Debian
Posts related to Debian, the universal operating system.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- gadget-tool: build cleanup
- bootstrappable.org: https (1 2)
- iotop-py: fix crash, handle Linux kernel API changes (1 2)
- jq: document security issue
- esprima-python: cleanup typos, links, license mistakes
- feed2exec: save page resources in wayback machine plugin
- purple-discord: add missing linking, fix compile warnings
- check-all-the-things: remove duplicate TODO, add pigz-test check
- devscripts: sync BTS tags
- Debian puppet: block BTS spammer
- Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures, purple-discord (1 2), harmony, quesoglc
- Debian wiki pages: AutomatedUpgrade, Debhelper, DebianInstaller/Build, DebianInstaller/Loader/SuspectedVirus, Derivatives/Census (Pengwin, Quirinux), DeveloperNews, Hardware/Database, InstallingDebianOn/Turris/Omnia, Printing, StaticLinking, Statistics, SuitesAndReposExtension, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Crashes in lintian-brush, gnome-shell-extension-shortcuts
- Broken symlinks in speech-dispatcher, ucx
- Dependency bloat in librecaptcha
- Test hangs in pyemd
- Features in apt-listchanges, evolution (1 2 3), baobab, pipewire, reportbug (1 2), systemd-coredump (1 2), find-dbgsym-packages (1 2), gdb
- Syntax highlighting issues in gtksourceview (1 2)
- Outdated links in duktape
- License change needed in cloudflared
- Rebuild needed for ricochet-im
- New versions of pidgin
- Usability issues in GNOME Keyring certificate viewer (also mistakenly filed against Firefox)
- Underlinking in ucx
- False positives in lintian
- Security issues in systemd-coredump (sent privately, rejected)
Review
- Spam: reported 1 Sourceware Bugzilla comment, 1 KDE Bugzilla comment, 580 Debian bug reports and 178 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c backports
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved ark audacious bpfmon chameleon-cursor-theme chromium color-picker convertall convert-pgn cpufrequtils cpuid cpuidtool cpulimit cpustat dclock desktop-base docker.io elementary-xfce-icon-theme engrampa ephoto eterm exadrums exifprobe exiftags file-roller firefox fspanel imgp ipython3 linphone-desktop linux-cpupower live-image-xfce-desktop lxqt-archiver mate-desktop mwm network-manager nm-tray pamix pulsemixer python3-pip supertuxkart transmission-remote-gtk xarchiver xfce4 xfce4-datetime-plugin xscreensaver
- rejected fonts-recommended (just debian/control), obfsproxy (private data), gpart/p7zip/p7zip-full/unzip/unrar (usage), cruft (doesn't show use of tool), weboob-qt/acetoneiso/klettres (screenshot of screenshots website), default-jre-headless/minetest-mod-basic-materials (illustration), gamine/weboob-qt/libstdc++6/med-imaging (photograph), drumstick-tools (wrong package), totem (newspaper article)
Administration
- Debian BTS: reopened bugs closed by a spammer
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The purple-discord/harmony/pyemd/librecaptcha/esprima-python work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- zxing-cpp: use system deps, fix Python tests
- git-remote-hg: gitignore
- hexedit: add test
- libpst: fix header detection
- webdl: fix SBS video params
- libusbgx: fix alignment
- tracegraph: API porting
- pyemd: cleanup code, packaging
- pytest-rerunfailures: cleanup code, build, packaging
- librecaptcha: cleanup Python packaging, links
- check-all-the-things: update MIME types, command verbosity (1 2), TODO items (1 2 3)
- devscripts: multiple packages for grep-excuses --wipnity
- debhelper: typo, cmake ctest argument order
- Debian website: sync langs
- Debian /updates to -security transition: 1 2 3 4 5 6
- Debian release info hardcoding: 1 2
- Debian QA services: cleanup
- Debian package uploads: libpst, foxtrotgps, sptag (1 2 3), pytest-rerunfailures, git-remote-hg (1 2), librecaptcha
