Bug #16336

Check which packages we still need to patch on Buster

Added by intrigeri 2019-01-10 06:55:49 . Updated 2019-05-23 09:51:10 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Elevated
Assignee:
intrigeri
Category:
Target version:
Tails_4.0
Start date:
2018-11-05
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Research
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
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Description

Our devel APT suite has a bunch of patched packages. Most of them are superseded by newer versions when building feature/buster. We need to go through the list, check which patch we still need, and forward-port them.

Subtasks

Bug #16101: Build our custom Thunderbird package for Buster Resolved

100
Bug #16625: DHCP: Hostname get leaked Resolved

100

Related issues

Blocks Tails - Feature #16209: Core work: Foundations Team Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2019-04-02 13:52:47

Buster is frozen so now could be a good time to do so (there’s still a chance we have to refresh one or three of these packages again until the Buster release but at least the churn rate is much slower now).

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2019-04-05 16:29:46

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2019-05-23 08:59:48

  • Assignee set to intrigeri

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-05-23 09:44:35

  • cpio, cracklib2, gdk-pixbuf, initramfs-tools, shadow: I believe our reproducibility patches for these packages are in Buster \o/ — if not, we’ll see this as FTBR
  • desktop-file-utils: our reproducibility patch is still not in Buster (https://bugs.debian.org/872728) so if we see unreproducible mimeinfo.cache, we’ll need to forward-port our patch
  • gjs, glib2.0, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-shell, gobject-introspection, gtk+2.0, gtk+3.0, gvfs, udisks2: tracked on Bug #16634
  • hunspell, linux, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: already superseded or otherwise unused in 3.x
  • mutter: the fix we cherry-picked is in Buster
  • network-manager, onioncircuits: version in devel is higher than the one in Buster so for now we’re good
  • onionshare, systemd, torsocks, intel-microcode, virtualbox: superseded by the version in Buster
  • squashfs-tools: for now we use the one from Buster, which has issues of its own; that’s tracked on Bug #16637, nothing to do here
  • tails-greeter, tails-installer, tails-iuk, tails-perl5lib, tails-persistence-setup, whisperback: Tails-only packages as of Buster
  • thunderbird: 1:60.6.1-1.0tails1 is OK for now, but will be obsolete once we update to 60.7.0
  • zenity: a modified version of our patch was applied in the version that’s in Buster
  • firmware-nonfree: Bug #16728

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2019-05-23 09:51:10

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved

intrigeri wrote:
> * desktop-file-utils: our reproducibility patch is still not in Buster (https://bugs.debian.org/872728) so if we see unreproducible mimeinfo.cache, we’ll need to forward-port our patch

I see no trace in our Git tree of any of the 3 binaries shipped by this package. I suspect we simply are not affected by this problem. Let’s come back to it and upload a patched package iff. we see unreproducible mimeinfo.cache.

That was the only package whose status was somewhat in doubt => nothing to do here ATM, closing!