Search Results: "Ben Finney"

7 September 2016

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible Builds: week 71 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday August 28 and Saturday September 3 2016: Media coverage Antonio Terceiro blogged about testing build reprodubility with debrepro . GSoC and Outreachy updates The next round is being planned now: see their page with a timeline and participating organizations listing. Maybe you want to participate this time? Then please reach out to us as soon as possible! Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed The following packages have addressed reproducibility issues in other packages: The following updated packages have become reproducible in our current test setup after being fixed: The following updated packages appear to be reproducible now, for reasons we were not able to figure out yet. (Relevant changelogs did not mention reproducible builds.) The following 4 packages were not changed, but have become reproducible due to changes in their build-dependencies: Some uploads have addressed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Patches submitted that have not made their way to the archive yet: Reviews of unreproducible packages 706 package reviews have been added, 22 have been updated and 16 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. 5 issue types have been added: 1 issue type has been updated: Weekly QA work FTBFS bugs have been reported by: diffoscope development diffoscope development on the next version (60) continued in git, taking in contributions from: strip-nondeterminism development Mattia Rizzolo uploaded strip-nondeterminism 0.023-2~bpo8+1 to jessie-backports. A new version of strip-nondeterminism 0.024-1 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. It included contributions from: Holger added jobs on jenkins.debian.net to run testsuites on every commit. There is one job for the master branch and one for the other branches. disorderfs development Holger added jobs on jenkins.debian.net to run testsuites on every commit. There is one job for the master branch and one for the other branches. tests.reproducible-builds.org Debian: We now vary the GECOS records of the two build users. Thanks to Paul Wise for providing the patch. Misc. This week's edition was written by Ximin Luo, Holger Levsen & Chris Lamb and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC.

3 September 2016

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2016)

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Congratulations!

17 August 2016

Charles Plessy: Who finished DEP 5?

Many people worked on finishing DEP 5. I think that the blog of Lars does not show enough how collective the effort was. Looking in the specification's text, one finds: 
The following alphabetical list is incomplete; please suggest missing people:
Russ Allbery, Ben Finney, Sam Hocevar, Steve Langasek, Charles Plessy, Noah
Slater, Jonas Smedegaard, Lars Wirzenius.
The Policy's changelog mentions: 
  * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as
    DEP-5.  This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in
    the 3.9.3.0 release.  Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to
    Lars Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the
    Policy package.  (Closes: #609160)
 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
and 
debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
  [ Russ Allbery ]
  * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
    DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
    in debian-devel and debian-project.  Revise for clarity, to add more
    examples, and to update the GFDL license versions.  Thanks, Steve
    Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
    (Closes: #658209, #648387)
On my side, I am very grateful to Bill Alombert for having committed the document in the Git repository, which ended the debates.

21 June 2016

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible builds: week 60 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between June 12th and June 18th 2016: Media coverage GSoC and Outreachy updates Weekly reports by our participants: Toolchain fixes With this upload of texlive-bin we decided to stop keeping our patched fork of as most of the patches for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support had been integrated upstream already, and the last one (making FORCE_SOURCE_DATE default to 1) had been refused. So, we are now going to let the archive be rebuilt against unstable's texlive-bin and see how many packages will become unreproducible with this change; once enough data will be collected we will ponder whether FORCE_SOURCE_DATE should be exported by helper tools (such as debhelper) or manually exported by every package that needs it. (For those wondering: we still recommend to follow SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH always and don't recommend other projects to implement FORCE_SOURCE_DATE ) With the drop of texlive-bin we now have only three modified packages in our experimental repository. Reproducible work in other projects Packages fixed The following 12 packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: django-floppyforms flask-restful hy jets3t kombu llvm-toolchain-3.8 moap python-bottle python-debtcollector python-django-debug-toolbar python-osprofiler stevedore The following packages have become reproducible after being fixed: Some uploads have fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Uploads with reproducibility fixes that currently fail to build: Patches submitted that have not made their way to the archive yet: Package reviews 36 reviews have been added, 12 have been updated and 31 have been removed in this week. 17 FTBFS bugs have been reported by Chris Lamb, Santiago Vila and Dominic Hargreaves. diffoscope development Satyam worked on argument completion (#826711) for diffoscope. strip-nondeterminism development Mattia Rizzolo uploaded strip-nondeterminism 0.019-1~bpo8+1 to jessie-backports. reprotest development Ceridwen filed an Intent To Package (ITP) bug for reprotest as #827293. tests.reproducible-builds.org Misc. This week's edition was written by Mattia Rizzolo, Reiner Herrmann, Ed Maste and Holger Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible builds folks on IRC.

