Changes

• bortport: cleanup
• myrepos: mention silver-platter
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3), lintian (1 2 3 4 5)
• Debian Planets: derivatives census updates (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Debian derivatives census: delete merged branches, add Python lib, handle invalid changelogs, drop workarounds (1 2), whitespace, TODO updates (1 2), fix SVGs (1 2 3 4), add showing new logos
• Debian meta-packages: update census deps (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: DebConf/19/Volunteer, Derivatives (Census (QA, Template, BlackWeb (1 2), Deepin, Donau, Elive, OLPC, ParrotSecurity, ProgressLinux, Q4OS, Qlustar, siduction, SolydXK, ttos, Ubuntu, VyOS, VyOS, Webconverger, Whonix (1 2), Zevenet, ZevenOS-Neptune), Integration), DeveloperNews, Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation, LinuxTag/Discussion, PaulWise, Presentations, PrivacyIssues, SeasonOfDocs2019 (ProjectProposals/ProfileParser), SeasonOfDocs, Statistics, Teams (DPL (AskingForMoney, New)), Outreach (Policies))
• Software Heritage wiki pages: PaulWise, Suggestion box: source code to add
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in librecaptcha, gnome-maps, liferea, speech-dispatcher
• Features in aptitude (1 2), lintian
• Expired certificate on dedected.org (reported privately)
• Usability issues in librecaptcha, firefox
• Obsolete things in incoming.d.o
• Release needed for dosfstools
• Various issues in bash
• Malformed changelogs in Ubuntu binutils and other Debian derivatives' packages
• Minor issues in command-not-found

Review

• Spam: reported 288 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aaphoto adduser apt-listchanges arch-test atop bsdmainutils chromium cinnamon configure-debian conluding coreutils cpu-checker cpuid cpustat ctop daptup ddccontrol ddcutil deepin-calculator dmidecode dopewars e2fsprogs eiskaltdcpp-qt exa fonts-karla fonts-karmilla gaphor gparted grub-customizer gsmartctl gthumb hddtemp heaptrack-gui hollywood how-can-i-help idle-python3.5 installation-report irssi kazam klavaro kmod krita leafpad linkchecker-web lxlauncher massif-visualizer nautilus needrestart pekka-kana-2 photoflare pixfrogger rawtherapee ristretto simplescreenrecorder swisswatch sysinfo util-linux vlc xbomb xdemineur
  • rejected gnome-terminal/gnome-builder/libappmenu-gtk3-parser0 (not Debian), mpv/thunar (proprietary content), default-jdk (logo), leafpad (about dialog), heaptrack (help output), heaptrack-gui (duplicate)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus/sofa-apps/fonts-allerta/viewvc/gnome-blog (spam reason), lxde/fonts-f500/calf-plugins (nonsense reason), mpv (offensive reason)

Administration

• Debian: restart postgresql for cert update
• Debian mentors: workaround some issues
• Debian wiki: whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, reset email addresses

Communication

• Initiate discussions about various issues with several derivatives
• Invite Donau OS, BlackWeb to the Debian derivatives census
• Welcome Mentor Embedded Linux Omni OS, TTOS, BlackWeb to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The librecaptcha issues were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• icns: https, copyright notice
• myrepos: typo
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5 6 7), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Debian derivatives census: explicitness, cleanup
• Debian package tracker: naming
• Debian LE: typo
• Debian wiki pages: ChrootOnAndroid, DebConf/20, DebianMedTodo, DebianUnstable, Derivatives/Census (QA, AlienVault-OSSIM, Aptosid), DesktopEnvironment, Diagrams, Glossary, i3, InstallingDebianOn (Cavium/ThunderXStation, Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux), LocalGroups, qa.debian.org, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap, Wayland
• Wikipedia: Message-ID

Issues

• Incorrectness in Ubuntu archive
• Template handling Linux
• Underlinking in libtheora0
• Broken symlinks in android-sdk
• Overprotection in apparmor-profiles-extra
• Missing info in chooseafoundation.com (1 2)

