log
Life, Code, Stuff.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- tracer: mention needrestart
- duck: add inactive project indicator
- Debian wiki pages: AutoGeneratedFiles, CopyrightReviewTools, CornerCase, CrossGrading, DeveloperNews, Hardware/Wanted, InstallingDebianOn/SiFive/HiFiveUnmatched
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- vcs-home wiki: add more dotfile repos/tools
Issues
- Files in wrong dir in git-cola
- Conffile removal needed in dkms
- New SWH listers needed for HGKeeper, Smithy, humungus, git-arr, gitile, gotweb, ABF, Bonobo Git Server, darcsden
Review
- Debian packages: sponsored purple-discord x2
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved c-evo-dh-gtk2 fim fish foliate mpc123 nfoview qpwgraph scite viewnior
- rejected hw-probe (photos), wine64 (desktop logo), phasex (artwork), qpwgraph (about dialog), fim/fish (help output), python-lunch (full desktop), ruby-full (website), ausweisapp2 (PII), pngtools (movie poster), x11vnc (web page,) mount (systemd), blastem (photo), ca-certificates (tiny, Windows)
Administration
- Debian servers: extract user data from recent wiki backups
- Debian wiki: fix broken user account, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC.
Sponsors
The SWH work was sponsored. 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
- sqliteodbc: fix crash (also sent upstream privately)
- swh-docs: add FAQs for Add Forge Now (1 2 3)
- swh-web: improve forge contact mail (1 2)
- devscripts: improve chdist, build-rdeps
- duck: add indicator
- userdir-ldap: TLS
- Debian BTS usertags: fixed usertags for Java, archive admins, ports
- Debian QA services: link cruft report
- Debian wiki pages: AutoGeneratedFiles, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, Derivatives/Census/Zevenet, Firmware/Open, GPS, IRC, JelmerVernooij, Ports/loong64 (1 2), SSH, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements (1 2)), thermald
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- notmuch wiki pages: frontends (1 2)
Issues
- Features in lintian, util-linux
- Enable feature in xwayland
- Missing transitional package in golang-ginkgo
- Broken symlinks in dateutils, libimage-magick-perl
- Conffile removal needed in samba-common, ddcontrol
- Python 3 porting needed for Debian carnivore
- Missing git tags in DBD-ODBC
- CPAN release needed for DBD-ODBC
- SWH listers needed for hgweb, OSDN, Gitee, GitHub Enterprise, klaus, Phorge, Phabricator, Assembla
- SWH listing problems for SourceForge (1 2)
Review
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved budgie-desktop cadabra2 education-desktop-cinnamon education-desktop-kde extundelete lfm yt-dlp
- rejected freecell-solver-bin (Windows), weboob-qt (chess), task-marathi (random website), stockfish/edict (mobile), libnss3 (random logo), x11vnc (selfie), x11vnc (movie poster), sudoku-solver (Android), fonts-noto-color-emoji (too small)
Administration
- Debian IRC: rescue obsolete/unused #debian-wiki channel
- Debian servers: rescue data from an old DebConf server
- Debian wiki: approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The SWH, golang-ginkgo, DBD-ODBC, sqliteodbc work was sponsored. 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
- JAA little-things: add ArchiveBot monitor script, fix up Bing scraping script (both sent on IRC)
- forum-dl: cleanup
- fdupes: cleanups
- debcargo/debcargo-conf: minimise package long description boilerplate (1 2)
- pypi2deb: fix crash
- Debian QA services: update architecture hardcoding
- Debian PTS: update to UDD lintian service, disable updating dead/broken data
- Debian wiki: fix log rotation
- Debian BTS usertags: fix architecture/release/debhelper/privacy usertags
- Debian wiki pages: ArchitectureVariants, DavidWeinehall, DebConf (21/Bids/Sweden, 22/Organizers, 25/Bids), DebianDay/2023/Türkiye/İzmir, DebianInstaller (ReleaseProcess, TrackingStatus), DebianNetDomains, Derivatives/Census/Ubuntu, ExternalEntities, FastTrack, Firmware/Updates, how-can-i-help (Ideas), ImportantDirectories, InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I, LoongArch, LXD, M68k/QemuSystemM68k, MiniDebConf (1 2), NvidiaGraphicsDrivers, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, Ports (loong64, riscv64), PortTemplate, ppviewerFonts, Services/lintian.debian.org, SourcesList, StaticLinking, Statistics (1 2), Teams (DebConf/Video/FunnyMoments, Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements, Webmaster/PointReleaseWorkflow), ThomasChung, uk/Hardware/Database, UsefulImprovements, YutakaNiibe
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Bad data in UDD bugs script
- Conffile removal needed in smart-notifier, scite
