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: acquired by the untrustworthy advertising industry, replaced by uBlock Origin
• Stylish: acquired by 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.

Changes

• myrepos: cleanup (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19), release
• linters: update URL
• codespell: typo
• check-all-the-things: install support (1 2 3)
• diffoscope: terminal handling (1 2 3 4)
• devscripts: typos
• debian-goodies: find-dbgsym-packages ELF support
• lintian: test, typo
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: deendenc(y/ies), coprright, isntallation(s), moutn variants, deafulted, togheter, argumemnt(s), derevative(s), szenarios, szes, performnace, umbrealla, upater, (inter/sub)secrion, upsrteam(s/ed), e(ne)bale(d), diretor(y/ies), containe, unfortuante(ly)
  • lintian: deendenc(y/ies), coprright, isntallation(s), moutn variants, deafult(s/ed), togheter, argumemnt(s), derevative(s), szenario(s), szes, performnace, umbrealla, upater, (inter/sub)secrion, upsrteam(s/ed), e(ne)bale(d), diretor(y/ies), containe, unfortuante(ly)
• Debian puppet: www.d.o redirect fixes (1 2), add www-staging.d.o (1 2 3)
• Debian TLS: add www-staging.d.o
• Debian domains: drop unused www-mirror.d.o
• Debian package tags: added tags for myrepos
• Debian screenshots: added myrepos
• Debian package tracking system: bump policy version
• Debian package uploads: myrepos
• Debian wiki pages: DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianPrivacy/BoF201807, DebianTesting, Derivatives/Census/Hamara_Linux, Derivatives/Meetings, ExternalEntities, fakechroot, GoogleEarth/Install/Stretch64Bits, Hardware/Wanted, InstallingDebianOn/Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux, KansaiDebianMeeting, Keysigning/Need, KiCad/ngspice, Mobile, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, spotify, Statistics, SystemBuildTools,
• DebConf wiki pages: DebConf18/DayTrip, DebConf18/DebconfShirts, DebConf18/AdHocSessions

Issues

• Regressions in unattended-upgrades, bash
• Features in debhelper, debian-policy (1 2), lintian (1 2 3), bls, piuparts.d.o, unattended-upgrades (1 2), debug-me, GNU Guix website
• Underlinking in libogdi3.2
• Missing links in tracker.d.o
• Security issues in debootstrap (reported privately)
• Minor issues in jitterentropy-rngd

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 150 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored streamlink
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved anbox arp-scan dustracing2d feedreader gpick hamster-applet kupfer lingot links2 moc picard testdisk thunar thunar-volman xwrited
  • rejected pokemmo-installer (not of package), smplayer (non-free content), chromium (non-deb distro), robocode (alleged server hackers)
  • rejected deletion of kdiff3 (non-intelligible reason)

Administration

• myrepos: merge patches, release
• foxtrotgps: merge patch
• whohas: merge pull request
• fossjobs: forward some job advertisments
• Debian: quiet buildd cron mail, redirect potential contributor, discuss backup hosts for some arches, discussions at DebConf18
• Debian wiki: unblacklist networks, whitelist domains, whitelist email addresses, reject possibly inappropriate signup attempt
• Debian website: remove lingering file

Communication

• Reinitiated discussion about Debian derivatives efforts

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• mokomaze: cruft (1 2)
• icns: cruft (1 2)
• check-all-the-things: de-Debification, extensions (1 2 3), TODO
• debian-goodies: set -e, typos
• lintian: test (1 2)
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: discourage(d), installationa, lightwight, widgit, possilbe, descrie, brane, previos, sytl(ed/es/ing), wrappng, migth, vulerable, manipulatin
  • lintian: get's, discourrage(d), installationa, lightwight, widgit, possilbe, descrie, previos, sytl(ed/es/ing), wrappng, migth, vulerable, incorperation, manipulatin
• Debian installer: myrepos config fixes (1 2), .gitignore
• Debian website: gendered wording
• Debian package uploads: leptonlib, purple-discord
• Debian wiki pages: BSP/2018/06/us/NYC, debian-cd, Derivatives/Census (QA, Hamara_Linux), DesktopEnvironment, DeveloperNews, ExternalEntities, Firmware/Updates, InstallingDebianOn/Intel, LTS/Extended, MaliGraphics, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, reportbug-by-mail, Teams/DebianCd, Teams/Publicity/bits.debian.org
• fossjobs wiki: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gpaste, diffoscope
• Protocol flaw in oxy
• Broken data in tracker.debian.org
• Warnings in samba-common
• Rebuilds of tmperamental
• Features in shellcheck, git-repair, tracker.debian.org (1 2), qemu-user-static, Debian build log scanner, python-debian, sbuild (1 2), diffoscope
• Certificate expiry in screenshots.debian.net
• Typos in apt-cacher-ng (1 2 3)
• Regex handling in sbuild
• Cruft in diffoscope

