log
Life, Code, Stuff.
Changes
- ddccontrol-db: DDC data for LG Flatron W2242PM monitor (waiting on admin approval)
- todo.sr.ht: fix email signatures
- whowatch: use Markdown in README, add related tools/services
- how-can-i-help: use dpkg-query and add no-download, no-installed-packages options.
- check-all-the-things: TODO items
- spelling dictionaries: codespell, lintian
- Debian QA services: drop obsolete link
- Debian package tracker: expose action item types
- Debian puppet: redirect Debian memberships page
- Debian website: link to additional consultants lists, hide link to broken service
- Debian wiki pages: Amokwabinaenyame, DebianEdu/Documentation/Presentations, DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp, DebianLogo, Design, DeveloperNews, HowToGetABacktrace, InstallingDebianOn, IRC, LocalGroups/DebianMuc, Mobile, PbuilderTricks, plymouth, ReleasePartyBuster (Israel/Haifa, Mexico/CDMX, UK/Cambridge), Screensaver, Statistics, SystemBuildTools, Teams (DebianJr, Publicity (Identica, micronews (1 2))), Wayland
- FOSSjobs: resources
Issues
- Features in liferea, bash-completion, linux, python-debian
- Correctness in liferea
- Wayland issues in gddccontrol
Review
- Spam: reported 168 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved abiword aconnectgui alacarte alsa-utils ams apitrace-gui aptitude audacity beneath-a-steel-sky dochelp doublecmd-help-en doublecmd-help-ru epiphany-browser eterm etherape feh florence gbemol gimp gkrellm gnome-calculator gnome-weather gnumeric gthumb gwenview html2ps hydra-gtk imview inkscape jigdo-file k3b kterm laborejo leafpad libatasmart-bin libraw19 libreoffice-calc lmms nano netrik nomacs opendict peek phpmyadmin qalculate-gtk safeeyes system-config-printer system-config-printer-udev thunar-volman ubuntustudio-controls util-linux vbetool wireshark-gtk x11-apps xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-power-manager xfce4-session xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-taskmanager xhtml2ps
- rejected godot3 (not Debian/Ubuntu), wireshark-gtk (documentation), wireshark-gtk/debconf/libreoffice-calc/audacity (unrelated UI)
- approved deletion of chromium (not Debian/Ubuntu)
- rejected deletion of paraview (support request), reportbug (nonsense reason), mesa-utils (jibberish reason), gnome-blog/gkamus/phpbb3/amarok (spam)
Administration
- Debian: investigate/fix gitlab issue, break LDAP sync lock
- Debian wiki: fix bugs in anti-spam script, whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, update email for accounts with bouncing email
Communication
- Initiate discussions about the future of the Debian Party Line, guidelines for Debian social media presences
- Invite MathLibre, Volumeio to the Debian derivatives census
- Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
All work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- Linux kernel: fix core dump argument splitting (accepted into -mm)
- corekeeper: update VCS info, fix correctness issues (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), cleanup, release
- libemail-date-perl: resign
- devscripts: improve config file loading
- spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
- Debian Planets: update Aptosid, CoreBiz logos
- Debian derivatives census: atomic overwrites (1 2 3 4), avoid full tmpfs
- Debian package tracking system: allow disabling oldstable (1 2)
- Debian QA services: automatically fix usertags
- Debian puppet: get package list
- Debian meta-packages: census atomic overwrites
- Debian website: support improvements (1 2), drop ARM links (1 2)
- Debian package uploads: corekeeper (1 2), leptonlib, tesseract-lang, tesseract, sysstat
- Debian wiki pages: accessibility-devel, AptPreferences, BuilddSetup, DebianDotNet, DebianTesting, Derivatives (Meetings, Census (QA, AlienVault-OSSIM, Aptosid, BlackWeb, CoreBiz, LMDE)), DeveloperNews (1 2 3), DualBoot (Windows), HowToGetABacktrace, InstallingDebianOn/OdroidHC1, IRC, KVM, LowThresholdAdoption, MemberBenefits, Mobile, PaulWise, PrivacyIssues, Salsa/FAQ, SimpleBackportCreation, StableUpdates, Teams (KeyringMaint, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList/BusterCheckList), ThisWeekInDebian, Welcome
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources
Issues
- Feature removal in doc-base
