Category Archives: Debian
Breaking the 700 RC bug threshold for Jessie
It looks like we have dropped (or will drop) below 700 RC bugs affecting Jessie today[1]. 🙂 On a related note, I got my eye on libfso-glib + fso-gsmd, samba + -samba4, mono and haskell. By my count, each of … Continue reading
Breaking the RC bug curve
Early this month, the first batch of packages were automatically removed from testing due to RC bugs. Personally, I find that the results stand out pretty well on the RC bug graph[1]. There has been a very rapid decline in … Continue reading
Lintian 2.5.19
Today, I released Lintian 2.5.19. It is mostly a bug-fix release, but it also features a new tag. The new tag, homepage-in-binary-package, is emitted for packages where the source package has no Homepage-field, but one of its binaries do. The … Continue reading
Lintian 2.5.18.1
Today I had to pleasure of releasing Lintian 2.5.18.1. It is a minor bug fix release on top of Lintian 2.5.18 (which I also released today…). When I was about to deploy the new version of Lintian on lintian.debian.org, I … Continue reading
Lintian 2.5.18
I have just uploaded Lintian 2.5.18 to unstable. While fixing 22 bugs, it only features 5 new tags. debian-changelog-has-wrong-weekday debian-rules-missing-good-practice-target-dfsg empty-udeb-package file-name-in-PATH-is-not-ASCII misplaced-extra-member-in-deb The release also include fixes to some false-positives, such as “python:any” dependencies triggering python-script-but-no-python-dep, a rewritten README … Continue reading
autodie 2.21
A couple of days ago, the upstream maintainer of autodie, Paul Jamieson Fenwick (PJF), released autodie 2.21. It includes all of the performance improvements I had proposed in “Optimizing autodie” (plus a few extra ones authored after I wrote the … Continue reading
Britney excuses – “out of date”
In my previous post, I explained about the “age” excuse in Britney. In this post, I will cover the slightly more tricky “out of date” excuse. A simple example of excuse is: out of date on mipsel: blinken (from 4:4.8.4-1) … Continue reading
Britney excuses – age
Every package maintainer has probably looked at the “Testing migration” section of their package’s PTS page and wondered: “Okay? What the hell does that mean?”. Or perhaps “Is that something I should do something about?”. Lets have a look at … Continue reading
Dealing with a bottleneck, wasted inodes and reducing memory usage
We finally managed to deal with one of the major runtime bottlenecks in Lintian. Previously, our usage of file(1) would sometimes spend a long time classifying various text files. In Lintian 2.5.14, we applied a series of patches that allowed … Continue reading
Optimizing autodie
After converting Lintian to using autodie, I was a bit trouble by the effects it had on Lintian’s (start-up) performance. This overhead accumulated to at least a 1s when checking packages. Indeed, I am not the first to complain about … Continue reading
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