Review

• Spam: reported 10 Debian bug reports and 145 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored streamlink
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved bibledit-xiphos biosyntax-gedit biosyntax-less biosyntax-vim cataclysm-dda-sdl compiz-mate debian-refcard emacs gigalomania gimp kate libreoffice-zotero-integration mate-themes openarena plinth rsstail streamlink thonny xiphos zotero-standalone zsh-theme-powerlevel9k
  • rejected streamlink (help output), sgf2dg (wrong screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of a7xpg (bogus reason), gnome-activity-journal/gnome-blog/gkamus/reportbug/nmap (spam reason)

Administration

• fossjobs: merge pull requests
• Debian: LDAP support request
• Debian mentors: fix disk space issue
• Debian wiki: clean up temp files, whitelist domains, whitelist email addresses, unblacklist IP addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussion about light-weight pull requests on branchable

Sponsors

The apt-cacher-ng bugs, leptonlib backport and git-repair feature request were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• whowatch: URLs, formatting (1 2), roles (1 2), licensing (1 2)
• purple-discord: https, spelling
• myrepos: cleanup, remote plugin
• repology: Ubuntu cosmic, package URLs, per-package problems, package to metapackage redirect
• iotop: container error msg, Ubuntu workaround (1 2)
• git-extras: docs
• check-all-the-things: de-Debianification (1 2 3), update deps, URLs, extensions (1 2 3), TODO items (slowness lizard empty-argv-segfault ShlibVisibility glyphcheck man spellcheckers formatters)
• duck: search.cpan.org
• lintian: search.cpan.org
• devscripts: dry-run verbosity
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: (re)buld(s/ing), (net)wrok(s/ed), sytem variants, obtaiend, verbous(e/ly), coul, foudning, aunthenticat(e/es/ed/ing)
  • lintian: (re)buld(s/ing), (net)wrok(s/ed), sytem variants, obtaiend, verbous(e/ly), coul, foudn(ing), aunthenticat(e/es/ed/ing)
• Debian installer: APT_CONFIG
• Debian packages website: fix URL
• Debian packages overview: DUCK, Repology
• Debian QA: usertags typos
• Debian portfolio: Repology
• Debian PTS: disable umegaya
• Debian screenshots: purple-discord
• Debian meta-packages: qa.d.o: rename
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord
• Debian website: derivatives re-ordering (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticDebugPackages, AutomaticPackagingTools, Backports, BSP/2014/11/de/Munich, CrossCompiling, DebianDay/2018/Brasil/Taquaritinga, DebianSecurity/Meetings (2011-01-14, 2014-02-07, 2015-01-16), Derivatives/Guidelines, Gerrit, HidekiYamane/action_for_next, Ideas, LTS/Meetings, Mentoring, MySql, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PbuilderTricks, qa.debian.org, Services, ServicesHosting, SimonQuigley, Sprints (2011/Release, 2014/SystemdGNOMESprint, 2015/DebConfOrga, HowTo), Statistics, Teams/Publicity (1 2, bits.debian.org/translation), Teams/Ruby/Meeting/Paris2015/Report, WebsiteGitTransition (1, 2)

Issues

• Crashes in geeqie
• Build failures in tesseract
• Missing dependencies in dh-make-golang, obs-build
• Error reporting in unattended-upgrades
• Code copies in samba
• Scrolling in whowatch (1 2)
• Conffile removal in torbrowser-launcher
• Verbosity in parcimonie
• Terminology in release.d.o excuses
• Underlinking in libusageenvironment3
• Formatting in cod-tools
• Features in tracker.debian.org, dh-make-golang (1 2), evolution
• Packaging needed for octotree, git-lab, jsonview