- Features in python-atomicfile, doc-base, u-boot, ufw, tracker.debian.org
- New versions of python-atomicfile
- Updates needed for corekeeper (1 2)
- Usability issues in user-mode-linux, openssh
- Change of upstream needed for dstat
- Broken links in man.sr.ht
- Typos in man.sr.ht
Review
- Spam: reported 1 tor trac comment, 1 Debian bug reports and 250 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved aaphoto accerciser alacarte amide aptitude apt-listbugs arora autopsy base-files bashburn bash-completion bastet bittwist bleachbit blueman boomaga boot-info-script bootlogd bustle bustle-pcap butteraugli cairo-dock-xgamma-plug-in catfish cbm chafa chaosreader childsplay chromium clonezilla configure-debian converseen crispy-doom daemonfs darktable dcraw ddnet deb-gview debian-goodies debian-handbook debian-reference delaboratory dhcpoptinj dillo dino-im discover displaycal dnstop e2fsck-static eog epiphany-browser exactimage exfat-fuse exfat-utils exif exifprobe exiftags exiftran exiv2 falkon file-roller firefox font-manager fotoxx fracplanet geeqie gimp gimp-ufraw gitlab gkdebconf glade gnome-boxes gnome-builder gnome-maps gnome-multi-writer gnome-pie goldendict gpa gpicview gthumb gtk3-nocsd gtkorphan gucharmap gufw gui-apt-key guymager gwenview handbrake helpman how-can-i-help hv3 icewm imagemagick imagemagick-6.q16 initramfs-tools ink keytouch-editor klavaro konqueror krita links2 littel lottanzb lshw-gtk luakit lynis menulibre midori mirage mousepad mtink mtpaint needrestart needrestart-session netsurf-gtk ntfs-config nut-monitor octave olive-editor partitionmanager pdfarranger peek pondus pyspread qutebrowser rkhunter shotwell solaar sylpheed system-config-printer tea texlive-base ufraw usbmount usbview v4l2ucp viewnior vifm viking vlc wireshark xfce4-appfinder xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-weather-plugin xsane xzgv
- rejected exfat-utils/exfat-fuse/dcraw/mtink/solaar/links2/epiphany-browser/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/xfce4-weather-plugin (unrelated UI), gniall/gnome-pie/blueman (about dialog), genius/p7zip-full/bup/dnsmasq/dnscrypt-proxy/usbguard (help output), cutter/xfce4-appfinder (wrong package), dnsmasq/dnscrypt-proxy (config file)
- approved deletion of olive (wrong package)
- rejected deletion of viewvc/gkamus/onboard/gnome-blog/viewvc (spam reason), lmemory/debconf/linkchecker (jibberish reason), angrydd (not a bug reporting site)
Administration
- Debian: answer SSH question, redirect LDAP change mail, fix some critical typos in LDAP, restart bacula after postgres restart
- Debian wiki: forward questions to page authors, answer wiki support questions, whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, ping folks with bouncing email addresses, disable accounts with bouncing email
- Debian package tracking system: deploy changes, configure automatic disabling of unused oldstable suites
- Debian derivatives census: restore corrupted file from backups, disable the code that corrupted the file, deploy changes
Communication
- Edit and release Misc Debian Developer News #48
- Initiate discussions about derivatives' OpenPGP keys, porting debian.org services to buster
- Welcome Achim Leitner from CoreBiz to the Debian derivatives census
- Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The leptonlib/tesseract-lang/tesseract/sysstat Debian uploads and the ufw feature request were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- bortport: cleanup
- myrepos: mention silver-platter
- spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3), lintian (1 2 3 4 5)
- Debian Planets: derivatives census updates (1 2 3 4 5 6)
- Debian derivatives census: delete merged branches, add Python lib, handle invalid changelogs, drop workarounds (1 2), whitespace, TODO updates (1 2), fix SVGs (1 2 3 4), add showing new logos
- Debian meta-packages: update census deps (1 2)
- Debian wiki pages: DebConf/19/Volunteer, Derivatives (Census (QA, Template, BlackWeb (1 2), Deepin, Donau, Elive, OLPC, ParrotSecurity, ProgressLinux, Q4OS, Qlustar, siduction, SolydXK, ttos, Ubuntu, VyOS, VyOS, Webconverger, Whonix (1 2), Zevenet, ZevenOS-Neptune), Integration), DeveloperNews, Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation, LinuxTag/Discussion, PaulWise, Presentations, PrivacyIssues, SeasonOfDocs2019 (ProjectProposals/ProfileParser), SeasonOfDocs, Statistics, Teams (DPL (AskingForMoney, New)), Outreach (Policies))
