$ zcat Sources.gz grep -o -E 'debhelper [(]>= 9[.][0-9] ,7 ([^0-9)][^)]*)?[)]' sort uniq -c sort -rn
338 debhelper (>= 9.0.0)
70 debhelper (>= 9.0)
18 debhelper (>= 9.0.0~)
10 debhelper (>= 9.0~)
2 debhelper (>= 9.2)
1 debhelper (>= 9.2~)
1 debhelper (>= 9.0.50~)
Is it a way to protest against
the current debhelper's version scheme?
$ roundtrip() c=$(echo $1 iconv -t $2); printf '%s -> %s -> %s\n' $1 $c $(echo $c iconv -f "$2"); $ roundtrip EUC-JP -> \ -> \ $ roundtrip SHIFT_JIS -> \ -> $ roundtrip JOHAB -> \ ->Now let's do the same in Python:
$ python3 -q
>>> roundtrip = lambda s, e: print('%s -> %s -> %s' % (s, s.encode(e).decode('ASCII', 'replace'), s.encode(e).decode(e)))
>>> roundtrip(' ', 'EUC-JP')
-> \ -> \
>>> roundtrip(' ', 'SHIFT_JIS')
-> \ -> \
>>> roundtrip(' ', 'JOHAB')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <lambda>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'johab' codec can't encode character '\u20a9' in position 0: illegal multibyte sequence
So is 0x5C a backslash or a yen/won sign? Or both?
And what if 0x5C could be a second byte of a two-byte character?
What could possibly go wrong?
$ zrun spellintian --picky /usr/share/doc/RFC/best-current-practice/rfc* /tmp/0qgJD1Xa1Y-rfc1917.txt: amoung -> among /tmp/kvZtN435CE-rfc3155.txt: transfered -> transferred /tmp/o093khYE09-rfc3481.txt: unecessary -> unnecessary /tmp/4P0ux2cZWK-rfc6365.txt: charater -> charactermwic (Misspelled Words In Context) takes a different approach. It uses classic spell-checking libraries (via Enchant), but it groups misspellings and shows them in their contexts. That way you can quickly filter out false-positives, which are very common in technical texts, using visual grep:
$ zrun mwic /usr/share/doc/debian/social-contract.txt.gz
DFSG:
an Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)
an Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part of the
^^^^
Perens:
Bruce Perens later removed the Debian-spe
by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian
^^^^^^
Ean, Schuessler:
community" was suggested by Ean Schuessler. This document was drafted
^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
GPL:
The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" lice
^^^
contrib:
created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our
^^^^^^^
CDs:
their CDs. Thus, although non-free wor
^^^
$ wget http://xkcd.com/538/2) Eve takes over the HTTP connection, sending a redirection response:
HTTP/1.1 303 See Other Location: http://supersecuremail.example.net/3) Alice's wget follows the redirection. 4) Eve takes over the connection to supersecuremail.example.net, requesting password authentication:
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="moo"5) Alice's wget sends the supersecuremail.example.net password straight to Eve.
The Taskwarrior Team has just started a blog, kicking it off with a series of articles about development of Taskwarrior itself. Go, team!
Almost from the moment I started using Taskwarrior (thanks to Jakub WIlk for an excellent job maintaining this) I knew I had finally found the todo system that I could love. Right away, I started hanging out with the Taskwarrior community at #taskwarrior @ irc.freenode.net and found out what an awesome bunch of people they are, both developers and users alike. I have plunged in with bug reports and feature requests, and am helping get more Taskwarrior-related things into Debian. In NEW right now I have uploaded several of the dependencies needed by my ITP of taskwarrior-web. It s looking like I ll have that finished later this month or early next month. Also, I have uploaded a wheezy backport of Taskwarrior itself (aka task ) which, if all goes well, enters the archive next week.
R commands used to generate the plots & findings. If you are interested into looking into the data yourself, but don t like R, I suggest using ipython notebook + numpy instead.
summary(bugs) we get the minimum(1), median(5), mean(15.4), max(716) and quantiles of the data. This shows that the number of messages is wide-spread and a few people contribute a lot. To visualize the dispersion of the data we can create a box plot showing the range of messages:
As the first and third quantile are close together we can assume that the majority of the work is done by a few, especially since the second quantile is 5. This is supported by the histogram below, where the x axis is the number of recorded messages and y is the number of developers.
bugs <- read.csv("by-msg.csv")
summary(bugs)
boxplot(bugs$rcbugmsg, log='y', range=0, ylab="# bugs")
quantile(bugs$rcbugmsg)
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
1 2 5 12 716
# create histogram
llibrary('ggplot2')
ggplot(bugs, aes(x=rcbugmsg)) + geom_histogram(binwidth=.5, colour="black", fill="black") + scale_x_sqrt()
top10 <- tail(bugs[order(bugs$rcbugmsg),], 10)
top10
R commands used to generate the plots & findings. If you are interested into looking into the data yourself, but don t like R, I suggest using ipython notebook + numpy instead.