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 1 Debian bug report and 234 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed mwic and sponsored streamlink (1 2), acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved arandr bash cmus emacs fastnetmon firefox gnome-shell gnome-software gnome-terminal gource granite-demo helpman john kgoldrunner psensor pushover python3-pytest-sugar quickcal scribus seafile-cli seafile-gui toppler vlc
  • approved deletion of instead (duplicate)
  • approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of fastnetmon (advertising in screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of qt4-dev-tools (empty reason), gnome ("screenshot" is not a reason), bve-train-br-class-323-3dcab/gkamus/gnome-blog/gnome-activity-journal/qt4-dev-tools/choosewm (spam reason),

Administration

• iotop: merge patch
• Debian: buildd check, install package, redirect support, fix space in uid/gid, reboot lock workaround
• Debian mentors: reboot for security updates
• Debian wiki: whitelist email addresses,
• Openmoko: web server restart

Communication

• Initiate discussions about the future of Debian derivatives efforts, search.cpan.org shutdown

Sponsors

The tesseract/purple-discord work, bug reports for samba/git-lab/octotree/dh-make-golang and AutomaticPackagingTools change were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• repology: Arch Linux link, Alpine details, test fix
• iotop: Python 3
• myrepos: cache fix
• diffoscope: sorting, EDID
• git-extras: git-paste, improve git-sed
• foxtrotgps: cruft, roadmap
• whowatch: cruft, news, release, desktop (1 2 3)
• purple-discord: CPPFLAGS
• devscripts: deb.d.o
• dh-make: typo
• lintian: fix spelling docs, update links
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: swithch, metacharater(s), equivalant, exceptation, whishlist, worthing, myslef, annonymous, toogle, over(rr)id(dden/es), accapts, opiton(s), lable, pakvage, yau, platformt, potentail(s/ly), hsell, expirimental
  • lintian: swithch, shiped, metacharater(s), equivalant, exceptation, whishlist, worthing, myslef, wraper, annonymous, some system over(rr)id(dden/es), derivitives, accapts, opiton(s), lable, pakvage, yau, platformt, potentail(s/ly), hsell, expirimental
• Debian mirrors: ftp.wa.au.d.o
• Debian package tracking system: bump policy ver
• Debian security data: whitespace, zodbpickle embed (1 2 3)
• Debian package tags: added tags for purple-discord, harmony
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, foxtrotgps, whowatch, sysstat, libipc-run-perl (1 2) iotop
• Debian wiki pages: apt-get, Arm64Port, BuildingFormalBackports, DebianDak, DebianEvents/de/2018/MiniDebConfHamburg, DebianGis/MailingLists, DebianReleases, FrontPage, InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I, KallesDesign, Mobile (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, SublimeText, Teams/Dpkg/Downstream
• File Formats wiki pages: Notability
• FreeDesktop wiki: VideoAcceleration

Issues

• Crashes in evolution, gplaycli, androguard (1 2), python-moinmoin
• Regressions in evolution (Debian)
• Certificate expiry on screenshots.debian.net, git.code.sf.net
• Conffile handling in libvirt-daemon-system
• Features in needrestart-session, file
• Memory leak in libipc-run-perl (1 2)
• Automatic updating needed in ftp.d.o/doc
• False negatives in shellcheck -x
• False positives in needrestart
• Warnings in needrestart-session
• Text issues in reportbug, horizon-eda, ssh-askpass-fullscreen
• Broken references in libharfbuzz-dev, anarchism

Review

• Spam: reported 175 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved cloudcompare drumkv1 dxf2gcode gajim gpxviewer link-grammar materia-gtk-theme mp3blaster mplayer-gui mtpaint padthv1 python3 sddm-theme-maui ssh-agent-filter ssh-askpass ssh-askpass-fullscreen ssh-askpass-gnome
  • rejected dialog/kde-telepathy-debugger (screenshots of screenshots.d.n), kamailio (not a screenshot)
  • approved deletion of zsh (shows oh-my-zsh)
  • rejected deletion of gnome-blog/gkamus (spam reason), guitarix/gajim (screenshots are versioned), terminology (bogus reason)

Administration

• whowatch: release, contact downstreams
• Debian: redirect support request, investigate GDPR issues, investigate buildd kernel issue
• Debian wiki: investigate signup errors, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domain