- Software Heritage wiki pages: PaulWise, Suggestion box: source code to add
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources
Issues
- Crashes in librecaptcha, gnome-maps, liferea, speech-dispatcher
- Features in aptitude (1 2), lintian
- Expired certificate on dedected.org (reported privately)
- Usability issues in librecaptcha, firefox
- Obsolete things in incoming.d.o
- Release needed for dosfstools
- Various issues in bash
- Malformed changelogs in Ubuntu binutils and other Debian derivatives' packages
- Minor issues in command-not-found
Review
- Spam: reported 288 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved aaphoto adduser apt-listchanges arch-test atop bsdmainutils chromium cinnamon configure-debian conluding coreutils cpu-checker cpuid cpustat ctop daptup ddccontrol ddcutil deepin-calculator dmidecode dopewars e2fsprogs eiskaltdcpp-qt exa fonts-karla fonts-karmilla gaphor gparted grub-customizer gsmartctl gthumb hddtemp heaptrack-gui hollywood how-can-i-help idle-python3.5 installation-report irssi kazam klavaro kmod krita leafpad linkchecker-web lxlauncher massif-visualizer nautilus needrestart pekka-kana-2 photoflare pixfrogger rawtherapee ristretto simplescreenrecorder swisswatch sysinfo util-linux vlc xbomb xdemineur
- rejected gnome-terminal/gnome-builder/libappmenu-gtk3-parser0 (not Debian), mpv/thunar (proprietary content), default-jdk (logo), leafpad (about dialog), heaptrack (help output), heaptrack-gui (duplicate)
- rejected deletion of gkamus/sofa-apps/fonts-allerta/viewvc/gnome-blog (spam reason), lxde/fonts-f500/calf-plugins (nonsense reason), mpv (offensive reason)
Administration
- Debian: restart postgresql for cert update
- Debian mentors: workaround some issues
- Debian wiki: whitelist email domains, whitelist email addresses, reset email addresses
Communication
- Initiate discussions about various issues with several derivatives
- Invite Donau OS, BlackWeb to the Debian derivatives census
- Welcome Mentor Embedded Linux Omni OS, TTOS, BlackWeb to the Debian derivatives census
- Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The librecaptcha issues were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- icns: https, copyright notice
- myrepos: typo
- spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4 5 6 7), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
- Debian derivatives census: explicitness, cleanup
- Debian package tracker: naming
- Debian LE: typo
- Debian wiki pages: ChrootOnAndroid, DebConf/20, DebianMedTodo, DebianUnstable, Derivatives/Census (QA, AlienVault-OSSIM, Aptosid), DesktopEnvironment, Diagrams, Glossary, i3, InstallingDebianOn (Cavium/ThunderXStation, Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux), LocalGroups, qa.debian.org, Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap, Wayland
- Wikipedia: Message-ID
Issues
- Incorrectness in Ubuntu archive
- Template handling Linux
- Underlinking in libtheora0
- Broken symlinks in android-sdk
- Overprotection in apparmor-profiles-extra
- Missing info in chooseafoundation.com (1 2)
Review
- Spam: reported 233 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved a2ps amphetamine birdtray eom ewipe ffrenzy fonts-eurofurence fractgen gnat-gps gnome-control-center gnome-tweaks gnujump goodvibes gpa how-can-i-help jumpnbump launchy lemonldap-ng lsmount lugaru mate-applets mate-backgrounds nvtop pdfarranger screenfetch seahorse-adventures systemsettings tilix wings3d xscavenger
- rejected coyim (logo), jumpnbump (another game), anfo/andi (help output), liblemonldap-ng-portal-perl (same as lemonldap-ng ones), gnome-tweaks/gnome-terminal (not Debian)
- rejected deletion of xgalaga++/phpbb3/viewvc (spam reason), qbittorrent/setbfree/aptitude (nonsense reason), gnome-terminal (incorrect comment doesn't justify deletion)
Administration
- Debian wiki: update email addresses, whitelist email addresses, whitelist domains
- Debian security tracker: merge patches
Communication
- Initiate discussions about the status of ArcheOS, Canaima
- Invite Mentor Embedded Linux (Debian edition), AlienVault OSSIM to the Debian derivatives census
- Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
