced by new upstream versions during the f

Second Ubuntu Xenial Xerus test rebuilds (all components, all architectures)

The second test rebuild of Xenial Xerus was started in late February for all architectures, all components (it is finished besides some pending builds for powerpc and armhf). Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-

First Ubuntu Xenial Xerus test rebuilds (all components, all architectures)

A first test rebuild of Xenial Xerus was started last year for all architectures, all components. Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20151218.1-xenial-baseline-xenial.html For arm64 and armhf t

Xenial Xerus is now open for development

Xenial Xerus [1] is now open for development, with syncs from unstable still running. The development version already starts with some changes: - Python 3.5 already is the default Python3 version. Aiming for a Python2 free desktop for the Xenial release. - Binutils is built from the trunk

Re: First Wily Werewolf test rebuild

On 02.10.2015 17:12, Matthias Klose wrote: A first test rebuild of Wily Werewolf was started on Oct 01 for all architectures. It is finished for the main component on i386 and amd64. Results can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20151001-wily.html

First Wily Werewolf test rebuild

A first test rebuild of Wily Werewolf was started on Oct 01 for all architectures. It is finished for the main component on i386 and amd64. Results can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20151001-wily.html The archive for the test rebuild is https://

GCC 5 now the default in wily (release pocket)

GCC 5 is now the default in the wily release pocket, together with some libraries, which were either forced (icu, boost1.58), or migrated on their own. The majority of the packages in -proposed are still blocked by missing rebuilds or packages failing to build. The packages which already are migr

GCC 5 for 14.10 (wily) on July 31

Hi, We are currently preparing the switch to GCC 5 as the default compiler for 14.10 (wily). Unlike earlier updates to newer compiler versions, which only required updating packages to newer language standards, this time we have a partial ABI transition in the standard C++ library (libstdc++6).

Ubuntu Vivid Vervet test rebuilds (all components, all architectures)

A test rebuild of Vivid Vervet was started this week for all architectures, and is finished for the main component. Results can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20150202-vivid.html The archive for the test rebuild is https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+a

Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn test rebuild (main, all architectures)

A test rebuild of Utopic Unicorn was started this week for all architectures, and is finished for amd64, i386, armhf and ppc64el. The rebuild for arm64 and powerpc will finish this week. Results can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20140914-utopic.h

Third Ubuntu Trusty test rebuild (all components, all architectures except powerpc)

The third test rebuild of Trusty Tahr was started this week for all architectures except powerpc (all components). Results will appear at (currently this link doesn't yet exist) http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20140307-trusty.html The archive for the test reb

Second Ubuntu Trusty test rebuild (all components, i386 architecture)

The second test rebuild of Trusty Tahr was started this week for the i386 architecture (all components). The rebuild of the main component is finished and it is now rebuilding the universe. Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20140127-trust

First Ubuntu Trusty test rebuild (main component, all architectures)

The first test rebuild of Trusty Tahr was started last week for all architectures (main component only). It is still running for arm64, all other architectures did finish the test rebuild. Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20140108-trusty

Trusty Tahr open for development

Trusty is now open for development, with syncs from unstable currently running. The development version starts with a new port and with minor updates to the toolchain and some transitions. - GCC 4.8 was updated to the GCC 4.8.2 release and the GCC Linaro 4.8-2013-10 release. Binutils is built

second ubuntu saucy test rebuild

The second test rebuild of saucy salamander was started on Tuesday for the amd64, i386 and armhf architectures. Currently running, finished for main (armhf only), universe will finish within the next ten days (armhf a bit earlier). Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/reb

first ubuntu saucy test rebuild

The first test rebuild of saucy salamander was started yesterday for the amd64, i386 and armhf architectures. Currently running, finished for main, universe will finish within the next ten days (armhf a bit earlier). Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/te

Saucy now open for development

Saucy is now open for development, with syncs from unstable currently running. The development version starts with updated versions of GCC and boost. - GCC 4.8 is now the default compiler, introducing among other things improved C++11 support, AddressSanitizer , a fast memory error detector,

second raring ringtail test rebuild

A second test rebuild of raring ringtail was started yesterday for the amd64, i386 and armhf architectures. Currently running, and with mostly idle buildds over easter and the current freeze it will hopefully finish within ten days. Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebui

raring ringtail test rebuild

A test rebuild of raring ringtail started in 2012 for the amd64, i386 and armhf architectures is now finished for all components on armhf. The amd64 and i386 rebuilds will hopefully finish in a few days. Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20

Raring now open for development

Raring is now open for development, with syncs from unstable currently running. The development version starts with updated versions of eglibc and python3, and some upload rearrangements. - GCC 4.7 did see some updates from the upstream branches, and supports x32 multilibs on amd64 and i386

quantal quetzal test rebuild

This weekend a test rebuild of quantal quetzal did start for the amd64, i386 and armhf architectures. The test rebuild is now finished for the main and restricted components, and continues with the universe and multiverse components. Results can be seen at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/reb

