Re: Unblock of busybox (Was: Weekly Testing Images Not Found)

To: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Cc: debian-cd@lists.debian.org, Debian-live mailing list <debian-live@lists.debian.org>, 1107392@bugs.debian.org, busybox@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unblock of busybox (Was: Weekly Testing Images Not Found)
From: Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:08:46 +0200
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Hello Cyril, list,

On 12/06/2025 13:31, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2025-06-12):

On 12/06/2025 12:48, Steve McIntyre wrote:

I've just triggered a manual rebuild now, so hopefully new images will
be in place in a couple of hours.


Erm... It turns out that the failure is not transient...

The build error is caused by a newer version of busybox (1.1.37.0-5), which
is already fixed in sid (1.1.37.0-6), but it is on a delayed trip to trixie,
with a long migration time of 20 days, according to
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/busybox


I could speed this up, but given busybox is also used outside the
installer, I'd rather see a proper unblock request filed and looked at
by other members of the release team.

I've fetched (with dget) both the 1.37.0-5 and 1.37.0-6 packages. Usingdiffoscope I can confirm that the only change between these versions isin the file 'debian/config/pkg/udeb'. So for users of busybox outsidethe scope of udebs, there is no change at all.So the change between 5 and 6 is a targeted fix, which makes it suitablefor an unblock request.

With the work-around in live-build, I can confirm that having 1.37.0-6would fix the FTBFS of the live images, and tomorrow the weekly imagesshould be able to be built again. The Jenkins runs of Thursday (for allruns after the fix in live-build was merged) also show that the trixieimages can be built again if 1.37.0-6 would be available.


With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

--- The commands I used to generate the diff ---
mkdir 6 5
cd 6
dget https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/busybox/busybox_1.37.0-6.dsc
cd ../5
dget https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/busybox/busybox_1.37.0-5.dsc
cd ..
# Apply a silly timestamp to reduce the size of the diff
find 5 -exec touch -d @1 '{}' ';'
find 6 -exec touch -d @1 '{}' ';'
diffoscope 5 6 --html busybox5-6.diff.html

Title: /usr/bin/diffoscope 5 6 --html busybox5-6.diff.html

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9.34 KB

5 vs.

6 ¶

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187 B

file list ¶

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5/busybox-1.37.0 vs.

6/busybox-1.37.0 ¶

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6/busybox-1.37.0/debian ¶

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846 B

5/busybox-1.37.0/debian/changelog vs.

6/busybox-1.37.0/debian/changelog ¶

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stat {} ¶

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5/busybox-1.37.0/debian/config vs.

6/busybox-1.37.0/debian/config ¶

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5/busybox-1.37.0/debian/config/pkg vs.

6/busybox-1.37.0/debian/config/pkg ¶

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5/busybox-1.37.0/debian/config/pkg/udeb vs.

6/busybox-1.37.0/debian/config/pkg/udeb ¶

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stat {} ¶

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5/busybox_1.37.0-5.dsc vs.

6/busybox_1.37.0-6.dsc ¶

Files 74% similar despite different names

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Version ¶

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GPG signature ¶

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busybox_1.37.0-5.debian.tar.xz vs.

busybox_1.37.0-6.debian.tar.xz ¶

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busybox_1.37.0-5.debian.tar vs.

busybox_1.37.0-6.debian.tar ¶

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debian/config/pkg/udeb ¶

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