Author Archives: Niels Thykier
Performance tuning of lintian
For quite a while, Lintian has been able to create performance logs (–perf-debug –perf-output perf.log) that help diagnose where lintian spends most of its runtime. I decided to make lintian output these logs on lintian.debian.org to help us spot performance … Continue reading
Introducing dak auto-decruft
Debian now have over 22 000 source packages and 45 500 binary packages. To counter that, the FTP masters and I have created a dak tool to automatically remove packages from unstable! This is also much more efficient than only … Continue reading
Intermission on the day of the Jessie release
During the “intermission” on the day of the Jessie release, Julien, Ivo, AJ and I spent some time improving Britney2. Due to said intermission, we can proudly say that from the very first run for Stretch, Britney2 was: running on … Continue reading
The release of Debian Jessie from an RM’s PoV
It was quite an experience to partake in the Jessie release – and also a rather long “Saturday”. This post is mostly a time line of how I spent my release day with doing the actual release. I have glossed … Continue reading
Jessie is coming the 2015-04-25
Indeed, we settled on a release date for Jessie – and pretty quick too. I sent out a poll on the 28th of March and yesterday, it was clear that the 25th of April was our release date. 🙂 With … Continue reading
Imminent steep decline in RC bugs affecting Jessie – need more RC bug fixes
Earlier today, I posted a mail to debian-devel about how approximately 25 RC bugs affecting Jessie have been unblocked. As mentioned, I planned to age some of them. The expected result is that about 18 of them will migrate tonight … Continue reading
Partial rewrite of lintian’s reporting setup
I had the mixed pleasure of doing a partial rewrite of lintian’s reporting framework. It started as a problem with generating the graphs, which turned out to be “not enough memory”. On the plus side, I am actually quite pleased … Continue reading
Status on Jessie (December 2014)
Here is a slightly overdue status on Jessie. We are not ready to set a date on a Jessie release yet. Even if we were, it would be unlikely that said date would be in January. Accordingly, it is safe … Continue reading
Jessie has half the number of RC bugs compared to Wheezy
In the last 24 hours, the number of RC bugs currently affecting Jessie was reduced to just under half of the same number for Wheezy. There are still a lot of bugs to be fixed, but please keep up the … Continue reading
Volume of debian-release mailing list
“Page 1 of 5” To be honest, I do not know how many mails it shows “per page” (though I assume it is a fixed number). So for comparison, I found the month on debian-devel@l.d.o with the highest volume in … Continue reading
nthykier 