Category Archives: Debian
Performance tuning of lintian, take 3
About 7 months ago, I wrote about we had improved Lintian’s performance. In 2.5.41, we are doing another memory reduction, where we primarily reduce the memory consumption of data about ELF binaries. Like previously, memory reductions follows the “less is … Continue reading
Lintian 2.5.40 – now with less output
You have probably tried to run lintian (-EIL +pedantic) on your packages only to watch lintian drown your terminal. If you have, you would certainly not be the first. A concrete example with lintian 2.5.40.2: $ lintian -EIL +pedantic 389-ds-base_1.3.4.5-2_amd64.deb … Continue reading
Tor enabled MTA
As I posted earlier, I have migrated to use tor on my machine. Though I had a couple of unsolved issues back then. One of them being my Mail Transport Agent (MTA) did not support tor. A regular user might … Continue reading
“dput change-all-of-debian.changes”
Lucas Nussbaum recently did a blog post called “Debian is still changing“. I found it a very welcome continuation of his previous blog post on the same topic. I find the graphs very interesting and was very happy to learn … Continue reading
Debian, please plan for Stretch
In the 4th quarter of 2016, we will freeze Debian Stretch. If you are hoping to do any larger changes for Stretch, please consider starting on them now. This also includes features that need to be in APT/dpkg (etc.) in … Continue reading
There is nothing like (missing) iptables (rules) to make you use tor
I have been fiddling with setting up both iptables and tor on my local machine. Most of it was fairly easy to do, once I dedicated the time to actually do it. Configuring both “at the same time” also made … Continue reading
With 3 months of automatic decrufting in unstable
After 3 months of installing an automatic decrufter in DAK, it: has removed 689 cruft items from unstable and experimental average removal rate being just shy of 230 cruft items/month has become the “top 11th remover”. is expected to become … Continue reading
The gcc-5 transition is coming to testing tonight
Thanks to hard work of Adam, Julien, Jonathan, Matthias, Scott, Simon and many others, the GCC-5/libstdc++ transition has progressed to a state, where we are ready to migrate the bulk of it to testing. It should be a mostly smooth … Continue reading
I accidentally dak
So, yesterday, I “unbroke” dak – twice even! It is of course slightly less awesome that one of the broken parts was in code written by yours truly. Anyhow: Unbreaking the dak auto-decrufter You may remember the auto-decrufter, which … Continue reading
Performance tuning of lintian, take 2
The other day, I wrote about our recent performance tuning in lintian. Among other things, we reduced the memory usage by ~33%. The effect was also reproducible on libreoffice (4.2.5-1 plus its 170-ish binaries, arch amd64), which started at ~515 … Continue reading
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