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• Outdated links in gssproxy, isenkram-cli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.

Focus

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

Changes

• visdom: fix license metadata
• webdl: ABC iView livestream support
• check-all-the-things: update AFL dep
• duck: more redirect/deletion phrases (1 2)
• devscripts: typo
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2), lintian (1 2)
• Debian QA services: more usertags fixing (1 2 3)
• Debian package uploads: apt-listchanges read-edid
• Debian screenshots: removed wsjtx (Windows screenshot)
• Debian usertags: fix some more typos and mistakes
• Debian wiki pages: ConfigPackages, DebianBookworm, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/DebCamp, DebianKernel/GitBisect, DebianMentorsFaq, DebianTrixie, Derivatives/CensusTemplate, Glossary, Lintian (Spec/LintianHarness, Tags (build-depends-on-python-dev-with-no-arch-any, Contributing, DB, Template, test)), Mobile, PulseAudio, qa.debian.org, Sahil%20Dhiman, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList, timeshift, TroubleShooting, VMware
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in lintian-brush, evince
• Non-distributable files in nmslib
• Silent failure in tweeper
• Usability issues in systemd
• Features in dctrl-tools, lintian, gedit translate plugin
• New versions of youtube-dl
• Incorrect case conversion in webext-debianbuttons
• Missing documentation in synaptic, samba
• Syntax error in yubico-piv-tool
• Warnings in samba-common-bin
• Packaging needed for darkreader

Review

• Spam: reported 175 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored acr
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved 2048 apparmor-notify apt-listdifferences apt-show-versions cataclysm-dda-curses ckb-next el-ixir growlight lazpaint-gtk2 lazpaint-qt5 nethack-console notcurses-bin pcsx2 performous-composer piu-piu projecteur puzzle-jigsaw ricochet setzer shotcut shotwell systray-mdstat tagainijisho tikzit vonsh wesnoth-1.14 wsjtx xsecurelock xserver-xorg-core
  • rejected mathgl (macOS), fceux (running proprietary game), photoflow (proprietary and problematic image), xserver-xorg-core (another package), xfce4-terminal (another XFCE package)
  • approved deletion of rpcbind (manual page)
  • rejected deletion of notcurses-bin (screenshots are versioned), gnome (Chromium is open source, the logo could be either), hashcat/onboard/knavalbattle/jack-keyboard/kcharselect (spam)

Administration

• Debian wiki: disable attachments due to security issue, approve accounts

Communication

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

Sponsors

The visdom, apt-listchanges work and lintian-brush bug report 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

• libicns: add 64x64 PNG support, fixup
• repology-webapp: mention alternatives
• git-imerge: fix makefile, https, sync description, mention alternatives
• foxtrotgps: bump max zoom to 20
• spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian
• Debian package tracker: add Repology link
• Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures (1 2), morfessor (1 2 3), pyemd (1 2), git-imerge (1 2 3), libforms (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: CrossGrading, DebianDesktop/Artwork/Bullseye, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/orga (1 2 3), DebianMentorsFaq, DebianRepository/Setup, Derivatives/Census (Bloss, DANOS, Purism (1 2)), DeveloperNews (1 2 3), EmbeddedCopies, LVM, ManualPage, MemberBenefits, Mentoring, Python/GitPackaging, RepairEDID, Statistics, tasksel
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in hexedit, gnome-shell-timer
• Dependency issue in dh-python
• TLS breakage in purple-discord/NSS
• Features in api.ftp-master.debian.org, purple-discord, distro-info, lintian
• Embedded copies in rust-webpki-roots
• Broken apt sources in mmdebstrap, neurodebian, opendnssec, openstack-debian-images, openstack-tempest-ci, sbuild, shadowsocks-libev, xen-tools
• Conffile removal needed in metacity-common
• Misclassification in coreutils df
• User interface issues in bugs.debian.org
• Warnings in openjdk-11-jre-headless, gourmet

