From: Colin Watson Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 13:10:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Free software activity in December 2025 X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec2cd128ea654e9a2eda3a7449ac890746deea10;p=blog.git Free software activity in December 2025 --- diff --git a/content/activity-2025-12.md b/content/activity-2025-12.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0088eda0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/activity-2025-12.md @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@ +Title: Free software activity in December 2025 +Slug: activity-2025-12 +Date: 2026-01-05 13:08:53 +00:00 +Category: columbiform +Tags: activity, columbiform, freexian, planet-debian +Summary: Mostly chasing Python 3.14 problems. +Mastodon-ID: 115842649787747857 + +About 95% of my Debian contributions this month were +[sponsored](https://www.freexian.com/about/debian-contributions/) by +Freexian. + +You can also support my work directly via +[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/cjwatson) or [GitHub +Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/cjwatson). + +## Python packaging + +I upgraded these packages to new upstream versions: + +* [pygments](https://bugs.debian.org/1117224) (prepared transition in + Debusine with diff-cover, pydata-sphinx-theme, pymdown-extensions, + python-readme-renderer, and python-stack-data; [contributed + python-stack-data fix + upstream](https://github.com/alexmojaki/stack_data/pull/63)) +* aiosmtplib +* astroid (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1123098), as I wrote about recently in + [Preparing a transition in Debusine]({filename}/debusine-transitions.md)) +* billiard (fixing a [syntax warning with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1121668)) +* celery ([contributed follow-up fix + upstream](https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/10033)) +* cloudpickle (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1121743)) +* csvkit +* deepdiff (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1123114)) +* django-auditlog +* django-phonenumber-field +* flake8-builtins +* flufl.lock +* kombu +* peewee +* psycopg2 +* pydantic-extra-types +* pylint (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1123172)) +* pymdown-extensions +* python-aiojobs (fixing a [build failure](https://bugs.debian.org/1114291)) +* python-aiostream +* python-asttokens (fixing a [build failure with astroid + 4](https://bugs.debian.org/1124194)) +* python-auditwheel +* python-blockbuster +* python-boolean.py +* python-confluent-kafka +* python-django-crispy-forms +* python-django-pgbulk +* python-django-pgtransaction +* python-django-pgtrigger (fixing a [build failure with + mkdocstrings-python-handlers >= 2](https://bugs.debian.org/1122461)) +* python-evalidate +* python-exchangelib (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1123237)) +* python-holidays +* python-lsp-server +* python-lz4 +* python-mashumaro (fixing many build failures in other packages with Python + 3.14) +* python-moto +* python-persistent +* python-pytest-run-parallel +* python-roman +* python-rx (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1123306)) +* python-telethon +* python-uvicorn (fixing a [test failure with current + uvloop](https://bugs.debian.org/1122099)) +* python-wheezy.template +* python-wslink +* rpds-py +* sphinx-autoapi +* sqlparse +* zope.testing (fixing a [build failure with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1123370)) + +Python 3.14 is now a supported version in unstable, and we're working to get +that into testing. As usual this is a pretty arduous effort because it +requires going round and fixing lots of odds and ends across the whole +ecosystem. We can deal with a fair number of problems by keeping up with +upstream (see above), but there tends to be a long tail of packages whose +upstreams are less active and where we need to chase them, or where problems +only show up in Debian for one reason or another. I spent a lot of time +working on this: + +* [actdiag's autopkgtests failed when there are multiple supported Python + versions](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/actdiag/-/commit/f566f601862a54b96c92d66874da9440351bf2a4) +* [khard: FTBFS: dh\_auto\_test: error: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p + "3.14 3.13" returned exit code 13](https://bugs.debian.org/1123143) + ([contributed upstream](https://github.com/lucc/khard/pull/348)) +* [pydantic-settings: FTBFS: example.py: error: unrecognized arguments: + --bad-arg](https://bugs.debian.org/1123433) ([forwarded + upstream](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-settings/issues/733) and + cherry-picked their fix) +* [pydantic: FTBFS: dh\_auto\_test: error: pybuild --test --test-pytest -i + python{version} -p "3.14 3.13" returned exit code + 13](https://bugs.debian.org/1123166) +* [pygame: FTBFS with Python 3.14: sys.getrefcount() + AssertionError](https://bugs.debian.org/1121999) +* [python-auditwheel: FTBFS: dh\_auto\_test: error: pybuild --test + --test-pytest -i python{version} -p "3.14 3.13" returned exit code + 13](https://bugs.debian.org/1123194) ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel/pull/661)) +* [python-charset-normalizer could silently build without support for some + supported Python versions](https://bugs.debian.org/1121820) +* [python-confluent-kafka: FTBFS with Python 3.14: Segmentation fault in + test\_create\_topics\_api](https://bugs.debian.org/1117901) ([forwarded + upstream](https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python/issues/2146) + and + [fixed](https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python/pull/2151) + after a debugging hint from them) +* [python-django: FTBFS with Python 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1122185) + (also fixing many build failures in other packages) +* [python-memray: FTBFS with Python 3.14: Segmentation + fault](https://bugs.debian.org/1122076) (some initial debugging; [upstream + has since got a lot + further](https://github.com/bloomberg/memray/issues/863)) +* [python-telethon: FTBFS: dh\_auto\_test: error: pybuild --test + --test-pytest -i python{version} -p "3.14 3.13" returned exit code + 13](https://bugs.debian.org/1123319) ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/pull/4722)) +* [python-typing-extensions: FTBFS: dh\_auto\_test: error: pybuild --test -i + python{version} -p "3.14 3.13" returned exit code + 13](https://bugs.debian.org/1123325) +* [python-wheezy.template: FTBFS with Python + 3.14](https://bugs.debian.org/1122023) ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/akornatskyy/wheezy.template/pull/117), + although they opted for doing it a bit differently) +* storm ([made an upstream release with Python 3.14 + support](https://launchpad.net/storm/trunk/1.1)) +* [twisted: Autopkgtests fail with Python 3.14: builtins.RuntimeError: There + is no current event loop in thread + 'MainThread'](https://bugs.debian.org/1122044) ([forwarded + upstream](https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12549) and + cherry-picked their fix) +* zope.proxy and zope.security had a bootstrapping loop when adding new + supported Python versions; I [broke this + loop](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/zope.proxy/-/commit/6b8071330546d58da5465a75deb2a152172cf13f) + so it shouldn't bother us again in the future. + +Fixes for pytest 9: + +* [celery](https://bugs.debian.org/1123105) ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/10032)) +* [pytest-pylint](https://bugs.debian.org/1122932) ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/carsongee/pytest-pylint/pull/196)) +* [python-expandvars](https://bugs.debian.org/1123239) ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/sayanarijit/expandvars/pull/74)) +* [python-inline-snapshot](https://bugs.debian.org/1124083) + +I filed [lintian: Report Python egg-info +files/directories](https://bugs.debian.org/1121735) to help us track the +[migration to +pybuild-plugin-pyproject](https://wiki.debian.org/Python/PybuildPluginPyproject). + +I did some work on dh-python: [Normalize names in pydist +lookups](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/64) +and [pyproject plugin: Support +headers](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/65) +(the latter of which allowed converting python-persistent and zope.proxy to +pybuild-plugin-pyproject, although it needed a [follow-up +fix](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/66)). + +I fixed or helped to fix several other build/test failures: + +* [dpath-python](https://bugs.debian.org/1122304) +* [flask-bcrypt: FTBFS: E ValueError: password cannot be longer than 72 + bytes, truncate manually if necessary (e.g. + my\_password[:72])](https://bugs.debian.org/1120247) +* [python-aiosmtpd](https://bugs.debian.org/1123187) +* [python-aiostream](https://bugs.debian.org/1122302) +* python-auditwheel on i386 ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel/pull/640)) +* python-auditwheel on riscv64 ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel/pull/662)) +* python-bcrypt: [Accept pyo3 + 0.27](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-bcrypt/-/commit/4a2bdbde672889c6cddacd49cd6569d0c372e780) +* [python-django-crum](https://bugs.debian.org/1123215) +* [python-django-guid](https://bugs.debian.org/1123217) +* [python-inline-snapshot](https://bugs.debian.org/1123449) +* [python-laspy](https://bugs.debian.org/1123260) +* [python-mnemonic](https://bugs.debian.org/1123270) +* python-ncls on 32-bit architectures ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/pyranges/ncls/pull/67)) +* [python-papermill](https://bugs.debian.org/1122323) +* [python-phonenumbers](https://bugs.debian.org/1124201) +* [python-pluggy](https://bugs.debian.org/1123290) +* python-pycddl: [Accept pyo3 + 0.27](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-pycddl/-/commit/a80f0ccb611998b7b8a3c0cee94b0184cfba4ab8) +* python-sphinx-autodoc2 ([contributed + upstream](https://github.com/sphinx-extensions2/sphinx-autodoc2/pull/93)) +* [python-structlog](https://bugs.debian.org/1123318) +* [python-wikkid: FTBFS: AttributeError: 'TestBaseParent' object has no + attribute 'assertEquals'](https://bugs.debian.org/1124205) ([contributed + follow-up fix upstream](https://github.com/wikkid-team/wikkid/pull/59)) +* [python-wslink](https://bugs.debian.org/1122311) + +Other bugs: + +* [python-bcrypt: ValueError: password cannot be longer than 72 bytes, + truncate manually if necessary](https://bugs.debian.org/1122147) +* [python-notify2: Directly Build-Depends on + dbus](https://bugs.debian.org/1122703) +* [python-packaging: Mark python3-packaging Multi-Arch: + foreign](https://bugs.debian.org/1122261) +* [python-pyproject-parser: python3-pyproject-parser needs a dependency on + python3-consolekit](https://bugs.debian.org/1115482) +* [sphinx: Please backport upstream's fix on + roman-numerals](https://bugs.debian.org/1123782) + +## Other bits and pieces + +* [db1-compat: Please remove/replace usage of + dh\_movetousr](https://bugs.debian.org/1122798) +* [debmirror: Refresh mirror\_size + documentation](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debmirror/-/commit/fe4e902c90b637b1b91d33d9d246ae44bde65e85) +* [groff: FTBFS randomly](https://bugs.debian.org/1121570) +* [openssh: Misleading verbose output for local-to-local or standard + remote-to-remote + copies](https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3900) (upstreamed an + improved version of a patch we've been carrying since 2008) +* [pcmciautils: Please remove/replace usage of + dh\_movetousr](https://bugs.debian.org/1122768) + +## Code reviews + +* [openssh: Fix binary name in + ssh-askpass-gnome.desktop](https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/merge_requests/36) + (still in discussion) +* [python-lsp-server: Increase tests timeout + further](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-lsp-server/-/merge_requests/1) +* [rope: New upstream version + 1.14.0](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/rope/-/merge_requests/4) + (merged and uploaded) +* [trn4: Update/add Catalan po-debconf + translation](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/trn4/-/merge_requests/4) + (merged) diff --git a/posted_on_Mastodon.txt b/posted_on_Mastodon.txt index 2a451a8e..cad0f2e1 100644 --- a/posted_on_Mastodon.txt +++ b/posted_on_Mastodon.txt @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ activity-2025-08.html activity-2025-09.html activity-2025-10.html activity-2025-11.html +activity-2025-12.html apt-resolver-bugs.html automatic-installability-checking.html binfmt-support-2.2.0.html