Review

• Spam: reported 233 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved a2ps amphetamine birdtray eom ewipe ffrenzy fonts-eurofurence fractgen gnat-gps gnome-control-center gnome-tweaks gnujump goodvibes gpa how-can-i-help jumpnbump launchy lemonldap-ng lsmount lugaru mate-applets mate-backgrounds nvtop pdfarranger screenfetch seahorse-adventures systemsettings tilix wings3d xscavenger
  • rejected coyim (logo), jumpnbump (another game), anfo/andi (help output), liblemonldap-ng-portal-perl (same as lemonldap-ng ones), gnome-tweaks/gnome-terminal (not Debian)
  • rejected deletion of xgalaga++/phpbb3/viewvc (spam reason), qbittorrent/setbfree/aptitude (nonsense reason), gnome-terminal (incorrect comment doesn't justify deletion)

Administration

• Debian wiki: update email addresses, whitelist email addresses, whitelist domains
• Debian security tracker: merge patches

Communication

• Initiate discussions about the status of ArcheOS, Canaima
• Invite Mentor Embedded Linux (Debian edition), AlienVault OSSIM to the Debian derivatives census
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: more related software (1 2 3)
• mokomaze: fix SVGs (1 2), release, add tags for old releases
• devscripts: chdist: drop Dir::State::status
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4), lintian (1 2 3 4)
• Debian QA services: fix grep-excuses regression, popcon-data script
• Debian derivatives census: faster YAML, patches directory importer
• Debian package tracker: reintroducing packages links, indentation
• Debian website: mention debian-consultants
• Debian screenshots: removed prayer (manual page)
• Debian package uploads: mokomaze, purple-discord
• Debian wiki pages: DebianEvents/fr, Derivatives/Census (QA, Template, ProgressLinux), LocalGroups/DebianMuc/NextMeeting, Mentoring, PaulWise (Bugs, InterestingSoftware), qa.debian.org, RaspberryPi(3), research/publications, Statistics, SystemBuildTools
• FOSSJobs wiki: resources

Issues

• Crashes in less, 0ad, dnssec-trigger
• https broken on screenshots.d.n (reported privately)
• I/O stalls in Linux lvmraid
• Warnings in kerneloops
• Incorrect descriptions in Saxon-HE
• Incorrect links in radare2-cutter, GNU fdisk website
• Underlinking in lvm2
• Removal needed for WWW::Topica (1 2 3)
• Hardcoding in apt-listchanges

Review

• Spam: reported 178 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed pyfltk, clamav-unofficial-sigs and sponsored streamlink acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved berusky2 blastem blender budgie-desktop burp chromium-browser cytadela desktop-base dfcgen-gtk fai-client fasttracker2 fonts-b612 fonts-roadgeek gelemental glade gnurobbo gperiodic hplip-gui icecast2 imediff jigzo kic kuttypy-gui lazarus lmarbles openbox plank ponyprog prayer quaternion raincat rclone-browser sasm slowmovideo stterm telegram-desktop yabasic
  • rejected rtr-tools (upstream screenshot), mednaffe (running proprietary game), berusky2 (duplicate), addresses-goodies-for-gnustep (not GNUStep), pokemmo-installer (game not the installer)
  • approved deletion of nodejs (not a good quality screenshot), quaternion (worse quality duplicate)
  • approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of plasma-desktop (we don't remove old screenshots but it was Kanotix not Debian)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus/xgalaga++ (spam reason), dfcgen-gtk (we keep old versions), apache2 (nonsense reason)

Administration

• FoxtrotGPS: merged patches
• mokomaze: release
• Debian wiki: reset email addresses, whitelist email addresses

