Author Archives: Niels Thykier
Wheezy was brought to you by …
During the Wheezy freeze, the Debian release team deployed 3254 hints[1]. This number may include some duplicates (i.e. where two members of the team hinted the same package), it certainly does not include a lot of rejected requests . The … Continue reading
Wheezy release progress (February)
About 5-6 weeks ago, I wrote about the Wheezy release progress, so it is about time for another update. According to UDD, we are down to 204 RC bugs (down from 249, since my last post). It is not quite … Continue reading
“Das Lintian-overrider 2000” vs “unjustified overrides”
In January, I did a “TV-shop ad”-style post on a little script called “lintian-overrider” and it prompted Simon to ask: That’s a great tool, but don’t you fear it makes unjustified overrides too easy ? In my experience, people sometimes … Continue reading
Wheezy release progress (January)
In December, I wrote a post on the progress of the Wheezy release. Back then, we had 348 RC bugs in testing and today there are about 249 left. A bit of simple math put us at 99 RC bugs … Continue reading
Introducing “Das Lintian-overrider 2000”
Have you ever tried to add a Lintian override only to get it wrong? Fret not, with the “Lintian-overrider 2000” such are problems of the past! Simply feed the tag emitted by Lintian to the Lintian-overrider 2000 and it will … Continue reading
Getting space for more packages
In 2011, I wrote about how small files could consume a lot of space. I meant to do a follow-up on the savings but I forgot about it until now. In 2.5.7, we started compressing some of the collected data … Continue reading
Wheezy release progress (December)
Wheezy has been frozen for 5-and-(almost-)a-half months now. Last month, Neil sent a mail to d-d-a stating that there were 403 RC bugs left and today UDD claims there are 348 left. My “pre-coffee^Wtea” math gets this to an average … Continue reading
Lintian-NG – Accessing Lintian’s collection data with 90 lines
$ LINTIAN_ROOT=. perl lintian-ng ../lintian_2.5.10.dsc Successfully unpacked 1 packages Did you know that source:lintian/2.5.10 contains 3745 files or/and directories (excl. root dir) This useless information was brought to you by Lintian-NG $ git describe 2.5.10-61-g7670427 $ wc -l lintian-ng 90 … Continue reading
Performance bottlenecks in Lintian
Thanks to a heads up from Bastian Blank, I learned that Lintian 2.5.7 and 2.5.8 were horribly slow on the Linux binaries. Bastian had already identified the issue and 2.5.9 fixed the performance regression. But in light of that, I … Continue reading
Parsing bash/shell
I have been avoiding #629247 for quite a while. Not because I think we couldn’t use a better shell parser, but because I dreaded having to write the parser. Of course, #629247 blocks about 16 bugs and that number will … Continue reading
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