All work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- myrepos: more related software (1 2 3)
- mokomaze: fix SVGs (1 2), release, add tags for old releases
- devscripts: chdist: drop Dir::State::status
- spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4), lintian (1 2 3 4)
- Debian QA services: fix grep-excuses regression, popcon-data script
- Debian derivatives census: faster YAML, patches directory importer
- Debian package tracker: reintroducing packages links, indentation
- Debian website: mention debian-consultants
- Debian screenshots: removed prayer (manual page)
- Debian package uploads: mokomaze, purple-discord
- Debian wiki pages: DebianEvents/fr, Derivatives/Census (QA, Template, ProgressLinux), LocalGroups/DebianMuc/NextMeeting, Mentoring, PaulWise (Bugs, InterestingSoftware), qa.debian.org, RaspberryPi(3), research/publications, Statistics, SystemBuildTools
- FOSSJobs wiki: resources
Issues
- Crashes in less, 0ad, dnssec-trigger
- https broken on screenshots.d.n (reported privately)
- I/O stalls in Linux lvmraid
- Warnings in kerneloops
- Incorrect descriptions in Saxon-HE
- Incorrect links in radare2-cutter, GNU fdisk website
- Underlinking in lvm2
- Removal needed for WWW::Topica (1 2 3)
- Hardcoding in apt-listchanges
Review
- Spam: reported 178 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: reviewed pyfltk, clamav-unofficial-sigs and sponsored streamlink acr
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved berusky2 blastem blender budgie-desktop burp chromium-browser cytadela desktop-base dfcgen-gtk fai-client fasttracker2 fonts-b612 fonts-roadgeek gelemental glade gnurobbo gperiodic hplip-gui icecast2 imediff jigzo kic kuttypy-gui lazarus lmarbles openbox plank ponyprog prayer quaternion raincat rclone-browser sasm slowmovideo stterm telegram-desktop yabasic
- rejected rtr-tools (upstream screenshot), mednaffe (running proprietary game), berusky2 (duplicate), addresses-goodies-for-gnustep (not GNUStep), pokemmo-installer (game not the installer)
- approved deletion of nodejs (not a good quality screenshot), quaternion (worse quality duplicate)
- approved deletion (despite bogus reason) of plasma-desktop (we don't remove old screenshots but it was Kanotix not Debian)
- rejected deletion of gkamus/xgalaga++ (spam reason), dfcgen-gtk (we keep old versions), apache2 (nonsense reason)
Administration
- FoxtrotGPS: merged patches
- mokomaze: release
- Debian wiki: reset email addresses, whitelist email addresses
Communication
- Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News edition 47
- Respond to queries from the Debian derivatives census Outreachy project intern
- Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The purple-discord upload and the apt-listchanges bug were sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- purple-discord: fix reproducibility, clean
- youtube-dl: fix libsyn.com support, ABC iView latest video support, Blogger support
- check-all-the-things: pngcheck supports JNG/MNG, --mime install check for magic module, file command
- spelling dictionaries:
- codespell: addedd, genereic, idelogy, recommand(s), withouth, hypvervisor(s), expermiental, raspoberry, webiste, paritition, updatee(d/s), decidate(s), calloed, configuratoins, dammages, exmaples, lient(s),
- lintian: addedd, genereic, idelogy, recommand(s), withouth, hypvervisor(s), expermiental, raspoberry, webiste, paritition(s/ing), updatee(d/s), decidate(d/s), asynchronious, calloed, configuratoins, dammages, exmaples, lient(s),
- Debian Planets: https
- Debian derivatives census: fix bugs (1 2), capture warnings
- Debian uscan multi-redirector: gitlab releases
- Debian meta-packages: fix metapackage name (1 2)
- Debian website: update merchandise (1 2), disable CD vendor, help services
- Debian security tracker: boost1.67 unicode-data embed
- Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2)
- Debian wiki pages: AutomaticDebugPackages, BSP, DebianDay, DebianLocations, DebianSingleSignOn, Derivatives/Census, (QA (1 2), Abalar, Armbian, BunsenLabs, hLinux, Huayra, NEMS_Linux, PrimTux, Septor), Glossary, gsoc, GSoC, Hardening/RepoAndImages, Hardware (Certification, ShippingWithDebian), Ideas, InstallingDebianOn/Cavium/ThunderXStation, KVM, LTS/Development, Merchandise (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PressCoverage2019, PressCoverage, PXEBootInstall, Services/gobby.debian.org, Sprints, SSDOptimization, SummerOfCode, SystemBuildTools, UpstreamGuide, Year