Communication

• Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News edition 47
• Respond to queries from the Debian derivatives census Outreachy project intern
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord upload and the apt-listchanges bug were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• purple-discord: fix reproducibility, clean
• youtube-dl: fix libsyn.com support, ABC iView latest video support, Blogger support
• check-all-the-things: pngcheck supports JNG/MNG, --mime install check for magic module, file command
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: addedd, genereic, idelogy, recommand(s), withouth, hypvervisor(s), expermiental, raspoberry, webiste, paritition, updatee(d/s), decidate(s), calloed, configuratoins, dammages, exmaples, lient(s),
  • lintian: addedd, genereic, idelogy, recommand(s), withouth, hypvervisor(s), expermiental, raspoberry, webiste, paritition(s/ing), updatee(d/s), decidate(d/s), asynchronious, calloed, configuratoins, dammages, exmaples, lient(s),
• Debian Planets: https
• Debian derivatives census: fix bugs (1 2), capture warnings
• Debian uscan multi-redirector: gitlab releases
• Debian meta-packages: fix metapackage name (1 2)
• Debian website: update merchandise (1 2), disable CD vendor, help services
• Debian security tracker: boost1.67 unicode-data embed
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticDebugPackages, BSP, DebianDay, DebianLocations, DebianSingleSignOn, Derivatives/Census, (QA (1 2), Abalar, Armbian, BunsenLabs, hLinux, Huayra, NEMS_Linux, PrimTux, Septor), Glossary, gsoc, GSoC, Hardening/RepoAndImages, Hardware (Certification, ShippingWithDebian), Ideas, InstallingDebianOn/Cavium/ThunderXStation, KVM, LTS/Development, Merchandise (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PressCoverage2019, PressCoverage, PXEBootInstall, Services/gobby.debian.org, Sprints, SSDOptimization, SummerOfCode, SystemBuildTools, UpstreamGuide, Year

Issues

• Crashes in liferea
• Features in lvm2, procps, Firefox
• Usability issues in Tor Browser
• Upgrade crashes in unattended-upgrades
• Invalid certificates in SKS Keyservers HKPS pool (reported privately)
• Embedded copies in boost1.67
• Obsolete things in debian-keyring, spamassassin, tor, thinkfan
• Documentation vs behaviour issues in systemd, apt
• Conffile removal from privoxy, ebtables, libvirt-daemon-system
• Underlinking in mono
• New versions of sjfonts

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 196 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: Debian derivatives census Outreachy project changes
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aegisub apache2 aspell bambootracker boohu boxes codfis ddnet debian-security-support dolphin fdisk fonts-courier-prime gaupol gnome-mpv gnome-subtitles guvcview kde-full khelpcenter klines kmenuedit kollision konquest kreversi kshisen ksirk ksnakeduel ksquares kubrick less lix lskat milou minitube mle monitorix needrestart-session numix-icon-theme-circle olive package-update-indicator palapeli powerdevil pyacidobasic qwinff sidplayfp smplayer smtube step subdownloader subliminal subtitlecomposer sudoku tmux tutka vfu xjadeo
  • rejected mencoder/debian-security-support (manual page), oar-web-status/oar-user/oar-node/oar-server/git-secret (logo), tilix (scribble)
  • approved deletion of mp3info (not ncurses version)
  • rejected deletion of nano (non-English is fine, nano has mouse support so a pointer is not misleading), gkamus/viewvc (spam reason), bombardier (non-English reason), labplot (old versions are not removed), synaptic (nonsense reason)

Administration

• Debian: merge patch, install dependencies, fix LDAP server, answer keys question, check build hardware differences, remove references to dead systems
• Debian wiki: re-enable old account unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, ping accounts with bouncing email, investigate password reset issue
• Debian derivatives census: rerun patch generation to fix broken files

Communication

• Initiate discussion about the status of hLinux
• Respond to queries from the Debian derivatives census Outreachy project intern
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• purple-discord: gitignore
• myrepos: link to v script
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: algorithm variants, adaquate(ly), autors, incoropate(s), phyiscs, veresion(s), compatibile, cricital, descriptuve, dowload, possitives, distrubute(d), mashine(s)
  • lintian: alogirhtm, adaquate(ly), autor(s), incoropate(s), phyiscs, veresion(s), compatibile, cricital, descriptuve, dowload(s), possitive(s), distrubute(d), mashine(s)
• Debian Planets: update ThengOS logo (1 2), use RSS overrides for Meilix/Whonix/LMDE
• Debian security tracker: libfprint nbis embed, whitespace
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps, DebianCustomCD/MoveInstallerUdebs, DebianLocations, Derivatives/Census (QA, Elive (1 2), LMDE, Meilix, ThengOS, Whonix), FortunesDebianHints, Games/Sponsors, Glossary, HostingBSP, IRC/debian-meeting, Mentoring, Mentors, MIPSPort, OpenVPN, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, SecureBoot/Testing, Services, Teams/Publicity/Release, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList/BusterCheckList, UnattendedUpgrades

