log
Life, Code, Stuff.
Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- foxtrotgps: EPS images only for DVI/PS
- flower: drop bootstrap/celery branding, packaging updates
- youtube-dl: import sorting
- git-remote-hg: line ending
- duck: add indicator phrases (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
- debexpo: move logout link
- Debian QA services: typos
- Debian puppet config: disable FLoC
- Debian package tracking system: update links
- Debian package uploads: git-remote-hg
- Debian wiki pages: accessibility, adminer, AptCacherNg, BSP/2021/04/virtual-Salzburg, BSP/Template, CategoryPermalink, Common Errors in Debian Packaging and Fixes, CrossCompiling, DebianInstall, DebianIRC, DebianKernel/GitBisect (1 2), DebianPackaging-FAQs, DebianPackaging-Q&A, DebianPAN, DebianRepository/SetupWithReprepro, DebianResources, DebianScience/Physics, deb.li, DeveloperNews (1 2 3), Driver, ExternalEntities, FAQ, FreedomBox/Contribute/Packaging, FreeSoftware, HighPerformanceComputing, HomepageTemplate, Ideas, InstallingDebianOn (PageFragmentIntelBayTrailCStateIssue, TUXEDO/Pulse15-Gen1/Bullseye), JavaPackagingFAQ, Java/RequestedPackages/Jitsi, LVM, NetworkManager (1 2), nut, OpenPGP, Packaging:Common-Erros-And-Fixes, PPC64, qa.debian.org/ArchiveTesting, Status/Testing, VMware, WakeOnLan, Zabbix
- Debian sysadmins wiki pages: howto/new-dsa
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
- Wikipedia: Asahi
Issues
- Features in evolution (1 2), qpdf, libimobiledevice
- Broken threading in evolution, Debian reportbug
- Regression in webkit2gtk
- Test failure in flower
- Obsolete packages: findbugs
- Incorrect description in libdebuginfod-common
- Incorrect URL in poke, towncrier, libeatmydata, xnee
- License issue in ideviceunback
- Build warnings in sptag
- Generic names in sptag
- Release needed in sptag
- Install failure in sptag
- Debian package planned for sptag
- Unused image in sptag
Review
- Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 114 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
Administration
- Debian: restart service killed by OOM killer, revert mirror redirection
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News #55
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The flower/sptag 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-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.