- Debian wiki pages: 900000thBugContest, ALSA, AlyssaRosenzweig, BugTriage, DebianDay/2021/India/Online, DebianEdu/Status/Bullseye, FrontPage, Fvwm, HostingControlPanels, InstallingDebianOn (Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux, Thinkpad/L13 Gen 2/buster), ReleaseParty, SourcesList, Status/Stable, SuitesAndReposExtension, Teams (Apt, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), ungoogled-chromium
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- Wikipedia: Display_Data_Channel
Issues
- Crash in eog
- Web request mishandling in fossjobs
- AppArmor issues in torbrowser-launcher
- Broken links in Debian backports NEW, GMime
- Missing link in GMime
- Outdated links in crouton, breezy
- Broken pages in GNOME Bugzilla archive
- Features in debiman (1 2), gokart, debhelper, shellcheck (1 2)
- New versions of umatrix, doc8, git-remote-hg
- New repo needed for misspelling research
- Hardcoded Debian release info updates for debiman (1 2)
- Syntax error in freefem++
- Adoption needed for veles
- Underlinking in libuemf0
- Conffile removal needed in wireplumber
- Build issues in SPTAG (1 2), plocate, zxing-cpp
- Git tag conflict in git-remote-hg
- Dependency updates for catfish, education-common, cruft-ng
- Cruft deposited by qgis-providers
- More binary packages needed in zxing-cpp (1 2)
- Malicious Python module on PyPI
Review
- Spam: reported 1 sourceware bug report, 2 Debian bug reports and 86 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: reviewed iotop-c and approved DM upload
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved aptitude faenza-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-yasis gnome-illustrious-icon-theme gnome-power-manager juffed mm3d mystiq shiki-brave-theme
- rejected unetbootin (random web page), tuxmath (photograph not screenshot)
Administration
- Debian servers: expand LV, fix debbugs config
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
- Debian QA services: deploy changes
Communication
- Initiate discussion about Debian source tarball choices
Sponsors
The pyemd, pytest-rerunfailures, libpst, sptag, librecaptcha work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- apt-offline: typos
- libusbgx: document need for module, gitignore updates, drop autotools cruft
- gt: option to disable manual page, fix manual page install path
- kms-cmake-utils: packaging cleanup
- kurento-module-creator: packaging cleanup
- Kurento jsoncpp: packaging cleanup
- kms-jsonrpc: packaging cleanup
- kms-core: packaging cleanup
- purple-discord: cleanup code, build, clean
- Debian usertags QA: add single user rename function
- Debian UDD FTBFS CGI: fix encoding, show all FTBFS bugs
- Debian website: templatise security suite
- Debian package uploads: microsoft-authentication-library-for-python, foxtrotgps, purple-discord
- Debian wiki config: reorganise footer
- Debian wiki pages: DebianIRCChannelGuidelines, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianSoftware, fr/pcmanfm, Hardware/Database, HomepageTemplate, HowtoDebianInAndroid, InstallingDebianOn (ComputerTemplate, Google/PixelbookEve), PrivacyIssues, Teams/Root support
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Features in gallery-dl
- Typos in moreutils
- Apparmor issues in torbrowser-launcher (upstream, Debian)
- Renaming needed for kms-*
- Obsolete links in libimobiledevice website
- Debian testing migration needed for foxtrotgps
- Removal from Debian needed for bind, pyfeed, xmlelements, tomcat8
- Security issues in a FLOSS project's website (reported privately)
Review
- Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 123 Debian mailing list posts
- Patches: merged libusbgx/gt pull requests
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved adequate atool barrier breathe-icon-theme darkcold-gtk-theme darkmint-gtk-theme isenkram-cli licensecheck moka-icon-theme nemo-gtkhash rabbitvcs-cli rabbitvcs-gedit rabbitvcs-thunar sunclock suru-icon-theme ubuntu-kylin-software-center
- rejected xfce4 (Windows 95 screenshot), thunar-gtkhash (Windows XP screenshot), msmtp-mta (random wallpaper)
Administration
- libusbgx/gt: triage issues
- Debian packages: triaged bugs for reintroduced packages