Issues

• Crashes in vlc-plugin-bittorrent
• Hangs in nocache
• Upgrade failure in linux-perf
• Compile warnings in purple-discord (1 2)
• Underlinking in zvbi
• Features in lintian-brush, nocache (1 2)
• New versions of sed, grep

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments and 274 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored open-ath9k-htc-firmware (1 2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved amarok amoeba bmon cheesecutter clementine cqrlog deepin-icon-theme filezilla fonts-allerta fonts-gamaliel fonts-paratype freedv galois geg ghostwriter gnome-recipes gnome-usage grig hddtemp juk kspaceduel kwrite lgeneral libcdio-utils lsscsi osmo pciutils plymouth-theme-hamara qrencode qtox usbutils wsjt xsysinfo
  • rejected thinkfan (help output), chrome-gnome-shell (wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of phpbb3/gnome-blog/gkamus/xgalaga++ (spam reason), olive (screenshots are versioned)

Administration

• Debian: answer query about LDAP signing
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, fix login issue, whitelist email addresses

Communication

• Mentoring of Outreachy derivatives project

Sponsors

The purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• devscripts: https
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: apend variants, istalling, launck, realtion, substituation(s), condident(ial), executation, hyptothetical(ly), requiest(s/ed/ing), sofwtare, characte variants, creta(ed/es/ing), expierience(s), ocorrence(s), workarrounds, (mis/un/re/pre)configed, (un/non-)corelate(d/s), (of/re(s))cource(s), creatre(d), disctionar(y/ies), expendeble, hapen variants, mechines, regenarated, secruity, singnal(led), snapsnot(s), syntetize(d), (build-)dependanc(y/ies), etherenet, matainer(s), meny, preceed, pyrhon, resart(s), retsart(s), stivk(s), trasfers, anothe, blanace, boomark(s), cofidence, foppys, gard, implemend(s), maitain(ed), pyhon, safeing, seporate, strinsg, translatied, updateded, uptim, vender(s), verisoned
  • lintian: apend variants, istalling, launck, realtion, substituation(s), condident(ial), executation, hyptothetical(ly), requiest(s/ed/ing), sofwtare, characte variants, creta(e(d/s)/ing), expierience(s), ocorrence(s), reseved, workarrounds, (mis/un/re/pre)configed, (un/non-)corelate(d/s), (of/re(s))cource(s), creatre(d), disctionar(y/ies), expendeble, (de/re)genarated, hapen variants, mechine(s), secruity, singnal(s/led), snapsnot(s), syntetize(d), seams like, absolutly, (build-/in)dependanc(e/y/ies), etherenet, matainer(s), meny, prefectly, pyrhon, resart(s), retsart(s), standarts, stivk(s), therefor, trasfer(s), acces, anothe, blanace, boomark(s), cofidence, foppys, gard, implemend(s), inconsistancy, maitain(ed), neede, pyhon, safeing, seporate, somtimes, strinsg, translatied, updateded, uptim, vender(s), verisoned
• Debian Planets: add Anastasia Tsikoza (1 2)
• Debian derivatives census: typo, correctness, make tips, make fixes, apache fixes, optimisation, symlink fix
• Debian website: typo, PayPal non-JS option, help local groups, link, https, irssi
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, myrepos
• Debian wiki pages: AnatolyPugachev, DebConf/20/Bids/India/Plans, DebianRepository, DeveloperNews, eLTS, Flash, FlashPlayer, Hardware/Wanted, Mentoring, Outreachy, Ports/ia64, ppc64el/GetToWorkOnFTBFS, PrintingGlossaryandIndex, sbuild, ServicesHosting, SystemBuildTools, Teams/pkg-security, UltimateDebianDatabase, UpstreamGuide, UsrMerge, WhyTheName
• fossjobs.net wiki: resources