Issues
- Crashes in liferea
- Features in lvm2, procps, Firefox
- Usability issues in Tor Browser
- Upgrade crashes in unattended-upgrades
- Invalid certificates in SKS Keyservers HKPS pool (reported privately)
- Embedded copies in boost1.67
- Obsolete things in debian-keyring, spamassassin, tor, thinkfan
- Documentation vs behaviour issues in systemd, apt
- Conffile removal from privoxy, ebtables, libvirt-daemon-system
- Underlinking in mono
- New versions of sjfonts
Review
- Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 196 Debian mailing list posts
- Patches: Debian derivatives census Outreachy project changes
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved aegisub apache2 aspell bambootracker boohu boxes codfis ddnet debian-security-support dolphin fdisk fonts-courier-prime gaupol gnome-mpv gnome-subtitles guvcview kde-full khelpcenter klines kmenuedit kollision konquest kreversi kshisen ksirk ksnakeduel ksquares kubrick less lix lskat milou minitube mle monitorix needrestart-session numix-icon-theme-circle olive package-update-indicator palapeli powerdevil pyacidobasic qwinff sidplayfp smplayer smtube step subdownloader subliminal subtitlecomposer sudoku tmux tutka vfu xjadeo
- rejected mencoder/debian-security-support (manual page), oar-web-status/oar-user/oar-node/oar-server/git-secret (logo), tilix (scribble)
- approved deletion of mp3info (not ncurses version)
- rejected deletion of nano (non-English is fine, nano has mouse support so a pointer is not misleading), gkamus/viewvc (spam reason), bombardier (non-English reason), labplot (old versions are not removed), synaptic (nonsense reason)
Administration
- Debian: merge patch, install dependencies, fix LDAP server, answer keys question, check build hardware differences, remove references to dead systems
- Debian wiki: re-enable old account unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, ping accounts with bouncing email, investigate password reset issue
- Debian derivatives census: rerun patch generation to fix broken files
Communication
- Initiate discussion about the status of hLinux
- Respond to queries from the Debian derivatives census Outreachy project intern
- Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- purple-discord: gitignore
- myrepos: link to v script
- spelling dictionaries:
- codespell: algorithm variants, adaquate(ly), autors, incoropate(s), phyiscs, veresion(s), compatibile, cricital, descriptuve, dowload, possitives, distrubute(d), mashine(s)
- lintian: alogirhtm, adaquate(ly), autor(s), incoropate(s), phyiscs, veresion(s), compatibile, cricital, descriptuve, dowload(s), possitive(s), distrubute(d), mashine(s)
- Debian Planets: update ThengOS logo (1 2), use RSS overrides for Meilix/Whonix/LMDE
- Debian security tracker: libfprint nbis embed, whitespace
- Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2)
- Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps, DebianCustomCD/MoveInstallerUdebs, DebianLocations, Derivatives/Census (QA, Elive (1 2), LMDE, Meilix, ThengOS, Whonix), FortunesDebianHints, Games/Sponsors, Glossary, HostingBSP, IRC/debian-meeting, Mentoring, Mentors, MIPSPort, OpenVPN, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, SecureBoot/Testing, Services, Teams/Publicity/Release, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList/BusterCheckList, UnattendedUpgrades
Issues
- Crashes in vlc-plugin-bittorrent
- Hangs in nocache
- Upgrade failure in linux-perf
- Compile warnings in purple-discord (1 2)
- Underlinking in zvbi
- Features in lintian-brush, nocache (1 2)
- New versions of sed, grep
Review
- Spam: reported 2 LWN comments and 274 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored open-ath9k-htc-firmware (1 2)
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved amarok amoeba bmon cheesecutter clementine cqrlog deepin-icon-theme filezilla fonts-allerta fonts-gamaliel fonts-paratype freedv galois geg ghostwriter gnome-recipes gnome-usage grig hddtemp juk kspaceduel kwrite lgeneral libcdio-utils lsscsi osmo pciutils plymouth-theme-hamara qrencode qtox usbutils wsjt xsysinfo
- rejected thinkfan (help output), chrome-gnome-shell (wrong package)