- Debian servers: debug lists mail issue, debug lists subscription issue
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The microsoft-authentication-library-for-python and purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- flower: fix load test
- kms-jsonrpc: version agnostic cmake dir
- kms-cmake-utils: version agnostic cmake dir
- kurento-module-creator: version agnostic cmake dir
- wayback-machine-downloader: fix crash, fix URI.open usage
- colord: drop abandoned domain
- ptp-gadget:
gitignore,
fix
make dist, drop tar.bz2, document option - duck: indicators phrases
- check-all-the-things: many TODO items, lists
- Debian usertags QA: refactor, automove ftcbfs, fix noise, support comments
- Debian website: drop freenode
- Debian package uploads: purple-discord experimental/backports
- Debian wiki pages: Bind9, Brave, DebConf/21/Volunteering, DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianServiceForDD, Derivatives/Census/HandyLinux, Hardware/Wanted, InterWikiMap, MemberBenefits, NewInBullseye, Packaging/debspawn, PaulWise, PortsDocs/New (1 2), QemuUserEmulation, Scanner, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap, UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers/UserGuide, Wayland, ZNC_IRC_bouncer
- Bootstrappable Builds wiki pages: Projects List
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- Wikipedia: Message-ID
Issues
- Crashes in evolution
- Cross-build failure in ppp
- Migration needed for apparmor-profiles-extra
- Dependency changes for sane-backends, parl-desktop, education-common, hollywood
- Broken URLs in colord
- Features in ognibuild, Debian firefox-esr, diffoscope, fossjobs, evolution
- Warnings in kalgebra
- Usability in ognibuild
- Documentation needed in purple-lurch
- Outdated forks in Kurento jsoncpp
- Typos in abilint
- Security issue in perl Encode module (CVE-2021-36770)
- Unhandled message type in purple-discord
Review
- Spam: reported 3 Debian bug reports and 135 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved php-horde endless-sky claws-mail memtester
- rejected python-gdal/weboob-qt (unrelated software)
Administration
- Debian: restart bacula director
- Debian wiki: approve accounts
Communication
- This month I left freenode, an IRC network I had been on for at least 16 years, for reasons that you probably all read about. I think the biggest lesson I take from this situation and ones happening around the same time is that proper governance in peer production projects is absolutely critical.
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The purple-discord/flower work was sponsored by my employers.
All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- libpst: header validity check improvement
- iotop: fix getting syscall numbers
- purple-discord: fix line endings
- ptp-gadget: fix typo, https
- wayback-machine-downloader: fix typos, https, JSON output, gitignore, URL creation, API parsing
- duck: indicator phrases
- check-all-the-things: verbosity variation for yamllint, chktex, rubocop, podchecker
- Debian package uploads: purple-discord, sptag
- Debian wiki pages: AdditionalDebianMailingLists, BSP/2021/05/online, DebianHosting, DebianInstaller/Qemu, DebianKeyring, DebianLocations, DebianSpamAssassin, DebianWiki (EditorGuide, MaintenanceTools, ObsoleteText), Derivatives/Guidelines, DeveloperNews, Dovecot, GraphicsCard, Hardware/Wanted, HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI, initramfs, IRC, LoongArch, LunaJernberg, MemberBenefits, PaulWise, PipeWire, Ports, (ia64, loongarch64), PortsDocs/New, PortTemplate, Redmine, RISC-V, sbuild, Seamonkey, systemd, Teams (DebianMaintainerKeyringTeam, Outreach)
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- Wikipedia: Asahi (1 2), Message-ID
Issues
- Crash in purple-discord
- Missing source in Open-Sauce-Fonts
- Building at install time in purple-discord
- Memory leak in purple-discord
- AppArmor denials in clamav-freshclam
- Features in diffoscope, trash-cli
- New versions of ddccontrol
- Build failures when using ognibuild: iotop cmake-hello-world