- Duplicate menu items in evolution
- Incorrect unsigned mail handling in evolution
- Missing dependency in libcairo2-dev
- Incorrect redirects in gnu.org, ArchiveBot
- TMP issue in mmdebstrap
- Formatting issue in iproute2
- False positive in anorack
- Broken manual page in jbig2
- SWH listers needed for git9, Kallithea
Review
- Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved fzf lame lsd termshark vifm
- rejected orthanc (private data), gpr/orthanc (Windows), qrencode (random QR codes), weboob-qt (chess website)
Administration
- Debian IRC: fix #debian-pkg-security topic/metadata
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Initiate discussion about relaxing Debian package description rules
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The SWH work was sponsored. 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
- libpst: cleanups
- duck: 01.org is obsolete
- lintian: 01.org is obsolete
- reportbug: usertags pseudo-headers are now repeatable
- Debian BTS usertags: added porter usertags, fixed glibc/DSA/pcre/porter usertags
- Debian package uploads: git-imerge (1 2)
- Debian wiki pages: BisectDebian, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianMaintainer, DebianTesting, PortsDocs/New (1 2), PortTemplate, PressCoverage
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources (1 2)
Debugging
- Investigated test failures after Debian pybuild distutils update
Issues
- Crashes in fdupes
- Missing dep in gnome-calculator
- Warnings in dbus-broker
- Incorrect unsigned mail handling in evolution
- Features in needrestart, evolution
- Deprecated interface use in git-imerge
- Broken symlink in libgnutls28-dev
- Obsolete URL in thermald
- Conffile removal in bluez, iio-sensor-proxy
Review
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
Administration
- Debian IRC: rescue an alternate channel and make it harder to join accidentally
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, update emails for accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The libpst work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- libpst: cleanups
- pytest-rerunfailures: cleanups
- git-mediate: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5)
- Debian buildd website: suggest reportbug, getbuildlog
- Debian wiki: drop page view events on log rotation
- Debian BTS usertags: fix cmake/pytest/release/archive/reproducible/ports usertags
- Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures, sptag
- Debian wiki pages: BisectDebian, DebianEdu/Status/Bullseye, DebianJessie, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianUnstable, DebianWheezy, DebianWiki/EditorGuide (1 2), FunambolInstallation, InstructionSelection, ManualPage, PortsDocs/New, PortTemplate, ReleaseGoals/SystemdAnalyzeSecurity, ReleasePartyBookworm/Belgium/Leuven, StefanKropp/SHIFT6mq, tasksel, Wajig
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Features in lintian, scancode-licencedb
- AppArmor denial in geoclue
- Errors from Debian DOSE cron job
- Mishandling of filenames in git-mediate
- Packaging needed for git-mediate
Debugging
Review
- Spam: reported 26 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved cherrytree convert-pgn dzen2 fcitx5-unikey kdevelop-pg-qt konq-plugins sass-stylesheets-gutenberg sass-stylesheets-purecss sddm-theme-breeze sddm-theme-elarun sddm-theme-maldives sddm-theme-maui sddm-theme-maya
- rejected orthanc (private data), chromium-browser (Windows), dconf-gsettings-backend (cartoon), browser-plugin-vlc/weboob-qt (photo), stockfish (tablet app), dbmix (website), convert-pgn/sudoku-solver (mobile app)
Administration
- Debian IRC: rescue empty Debian IRC channel
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The libpst, nmap, sptag, pytest-rerunfailures work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- thermal_daemon: fix thermal_monitor build, make power group configurable, cleanups
- trurl: cleanups
- yt-dlp: improve acast extractor
- duck: add indicator
- dpkg: avoid shell
- Debian BTS usertags: fix release/port usertags
- Debian QA services: more debugging, update hardcoding (1 2)
- Debian package uploads: foxtrotgps, sptag (1 2 3)
- Debian wiki pages: BookwormGdalPerl, ChrootOnAndroid, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianOval, DesertIslandTest, DHCP_Server, DissidentTest, Exim, InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I, InstructionSelection (1 2), PortsDocs/New, Ports (hurd-amd64, riscv64), ReleasePartyBookworm/Israel/Tel Aviv, SourcesList, StableUpdates, SuitesAndReposExtension, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Publicity/VersionRelease, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList, Webmaster/ReleaseCheckList), ThomasChung
