Devel Meeting - 06-Mar-2024

Subjects on the meeting

• reprepo not pushing packages to testing repositories, gpg key expired related?
• fix latest update-notifier behavior

ToDo

Mozzarella

• pending git corrections (?)
• mozzarella not able to deal with spaces on searches "multi-word named extension"
• mozzarella having db credential in play cron.py file

Release

• drop dsa1024 key - trisquel/trisquel-website#2

Helpers system

• helpers default to QUILT=skip on T12 (?)
• upstream packages adding ubuntux.x suffix to package version.
  • add script for aramo updates for ubuntu packages w/ubuntux.x suffix on package version.
  • modify versioning schema on T12 to;

e.g.:
    packageversionA=4.5.6-7 #Debian
    packageversionB=4.5.6-7ubuntu3 #Ubuntu
    TRISQUEL_REVISION=9
    N=$TRISQUEL_REVISION
    trisquelversion=trisquel$N
    echo $packageversionA$trisquelversion $packageversionB$trisquelversion 
    4.5.6-7trisquel9 4.5.6-7ubuntu3trisquel9

Stalled / long term topics

• remove clients for external repositories (pip, ruby, etc)
  • adjust clients for free compliant repository
• build several helpers & workaround for multiple builds - trisquel/package-helpers#37
• ubuntu-purge update will not fetch de-blacklisted package.
  • aramo
  • nabia
• Sugar issues
  • issues for trisquel-sugar packages https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/trisquel-sugar/-/issues
• translation teams
  • l10n ubiquity slides
  • l10n website / news
• i386 support not gonna happen any time soon.

New website

• add direct CC payment system
• improve focus element - trisquel/trisquel-website/-/issues/10
• improve larger l10n support (pt-BR and others)

Helpers system

• CI/CD - trisquel/package-helpers#52 (closed)
• trisquel/trisquel-builder#11

Next meeting's to-review subjects.

• jas: /etc/os-release has ID_LIKE set to 'debian' not 'ubuntu'?
• restore udeb hwe-6.5
• remove/drop/patch online launchpad linux-build pulling
• start building linux ecne (no udebs)
• keep mirmon.trisquel.org up2date
• customize process-config.py for firefox 129
• mailing list
• torrent tracker for 11.0.1
• release post for 11.0.1?
• https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged-user-namespaces