- Broken watch file for hexedit
- Packaging intended for esprima-python
- Unused deps in sptag
- Incorrect build dir in sptag
- Incorrect docs in sptag
- Large git-lfs data in sptag
- Test problems in sptag (1 2), hexedit
Review
- Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 26 Debian bug reports and 124 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved e2fsprogs sane util-linux wlogout esekeyd ext4magic lxqt xfce4-clipman
- rejected netselect (random Android app)
Administration
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Joined the great IRC migration
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The purple-discord, sptag and esprima-python work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- foxtrotgps: EPS images only for DVI/PS
- flower: drop bootstrap/celery branding, packaging updates
- youtube-dl: import sorting
- git-remote-hg: line ending
- duck: add indicator phrases (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
- debexpo: move logout link
- Debian QA services: typos
- Debian puppet config: disable FLoC
- Debian package tracking system: update links
- Debian package uploads: git-remote-hg
- Debian wiki pages: accessibility, adminer, AptCacherNg, BSP/2021/04/virtual-Salzburg, BSP/Template, CategoryPermalink, Common Errors in Debian Packaging and Fixes, CrossCompiling, DebianInstall, DebianIRC, DebianKernel/GitBisect (1 2), DebianPackaging-FAQs, DebianPackaging-Q&A, DebianPAN, DebianRepository/SetupWithReprepro, DebianResources, DebianScience/Physics, deb.li, DeveloperNews (1 2 3), Driver, ExternalEntities, FAQ, FreedomBox/Contribute/Packaging, FreeSoftware, HighPerformanceComputing, HomepageTemplate, Ideas, InstallingDebianOn (PageFragmentIntelBayTrailCStateIssue, TUXEDO/Pulse15-Gen1/Bullseye), JavaPackagingFAQ, Java/RequestedPackages/Jitsi, LVM, NetworkManager (1 2), nut, OpenPGP, Packaging:Common-Erros-And-Fixes, PPC64, qa.debian.org/ArchiveTesting, Status/Testing, VMware, WakeOnLan, Zabbix
- Debian sysadmins wiki pages: howto/new-dsa
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- Wikipedia: Asahi
Issues
- Features in evolution (1 2), qpdf, libimobiledevice
- Broken threading in evolution, Debian reportbug
- Regression in webkit2gtk
- Test failure in flower
- Obsolete packages: findbugs
- Incorrect description in libdebuginfod-common
- Incorrect URL in poke, towncrier, libeatmydata, xnee
- License issue in ideviceunback
- Build warnings in sptag
- Generic names in sptag
- Release needed in sptag
- Install failure in sptag
- Debian package planned for sptag
- Unused image in sptag
Review
- Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 114 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
Administration
- Debian: restart service killed by OOM killer, revert mirror redirection
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News #55
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The flower/sptag work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- git-remote-hg: fix imports, install, test dep/python/umask usage, tmp dir handling and result expectation
- flower: bump, drop dependencies
- duck: phrases indicating deprecated projects
- debbugs: fix default user for usertags
- Debian BTS usertags: move some tags to correct user
- Debian QA services: usertags: fix shell usage (1 2 3 4), add removal support
- Debian website: document usertags for multiple users, document more testing contributions
- Debian BTS: triage bugs for reintroduced packages
- Debian screenshots: deleted simplyhtml (manual page), charactermanaj (macOS)
- Debian wiki pages: accessibility-devel, AppStream/Guidelines, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianRepository/Format, DebianTaiwan/ocf.tw/TrustedOrganizationCriteria, Derivatives/Census/Ubuntu, DesktopDefaultSettings, DeveloperNews, Hardening/RepoAndImages, InstallingDebianOn/SeeedStudio (OdysseyBlueJ4105), LVM, Mobile, Packaging/Intro, PerlFAQ, peylight, Proposals/EssentialOnDiet, RaspberryPi, ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages, SaneOverNetwork, Teams (Apache, Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, DebianPerlGroup, DPL/HowTo/DelegationUpdates, ListMaster (FAQ, ListArchiveSpam, Usertags), Outreach, ReleaseTeam (PointReleaseCheckList, ReleaseCheckList/BullseyeCheckList), Treasurer/Organizations, Webmaster/Submissions), UltimateDebianDatabase/udd.debian.org, USB/GadgetSetup, WakeOnLan