Issues
- Crash in binarycontrol.debian.net (sent on IRC)
- Build failure in ddcci-dkms
- Incorrect description in manpages-ro-dev
- Obsolete conffile in gnome-applets-data
- Feature in lintian
Review
- Spam: reported 29 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
Administration
- Debian QA services: deploy changes
- Debian IRC: updated #debian-live admin list
- Debian mentors: investigate reason for missing package
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Initiate discussion about Debian OpenCL ICD virtual packages
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- gensim: cancel obsolete GitHub jobs
- i2c-tools: fix links
- notmuch-mutt: fix data loss, encoding
- foxtrotgps: gpsd API bump
- flower: drop bootstrap/celery branding
- pass-otp: fix typos, links, errors, warnings, safety
- git-imerge: fix tests, typo, lists of versions, distros
- duck: indicators
- Debian website: recommend pseudo-header for X-Debbugs-CC
- Debian screenshots:
- deleted pypy (just website)
- Debian QA services: fix crash
- Debian BTS: allow multiple X-Debbugs-CC lines, improve docs
- Debian BTS usertags: fix some porting, release, DSA usertags
- Debian package uploads: sptag
- Debian wiki pages: accessibility-devel, Brasil/IRC, Firmware/Updates, InstallingDebianOn/Wandboard, InstructionSelection, PortsDocs/New, Ports/hurd-amd64, Ports/loong64, SIMDEverywhere, Teams/RustPackaging
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
Review
- Spam: reported 3 Debian bug reports and 22 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored trurl
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved 3d-ascii-viewer angelfish autokey-gtk convert-pgn crystal-facet-uml deborphan diodon gcc glewlwyd glob2 kdiskmark loook man-db nemo ntpdate ntpsec-ntpdate paperwork-gtk pdftk-java picom python2.7 python3-tk python-tk scite software-properties-gtk stockfish stress-ng sudoku-solver util-linux-extra wmweather x11-apps xchat youtubedl-gui
- rejected pypy (website), fonts-atarismall (UI not just font), gtk-theme-config (photo), kamailio (diagram not interface), node-connect (bug report), laditools/debian-installer/weboob-qt (artwork), xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/ubuntustudio-menu (full desktop), freecell-solver-bin (mobile app), vorbis-tools (manual page), veroroute (macOS?), ttf-mscorefonts-installer (better existing screenshot), gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 (random mobile website), chromium-browser (random website), mixer.app (aspirational text?), stockfish/pulseaudio-utils (selfie)
Administration
- Debian IRC: set topic on new #debian-sa channel
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The SIMDe, gensim, sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- libsafe: allow local deps
- i2c-tools: usability
- notmuch: notmuch-mutt: fix queries, drop shell usage
- duck: add indicators (1 2)
- Debian BTS: fix some QA/Python usertags
- Debian QA services: pass on HTTP errors, block bingbot (1 2), update releases
- Debian package tracker: update hard-coded data
- Debian wiki pages: DebianExperimental, DebianInstaller/CreateUSBMedia, DebianLogo, FileSystem, Firmware/Open, PortsDocs/New, QEMU, ReleasePartyBookworm
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Security issue in secret manager (sent privately)
- Broken symlinks in opencpn
- Test problem in SPTAG
- Debian migration unblock needed for evolution
Review
- Spam: reported 22 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored trurl
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved audacious fortune-anarchism four-in-a-row freecell-solver-bin liblatex-table-perl mathtex neofetch pass px quadrapassel sash shellex swell-foop wifi-qr yash zsh-autosuggestions
- rejected csmash (Windows wallpaper), anarchism (not very useful), agda-bin (music app), freecell-solver-bin (Windows), brasero/sagemath (screenshots web page), chrome-gnome-shell (phone call log), nitroshare (selfie), golang-go (logo), build-essential (random website), chromium-browser (photo)
Administration
- Debian IRC: fixed the #debian-mips channel topic
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
- Debian QA services: deploy changes, investigate SourceForge uscan issue
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The SPTAG work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- colord: update link
- ArchiveBot: add gitweb ignoreset
- gensim: gitignore generated file, fix docs build, update links
- duck: add indicators (1 2)
- Debian QA services: drop jessie, convert errors to SQL commands, handle timeouts
