Author Archives: Niels Thykier
Lintian 2.5.7 and 2.5.8
The new version of Lintian (2.5.8) can pretty much be summed up as: Its like 2.5.7, only with less false positives and no FTBFS. Especially people annoyed by the hardening flags will hopefully find that 2.5.8 greatly reduces the number … Continue reading
Kudos to Jakub Adam, Miguel Landaeta and James Page
Credit where it is due and I believe it is due for Jakub Adam for packaging eclipse packages. If you use any of the eclipse packages provided the apt repositories for Wheezy or sid, it is very likely you have … Continue reading
Some sponsors are “evil and pedantic”
If you want to enable all Lintian tags, just remember the phrase: Some sponsors are “evil and pedantic” Or on the command-line: $ lintian -EvIL +pedantic … It works for Lintian 2.5.5 (and newer), which handles “pedantic” like other severities. … Continue reading
Python optimization and profiling
For the past 5 days, I have worked on replacing a part of Britney (our beloved testing migration tool). The part I am trying replacing is her “installability tester”, which is probably one of the most used parts of Britney. … Continue reading
Testing migration and package relations
While looking at the dpkg Breaks-field[0]… $ aptitude show dpkg Package: dpkg […] Version: 1.16.1.2 […] Breaks: apt (< 0.7.7), aptitude (< 0.4.7-1), dpkg-dev (< 1.15.8), libdpkg-perl (< 1.15.8), pinfo (< 0.6.9-3.1), tkinfo (< 2.8-3.1) … it occurred to me … Continue reading
Britney in 5 minutes
About 26-28 hours ago in #debian-release on IRC: <nthykier> damn, a britney run in 5 minutes <adsb> they happen <adsb> you’ve been spoilt by never seeing b1 at her “finest” *cough* <aba> you mean, running for more than a day? … Continue reading
Handling transitions with smooth updates
Lately, I have been working more on release stuff. It all started when Julien convinced me to do the gpsd transition. It was a small, simple transition though I had to bounce obdgpslogger from testing (#648495). After that I picked … Continue reading
Status on build-arch target goal – Nov 13th
We have been working on adding build-arch support for about a week now and I figured a little status update would be in order. 🙂 According to UDD, we had 506 packages to fix when we started and after todays … Continue reading
build-arch for everyone
The other day, I was asked if it was really possible to get build-arch support in Wheezy (as in, buildds using build-arch) by adding these optional targets. Lets have a look at the data that is available to us: At … Continue reading
Testing testing migration
If you have been following Lintian’s development closely, you will probably have noticed that I have not really done anything there for the past week. Instead I have turned my focus on our testing migration script, britney2. First, I have … Continue reading
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