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 147 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: merged libicns patches
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved asciinema bleachbit bpytop braillefont engrampa epiphany-browser flam3 games-console gdebi gedit-plugin-terminal gtkam gtkam-gimp kate knocker krusader nvme-cli pagemon pinta termtris tio xfce4-terminal
  • rejected nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal (gnome-software page), ddgr (web browser), fbless (help output), asciiart/googler (proprietary image), vim-conque (macOS), ncurses-term (package itself has no UI), kxterm/xvt/microcom (logo), aha (htop not aha), clipit (about dialog), lxde (leafpad, not all of LXDE)
  • approved deletion of dmz-cursor-theme (no cursors displayed
  • rejected deletion of usemod-wiki (homophobic), tuxpaint (not the place for bugs reports), kcharselect/hashcat/jack-keyboard/knavalbattle (spam)

Administration

• Debian: get us removed from an RBL
• Debian wiki: reset email addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Sent Debian Misc Developer News (#53)
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The pytest-rerunfailures/pyemd/morfessor 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

• myrepos: link to multi-git-status
• pytest-rerunfailures: relax dep version, typos, rst syntax, https, yaml syntax
• morfessor: metadata fixes
• nmslib: URL, license
• gensim: relax dep version
• Debian portfolio: link to Debian Janitor service (sent privately)
• Debian QA services: link to Debian Janitor service
• Debian mirror list: remove ftp.utexas.edu
• Debian package uploads: python-preshed
• Debian wiki pages: CopyrightReviewTools, DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Installation, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/orga (1 2), DebianLocations, de/CopyrightReviewTools, DellServerManagement, Derivatives/Census/Auxtral, DeveloperNews (1 2), DontBreakDebian, Games/Suggested, InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/ROCK64, Keysigning/Need, LocalGroups, LudovicRousseau, MemberBenefits, Po4a, PrivacyIssues, qa.debian.org, StaticLinking, Statistics, Teams/Welcome/BrainStorming
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-shell-extension-log-out-button, gnome-shell-extension-show-ip, geeqie, webdl (sent privately), webkit2gtk
• Broken apt sources in calamares-settings-debian, apt, cloud-init, debian-edu-config, debian-lan-config, debirf, docker.io, dpmb, fai-doc, golang-pault-go-archive, lxc-templates, mariadb-10.3, marionnet, mercurial
• Broken symlink in ansible
• Broken feeds in ooni.org
• Python 3 support needed in git-remote-hg
• Features in Hefur
• New versions of libtorrent-rasterbar, restic
• Website outdated for morfessor
• Dependency issues in libintellij-annotations-java
• Code copies in cython-blis
• License change needed in visdom
• Incorrect homepage in thermald
• Conffile removal needed in tracker
• Git tag issue in gensim
• Intent to package morfessor, nmslib, pyemd, pytest-rerunfailures, gensim

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 179 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved dde-calendar deja-dup dstat eventstat facter fbset forkstat friendly-recovery galternatives goodvibes grub2-splashimages grub-splashimages gtimelog hdparm health-check hostname info2www iotop-c iselect jack-keyboard jerry xmaxima
  • rejected grub2-splashimages (not useful screenshot), cockpit-system (menacing cartoon character), gpsbabel (help output), openscenegraph (no UI shown, content of unknown license), tesseract-ocr-ara (random Android app), libkdepimdbusinterfaces5 (unrelated logo)
  • approved deletion of vidalia (unrelated screenshot), bochs-wx (screenshot of wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of xfce4 (boilerplate reason), qtcreator (screenshots are versioned), gnome-icon-theme-blankon (incomprehensible), hashcat/kcharselect/phpbb3/xbubble/youtube-dl/jack-keyboard (spam)

Administration

• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Attempt to initiate discussion about packages broken by the bullseye transition from /updates to -security
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The gensim, cython-blis, python-preshed, pytest-rerunfailures, morfessor, nmslib, visdom and pyemd 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