- rejected deletion of phpbb3/gnome-blog/gkamus/xgalaga++ (spam reason), olive (screenshots are versioned)
Administration
- Debian: answer query about LDAP signing
- Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, fix login issue, whitelist email addresses
Communication
- Mentoring of Outreachy derivatives project
Sponsors
The purple-discord work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- devscripts: https
- spelling dictionaries:
- codespell: apend variants, istalling, launck, realtion, substituation(s), condident(ial), executation, hyptothetical(ly), requiest(s/ed/ing), sofwtare, characte variants, creta(ed/es/ing), expierience(s), ocorrence(s), workarrounds, (mis/un/re/pre)configed, (un/non-)corelate(d/s), (of/re(s))cource(s), creatre(d), disctionar(y/ies), expendeble, hapen variants, mechines, regenarated, secruity, singnal(led), snapsnot(s), syntetize(d), (build-)dependanc(y/ies), etherenet, matainer(s), meny, preceed, pyrhon, resart(s), retsart(s), stivk(s), trasfers, anothe, blanace, boomark(s), cofidence, foppys, gard, implemend(s), maitain(ed), pyhon, safeing, seporate, strinsg, translatied, updateded, uptim, vender(s), verisoned
- lintian: apend variants, istalling, launck, realtion, substituation(s), condident(ial), executation, hyptothetical(ly), requiest(s/ed/ing), sofwtare, characte variants, creta(e(d/s)/ing), expierience(s), ocorrence(s), reseved, workarrounds, (mis/un/re/pre)configed, (un/non-)corelate(d/s), (of/re(s))cource(s), creatre(d), disctionar(y/ies), expendeble, (de/re)genarated, hapen variants, mechine(s), secruity, singnal(s/led), snapsnot(s), syntetize(d), seams like, absolutly, (build-/in)dependanc(e/y/ies), etherenet, matainer(s), meny, prefectly, pyrhon, resart(s), retsart(s), standarts, stivk(s), therefor, trasfer(s), acces, anothe, blanace, boomark(s), cofidence, foppys, gard, implemend(s), inconsistancy, maitain(ed), neede, pyhon, safeing, seporate, somtimes, strinsg, translatied, updateded, uptim, vender(s), verisoned
- Debian Planets: add Anastasia Tsikoza (1 2)
- Debian derivatives census: typo, correctness, make tips, make fixes, apache fixes, optimisation, symlink fix
- Debian website: typo, PayPal non-JS option, help local groups, link, https, irssi
- Debian package uploads: purple-discord, myrepos
- Debian wiki pages: AnatolyPugachev, DebConf/20/Bids/India/Plans, DebianRepository, DeveloperNews, eLTS, Flash, FlashPlayer, Hardware/Wanted, Mentoring, Outreachy, Ports/ia64, ppc64el/GetToWorkOnFTBFS, PrintingGlossaryandIndex, sbuild, ServicesHosting, SystemBuildTools, Teams/pkg-security, UltimateDebianDatabase, UpstreamGuide, UsrMerge, WhyTheName
- fossjobs.net wiki: resources
Issues
- Conffile removal in xul-ext-noscript, initscripts
- Features in how-can-i-help, https-everywhere, lintian, uhubctl, sr.ht (account deleted, these got deleted too), uppity, reproducible builds
- Build issues in uhubctl
- Apparmor denials in clamav-daemon, torbrowser-launcher
- Warnings in speech-dispatcher, qa.d.o (vcsstats, carnivore), buildd.d.o
- Dependency issues in torbrowser-launcher, libmtp9
- Truncation issues in whowatch (1 2)
- Shell completion issues in systemd
- Obsolete files in ntfs-3g, libsane-common, libmtp-common
- Usability issues in webext-debianbuttons (1 2)
- Layout issues in marble
- Underlinking in libccrtp
- http in uhubctl
- Typos in uhubctl
Review
- Spam: reported 4 LWN comments, 1 Debian bug reports and 205 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored mwic
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved chkboot diceware diffutils gitlab gnumail.app gobby gvidm peek plm pulseview sidplayfp tetradraw trackballs visualboyadvance wmfrog xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod xul-ext-pwdhash
- rejected logwatch (config file), diffutils (documentation)
- rejected deletion of gkamus (a greeting is not a reason), tuxeyes/youtube-dl (non-English reason), gnome-mahjongg (nonsense reason)
Administration
- myrepos: respond to some tickets
- Debian: respond to porterbox schroot query, remove obsolete role accounts, restart misbehaving webserver, redirect openmainframe mail to debian-s390, respond to query about consequences of closing accounts
- Debian wiki: unblacklist networks, redirect/answer user support query, answer question about page names, whitelist email addresses