Issues

• Conffile removal in xul-ext-noscript, initscripts
• Features in how-can-i-help, https-everywhere, lintian, uhubctl, sr.ht (account deleted, these got deleted too), uppity, reproducible builds
• Build issues in uhubctl
• Apparmor denials in clamav-daemon, torbrowser-launcher
• Warnings in speech-dispatcher, qa.d.o (vcsstats, carnivore), buildd.d.o
• Dependency issues in torbrowser-launcher, libmtp9
• Truncation issues in whowatch (1 2)
• Shell completion issues in systemd
• Obsolete files in ntfs-3g, libsane-common, libmtp-common
• Usability issues in webext-debianbuttons (1 2)
• Layout issues in marble
• Underlinking in libccrtp
• http in uhubctl
• Typos in uhubctl

Review

• Spam: reported 4 LWN comments, 1 Debian bug reports and 205 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored mwic
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved chkboot diceware diffutils gitlab gnumail.app gobby gvidm peek plm pulseview sidplayfp tetradraw trackballs visualboyadvance wmfrog xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod xul-ext-pwdhash
  • rejected logwatch (config file), diffutils (documentation)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus (a greeting is not a reason), tuxeyes/youtube-dl (non-English reason), gnome-mahjongg (nonsense reason)

Administration

• myrepos: respond to some tickets
• Debian: respond to porterbox schroot query, remove obsolete role accounts, restart misbehaving webserver, redirect openmainframe mail to debian-s390, respond to query about consequences of closing accounts
• Debian wiki: unblacklist networks, redirect/answer user support query, answer question about page names, whitelist email addresses
• Debian packages site: update mirror config
• Debian derivatives census: merge and deploy changes from Outreachy applicants and others

Sponsors

The purple-discord upload was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• mokomaze: https, warning, menu keywords (1 2)
• hexchat: show channel
• check-all-the-things: zstd MIME, php7cc, jsonlint-php verbosity
• devscripts: typos
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: hopmepage(s), soket(s), pytnon, builter(s), dictioanries, encoutner(s), initals, (short-)cicruit(s), alha variants, disalbe(s/d), enalbes, sitaution(s), referneced, embarrasingly, deploi(ed/ment(s)), depenendenc(e/y/ies), rovid(ing/e(d/s)), implent variants recogninse, manyal(s/ly), dynamlic(ally), speep(ed/ing/-up), influece(d/s/ing), packhage(s), manaul(s/ly), constraintes, (dis)similiar(y/ty), leat, projct(s/ion(s)/or(s)'s), (un/re)chek(ed), thik(s/nesses)
  • lintian: hopmepage(s), soket(s), pytnon, builter(s), dictioanr(y/ies), encoutner(s), initals, (short-)cicruit(s), alha variants, disalbe(s/d), enalbe(s/d), sitaution(s), refernece(s/d), embarras(ed/ingly), deploi(ed/ment(s)), depenendenc(e/y/ies), rovid(ing/e(r/d/s), implent variants, manyal(s/ly), will be remove, intersting, dynamlic(ally), direcotr(y/ies), speep(ed/ing/-up), influece(d/s/ing), packhage(s), manaul(s/ly), constraintes, (dis)similiar(y/ty/ity), leat, projct(s/ion(s)/or(s)'s), (un/re)chek(ed), thik(s/ness/nesses)
• Debian Planets: add Elive
• Debian derivatives census: Python 3, typo, cruft (1 2), copyright
• Debian security tracker: edk2 refs
• Debian puppet: ports redirects
• Debian meta-packages: deriv.d.n deps
• Debian website: merch updates
• Debian wiki pages: CheapServerBoxHardware, DebianEdu/Status/Buster, DebianInstaller/Bugs, DebianMaintainer, Derivatives (Census (QA, Template (1 2), AstraLinux, Crunchbang, Freeduc, Hamara_Linux, HandyLinux, Huayra, LMDE, MetamorphoseLinux, OLPC, Open_Secure-K_OS, ParrotSecurity, ParrotSecurity, Parsix, rtros, semplice, SolusOS, SolydXK, SteamOS, Tails, Tanglu, Ubuntu, VoyageLinux, Vyatta, Whonix)), DeveloperNews (1 2), Digital_Cameras, Firmware/Updates, Hardware, IRC, LocalGroups/Debian-JP, MigrateToDDAccount, Outreachy/Round16/Projects/DerivativesIntegration, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, Printing/GlossaryandIndex, StaticLinking, SystemBuildTools
• Wikipedia: Message-ID