• myrepos: prevent failure from mr status in bzr repos
• foxtrotgps: bzr option typo
• hexchat: hide focus channel menu item when already focussed
• Debian package uploads: foxtrotgps, smart-open, python-importlib-metadata, python-pyfakefs, python-zipp, python-threadpoolctl
• Debian wiki pages: ContributionCertificate, DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Audacity/Setup, DebianUnstable, Digital_Cameras/NikonCamera, Firmware/Open, FreedomboxIntroduction, Hardware, NickBlack, PaulWise/Standards, PrivacyIssues, Statistics
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gtk-vector-screenshot, gtranscribe (1 2)
• Start failure in rasdaemon
• CVS to git conversion needed for Mancala (sent privately)
• Obsolete conffile removal needed for speech-dispatcher
• Hosting location decision required for apt-repos
• Incorrect homepage in libforms
• Incorrect description for whipper
• Parallel builds needed in cython-blis
• Features in lintian, apt-file
• New versions of thinc, preshed, libforms
• Incorrect paths in theano
• Typo in dpkg (sent on IRC)
• Missing APT_CONFIG usage in apt-repos

Review

• Spam: reported 231 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c gtranscribe
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved abcde antimony cava cd-discid celluloid crazydiskinfo drawing dwww elektroid epiphany-browser evolution firefox-esr gaphor gl-117 gnome-2048 gnome-maps gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel gnome-usage gparted iotop-c ipv6toolkit kdenlive kernelshark lazarus libreoffice-writer lollypop lxqt mpv nemo phosh quodlibet superkb supertux telegram-desktop tootle topplot unity-control-center vim-athena zim
  • approved deletion of opencc (screenshot of the github repo), telegram-desktop (low quality)
  • rejected deletion of mumble (screenshots are versioned), audacious (keyboard mash), apache2/hashcat/onboard/jack-keyboard/kcharselect/inxi (spam reason)

Administration

• Debian: restarted RAM eating service
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Sponsors

The cython-blis/preshed/thinc/theano bugs and smart-open/python-importlib-metadata/python-pyfakefs/python-zipp/python-threadpoolctl 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

• purple-discord: cleanups (1 2)
• psqlodbc: fix test build failure
• ifenslave fix variable lookup, cleanups (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• dak: cleanup
• dh-make: typo (1 2)
• Debian QA services: fix lintian link
• Debian BTS usertags: correct some incorrectly named users
• Debian usertags QA: fix argument order, correct more error classes
• Debian package uploads: ifenslave, java-gnome, purple-discord
• Debian wiki pages: ath9k_htc/open_firmware, AtiHowTo, DebConf/20/Tshirts, DebianEdu/GetACopy, DeveloperNews, LocalGroups, LTS/Meetings, MemberBenefits, Ports, PrivacyIssues (1 2), Salsa/Doc, ShayanDoust, SourceOnlyUpload, SystemBuildTools, UltimateDebianDatabase/UsedInDebianInfrastructure
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in webdl (reported privately)
• Deprecated API usage in github-backup
• Features in gtranscribe, hw-probe (1, 2), calamares, incoming.debian.org, reportbug (1 2 3), Firefox, piuparts.debian.org
• Incorrect dependencies in libextractor (1 2), libjpeg-turbo
• Comparison failure in diffoscope
• Warnings in samba Python modules, automake, gtranscribe, hachoir
• Underlinking in libnetsnmptrapd.so, libvpf.so, xserver-xorg-video-intel
• MUA handling issues in reportbug (1 2)
• Importing into a VCS needed for Debian base-files
• Compatibility issue in dnssec-trigger
• Description issue in unp
• Broken link in brz
• Broken functionality in bzr