- Debian packages site: update mirror config
- Debian derivatives census: merge and deploy changes from Outreachy applicants and others
Sponsors
The purple-discord upload was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- mokomaze: https, warning, menu keywords (1 2)
- hexchat: show channel
- check-all-the-things: zstd MIME, php7cc, jsonlint-php verbosity
- devscripts: typos
- spelling dictionaries:
- codespell: hopmepage(s), soket(s), pytnon, builter(s), dictioanries, encoutner(s), initals, (short-)cicruit(s), alha variants, disalbe(s/d), enalbes, sitaution(s), referneced, embarrasingly, deploi(ed/ment(s)), depenendenc(e/y/ies), rovid(ing/e(d/s)), implent variants recogninse, manyal(s/ly), dynamlic(ally), speep(ed/ing/-up), influece(d/s/ing), packhage(s), manaul(s/ly), constraintes, (dis)similiar(y/ty), leat, projct(s/ion(s)/or(s)'s), (un/re)chek(ed), thik(s/nesses)
- lintian: hopmepage(s), soket(s), pytnon, builter(s), dictioanr(y/ies), encoutner(s), initals, (short-)cicruit(s), alha variants, disalbe(s/d), enalbe(s/d), sitaution(s), refernece(s/d), embarras(ed/ingly), deploi(ed/ment(s)), depenendenc(e/y/ies), rovid(ing/e(r/d/s), implent variants, manyal(s/ly), will be remove, intersting, dynamlic(ally), direcotr(y/ies), speep(ed/ing/-up), influece(d/s/ing), packhage(s), manaul(s/ly), constraintes, (dis)similiar(y/ty/ity), leat, projct(s/ion(s)/or(s)'s), (un/re)chek(ed), thik(s/ness/nesses)
- Debian Planets: add Elive
- Debian derivatives census: Python 3, typo, cruft (1 2), copyright
- Debian security tracker: edk2 refs
- Debian puppet: ports redirects
- Debian meta-packages: deriv.d.n deps
- Debian website: merch updates
- Debian wiki pages: CheapServerBoxHardware, DebianEdu/Status/Buster, DebianInstaller/Bugs, DebianMaintainer, Derivatives (Census (QA, Template (1 2), AstraLinux, Crunchbang, Freeduc, Hamara_Linux, HandyLinux, Huayra, LMDE, MetamorphoseLinux, OLPC, Open_Secure-K_OS, ParrotSecurity, ParrotSecurity, Parsix, rtros, semplice, SolusOS, SolydXK, SteamOS, Tails, Tanglu, Ubuntu, VoyageLinux, Vyatta, Whonix)), DeveloperNews (1 2), Digital_Cameras, Firmware/Updates, Hardware, IRC, LocalGroups/Debian-JP, MigrateToDDAccount, Outreachy/Round16/Projects/DerivativesIntegration, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, Printing/GlossaryandIndex, StaticLinking, SystemBuildTools
- Wikipedia: Message-ID
Issues
- Crashes in php7cc, packagekit, merkaartor
- Broken archiving in debian-lts-announce (reported privately)
- Removal needed of ack-grep
- Dependency update needed in libtask-kensho-cli-perl
- Incorrect shell completion apt (1 2)
- Outdated documentation in dd-list
- Broken redirects on sf.net
- Time issues in restic
- Config issues in ssh-add
- Features in network-manager-gnome, gcr, lists.d.o (1 2), tracker.d.o, grep-excuses, apt, progress, aptitude, firefox
- Conffile removal in libgssapi-krb5-2, thermald, apparmor
Review
- Spam: reported 3 LWN comments and 168 Debian mailing list posts
- Patches: merged uscan completion patch, merged derivatives census patches from Outreachy applicants and others
- Debian packages: sponsored mwic, acr
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved codelite colortail colortest deluge fonts-fantasque-san fonts-fork-awesome fonts-glasstty fonts-hack fonts-lmodern freeipmi-tools gdigi ginkgocadx gnome-shell gsequencer kakoune keepassxc khal kirigami-gallery librecad lxdm notion picard qbittorrent quodlibet screenfetch solvespace thonny vitetris
- rejected postgresql (logo), gambas3-gb-gui-qt/libjs-tv4 (not screenshot), variety (macOS)
- approved deletion of ranger (offensive), i3 (another package)
- rejected deletion of reportbug/gparted/network-manager-gnome/synaptic (nonsense reasons),
Administration
- Debian: investigate MSA issue, investigate Fastly outage, investigate buildd issue, forwarded mail bounce info
- Debian wiki: unblacklist IP range, clean up stray tmp files, whitelist email addresses, ask on IRC about accounts with bouncing email, ping accounts with bouncing email, disable accounts with bouncing email
- Debian derivatives census: merge patches, deploy changes, clean up cruft, delete giant source packages
Communication
- Prod about and send Debian Misc Developer News edition 46
Sponsors
All work was done on a volunteer basis.