Issues

• Crashes in php7cc, packagekit, merkaartor
• Broken archiving in debian-lts-announce (reported privately)
• Removal needed of ack-grep
• Dependency update needed in libtask-kensho-cli-perl
• Incorrect shell completion apt (1 2)
• Outdated documentation in dd-list
• Broken redirects on sf.net
• Time issues in restic
• Config issues in ssh-add
• Features in network-manager-gnome, gcr, lists.d.o (1 2), tracker.d.o, grep-excuses, apt, progress, aptitude, firefox
• Conffile removal in libgssapi-krb5-2, thermald, apparmor

Review

• Spam: reported 3 LWN comments and 168 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: merged uscan completion patch, merged derivatives census patches from Outreachy applicants and others
• Debian packages: sponsored mwic, acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved codelite colortail colortest deluge fonts-fantasque-san fonts-fork-awesome fonts-glasstty fonts-hack fonts-lmodern freeipmi-tools gdigi ginkgocadx gnome-shell gsequencer kakoune keepassxc khal kirigami-gallery librecad lxdm notion picard qbittorrent quodlibet screenfetch solvespace thonny vitetris
  • rejected postgresql (logo), gambas3-gb-gui-qt/libjs-tv4 (not screenshot), variety (macOS)
  • approved deletion of ranger (offensive), i3 (another package)
  • rejected deletion of reportbug/gparted/network-manager-gnome/synaptic (nonsense reasons),

Administration

• Debian: investigate MSA issue, investigate Fastly outage, investigate buildd issue, forwarded mail bounce info
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP range, clean up stray tmp files, whitelist email addresses, ask on IRC about accounts with bouncing email, ping accounts with bouncing email, disable accounts with bouncing email
• Debian derivatives census: merge patches, deploy changes, clean up cruft, delete giant source packages

Communication

• Prod about and send Debian Misc Developer News edition 46

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• referer-mod: https
• webdl: https (sent privately)
• youtube-dl: URL extraction
• check-all-the-things: closure-linter
• dh-make: typo
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: (e)mailling(list(s)), binay, orgin variants, priviliged
  • lintian: aboce, (e)mailling(list(s)), binay, orgin variants, priviliged
• Debian puppet: tor workaround
• Debian website: fix link, help testing ISOs
• Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps, DebianInstaller, DebianKernel/GitBisect, Derivatives/Integration, Firmware/Updates, Gitea, Gnome, Ideas, Outreachy/Round16/Projects/DerivativesIntegration (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PrivacyIssues, SourceOnlyUpload, SSDOptimization, SystemBuildTools, TracingExecution, WebDevelopment

Issues

• Crashes in PyPI
• Documentation issues in lvm2
• Incompatibility in tor (1 2)
• Broken alternatives in acpica-tools
• Apparmor denials for totem
• Privacy issues webext-bulk-media-downloader, webext-proxy-switcher
• Porting needed in iceweasel-branding
• Features in Firefox (1 2 3 4 5), Tor Browser, HTTPS Everywhere, diffoscope (1 2 3), PyPI, easy-rsa, adequate, closure-compiler, git-hub, hexchat (1 2)
• New versions of form-history-control, greasemonkey, nano
• New homepage for form-history-control
• Detection issues in diffoscope
• Conffile removal in emacsen-common, firejail-profiles
• Minor issues in tracker.d.o