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Proprietary image in librecaptcha
- Crashes in librecaptcha
- AppArmor denials in torbrowser-launcher
- Incorrect name in src:ppmd
- Outdated links in gssproxy, isenkram-cli
- Inconsistency in reportbug
- New versions of samba, mmv, sharness
- Typos in chroma
- Code copies in flower
- Latency in librecaptcha
- Animation freeze in librecaptcha
- New maintainer needed for git-remote-hg
Debugging
- libpst: failing to extract headers
- marco: breaks xfreerdp fullscreen toggle
Review
- Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 139 Debian mailing list posts
- Patches: reviewed patches for libpst, check-all-the-things, foxtrotgps, hexahop
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved ansiweather audiofile-tools backup-manager compton conky-std debian-edu-artwork debian-edu-install dragonfly-reverb duff freedombox gliv gocr-tk grub-theme-starfield localepurge okular-extra-backends pdf-presenter-console sed simplyhtml speedtest-cli sqlitebrowser vobcopy xsel
- rejected browser-plugin-gnash (random photo), pcb-lesstif (copied from elsewhere), jc (macOS)
Administration
- Debian packages: migrate flower git repo from alioth-archive to salsa
- Debian: restart bacula-director after PostgreSQL restart
- Debian wiki: block spammer, clean up spam, approve accounts
Communication
- Initiate discussions about moving SDL_Pango to libsdl-org
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The librecaptcha/libpst/flower/marco work was sponsored by my employers. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- https-everywhere: fix dwheeler.com
- bootstrappable: https (sent via IRC)
- harmony: https
- nsntrace: improve shell usage
- duck: detect deprecated projects (1 2)
- debbugs: support setting usertags for multiple users
- Debian BTS: reopen and triage bugs for reintroduced packages
- Debian BTS usertags: move usertags to correct users
- Debian package uploads: autorevision (1, 2), purple-discord, librecaptcha, harmony (1 2)
- Debian wiki pages: BisectDebian, CDDT, CDDTool, Citrix, CUPSAirPrint, CUPSDriverlessPrinting, DebConf, (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23), DebianDevelopment, DebianEvents/be/2021/FOSDEM, DebianHosting, Debuginfod, Exploits, ExternalEntities, Firmware/Open, Fonts, Glossary, GoogleCloudPrint, Hardware (VideoAcceleration, Wanted), Horde, HowToGetABacktrace, InstallingDebianOn (GPD/MicroPC, Intel/NUC10i3FNB, PINE64/PinePhone, Purism, TUXEDO/NOTEBOOKS/TUXEDO-Aura-15-Gen1), IRC, irssi, Keysigning/Offers (1 2), LTS/Development, Mobile, PCI/Passthrough, PinePhone, PlanetDebian, Ports/ia64, PortTemplate, RaspberryPi4, SergioDuriganJunior/SponsorChecklist, ServicesHosting, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Dpkg/Spec/ProtectedField, DPL, TestingSecurity), WiFi/HowToUse, Zabbix
- FreeDestop wiki pages: pkg-config
- vcs-home wiki pages: index
Issues
- Syntax error in wordwarvi
- Features in lintian (1 2)
- Typos in litecli
- Missing documentation in thinkfan
- Branch cleanup for nsntrace
- AppArmor issues in libreoffice, apparmor-profiles-extra/apt-cacher-ng
- Missing copyright info in purple-discord
- Code issues in purple-discord (1, 2)
- Overzealous sandboxing in plocate
- Init porting for plocate
- Missing dependency in libemail-outlook-message-perl
Review
- Spam: reported 1 LWN comments, 2 Debian bug reports and 150 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored opentype-sanitizer, iotop-c, duck