Sponsors

The purple-discord work, the sysstat backport and the libipc-run-perl patch backports were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• myrepos: cache fixes (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• foxtrotgps: remove cruft (1 2 3), typo, links (1 2)
• whowatch: document release keys, typos, undefined behaviour, autoconf improvements (1 2 3 4 5 6 7), portability (1 2 3), signals (1 2 3 4)
• check-all-the-things: fix --all
• diffoscope: docs
• lintian: exim/apache obsolete, fix terminology
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: opeation(s), progam, suscribe(d), genered, buss(es), enty, mixure, prepresent(ed/s), traditiona, identifyable, taylored, feeback, convenince, anarquis(m/t), progrmae, constrast, cointain(s/ed), lincese(s/ed), usibility, directoies, retun, obeserve, copyritght(s/ed), refertence(s/ed), obay, explenation, rewrited, timestemp(s)
  • lintian: opeation(s), progam, suscribe(d), genered, attemp(ed), addressess, buss(es), enty, mixure, prepresent(s/ed), sponser, traditiona, identifyable, lest strict taylored, feeback, convenince, have to be pass, anarquis(m/t), progrmae, constrast, cointain(s/ed), lincese(s/ed), usibility, directoies, retun, obeserve, copyritght(s/ed), refertence(s/ed), obay, explenation, rewrited, timestemp(s)
• Debian package tracker: typos (1 2)
• Debian security tracker: Apple NFUs, SAML vulns (1 2), NodeSecurity sync (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Debian website: update Tcl/Tk policy links
• Debian wiki pages: BOINC, BootLoader, BSP/2018/03/al/Tirana, CopyrightReviewTools, DebianBuster, DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie, DebianHardware, DebianInstaller/HumanReadableChangelogs/LennyBeta1, DebianTesting, Debtags/SearchHelp, Derivatives/Census (PureOS, Purism, Ubuntu), EmbeddedCodeCopies, Firefox, Firmware, Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation, Hardware/ShippingWithDebian, InstallingDebianOn, (Acer, (AspireOne, (it, ru, -D250-1821, /Discussion)), Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux), JeremiahFoster, ko/SSDOptimization, LegoDesigners, LennyIllustratedInstall, MilenaLavanchy, Mobile, nblythe, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PortsDocs/BootstrappingRust, PortTemplate, pt_BR/InstallingDebianOn/Acer/AspireOne, QemuUserEmulation, REVU, ru/DebianRussian, ServicesHosting, SSDOptimization, Teams/DPL/New, UpstreamGuide
• DebConf wiki pages: DebConf18

Issues

• Crashes in gedit, diffoscope, groff, firefox, firefox-esr, evolution, gitlab-cli, evolution-data-server
• Incompatibility between Linux and wireless-regdb
• Regressions in evolution, bash-completion (1 2)
• Features in shellcheck, aptitude, evolution, undertime, lintian (1 2 3 4), whowatch (1 2), gedit-plugin-translate, diffoscope, DDPO, tracker.debian.org
• Conffile handling in xul-ext-https-everywhere, ccrypt, evolution
• Missing deps in urlwatch
• Missing info in tracker.debian.org
• Incorrect info in python3-neutron-lbaas, python3-neutron-dynamic-routing, python3-neutron-fwaas, searx
• Switch to automation for libfftw3-dbg
• Minor issues in debian-policy, tracker.debian.org, libexif
• Broken symlink in firefox

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Planet Ubuntu post, 6 LWN comments and 240 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored urlwatch (1 2), streamlink (1 2), mwic
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved android-permissions aoflagger dia-shapes djview4 drivel firefox fotoxx gexec gmpc gparted hardinfo i2pd ldap-account-manager mlterm mpc png-definitive-guide pragha qutebrowser ristretto vnstat vnstati wsclean xmonad
  • rejected horae (don't submit bugs in screenshots), colorize (help ouput)
  • rejected deletion of oxygen-cursor-theme-extra/beneath-a-steel-sky (nonsense reason), prometheus (screenshots are versioned) apt (don't submit bugs in screenshots),

Administration

• myrepos: delete long merged branches, cherry-pick ancient patch
• whowatch: migrate files to github, ask for updating website
• Debian: debug LDAP server outage, grumble at bogus SpamCop report, redirect archive support request, apply LDAP CGI patch
• Debian mentors: fix UDD importer auth issue
• Debian wiki: redirect support requests, investigate HTTP 500 error, investigate stray tmp file, whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses
• Debian package tracker: deploy latest code

