Focus

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

Changes

• nsntrace: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5)
• Tails: cleanup (sent privately)
• apt-offline: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11), fix keyring filename handling, make keyring error more useful, fix apt lists files permissions, fix changelog line copying
• puppet-git-hooks: less generic script naming
• DUCK: fix source code link, orphan package, fix typos, packaging cleanup (1 2 3 4 5), add obsolete site and phrases indicating shutdown, redirects
• myrepos: cleanup (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• check-all-the-things: Python 3 porting (1 2 3)
• debian-goodies: cleanup, fix equivs-build usage, print dbgsym install command
• lintian: add tigris.org to obsolete sites
• spelling dictionaries: codespell (1 2 3 4), lintian (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• DSA puppet git hook: drop leading spaces check, ignore ruby warnings
• DSA puppet: cleanups (1 2)
• Debian build log scanner: update links, fix typos
• Debian QA services: update SSH IP addresses, add usertags typo fixes (1 2)
• Debian user database: fix lat/lon parsing
• Debian package uploads: libfile-libmagic-perl (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: AutomaticBuildLogProcessing, Brasil/Traduzir/DDTP, DebianEvents/Internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline/Videos, DebianLocations, es/Webcam/Viejas_camaras_WEB, Firmware/Open, IRC/DpkgBot, IRC/GivingBetterHelp, packages-schroot, PrivacyIssues, ReleaseGoals/VerboseBuilds, Services/DebianSources, SoundConfiguration, sway, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements, RTC), UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers/UserGuide, WebcamPixart
• myrepos wiki pages: index
• ShellCheck wiki pages: Directive
• FOSSJobs wiki: resources

Issues

• Crashes in dbus/libnss-systemd (1 2), pavucontrol, vlc-plugin-bittorrent
• Permissions issue in update-alternatives (reported on IRC)
• Bogus output in dpkg-parsechangelog (reported on IRC)
• False positives in anorack
• Command name conflict in gitsome
• Python 3 support needed in git-imerge
• Incorrect dependencies in python3-lxml
• Wayland issues in ssh-agent
• Warnings in tweeper
• Features in shellcheck, browserpass, lintian (1 2), diffoscope
• Documentation needed in webext-browserpass
• Description update needed in vagrant
• Inflated severity in shellcheck
• Incorrect behaviour in dch

Review

• Spam: reported 193 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: reviewed and sponsored acr, tudu, duck
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved amiwm dino-im elisa five-or-more fonts-cherrybomb fonts-terminus four-in-a-row gargoyle-free gnome gnome-chess gnome-games gnome-klotski gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-nibbles gnome-robots gnome-sudoku gnome-taquin gnome-tetravex gv hitori i3-wm iagno inxi lightsoff mate-utils neovim notcurses-bin pacvim quadrapassel radare2-cutter saga swell-foop systemd tali ubuntu-desktop vokoscreen-ng w9wm xfce4-panel xless xpdf
  • rejected saga (Windows screenshot), lightdm (upstream screenshot)
  • approved deletion of muttprint (not a screenshot), virt-manager (non-original, contains logo)
  • rejected deletion of tint/fonts-oflb-euterpe/acm (junk reason), jwm/xbubble (spam)

Administration

• nsntrace: talk to upstream about collaborative maintenance
• Debian: deploy changes, debug issue with GPS markers file generation, migrate bls/DUCK from alioth-archive to salsa
• Debian website: ran map cron job, synced mirrors
• Debian wiki: approve accounts, ping folks with bouncing email

Communication

• Initiate discussions about reopening bugs for reintroduced packages, integration between apt-listchanges/apt-offline (sent privately)

Sponsors

The apt-offline work and the libfile-libmagic-perl backports were sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.