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved apticron-systemd bpfmon bspwm calamares chkrootkit corekeeper csoundqt daemonfs diffmon din distro-info dpkg drascula dunst elinks firefox freewheeling genisoimage gjacktransport gnome gnome-activity-journal gnome-gmail gnome-initial-setup gnome-phone-manager goverlay gromit killer kmidimon logcheck lutris lyricue manuskript materia-kde metadata-cleaner mwm nitrokey-authenticator ogmrip pdfchain plantuml python3-blockdiag python3-diagrams python3-seqdiag python-actdiag python-nwdiag q4wine ricochet-im rkhunter runescape sosreport stretchplayer sudo systraq tilem tint2 trader webcamoid wine1.6 xracer
- rejected mat2 (website), higan (running proprietary game), tor (logo), firewalld (daemon), monodevelop (macOS), spyder/din/isomaster (Windows), kmplayer (web browser?), vim-athena (terminal instead of GUI), apt-offline (GUI instead of CLI)
- approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of telegram-desktop (private data), pfm (spam reason but manual page),
- rejected deletion of kcharselect (not a support site), kdenlive/auto-multiple-choice (screenshots are versioned), minetest/jwm/knavalbattle (nonsense), k3b (non-English), jack-keyboard/hashcat/knavalbattle (spam)
Administration
- Debian: fix permissions for XMPP anti-spam git
- Debian wiki: workaround moin bug with deleting deprecated pages, unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
- Edited and sent Debian DevNews #54
Sponsors
The purple-discord/harmony/librecaptcha/libemail-outlook-message-perl work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- samba: copy heimdal patch
- nsnstrace: doc fixes (1 2)
- devscripts: fix debbisect scripts path
- apt-listchanges: add bug script to report config
- Debian BTS usertags: fixes for ocaml, release, per-arch users
- Debian QA services: add CC option to usertags fixes, autofix ocaml usertags
- Debian welcome mail: clarify debian-private, fix URL, mention goodies
- Debian screenshots: deleted packeth (macOS), pamtester (manual page)
- Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures, apt-listchanges, python-scrapy (and deps), foxtrotgps
- Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools, Brave, BSP, DebianDay (2021), DebianDeveloper, DebianEdu/Documentation/ITIL/AllInOne, DebianHistory, DebianHosting, DebianIndia, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianRepository/Setup, DebianWannaBuildInfrastructure, DebianWannaBuildInfrastructureOnOneServer, Derivatives/Census (Derivatives/CensusTemplate, BunsenLabs, Devuan, SerbianLinux, Ubuntu, Wazo), Firmware (1 2 3) (List, Open), FreedomBox/Features, Hardware/Database, InstallingDebianOn (LG/X130, Turris/Omnia), JetBrains (1 2), Keysigning/Need, LDAP/MigrationTools, LocalGroups/MeetingMinutes, LTS (Contact, Development), Mobile (1 2), NewInBullseye, PDF, Ports/ia64, PortTemplate, PressCoverage (2021), qa.debian.org/HowToHelpWithFixingWatchFiles, ReleaseParty (Bullseye), Samba (DcWithLdapBackend, ServerSimple (1 2)), SecureBoot, Sprints, Teams (Publicity/otherSN, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList (BullseyeCheckList (1 2 3))), UsrMerge, VMware (1 2), Year
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- Wikipedia: Message-ID
Issues
- Missing dependencies in loggedfs, libvirt
- Porting needed in loggedfs
- Build failures in ddccontrol (1 2), python-scrapy
- Conffile removal needed in artikulate, thinkfan
- Features in gallery-dl, smartmontools (1, 2), how-can-i-help, lintian (1 2), samba, debiman
- New upstream location for p910nd
- New upstream release for asciidoc
- Memory leak in nsntrace
- Homepage update for smartmontools
- Apparmor denials in apparmor, torbrowser-launcher
- https needed in kiwix
- Warnings in seahorse, iamerican, ibritish, umtp-responder, memlockd
- Wayland issues in nethack-qt
- Unnecessary deps in python-testfixtures
- Missing patch in dnssec-trigger
- Off-putting description in python3-pylev
- Regression in evolution
- Removal needed for ddccontrol on ARM
- Verbosity in Debian testing migration
- Moving info needed for a Debian derivatives guidelines translation
Review
- Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 151 Debian mailing list posts
- Patches: nsntrace, foxtrotgps
