openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2016/21

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

During the last couple days, the community was strong in producing and submitting fixes to make it possible for GCC 6 to become the default compiler for our distribution. But it’s not entirely there yet.

Things that DID happen though in the last week, things that made it into the snapshots 0520, 0524 & 0525) are:

• Late additions of GNOME 3.20.2
• FreeRDP was updated to a 2.0.0 pre-release snapshot (the 1.0.x tree is no longer maintained and a bunch of other packages would need new features – just upstream is reluctant to ever call it ‘release’ again it seems)
• Mozilla Thunderbird 45.1

In snapshot 0524, the package libpci3 (updated from 3.4 to 3.5) accidentally broke ABI, which in turn stopped chromium from starting. This was observed by openQA – but chromium is not tagged as a ‘critical’ ship stopper for a new snapshot (there are always multiple browsers available after all). For snapshot 0525, chromium was rebuilt to ensure it links against the new ABI and libpci is also receiving an update to 3.5.1 in snapshot 0526, which re-introduces the accidentally broken symbol – thus fixing any other package that might have linked to it.

Things brewing in staging did not really change during this week

• GCC 6 – the up-to-date status is in the wiki
• Perl 5.24.0 – Looking reasonable, one kiwi fix is missing (boo#981080)
• KDE Applications 16.04.1 – the legal queue is just too long 🙁
• Linux Kernel 4.6 – a fix in ‘installation images’ is pending; should be ready next week

Have a great weekend ahead