openSUSE Release Engineering minutes January 21

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## Attendees: lkocman,jimedrand,foursixnine,ana, Sarah, dimstar,
marcus, bittin, rfrohl, GuillaumeG, maxlin, ddemaio



## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)
openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 10 failed 27 unresolvable (last
week: 10 failed 7 unresolvable)

~533 requests accepted in the last three weeks (data source:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/pulse)

Latest TW update from 13 January, blocked by:

     postfix https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256462 (testing fix

    https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1328436 )


Coming soon:


Linux Kernel 6.18.6

Linux Kernel Longterm 6.12.66

postfix 3.10.7

shadow 4.19.2

util-linux 2.41.2

Plasma 6.5.5

php8 8.4.17

glew 2.3.0

sssd 2.12.0

libpng16 1.6.54

libvirt 12.0.0

nghttp3 1.14.0

ngtcp2 1.19.0

nodejs24 24.13.0

Mozilla Firefox 147.0

ruby 4.0.1



 on-going:

removal of ruby 3.4 DONE

dropping lua51: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252922
(opendkim fixed, a few games needing attention: crawl, hedgewars,
love-0_7_2)

python3.14: build modules (and remove modules for python 3.12):

tracker https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254826

many python packages failing to build that needs to be update before

rebuild on going in
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:...



No News:

  run0-wrapper, available as an optional sudo replacement:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256515 to figure out why
libsolv favors run0-wrappers over the actual pkexec/sudo
implementation

openSSL 3.6.0 update: POSTPONED,  still waiting for upstream

likely upstream issue https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28902

lkocman: we were asking what would it take to do a vendor-patch-less /
vanilla openSSL in openSUSE by openSSL. Discussion started.

systemd 258.2, was accepted in Factory and reverted back to 257.9,
needs work in tests. (POSTPONED)

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255665

transactional-update switching on soft-reboot (depends on systemd 258)




## Guillaume - Arm

Tumbleweed:
    * Blocked (same reason as x86_64 above)
    * Moved GCS workaround (-Wl,-z,gcs-report-dynamic=none) from
%optflags to %build_ldflags this morning. Please raise any build issue
related to this update.

ARMv9 project: (Rebuild of Tumbleweed rings 0+1 packages + few others)
    * Wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/Armv9_project
    * WIP:
        - Fix packages built without PAC/BTI/GCS flags
        - Use :ToTest sub-project to setup a proper test-and-release
workflow with OBS and openQA


## Sarah - s390x
* Tumbleweed:
    * blocked by perf: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254891
      DimStar: Do we need to block the snapshot on that? How important
is that feature to the s390x community?
    -> works not directly on an LPAR as expected (Maintainer from SUSE
does not respond)
    Question: How should we go forward? Community has got only VMs available.
    * ghc is failing because a llvm dependency < 16: Forwarded to IBM
via Linux Distributions Working Group

* Leap:
    * tests are failing more and continuously
      @Santiago: s390x need also hearts (equally to arm): When do we
receive a working test infrastructure?
      https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/188931
    * onnx: not buildable because Python configuration for nanobind
can not be found (valid also for Debian nad Fedora)
    -> https://github.com/onnx/onnx/issues/7526

* Escalations regarding SUSE Package Hub (SLES/Leap) at GNUCobol and gcc gCobol:
    1) Outdated gnu-cobol package in SUSE Package Hub for SLES 16 and
with old name
    SR: https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1328052 (OBS Admin
required for changing repo name)
    Question: Can ge get a package with so many updates to Leap/SLES 16?
    lkocman: I can open jira for this. I suppose cobol is in SLES.
    2) We have no gCobol in gcc until now
    FOSDEM: The GNUCobol Project Lead and one gCobol Maintainer for
gcc want to have a meeting at FOSDEM, how we can collaborate better
and improve Cobol on Linux in general.




## Leap

Cloud images for 16.0 are in progress by SUSE Public Cloud team.
Please be patient.

A public retrospective review / bring your lunch today at 1:30pm CET
https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/release/events/opensu...

Resumed feature request review meeting
https://calendar.opensuse.org/teams/release/events/featur...

Related "confusion" with new package requests. So far it used to be
https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features
While official internal docs now point to
https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-admin
I think we need to clarify which is the case and not introduce new
temp. workflows :)

maintainers.json - I am not sure if duplicating list of package
maintainers from devel project in Leap, Factory, Package Hub etc is a
good idea. I am bit afraid of drifting of the ownership over time.
Extreme case is membership DB. Seems like the current pipeline always
takes it from the devel project (single source of truth). I had
originally the impression that it was owner in respective project but
that was not the case.
Max: in the past our script openned review against package in
devproject, so project maintainer had a chance to review the package
if package maintainer is not available. The review was done against a
package in devproject, and now it might not be a perfect solution to
do it against a specific person - package maintainer.

