Category Archives: Debian
Stretch transition freeze in a month
It is the first of October and that means the transition freeze is roughly one month away (Nov 5th 2016). In other words, this is the “final boarding call for transitions”. Other milestone dates: If you want new packages … Continue reading
Unseen changes to lintian.d.o
We have been making a lot of minor changes to lintian.d.o and the underlying report framework. Most of them were hardly noticeable to the naked. In fact, I probably would not have spotted any of them, if I had not … Continue reading
debhelper 10 is now available
Today, debhelper 10 was uploaded to unstable and is coming to a mirror near you “really soon now”. The actual changes between version “9.20160814” and version “10” are rather modest. However, it does mark the completion of debhelper compat 10, … Continue reading
Selecting key packages via UDD
Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum, we now have a UDD script to filter/select key packages. Some example use cases: Which key packages used compat 4? # Data file compat-4-packages (one *source* package per line) $ curl –silent –data-binary @compat-4-packages \ https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/select-key-packages.cgi … Continue reading
mips64el added to Debian testing
Today, we have completed our first Britney run with mips64el enabled in testing. 🙂 At the current time, the set of packages in mips64el are not very connected (and you probably cannot even install build-essential yet[1]). Hopefully this will change … Continue reading
Anti-declarative packaging – top 15 build-helpers inserting maintscripts
Debian packages can run arbitrary code via “maintainer scripts” (sometimes shortened into “maintscripts”) during installation/removal etc. While they certainly have their use cases, their failure modes causes “exciting” bugs like “fails to install” or the dreaded “fails to remove”. They … Continue reading
Another Britney patchset
I just submitted another patch series to improve Britney for review. If accepted, they will probably be merged into master within 2 weeks. The changes this time are probably most exciting for people that run/maintain Britney. Key highlights include: Britney … Continue reading
auto-decrufter in top 5 after 10 months
About 10 months ago, we enabled an auto-decrufter in dak. Then after 3 months it had become the top 11th “remover”. Today, there are only 3 humans left that have removed more packages than the auto-decrufter… impressively enough, one of … Continue reading
Putting Debian packages in labelled boxes
Lintian 2.5.44 was released the other day and (to most) the most significant bug fix was probably that Lintian learned about Policy 3.9.8. I would like to thank Axel Beckert for doing that. Notably it also made me update the … Continue reading
Easter patching of Britney
I decided to take a couple of days of vacation next to Easter and obviously ended up with tons of time. I ended up channelling most of the (productive) time into improving Britney. In raw results: I wrote about 35 … Continue reading
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