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comments, 2 Debian bug reports and 174 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored gtranscribe
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved bovo cockpit cockpit-docker converseen firefox git-gui i3lock-fancy jwm kde-plasma-desktop kfourinline ksudoku loganalyzer mednaffe neomutt nheko pcsc-tools postfixadmin python3-mecavideo quiterss ripperx runescape tipp10 wdm windowlab
  • rejected openjdk-7-jre (Android screenshot), jaligner (macOS screenshot), tootle/posterazor (upstream screenshot), mednaffe (non-free game), toulbar2/balazar3/libtest-email-perl/libswscale5/libreoffice-style-colibre/python3-networking-bagpipe (not a screenshot) pokemmo-installer (not the package)
  • rejected deletion of gpe-othello (spam reason), acm/firefox-esr/fonts-mgopen/angband/balazar3 (nonsense reason), runescape (screenshots are versioned)

Administration

• Debian: restart a broken service, reschedule nagios checks, investigate onion services issue, fix some file permissions, discuss hoster acquisition, discuss hoster partnership, explain arch qualification concerns, ping hoster about unexpected outage, removal of mail server from blacklist
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, ping accounts with bouncing email
• Openmoko: investigate email issue

Communication

• Initiate discussions about embedded code copies with the security team
• Register Debian derivatives project for Outreachy round 16
• Document my plans for the Firefox XUL to WebExtensions transition

Sponsors

The easy-rsa feature request was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Mozilla recently dropped support for Firefox XUL extensions.

The initial threat of this prompted me to discover how to re-enable XUL extensions by modifying Firefox's omni.ja file. That clearly is not going to last very long since Mozilla is also deleting XPCOM interfaces but I note the Tor Browser is temporarily still using XUL extensions.

Since I have some extensions I wrote for myself, I will need to rewrite them as WebExtension add-ons.

The first thing to do is check how to install WebExtension add-ons. My local XUL extensions are run from the corresponding git trees. Using an example extension I discovered that this no longer works. The normal way to install add-ons is to use the web-ext tool, upload to the Mozilla app store and then install from there. This seems like overkill for an unpolished local add-on. One way to workaround this is to disable signing but that seems suboptimal if one has installed Mozilla-signed add-ons, which I will probably have to do until Debian packages more add-ons. Luckily Mozilla offers alternative "sideloading" distribution mechanisms and Debian enables these by default for the Debian webext-* packages. Installing a symlink to the git repository into the extensions directory and adding a gecko identifier to the add-on manifest.json file works.

Then I started looking at how to rewrite XUL extensions and discovered the user-interface options are limited compared to XUL. So the Galeon-style smart-bookmarks workaround plugin I use a lot is not even possible to implement as a WebExtension add-on and will require some changes to search, bookmarks or WebExtensions user-interface APIs or a solution external to Firefox like a floating toolbar.

Another plugin I wrote adds a few buttons to the toolbar but WebExtension add-ons are only allowed to add one button to the toolbar. The plugin is more logical as an address bar button but again WebExtension add-ons are only allowed to add one button to the address bar. Each of these allow popups for additional user-interface. So the options are to split this into multiple plugins, one per button or to reqire a second click in the popups.

The remaining task is to migrate from each of the xul-ext-* Debian packages. Some folks have already completed their transition and documented it.

Some packages simply got updated to the corresponding webext-* packages. Some packages were updated upstream but aren't yet in webext-* packages.

Some packages were no longer developed upstream but were updated in forks or reimplementations:

• Firebug: reimplemented as a whitelisted Firefox internal XUL extension
• Autofill Forms: the author released a renamed version
• Open in Browser: reimplemented by another developer
• RefControl: reimplemented as Referer Modifier by another developer
• User Agent Switcher: reimplemented by another developer in a very different way

Some packages are no longer useful upstream but alternatives are available:

• Adblock Plus: now part of the untrustworthy advertising industry, replaced by uBlock Origin
• Stylish: now part of the untrustworthy advertising industry, replaced by Stylus
• Cookie Monster: cookie-autodelete or uMatrix are possible alternatives
• DOM Inspector: the native web developer tools are almost the same
• HTTPS Finder: smart-https, https-by-default are alternatives and https-everywhere is kind of an alternative
• livehttpheaders: the native web developer tools are mostly an alternative but headers are missing from the page info dialog

Some packages are blocked by missing APIs because they are not yet permitted to replace the Certificate Authorities with alternate trust models such as DNSSEC+DANE, Certificate Patrol, Perspectives, Monkeysphere or Communism.