Sponsors

All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• whohas: Fedora x86_64
• myrepos: register improvements (1 2 3 4), link Debian bugs, fix perl dependency, shebang, webcheckout security updates (1 2 3 4), deterministic output, code formatting (1 2), status (hg no pager, idiomatic for cvs), vis for more git variants, docs (1 2), output control (1 2), directory control, command construction (1 2 3), cache support (1 2 3 4 5), add upgrade, graph, cache-mr-status.sh extensions, add news, upstream meta-data
• harmony: system librecaptcha, encoding
• librecaptcha: encoding
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: oriente, condtion variants, theoreticall, unitialize, disalb(e), coneect(ed), approrpriate(ly), gnorung, ontrolled, wheather, failt, optet, obsolte(d), effekt
  • lintian: oriente, scaleable, condtion variants, theoreticall, unitialize, disalb(e), coneect(s/ed), over ridden, wih, approrpriate(ly), gnorung, ontrolled, wheather, failt, optet, obsolte(d), effekt
• Debian QA services: links, lintian.log (1 2)
• Debian PTS: https, lintian.log
• Debian UDD: https, lintian.log
• Debian security tracker: ceph-deploy accepted (1 2)
• Debian puppet: redirect mips64el
• Debian website: alioth.d.o to d.o for links (blends), https for links (backports, blends, bugs, planet, anonscm, manpages, cdimage-search), spi-inc.org link updates, LinuxJournal award
• Debian package uploads: harmony (1 2), librecaptcha (1 2 3)
• Debian sysadmin wiki: link to tips
• Debian wiki pages: BuilddSetup, debian/watch, Derivatives/Census/HandyLinux, DeveloperNews (1 2 3), Diagrams (1 2), Fonts, InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ThinkPad E540, LTS/Wheezy/SpectreMeltdown, M68k/Porting, Mentoring, Outreachy/Round15, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, research/publications, Scanner, Sprints, Statistics, SummerOfCode2018 (Projects/RadiatorThermovalveReverseEngineering), Teams (Debbugs/Spam, DPL/Reimbursement, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), UltimateDebianDatabase, ValentinHaenel
• Debian screenshots: add python3-harmony, python3-librecaptcha

Issues

• Crashes in nagstamon, qa.d.o dose-job
• Errors loading gnome-shell-extension-show-ip
• Expired certificates in screenshots.debian.net
• Features in needrestart (1 2), distro-tracker (1 2), harmony, debtags.d.o, systemd, apt, lintian, shellcheck
• Missing symbols in dbus-c++, tcl-expect
• Terminal handling in undertime
• Missing dependencies in webext-https-everywhere, webext-browserpass
• Missing package in debtags.d.o
• Errors in qa.d.o carnivore
• Useless fields in ftp.d.o Sources
• Assertions in vapicheck
• Formatting issues in ddupdate, undertime
• Incorrect description in python3-murano
• Garbage collection in librecaptcha
• Homepage update for unar

Review

• Spam: reported 1 LWN comment, 14 Debian bug reports and 226 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored minidb (1 2), urlwatch (1 2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved alttab aseba bart-view colmap dispcalgui dwm fbcat fbreader fonts-beteckna fonts-essays1743 fonts-league-spartan gchempaint libreoffice libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-gtk3 overlay-scrollbar-gtk3 pikopixel.app plinth qt5ct quodlibet searx ser-player ser-player silverjuke task-kde-desktop tiger urlwatch
  • rejected task-kde-desktop (with software not in Debian), cwltool (logo), pokemmo (package removed, non-free game), pokemmo-installer (non-free game), passwordsafe (not Debian), arduino (upstream), gnome-keyring/gcr/pinentry-qt (not a user support site)
  • approved deletion of phototonic (another package)
  • rejected deletion of plymouth-themes/stoken (weird reason), rygel/hydra-gtk (not a support site), firefox (screenshots are versioned), screenfetch (not the place for upstream disputes)

Administration

• myrepos: merge patches, triage bugs
• Debian: forward domain expiry, discuss sensitive files with service maintainer
• Debian QA: bug triage
• Debian package tracker: deploy latest code
• Debian mentors: check why package wasn't uploaded, restart importer after crash
• Debian wiki: remove extraneous tmp file, fix user email address, unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domain
• Debian website: investigate translation update issue

