Category Archives: Debian
Release Team unblock queue flushed
At the start of this week, I wrote that we had 58 open unblock requests open (of which 25 were tagged moreinfo). Thanks to an extra effort from the Release Team, we now down to 25 open unblocks – of … Continue reading
The first 12 days and 408 unblock requests into the Jessie freeze
The release team receives an extreme amount of unblock requests right now. For the past 22 days[1], we have been receiving no less than 408 unblock/ageing requests. That is an average of ~18.5/day. In the same period, the release team … Continue reading
Release sprint – Preparing for Jessie
The release team are doing a sprint right now up the mini-DebConf in Cambridge, kindly hosted by ARM. We have a fairly large agenda of around 10 items, ranging from “simple” things like determine the name for the next release … Continue reading
Lintian – Upcoming API making it easier to write correct and safe code
The upcoming version of Lintian will feature a new set of API that attempts to promote safer code. It is hardly a “ground-breaking discovery”, just a much needed feature. The primary reason for this API is that writing safe and … Continue reading
Recent improvements to Britney2
As mentioned by Raphaël Hertzog, I have been spending some time on improving Britney2. Just the other day I submitted a second branch for review that I expect to merge early next week. I also got another set patches coming … Continue reading
Upcoming changes to Lintian (in 2.5.22)
The next version of Lintian, 2.5.22, is long overdue – mostly because 2.5.21 FTBFS in sid. Besides fixing test failures, 2.5.22 also fixes: False-negative for most/all JAR related tags caused by file(1) changing its output for these files. A performance … Continue reading
Release architecture meeting 2014-01-26
Today, we held an one-hour IRC-meeting to debate the status of the current architectures in sid. During that one hour, we brought up all 13 architectures. We made a decision on 9 of the architectures. The remaining 4 will be … Continue reading
Jessie finally has less than 500 RC bugs
I am very pleased to say that RC bug counter for Jessie finally dropped below 500 RC bugs. For comparison, we broke the 700 RC bug curve in the start of November, so that is about 200 RC bugs in … Continue reading
Automated reprocessing of packages on lintian.debian.org
Yesterday, I have managed to finish up an old pet peeve of mine. I wrote a series of patches to have harness reprocess all packages, which were last checked by an older version of Lintian than the current. It is … Continue reading
Getting out of the way
I have decided to step down as main maintainer of Lintian and pass the baton to Bastien Roucariès. This is actually “fairly” old news, since I announced this almost a month ago. However, I was not very vocal about it … Continue reading
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