summary(bugs) we get the minimum(1), median(5), mean(15.4), max(716) and quantiles of the data. This shows that the number of messages is wide-spread and a few people contribute a lot. To visualize the dispersion of the data we can create a box plot showing the range of messages:
As the first and third quantile are close together we can assume that the majority of the work is done by a few, especially since the second quantile is 5. This is supported by the histogram below, where the x axis is the number of recorded messages and y is the number of developers.
bugs <- read.csv("by-msg.csv")
summary(bugs)
boxplot(bugs$rcbugmsg, log='y', range=0, ylab="# bugs")
quantile(bugs$rcbugmsg)
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
1 2 5 12 716
# create histogram
llibrary('ggplot2')
ggplot(bugs, aes(x=rcbugmsg)) + geom_histogram(binwidth=.5, colour="black", fill="black") + scale_x_sqrt()
top10 <- tail(bugs[order(bugs$rcbugmsg),], 10)
top10
$ LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 stat /nonexistentmay look like a way to make stat(1) print the error message in Swedish. Yet there are many ways it could go wrong:
$ localehelper LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 stat /nonexistent stat: kan inte ta status p /nonexistent : Filen eller katalogen finns inte
Big release notes since 1.0:
We ve got a new list dput-ng-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org feel free to subscribe!
1.3:
* Avoid failing on upload if a pre/post upload hook is missing from the
Filesystem.
* Fix "dcut raises FtpUploadException" by correctly initializing the uploader
classes from dcut (Closes: #696467)
1.2:
* Add bash completions for dput-ng (Closes: #695412).
* Add in a script to set the default profile depending on the building
distro (Ubuntu support)
* Fix a bug where meta-class info won't be loaded if the config file has the
same name.
* Add an Ubuntu upload target.
* Added .udeb detection to the check debs hook.
* Catch the correct exception falling out of bin/dcut
* Fix the dput manpages to use --uid rather then the old --dm flag.
* Fix the CLI flag registration by setting required=True
in cancel and upload.
* Move make_delayed_upload above the logging call for sanity's sake.
* Fix "connects to the host even with -s" (Closes: #695347)
7 Bernhard R. Link
4 Ansgar Burchardt
3 Luca Falavigna
2 Michael Gilbert
2 Salvatore Bonaccorso
1 Benjamin Drung
1 Gergely Nagy
1 Jakub Wilk
1 Jimmy Kaplowitz
1 Luke Faraone
1 Sandro Tosi
The last week was quite productive as I was on vacation and at home town but sadly I
couldn't complete this post so again merging the work with this week but this week ain't
much productive as I was tired from journey back and didn't get enough time to recover.
So here it goes.
Debian Related
$ gettext-inspector /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo cut -d ' ' -f 1,3 sort uniq -c sort -rn
1902 P: no-language-header-field
1601 P: no-version-in-project-id-version
1372 W: no-report-msgid-bugs-to-header-field
273 P: invalid-content-transfer-encoding
201 W: invalid-date
78 W: syntax-error-in-plural-forms
77 I: no-package-name-in-project-id-version
63 W: boilerplate-in-report-msgid-bugs-to
50 W: language-disparity
47 I: unknown-header-field
38 W: invalid-language
25 W: boilerplate-in-project-id-version
10 I: unknown-poedit-language
8 W: no-date-header-field
5 W: no-project-id-version-header-field
5 W: c1-control-characters
3 P: no-mime-version-header-field
3 P: no-content-transfer-encoding-header-field
2 W: non-portable-encoding
1 W: invalid-report-msgid-bugs-to
1 W: ancient-date
1 I: unable-to-determine-language
here's the short overview about my activities around release-critical bugs
for the last week:
Update for 06/10/2012
Well I had not written the weekly work log for the last week that
is because the week was short (oh yeah thanks to all these bandhs
our week got fluctuated and to be frank the week was only 4 days
long) and second was my lazyness. Here goes the update
* After a long discussion with Aravinda on
"why productivity is reducing these days." We concluded the social
network is eating up most of time. So decision was made and I closed
all pinned tabs for Twitter Gmail Identi.ca and Friendica on my browser
* After the above resolution I finished almost 4 chapters of Moder Perl
within 2 hours!. Indeed Social networks kill the productivity.
Update for 13/10/2012
I've really fallen in love with computerised bots, thanks to the wonderful
KGB bot :-). So majority of my work on this week is on bots.
Jabber Dictionary Redesign
After thinking for a while I decided to re-write the dictionary bot
which when release got an overwhelming response as see in the comments of
above link. Few reason for re-write
good news: I'm seeing more & more people contributing to RC
bugs in the BTS. here are
my own contributions for the past week:
it's sunday evening again, & again, here comes my report about
activities around RC bugs:
Next.