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Category Archives: Debian
A new Debian package helper: debputy
I have made a new helper for producing Debian packages called debputy. Today, I uploaded it to Debian unstable for the first time. This enables others to migrate their package build using dh +debputy rather than the “classic” dh. Eventually, … Continue reading
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wrap-and-sort with experimental support for comments in devscripts/2.22.2
In the devscripts package currently in Debian testing (2.22.2), wrap-and-sort has opt-in support for preserving comments in deb822 control files such as debian/control and debian/tests/control. Currently, this is an opt-in feature to provide some exposure without breaking anything. To use … Continue reading
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Improvements to IntelliJ/PyCharm support for Debian packaging files
I have updated my debpkg plugin for IDEA (e.g. IntelliJ, PyCharm, Android Studios) to v0.0.8. Here are some of the changes since last time I wrote about the plugin. New file types supported .dsc (as a generic deb822 file) .buildinfo … Continue reading
Support for Debian packaging files in IDEA (IntelliJ/PyCharm)
I have been using the community editions of IntelliJ and PyCharm for a while now for Python or Perl projects. But it started to annoy me that for Debian packaging bits it would “revert” into a fancy version of notepad. … Continue reading
A decline in the use of hints in the release team
While we working the release, I had a look at how many hints we have deployed during buster like I did for wheezy a few years back. As it seemed we were using a lot fewer hints than previously and … Continue reading
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Making debug symbols discoverable and fetchable
Michael wrote a few days ago about the experience of debugging programs on Debian. And he is certainly not the only one, who found it more difficult to find debug symbols on Linux systems in general. But fortunately, it is … Continue reading
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Improvements to apt-file since stretch
The list of changes for apt-file in buster is rather short, but I would still like to mention a few of them in this post. New list-indices command: In stretch, apt-file migrated to use apt’s new acquire system and that … Continue reading
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“debhelper-compat (= 12)” is now released
A few days ago, we released debhelper/12 and yesterday uploaded it to stretch-backports (as debhelper/12~bpo9+1). We deliberately released debhelper/12 so it would be included in buster for the people, who backport their packages to older releases via stable-backports. That said, … Continue reading
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Buster is headed for a long hard freeze
We are getting better and better accumulating RC bugs in testing. This is unfortunate because the length of the freeze is strongly correlated with the number of open RC bugs affecting testing. If you believe that Debian should have short … Continue reading
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Build system changes in debhelper
Since debhelper/11.2.1[1], we now support using cmake for configure and ninja for build + test as an alternative to cmake for configure and make for build + test. This change was proposed by Kyle Edwards in Debian bug #895044. You … Continue reading
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