Like many technology transitions, this one was done for good reasons but is extremely disruptive and a time sink for users and developers. I still have floppy disks that could contain viruses or poetry but I will never find out their content.

Changes

• quesoglc: typos, packaging updates
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: containter, exteneded, difficutl(y), constrasts, dekstops, deleteed, argumeng(s), dislpay(s/ed/ing), thourough(ly)
  • lintian: containte(d/r), exteneded, difficutl(y), constrasts, dekstops, deleteed, argumeng(s), dislpay(s/ed/ing), thourough(ly)
• Debian derivatives census: Python 3
• Debian admin misc scripts: update keyring-maint keys
• Debian package tracking system: Standards-Version fixes
• Debian package uploads: quesoglc
• Debian wiki pages: 3D-printer, BSP/2018/09/de/Chemnitz, CategoryPortal, DebianDay/2018 (Brazil/Campinas, México/Zacatecas, Venezuela (Anzoátegui, Aragua, Barquisimeto, Mérida)), DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianMaintainer, DebianPrivacy (BoF201807, Issues), DebianWiki (EditorQuickStart, Privacy), Derivatives (Census (Hamara_Linux, Q4OS), Integration), Fonts, Ideas, LTS/Funding, Mate, Multimedia/Subtitle, PaulWise, PrivacyIssues, research/publications, Saif Abdul Cassim, Salsa/Doc, SAN/iSCSI/LIO, Services/DerivativesCensus, SourceOnlyUpload, SourcesList, Statistics (1 2), syam, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Cloud, DebianXfceGroup, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), TracingExecution (1, 2), Welcome/Users, Xorg
• Wikipedia: Anusaaraka

Issues

• Potential copyright violation of GNU software (reported privately)
• Crashes in utfcheck
• Broken dependencies in xul-ext-form-history-control
• Regressions in unattended-upgrades, Linux
• Invalid certificates on repo.or.cz (reported privately)
• Completion breakage for dpkg -L
• Missing X11 font registration in lmodern, tex-gyre
• Incorrect formatting in notmuch
• False positives in shellcheck, needrestart, debsecan
• Features in intel-microcode, Tor Browser, lintian (1 2), debhelper
• Packaging needed for purple-lurch
• New versions of shellcheck

Review

• Spam: reported 128 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved aisleriot alienblaster asunder baobab bluefish bluefish-plugins cbatticon emacs25 fonts-cardo fonts-gnutypewriter gramps hivelytracker i3 ibus-zhuyin icewm klaus lektor network-manager-openvpn-gnome obsidian-icon-theme ola ola-rdm-tests openmw ophcrack qlandkartegt rabbitvcs-nautilus referencer stella s-tui tidy vice whitedune xtail yosys
  • rejected apache2 (logo not screenshot), xfce-keyboard-shortcuts (not specific enough), xtrs (not the package), aptitude (wrong package), gnome-twitch/stella (proprietary content), adduser (help output)
  • rejected deletion of gnome-blog/rmagic/gkamus (spam), gramps/libreoffice/pcsxr (old screenshots are kept), ttf-telugu-fonts (non-English reason)

Administration

• Debian: answer support request, keyring-maint updates, acknowledge emergency downtime, discuss downtime with a hoster, discuss reverse DNS with a hoster
• Debian derivatives: create salsa group, migrate census to salsa, update repo remote URLs, clean up some large files
• Debian mentors: reply about an upload issue
• Debian wiki: clean up stray temp file, whitelist email addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussion about scripts at DebConf18 (notes)

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.