Migration: people are still hitting the SELinux migration issue with
opensuse-migration-tool. the selinux post script needs to be
revisited.

Based on
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.op...
, Bernhard re-raised further 32bit enablement for Steam due to VR
which is not available via flatpak (there are other features such as
additional storage etc). I'm myself a gamer too, but I don't really
see these as dealbreaker for many. Bernhard started
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/games:tools:steam to get as
many fixes integrated into the main distribution as feasible. E.g. we
could build SDL3 for i586 in openSUSE:Backports:16.0 so that it is
generally available and can be dropped from the extra repo.

We have a successfully build of Leap 16.1 medium and ftp-tree. All
needed pipeline is up on botmaster. The last problem is the
`releasing`, releasing product package from
openSUSE:Leap:16.1:Products to openSUSE:Leap:16.1:ToTest worked
_except_ 000productcompose(ftp build). 000productcompose.dvd works
fine
lkocman: buildops issue?
https://gitlab.suse.de/buildops/release-support/-/issues

Discussion about how to get KDE Plasma 6.5 (+200 packages) through our
git workflow to Leap 16.0+16.1. The only larger set seems to be
Haskell with ~400 packages. Antonello and Marcela are talking to
Fabian + Antonio about how to make that happen. We need to come up
with a good way that can be adopted by others.

## Maintenance (Marcus, Robert)

Working on updates, nothing special to report.
ffmpeg related prjconf change incoming

Robert: Was there progress with the ToTest manager issues from last week?
Marcus: It seems to be working this week. So let's keep fingers crossed.

## Project Enablement (Doug)
* Published oSC CfP article
* Published Y2K38 article
* Leap 16 retrospective today at 12:30 UTC (13:30 CET) -
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.op...
* GSoC Application Submitted

* Interested mentors, add your project to
https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/issues and email
ddemaio@opensuse.org to add to GSoC mentoring community

* 6 projects listed

* SUSECON

* No update

* Open Developers Summit 2026

* 27 Registration, 20 Submissions

* April 23 (CfP ends Feb. 14)

* openSUSE America Summit

* 5 Registration, 6 Submissions

* April 30 - May 1 (CfP ends March 1)

* openSUSE Conference (at Z-Bau from June 25-27)

* 6 Registration, 4 Submissions

* CfP and registration open

* CfP ends April 30

* Waiting on contract

* FOSDEM (31.01.26 - 01.02.26)

* Discussion scheduled with Fedora members at FOSDEM to find areas to
try and align timing, sponsor pricing, etc

* Stand Location H-09-openSUSE Project

* Contact ddemaio@opensuse.org to sign up for bus to/from NUE to Brussels

* Problems with train strike:
https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-01-11-travel-transporta...
might happen (for people visiting and taking the train)

* Open Source Summit happening in Oct 2026 Prague in parallel with
openSSL conference. We're talking to SUSE Community team + Field
Marketing about openSUSE presence at the booth.
* Supporting TSP requests
* Asked Geeko Foundation for invoice
* IndiaFOSS

* Trying to coordinate a team to possibly have a booth

* Designing posters for CLT booth


## Adrian - OBS

not available

## Bernhard - Slowroll

Not rolling without Tumbleweed updates
Found out how to add symlink for iso

## Bernhard - reproducible builds

Pushing more r-b fixes into 16.0 (python-numpy, clamav,
elemental-toolkit, gstreamer-plugins-rs, rage-encryption) +
investigating open problems (erlang, java-25-openjdk)

## Adam - Git Workflow
* syncing git-packages that are in git but are not in git projects. We
have about 500 factory packages like this with outdated /pool branches

## Santiago - openQA
- Looking at running agama on s390 for leap and TW
(https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/188931#note-25)
- Mostly fixing small issues with journal check
- Maintenance seems to be ok now, still old PRs need some love

Open question: Did anybody create the issue for the problems with the
obs-sync/ttm?
lkocman: will do after meet

## Open Floor
Jim : I am now maintaining the packages at Emulator:Waydroid and
theres one modules packages with System/Kernel for binder module and 4
remaining are related to Waydroid packages (lbgbinder1, libglibutil1,
python-gbinder, and waydroid). How I can submit the packages into
Factory ? I need help.

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Development_Process
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