Review

• Spam: reported 182 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop, iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved adequate anki aoflagger canadian-ham-exam carmetal connman-gtk dmagnetic emacs emacs-gtk gazebo gchempaint gcompris-qt gcu-bin goldendict gresistor gtklick gztool iotop-c jack-keyboard kalgebra kalzium khangman kstars lilyterm logisim mediawiki nyx optgeo osdlyrics parley python-treetime qalculate-gtk qelectrotech simulide solvespace step taptempo theli util-linux xgterm ximtool xwallpaper
  • rejected autotalent (not the package), bart (logo), mumble-server (client UI), hpcc (not a screenshot)
  • approved deletion of theli (replacing incorrect screenshot)
  • rejected deletion of gnome-bluetooth/aptitude/torbrowser-launcher (unintelligible), phpbb3/hashcat/onboard/kcharselect (spam), various packages (not the place to report abuse), vim (not the place to send kudos)

Administration

• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, reset email addresses

Communication

• Initiate discussion about browsers, webmail and mailto:
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors

The purple-discord, ifenslave and psqlodbc 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-imerge: use python3 by default
• youtube-dl: add RTRFM radio station extractor
• ifenslave: cleanup, fix infinite recursion, fix missing variables
• check-all-the-things: update URLs, add many sources of and ideas for new checks
• how-can-i-help: ignore debhelper cruft, build manual page from source, prevent printing autorm header unless needed
• apt-listchanges: cleanups (1 2 3 4), remove hardcoding, add latest option, syslog/log frontends and title disable option, configuration directory
• lintian: use UTF-8 aware spelling sorting, fix wording (1 2)
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
• Debian usertags QA: drop hardcoding, ignore cruft, refactor, add rename/transfer/copy functions, debug mode (1 2)
• Debian package uploads: ifenslave (1 2), lxml
• Debian wiki pages: AutomatedInstallation, Cloud/AmazonEC2Image, DebianAlternatives, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline, DebianInstaller/Bugs, DebianMentors (Faq), DebianNetDomains, DebianTesting, Derivatives/Census (EmmabuntusDE, Template), DeveloperNews, Firmware/Open, GetInvolved-Beta, HelpDebian, InstallingDebianOn (Dell, Lemote/Loongson2K1000, Marvell, Router, Turris, TUXEDO (NOTEBOOKS/InfinityBookS14v5)), IRC, Keysigning/Offers, LTS, MemberBenefits, MIPS/LoongsonPi, Mobile, Multiarch/Tuples, PanfrostLima, PinePhone, Ports/ia64, PortTemplate, ProgrammingLanguage, Schroot, snd-emu10k1, SponsoredMaintainer, SystemBuildTools, Teams (3D-printer, Cloud, Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, DPL/OfficialImages)
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in nouveau libraries (reported on IRC), webkit2gtk
• Move conserver from Debian non-free to main
• File conflict in brz
• Outdated description in hub
• Strange dpkg-parsechangelog use in fritzing, fritzing-parts
• Patch merging needed in apt-listchanges
• Missing link in password-manager-resources
• Conffile removal needed in bsdmainutils
• Features in lintian
• Missing quoting in wifi-qr

Review

• Spam: reported 174 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved bashtop buildbot buildstream deepin-movie deepin-terminal ding drawing dte firefox-locale-gu font-manager fonts-hermit fonts-proggy fonts-terminus gimp-gutenprint gnome-builder gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu gztool kdevelop lilypond lxhotkey-gtk mkdocs-nature ncdu nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver obs-studio opencubicplayer openshot-qt packetsender partitionmanager plakativ poezio pulseeffects pyzo roundcube scalpel scrcpy tesseract-ocr thunar tilde tracetuner verbiste-gtk zytrax
  • rejected packetsender (help output), pyzo/sasm/gztool/herculesstudio/posterazor (not Debian), minetest-mod-character-creator (not minetest)
  • rejected deletion of partimage/flashrom/apache2 (spam)

Administration

• Debian BTS: usertags QA
• Debian IRC channels: fixed a channel mode lock
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, ping folks with bouncing email

Communication

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

Sponsors

The ifenslave and apt-listchanges work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.