Changes
- referer-mod: https
- webdl: https (sent privately)
- youtube-dl: URL extraction
- check-all-the-things: closure-linter
- dh-make: typo
- spelling dictionaries:
- codespell: (e)mailling(list(s)), binay, orgin variants, priviliged
- lintian: aboce, (e)mailling(list(s)), binay, orgin variants, priviliged
- Debian puppet: tor workaround
- Debian website: fix link, help testing ISOs
- Debian wiki pages: AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps, DebianInstaller, DebianKernel/GitBisect, Derivatives/Integration, Firmware/Updates, Gitea, Gnome, Ideas, Outreachy/Round16/Projects/DerivativesIntegration (1 2), PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, PrivacyIssues, SourceOnlyUpload, SSDOptimization, SystemBuildTools, TracingExecution, WebDevelopment
Issues
- Crashes in PyPI
- Documentation issues in lvm2
- Incompatibility in tor (1 2)
- Broken alternatives in acpica-tools
- Apparmor denials for totem
- Privacy issues webext-bulk-media-downloader, webext-proxy-switcher
- Porting needed in iceweasel-branding
- Features in Firefox (1 2 3 4 5), Tor Browser, HTTPS Everywhere, diffoscope (1 2 3), PyPI, easy-rsa, adequate, closure-compiler, git-hub, hexchat (1 2)
- New versions of form-history-control, greasemonkey, nano
- New homepage for form-history-control
- Detection issues in diffoscope
- Conffile removal in emacsen-common, firejail-profiles
- Minor issues in tracker.d.o
Review
- Spam: reported 1 LWN comments, 2 Debian bug reports and 174 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored gtranscribe
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved bovo cockpit cockpit-docker converseen firefox git-gui i3lock-fancy jwm kde-plasma-desktop kfourinline ksudoku loganalyzer mednaffe neomutt nheko pcsc-tools postfixadmin python3-mecavideo quiterss ripperx runescape tipp10 wdm windowlab
- rejected openjdk-7-jre (Android screenshot), jaligner (macOS screenshot), tootle/posterazor (upstream screenshot), mednaffe (non-free game), toulbar2/balazar3/libtest-email-perl/libswscale5/libreoffice-style-colibre/python3-networking-bagpipe (not a screenshot) pokemmo-installer (not the package)
- rejected deletion of gpe-othello (spam reason), acm/firefox-esr/fonts-mgopen/angband/balazar3 (nonsense reason), runescape (screenshots are versioned)
Administration
- Debian: restart a broken service, reschedule nagios checks, investigate onion services issue, fix some file permissions, discuss hoster acquisition, discuss hoster partnership, explain arch qualification concerns, ping hoster about unexpected outage, removal of mail server from blacklist
- Debian wiki: unblacklist IP addresses, whitelist email addresses, ping accounts with bouncing email
- Openmoko: investigate email issue
Communication
- Initiate discussions about embedded code copies with the security team
- Register Debian derivatives project for Outreachy round 16
- Document my plans for the Firefox XUL to WebExtensions transition
Sponsors
The easy-rsa feature request was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.