Debian
Posts related to Debian, the universal operating system.
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- Outdated documentation in dd-list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:
- 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
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:
- 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.