Notices by Natanael Copa (ncopa@fosstodon.org), page 3

@lanodan @dalias Then we also have xz autoreconf depending on po4a, which depends on docboox-xsl which depends on libxml2-utils (libxml2). Thats another circular dep right there.

Using pre-generated configure script would solve this (and likely many more circular deps lurking around)

circular dependencies are so painful. python depends on gettext which depends on libxml2 which depends on python.

So the "rebuild libxml2 against python 3.12" happened before python 3.12.

Docker says the riscv64 gitlab-runner has been up for 54 years. Impressive!

@pu @ariadne @alpinelinux same with any issue or MR with 3.20 milestone set

@pu @ariadne @alpinelinux thanks for asking. Right now, helping with reporting the llvm18 test failures upstream and add the links to the llvm18 draft MR would help. And so would reporting upstream *and fixing* python 3.12 issues

@pu @ariadne @alpinelinux or help with any of the many open issues or draft MR. Anything that help us close anything open rather that start new issues/projects that will need my attention

@pu @ariadne @alpinelinux coming back from weekend and find number of open merge requests cut in half would certainly be a nice surprise. Currently 520+ open

@ariadne @alpinelinux please let’s pay off the current technical debt before even start talking about this.
Multi init *will* burn me out

@ariadne Splitting systemd will not happen.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32028#issuecomment-2029879291

@aljaxus It is analyzin, reporting and fixing the issues that is taking the time. The building when tests passes is fast.

I am getting significant help with this already.

Helping with solving th eissues in the Draft and failing MRs is very appreciated:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=opened&search=py3

@aljaxus Other thing that is currently blocking is the gstreamer upgrade (which includes fixes for python 3.12). Its blocked by a nasty memory corruption bug on 32 bit platforms:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/6474

If you are an Alpine Linux package maintainer, can you please verify that your py3-* packages builds with current git master?

For example:

for i in $(grep Natanael py3-*/APKBUILD | cut -d/ -f1); do (cd $i && abuild -rk) || break; done

Alpine python 3.12 rebuild status:
- 820 packages built
- 868 packages left (+ testing)

we are moving forward.

@craftyguy But I think we also may need other ways to parallelize this. It would be nice if we could split up rebuilds in dependecy batches that can be parallelized. Eg. no dependencies between batches.

@craftyguy So with a tool that gets a list of aports, the tool finds out the dependencies between them, and group them by dependencies

@craftyguy best thing would be to make sure that your upstream python packages actually work with python 3.12 and pytest 8 and have a release tagged with all the needed fixes.

For most issues I have bumped into so far there are fixes upstream, but no new release. The time is spent on finding and backporting the correct patch.

I am working on upgrading python to 3.12 on #alpinelinux. There are lots of testsuites that needs cleanups. I'm also hitting issues with pytest 8 upgrade while at it.

Been doing ~58 packages today. 1374 are left (for community). With this speed its gonna take ~24 days, if I'm able to spend 100% of my time on this.

If you are upgrading your #alpinelinux please pay attention if ifupdown-ng-openrc is uninstalled:

(1/53) Purging ifupdown-ng-openrc (0.12.1-r3)

If that happens, then please run `apk fix openrc`, or you may not have network next reboot.

I just pushed Linux kernel 6.6.6 to #alpinelinux edge and v3.19.

linux 6.6 kernels was just pushed to alpine edge. This will be the kernels for #alpinelinux 3.19

The rpi kernels was simplified so you may want verify your config.txt if you update your

And there will be support for #RaspberryPi 5