Staging next 2021-12-03

[jonringer]

Motivation for this change

constitutents: https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/staging-next/unstable#tabs-constituents
jobset: https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging-next

Previous staging-next: #147092

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandbox = true set in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 22.05 Release Notes (or backporting 21.11 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
  • (Release notes changes) Ran nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh to update generated release notes
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[veprbl]

• https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/staging-next/perl532Packages.DBIxClass.x86_64-linux https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/staging-next/perl532Packages.DBIxClass.x86_64-darwin
• https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/staging-next/perl534Packages.MinionBackendSQLite.x86_64-linux https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/staging-next/perl534Packages.MinionBackendSQLite.x86_64-darwin

[vcunat]

OK, let's not "delay" anymore. It's relatively common that quite a few regressions remain. The main point is to get rid of the worst ones before hitting master, and getting most of binaries in advance.

[bobrik]

Things look pretty bleak on aarch64-darwin:

[veprbl]

Seems like the cffi tests were re-enabled in 54b5495, this seems to cause some python regressions

[bobrik]

Here's a possible fix: #152166

[vcunat]

Eww, I forgot to check the platform, focusing on comparison to trunk where it's missing.

[veprbl]

I thought staging-next jobs for aarch64-darwin were stuck scheduled, so there was no way to see the failure