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

Debugging

  • Investigated test failures after Debian pybuild distutils update

Issues

Review

  • Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month

Administration

  • Debian IRC: rescue an alternate channel and make it harder to join accidentally
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, update emails for accounts

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The libpst work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Fri Sep 1 07:58:34 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Debugging

Review

Administration

  • Debian IRC: rescue empty Debian IRC channel
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The libpst, nmap, sptag, pytest-rerunfailures work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Mon Jul 31 23:55:31 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

  • Spam: reported 29 Debian mailing list posts
  • Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
  • Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
  • Debian screenshots:
    • approved lsd stockfish x86dis
    • rejected libselinux1 (photo), stockfish (mobile app), php-bcmath (selfie), chromium-browser/binutils-alpha-linux-gnu (medical photo), weboob-qt (QR code)

Administration

  • Debian QA services: deploy changes
  • Debian IRC: updated #debian-live admin list
  • Debian mentors: investigate reason for missing package
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

Sponsors

The sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Sat Jul 1 00:33:42 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration

  • Debian IRC: set topic on new #debian-sa channel
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The SIMDe, gensim, sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Thu Jun 1 00:09:50 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

  • Security issue in secret manager (sent privately)
  • Broken symlinks in opencpn
  • Test problem in SPTAG
  • Debian migration unblock needed for evolution

Review

Administration

  • Debian IRC: fixed the #debian-mips channel topic
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
  • Debian QA services: deploy changes, investigate SourceForge uscan issue

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The SPTAG work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Mon May 1 00:42:56 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration

  • Debian QA services: disabled updating jessie as it was removed
  • Debian IRC: rescued #debian-s390x from inactive person
  • Debian servers: repair a /etc git repo
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The gensim, sptag, purple-discord, harmony work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Sat Apr 1 01:31:01 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration

  • Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced package servefile
  • Debian IRC: turn an old channel into a redirect to the right one
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The pyemd/sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Tue Feb 28 23:38:08 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration

  • Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced packages cycle/pygopherd and ask about guile-2.2 reintroduction bugs
  • Debian IRC: fix topic/info of obsolete channel
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, approve domains.

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The celery, docutils, pyemd work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Wed Feb 1 00:02:41 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration

  • Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced packages: gnome-shell-extension-no-annoyance
  • Debian servers: contact mail server blocking a Debian MX
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

  • Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The azure-functions-devops-build work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Tue Jan 3 23:02:14 2023 Tags: debian

Focus

This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

Issues

Review

Administration

  • Debian IRC: setup topic/entrymsg to redirect OFTC #debian-jp to the Debian Japan IRC server, cleaned up #debianppc ChanServ metadata
  • Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve domains, approve accounts

Communication

Sponsors

The libemail-outlook-message-perl, purple-discord, sptag, celery work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Posted Fri Dec 2 02:13:34 2022 Tags: debian