Communication

• Send Debian DevNews 45
• Reported on negotiating ownership of libre code
• Initiate discussions about pyapi-gitlab vs python-gitlab, including cppcheck results in distro-tracker

Sponsors

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

Changes

• whohas: related software
• codespell: typos
• foxtrotgps: switch from GConf to GSettings
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: accapt(ed), consifer(ed), defered, timout, unncessary, bumpded, certificat, acount(s), perference(s), temproary, lenghtening, tranport, invalide, ACII
  • lintian: accapt(ed), consifer(ed), unncessary, bumpded, certificat, acount(s), perference(s), temproary, lenghtening, tranport, invalide, ACII
• Debian Planets: update Apertis logo
• Debian fakeupstream: support Python __version__ in files in commits (1, 2)
• Debian derivatives census: git for Planet Debian
• Debian puppet: wafer referrers
• Debian portfolio: add salsa
• Debian security tracker: https, normalise CVE identifiers, redmine RCE, CVE-2017-9801 NFU status, CVE-2018-1294 fixed, CVE-2017-7516 patch
• Debian testing migration: drop dupe excuse
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord, harmony (0.2.2-1 0.2.2-2), librecaptcha (0.2.0-1 0.2.0-2)
• Debian wiki config: salsa
• Debian wiki pages: BIOS, BSP, (2018/03/al/Tirana), DebianDay (2018), DebianEvents/be/2018/FOSDEM, DebianLogo, Derivatives (FrontDesk, Integration), DesktopEnvironment (1 2), DeveloperNews, Firmware (Updates (1 2)), gsoc, GSoC, ia64, InstallingDebianOn (Acer/Spin1, SolidRun (CuBox, CuBox-i)), JigdoOnLive, LTS/Development, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PressCoverage (2018), RISC-V, Salsa/FAQ, Sprints, SummerOfCode (2018/Projects/FreedomBoxContainer), Teams (ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList, Treasurer/Organizations, WindowMaker), X32Port, Year
• File Formats wiki pages: Dalvik_Executable
• Wikipedia: List_of_version_control_software (all reverted: 1 2 3)

Issues

• Crashes in apt, evolution, Xwayland, gnome-shell (1 2), GNOME gitlab, nautilus, torbrowser-launcher
• False positives in duck
• Incompatibility in gnome-shell-extension-show-ip
• Incorrect glyph in VL Gothic
• Liberation of the OmniGraffle format
• Features in tracker.debian.org, adequate, lintian (1 2 3 4), debian-dad, needrestart (1 2), harmony (1 2), diffoscope (1 2 3)
• New versions of youtube-dl
• Code issues in ncdu
• Cruft in kytos-utils
• Missing symbols in libsnmp30, libhpmud0, libmpx2, libparted-fs-resize0
• List formatting in mblaze
• Intents to package purple-discord, harmony, librecaptcha

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments 8 Debian bug reports and 229 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed urlwatch, minidb and sponsored streamlink (1 2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved animals blender breeze-icon-theme ember firefox-locale-hu fontypython formiko geeqie iraf kde-standard klystrack leafnode libreoffice libreoffice-math mate-applet-brisk-menu mricron papirus-icon-theme photofilmstrip psk31lx putty python3-pyraf python-link-grammar qt5ct rma speedpad xtide xtide-coastline
  • rejected tuxpaint (just a dot), cinnamon (probably non-free imagery), tipp10 (not on Debian), xinit/default-jdk (other software), faenza-icon-theme/herculesstudio (upstream screenshots), xtide-data-nonfree (package from non-free)
  • approved deletion of pegsolitaire (wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus/budgie-keyboard-autoswitch-applet (spam reason), tellico (non-understandable reason)

Administration

• Debian: try to regain OOB access to a host, try to connect with a hoster, restart bacula after db restart, provide some details to a hoster, add debsnap to snapshot host, debug external email issue, redirect users to support channels
• Debian mentors: redirect to sponsors, teach someone about dput .upload files, check why a package disappeared
• Debian wiki: unblacklist IP address, whitelist email addresses, whitelist email domain, investigate DocBook output crash

Communication

• Initiate discussion about ingestion of more security issue feeds
• Invite LinuxCNC to the Debian derivatives census

Sponsors

I renewed my support of Software Freedom Conservancy.