Quantal open for development

Quantal is now open for development, with syncs from unstable starting shortly. The development version starts with updated versions of GCC and OpenJDK, some soname changes (boost, hdf5), and some changes with setting the build flags for package builds. We are finally targeting Python3 as the only

third test rebuild of precise pangolin

Another (and probably the last) test rebuild for precise pangolin is currently running on amd64, armhf and i386 (finished for main, universe is still building). The results will show up at [1]. The rebuild is running on the distro buildds, so please be a bit conservative with uploading packag

second test rebuild of precise pangolin

Another test rebuild for precise pangolin is currently running on amd64, armhf and i386. The results will show up at [1]. Half of main is rebuilt, and the universe packages will start to build around this weekend. The rebuild is running on the distro buildds, so please be a bit conservative

first rebuild of precise pangolin, including armhf

This week, a kind of rebuild for precise pangolin in the disguise of the armhf bootstrap did end. The build did expose some ARM unspecific build failures; please use the information from the armhf build logs to address these build failures. Please use the ftbfs pages to gather more information:

Precise open for development

Precise is now open for development, with syncs from testing starting shortly. The development version starts with an - an updated GCC (4.6.x, Linaro 2011-10) and binutils (2.22 branch), - gnat-4.6 as the default gnat, - python2.6 dropped from the list of supported python 2.x versions, - merge

Re: oneiric test rebuild running, bugs for build failures filed, please be more patient with PPA builders

On 08/19/2011 06:09 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > A test rebuild for oneiric is currently running, an overview of the build > failures can be found at > http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20110816-oneiric.html > > The test rebuild archive itself is f

oneiric test rebuild running, bugs for build failures filed, please be more patient with PPA builders

A test rebuild for oneiric is currently running, an overview of the build failures can be found at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20110816-oneiric.html The test rebuild archive itself is found at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110816 The

Oneiric open for development

Oneiric is now open for development, with syncs from unstable starting shortly. The development version starts with an updated GCC and binutils, some soname changes (gmp, libffi, boost) and re-enables the default linker settings, which were disabled just before the natty release. When merging

Natty test rebuild for amd64, armel, i386 (all components)

Another natty test rebuild for amd64, armel and i386 was started yesterday, including all components. Packages in the main component will build first. The test archives are: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110329/ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-201103

Natty test rebuild for ix86 (all components)

Another natty test rebuild for ix86 was started yesterday, including all components. Packages in the main component will build last, because we already had a test rebuild for main two weeks ago. The test archive is https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110125 Build failures

GCC-4.6 rebuild tests

[ Note that GCC-4.6 will not be used for natty / 11.04, but we consider using this version for the O-series / 11.10 ] A test rebuild of natty/main using the current GCC version from the trunk was finished last week. While only one internal compiler error was found, some more build failures w

Re: changing the python default from 2.6 to 2.7

upgrading directly from maverick or from an earlier natty snapshot, and are stuck, please see comment #5 in bug #689306 [1]. Matthias [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/689306 On 08.12.2010 01:05, Matthias Klose wrote: > Tomorrow, Wednesday December 8, we'll change the default Python ve

changing the python default from 2.6 to 2.7

se issues. Barry Warsaw Matthias Klose -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

gcc in natty now passes --as-needed by default to the linker

There is a second change to the linking in natty; as announced in [1], --no-add-needed/--no-copy-dt-needed-entries is passed by default, with the current gcc in natty, --as-needed is passed as well. Please see [2] for implications (runtime failures) and a list of packages which might be affecte

Natty Narwhal open for development

Natty Narwhal is now open for development. If you haven't yet subscribed to the natty-changes ML, please do so at [1]. It's worth mentioning the update to GCC 4.5 and a change to the linking behaviour. - GCC 4.5 is more strict than earlier GCC versions, and may cause build problems in p

Announcing OpenJDK 6 Certification for Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)

The Ubuntu Java development team is pleased to announce completed certification of OpenJDK 6 for Ubuntu 9.04, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. After signing the Sun TCK agreement earli

upcoming python changes / upgrade issues

After the alpha-5 release we will update the python interpreter from 2.5.4 to 2.6.1. For about 24 hours you will no be able to cleanly update jaunty, until some packages are rebuilt with python2.6. For a better upgrade experience during this time, please add the pythoneers PPA to your sources.lis

Java related changes in intrepid

Recently Openjdk6 was promoted to main; with today's upload of java-common, OpenJDK6 is the default java runtime / development kit in main, on all architectures. - On amd64, i386, lpia and sparc, the Hotspot VM, including the JIT compiler is used as the VM. - On ia64, the Hotspot VM, using t

2007 Google Summer of Code in Ubuntu - project results

The 2007 Google Summer of Code is over, and most projects mentored by Ubuntu are successfully completed with the code finding the way into the forthcoming Ubuntu gutsy or harty releases. Congratulations to the successful students and many thanks to their mentors! See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Go

new architecture lpia

The Ubuntu Mobile project uses a new architecture "lpia"; the architecture resembles "i386", but uses different optimizations options in the compiler, different configuration and build options for some packages. Because Ubuntu Mobile uses only a subset of main, and almost nothing of universe, a lar

IcedTea - a first step towards OpenJDK

IcedTea is a temporary fork of OpenJDK which allows building with a free toolchain and adding/replacing code which is not yet available under a free license. First deb Packages for amd64, i386 and lpia are available at deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ gutsy/ deb-src http://people.ubu

Opening development for Gutsy Gibbon

The Gutsy Gibbon archives are now accessible, and will be openend soonish for normal upload and syncs from Debian. The current gutsy archive already has some basic packages updated, including our toolchain (binutils, GCC, glibc). Noteworthy changes are: - The Java compatible environment in main

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