Hopefully we can get staging, then staging-next in shape so that cross-compiling works for the branch-off. Thinking mostly about how recently glibc didn’t cross-compile on unstable.
Staging peeps: anything we can do to help this happen?
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I’m absolutely not sure atm if this can be finished on time (and we have a graceful testing period after this), but it would be pretty cool to see the glibc update (glibc: 2.27 -> 2.30 WIP by lblasc · Pull Request #66528 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub) in 20.03.
Oh and congrats on becoming a release manager @worldofpeace 
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Eek, I need to get on that documentation I obligated myself to do.
I hate moving, burns so much time.
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What kernel version shall we have? linuxPackages: 4.19 -> 5.4 by vcunat · Pull Request #78713 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
I’d love for crystal: 0.31.1 -> 0.32.1 by kimburgess · Pull Request #75545 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub to get into the release. Seems like the PR author is afk there though.
I would like:
- ~~https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/78543~~
- Restic fixes: pruning, process substitution (take 2) by Mic92 · Pull Request #78886 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
both PRs looks actives.
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The dnscrypt-proxy2 addition and deprecation of dnscrypt-proxy is a while coming and we should totally get that in 20.03.
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If you have any mass-rebuild changes that you would like to get in for 20.03, now is the time to get them merged into staging.
I hesitated in posting this, since I am not a KDE expert and I haven’t contributed to any of the efforts to make this happen, but it would be nice if KDE Plasma worked out of the box.
As far as I understand this is largely blocked by something that is still not properly wrapped:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56988#issuecomment-549466659
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Please include squeezelite: Fix codec libraries loading by using a wrapper by azazel75 · Pull Request #76587 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
posting on my own thread because I would like some help with this PR
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/65133
building a vmWithBootloader has been broken for a while.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/77673
too but other people concurrently do refactoring of patches so it might be difficult to keep it free of merge conflicts
@FRidh should’ve followed this thread a bit more, but is it now too late for mass-rebuilds to get merged? (can’t promise it, but I’d at least try to get the glibc update mergable today or tomorrow).
EDIT: oh and don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to “force” this to get into the release, I’m just asking myself whether it’s worth investing a certain amount of time today (and tomorrow) into this. If it’s too late and this just causes an additional burden for the release managers, we should delay this, of course
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Branch-off is the 10th. Staging-next stabilization typically takes a week, although if there are no regressions its only 2 or 3 days. I’m about to start a new staging-next cycle.
This I reverted because there were too many regressions.
IMO, would be great to include asus-wmi-sensors package asus-wmi-sensors: init at 0.0.1 by voanhduy1512 · Pull Request #75885 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub that gives sensors support for fresh Asus motherboards.
Would it be possible to upgrade to Plasma 5.17?