The Discord related uploads (harmony, librecaptcha, purple-discord) and the Debian fakeupstream change were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Changes

• foxtrotgps: support Python 3 (1 2), Python sqlite3, BeautifulSoup 4, feedparser 'where', W3C GeoRSS, descriptionless GeoRSS
• dpkg: add version details
• debian-goodies: find-dbgsym-packages ignore installed, -dbg fallback, cleanups (1 2 3 4)
• spelling dictionaries:
  • codespell: lik, unconditionnal(y), advane(d), netowrk(s), strech, checkstum, possibily
  • lintian: lik, unconditionnal(y), advane(d), netowrk(s), checkstum, possibily
• Debian Planets: https, update Cumulus Linux logo
• Debian BTS usertags: cleanup of user typos, abbreviations, non-existent lists etc
• Debian derivatives census: 1 MiB patch limit, syntax fix
• Debian QA services: sources.d.o, fix popcon graphs, excuses links, git migration
• Debian buildd website: sources.d.o
• Debian dose: sources.d.o
• Debian package tracker: sources.d.o, deb.d.o, help bugs (1 2), newcomer fixes (1 2)
• Debian PTS: sources.d.o (1 2), git migration (1 2), oldoldstable-updates fix, policy 4.1.3
• Debian security tracker: ROBOT, woff2/brotli embeds, cleanup
• Debian puppet: https, upper-case (bugs etc) redirects
• Debian website: update testing links, add astro blend
• Debian wiki pages: AdditionalDebianMailingLists, EmbeddedCodeCopies, FPGA, Hardening/RepoAndImages, InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100HA (1 2), KansaiDebianMeeting, MemberBenefits, Multiarch/Implementation, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PolicyKit, Qbs (1 2), QBS, Salsa/Doc, ServicesSSL, SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags (1 2), Treasurer/Organizations)

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-shell (1 2), tracker/sqlite3, upower, plymouth, virt-sandbox, pidgin, needrestart-session
• Broken links in lists.d.o
• Missing files in thermald
• Dependencies in openbox
• Underlinking in libunwind
• Conffile removal in reiserfsprogs, thermald, firejail-profiles, marble-data, cups-filters, speech-dispatcher
• Features in lintian (1 2 3), bls/bls-standalone, qemu-user-static, debsecan, wiki.d.o, adequate
• Meta-data in libsqlite3-0-dbg
• Switch to automation for libtk8.6-dbg, libtcl8.6-dbg
• New versions of python-mechanicalsoup
• Typos in linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86, needrestart
• Packaging needed for robobrowser
• File overwriting in glhack
• Unactionable warnings in qa.d.o, shared-mime-info, apt
• Minor issues in lintian

Review

• Spam: reported 2 LWN comments, 8 Debian bug reports and 254 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored streamlink, open-ath9k-htc-firmware
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved adlibtracker2 aladin allure budgie-countdown-applet budgie-keyboard-autoswitch-applet budgie-previews-applet budgie-quicknote-applet budgie-showtime-applet budgie-window-mover-applet cdck chess.app colordiff elpa-fountain-mode eyes17 fonts-noto-color-emoji gnome-games-app grisbi herbstluftwm konsole lambdahack ncmpcpp nudoku nudoku nwipe pidgin-skype qpxtool rgxg screen stumpwm xfburn xmonad
  • rejected gtk-sharp3 (some other software), firmware-linux-nonfree (not a bug reporting website), dwarf-fortress (non-free)
  • rejected deletion of gkamus (spam reason), screen/gnome-packagekit (bogus reason)

Administration

• Debian: fix sbuild config on buildd, cleanup after git gc OOM, redirect CD support queries, answer SSH hash question again
• Debian QA: deploy patches
• Debian mentors: check why package was not imported
• Debian installer: apply patches
• Debian PTS: investigate issues after git migration, apply patch, deploy patches
• Debian package tracker: deploy patches, update mirror URL in db
• Debian mentors: remove a broken upload
• Debian wiki: redirect a bouncing mail, whitelist email addresses
• Debian website: work on git conversion
• Debian derivatives census: deploy change, remove patches larger than 1MiB
• Openmoko: forcibly reboot

Communication

Initiate discussions about m68k usertags, buildd chroot creation failures and game server packaging.

Sponsors

The dpkg patch was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.