- Debian BTS usertags: fix BSP, porter, rebootstrap, Python 3 tags
- Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2), sptag (1 2)
- Debian wiki pages: CrossGrading, Hardware/Wanted, InstructionSelection, OrganicMaps, Ports (loong64), PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages, Services (dpkg (IRC bot) factoid search, judd (IRC bot)), SummerOfCode2023
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Broken links in Debian Portfolio Service (sent privately), debian-security-support
- Incorrectly versioned dependencies in firefox-esr
- New maintainer needed for purple-discord, harmony
- Conffile removal needed in pylint
- Outdated embedded code copy in gensim
- Expired certificate in ca-certificates
Review
- Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 14 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved alpine android-file-transfer apt atop audacity boinc-manager boomaga buku changetrack cmatrix cpufetch dpkg drkonqi dte easyeffects eog evince f3d freecell-solver-bin fzy gedit ghostwriter gimp gimp-help-en gmlive gnome-calculator gnome-chess gnome-disk-utility gnome-feeds gnome-firmware gnome-logs gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel gnome-shell-extension-freon gnome-shell-extension-prefs gnome-shell-extension-weather gnome-software gnome-sudoku gnome-text-editor gufw hwloc iagno im-config inkscape kamoso kde-config-systemd liblatex-table-perl libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-numbertext libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-writer minder most nautilus nmon nvtop opensnitch pageedit pdfgrep pinpoint pipx planner plasma-welcome procps qalc qrterminal rtl-433 spacebar spek stockfish syncthingtray-kde-plasma systemd-resolved systray-mdstat uefitool vim-motif webext-privacy-badger webext-ublock-origin-firefox xapers zim
- rejected lighttpd-modules-ldap (medical photo?), webext-debianbuttons (accidental), mkdocs (random web page), wallstreet (truncated), qrencode (output not UI), cgpt (bug report?), fluid-soundfont-gm/ (photo), b43-fwcutter (wallpaper), chromium-browser/kopano-webapp-lighttpd/libc6 (mobile app), pspg (Fedora), mancala (another implementation), nginx (Russian flag), chromium-browser (homework?), qflipper (firmware not updater), chromium-browser (just a QR code), kde-telepathy-contact-list (random website), gcc (bug report?)
Administration
- Debian QA services: disabled updating jessie as it was removed
- Debian IRC: rescued #debian-s390x from inactive person
- Debian servers: repair a /etc git repo
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The gensim, sptag, purple-discord, harmony work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- translate-shell: https, typo
- pyemd: fix dep
- duck: sort, add moved site indicators
- devscripts: fix https, UTF-8, wnpp-alert
- reportbug: fix URLs/data
- Debian QA services: excuses improvements
- Debian package uploads: pyemd (1 2), sptag
- Debian sysadmin wiki pages: ports/hardware-requirements
- Debian wiki pages: DebianEdu (DebianEdu/Documentation (Buster, Etch, Jessie, Lenny, Squeeze, Stretch, Wheezy), GSoD2023Proposal, PageFragment/ObsoleteRelease), DebianIndia/MiniDebConfTamilNadu2023, DebianName, HardwareQualification, LibreOffice, PortsDocs/New, Ports/loong64, PortTemplate, PrivacyIssues, ReleaseParty, (Bookworm), Salsa, Security/U2F, Sparc64, Statistics, SummerOfCode2023/PendingProjects/DebianRustCoreutils, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList (BookwormCheckList))
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Feature in evolution
- Privacy issue in a communications client (sent privately)
- Packaging preparation needed for scancode-toolkit
- Conffile removal needed in puppet-agent
- New release needed for pyemd
- Incorrect link in dmitry
Review
- Spam: reported 36 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved baobab clamtk-gnome claws-mail davegnukem far2l fonts-monofur freecell-solver-bin gadmin-samba gimp-plugin-registry goldendict-webengine grub-imageboot kdiff3 mate-system-monitor memtest86+ micro netplan.io opensnitch oxygen-cursor-theme plasma-mobile sabnzbdplus wine wmaker wordgrinder-ncurses yoshimi
- rejected torcs (advertising?), chromedriver/libomxil-bellagio0-components-xvideo (selfie), weboob-qt (Windows), intel-microcode (Fedora, non-free), chromium-chromedriver (white screen)
Administration
- Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced package servefile
- Debian IRC: turn an old channel into a redirect to the right one
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The pyemd/sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.