- Debian packages: sponsored debdelta NMU, gtranscribe/iotop-c new releases
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved ack acm advancecomp alien-arena auto-multiple-choice bspwm darkradiant derivations fonts-radisnoir free42-nologo galois glogg gsequencer hamster-time-tracker ksystemlog mkvtoolnix ninka os-prober packeth pamtester pcmanfm qdacco refind rofi solaar ssh-audit tint2 tuptime xfce4 xfce4-taskmanager
- rejected budgie-core (logo), checkinstall (screenshots code bug), angband (random Android app), python (duplicate), php-curl (random web page), command-not-found (not a bug reporting site)
- approved deletion of thinkfan (daemon without a UI)
- rejected deletion of knavalbattle (non-English screenshots are kept unless there is a replacement), vrms (nonsensical), apache2 (not a bug reporting site), acm/pev/auto-multiple-choice (screenshots are versioned, old ones are retained), konsole (screenshots serves Ubuntu users too, screenshots are versioned), hashcat/onboard/jack-keyboard/budgie-keyboard-autoswitch-applet/pcmanx-gtk2/akregator (spam)
- FOSSjobs: reviewed posts
Administration
- Debian ports: fix header on incoming.ports.d.o/buildd
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Initiate discussions about aptly, Linux USB gadgets maintenance
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
- Invite organisations to post on FOSSjobs
Sponsors
The samba work, apt-listchanges work, pytest-rerunfailures upload, python-testfixtures/python-scrapy bugs and python-scrapy related backports were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- duck: add phrases indicating moved and inactive projects
- lintian: bump tag severity
- apt-listchanges: add missing import
- spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian (1 2)
- Debian website: revert vertical space introduction
- Debian wiki service: update URL
- Debian screenshots: remove wxglade (Windows)
- Debian package uploads: ddccontrol
- Debian wiki pages: ath9k_htc/open_firmware, BCMHybridBTFirmware (1 2), BSP/2020/12/cn/Beijing, CategoryNotNative, DebianInstall, Derivatives/Census/Zevenet, FreedomBox/Manual/SecureShell, LowThresholdAdoption, LowThresholdNmu, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PortTemplate, QemuUserEmulation, RISC-V, Teams/DebianProFTPD, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/BundledBuildinfo, UpstreamGuide, Wine, XTaran/DistUpgradeWorkFlow
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- open-ath9k-htc-firmware wiki pages: Troubleshooting-and-bug-reporting
Issues
- Crashes in gnome-shell-extension-hamster, libvdpau-va-gl
- Invasive signup process on SourceForge
- Missing upstream in webext-umatrix
- Features in lintian (1 2), webext-debianbuttons, cruft-ng, gparted, reportbug
- Regressions in evolution (1 2 3)
- Conffile handling in speech-dispatcher
- Misuse of /var in smartmontools
- Broken symlinks in gtk-doc-tools, plymouth-themes
- Cruft in qemu-user-static
- Typos in qml-module-org-kde-prison, libuhd4.0.0-dpdk-tests
- Broken apt sources in mariadb-10.5
- Code copies in ThermalMonitor
- New release needed for ddccontrol
Review
- Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 144 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored opentype-sanitiser, gtranscribe, open-ath9k-htc-firmware
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved fonts-jetbrains-mono geda-gschem gnome-maps gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock gnome-todo paper-icon-theme plan remmina sayonara sway wxglade
- rejected ghostscript (wrong package), emacs-goodies-el (unrelated web browser), csv2latex (help output, bad quality), dwarf-fortress (non-free)
- approved deletion of sdcc (another package)
- rejected deletion of hashcat/olive-editor (spam)
Administration
- Debian: restart bacula director, ping some people about disk usage
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, update email for accounts with bouncing email
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
All work was done on a volunteer basis.