10 March 2016

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 45 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort between February 28th and March 5th:

Toolchain fixes
  • Antonio Terceiro uploaded gem2deb/0.27 that forces generated gemspecs to use the date from debian/changelog.
  • Antonio Terceiro uploaded gem2deb/0.28 that forces generated gemspecs to have their contains file lists sorted.
  • Robert Luberda uploaded ispell/3.4.00-5 which make builds of hashes reproducible.
  • C dric Boutillier uploaded ruby-ronn/0.7.3-4 which will make the output locale agnostic. Original patch by Chris Lamb.
  • Markus Koschany uploaded spring/101.0+dfsg-1. Fixed by Alexandre Detiste.
Ximin Luo resubmitted the patch adding the --clamp-mtime option to Tar on Savannah's bug tracker. Lunar rebased our experimental dpkg on top of the current master branch. Changes in the test infrastructure are required before uploading a new version to our experimental repository. Reiner Herrmann rebased our custom texlive-bin against the latest uploaded version.

Packages fixed The following 77 packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: asciidoctor, atig, fuel-astute, jekyll, libphone-ui-shr, linkchecker, maven-plugin-testing, node-iscroll, origami-pdf, plexus-digest, pry, python-avro, python-odf, rails, ruby-actionpack-xml-parser, ruby-active-model-serializers, ruby-activerecord-session-store, ruby-api-pagination, ruby-babosa, ruby-carrierwave, ruby-classifier-reborn, ruby-compass, ruby-concurrent, ruby-configurate, ruby-crack, ruby-css-parser, ruby-cucumber-rails, ruby-delorean, ruby-encryptor, ruby-fakeweb, ruby-flexmock, ruby-fog-vsphere, ruby-gemojione, ruby-git, ruby-grack, ruby-htmlentities, ruby-jekyll-feed, ruby-json-schema, ruby-listen, ruby-markerb, ruby-mathml, ruby-mini-magick, ruby-net-telnet, ruby-omniauth-azure-oauth2, ruby-omniauth-saml, ruby-org, ruby-origin, ruby-prawn, ruby-pygments.rb, ruby-raemon, ruby-rails-deprecated-sanitizer, ruby-raindrops, ruby-rbpdf, ruby-rbvmomi, ruby-recaptcha, ruby-ref, ruby-responders, ruby-rjb, ruby-rspec-rails, ruby-rspec, ruby-rufus-scheduler, ruby-sass-rails, ruby-sass, ruby-sentry-raven, ruby-sequel-pg, ruby-sequel, ruby-settingslogic, ruby-shoulda-matchers, ruby-slack-notifier, ruby-symboltable, ruby-timers, ruby-zip, ticgit, tmuxinator, vagrant, wagon, yard. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:
  • #816209 on elog by Reiner Herrmann: use printf instead of echo which is shell-independent.
  • #816214 on python-pip by Reiner Herrmann: removes timestamp from generated Python scripts.
  • #816230 on rows by Reiner Herrmann: tell grep to always treat the input as text.
  • #816232 on eficas by Reiner Herrmann: use printf instead of echo which is shell-independent.
Florent Daigniere and bancfc reported that linux-grsec was currently built with GRKERNSEC_RANDSTRUCT which will prevent reproducible builds with the current packaging.

tests.reproducible-builds.org pbuilder has been updated to the last version to be able to support Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch. (Mattia Rizzolo, h01ger) New package sets have been added for Subgraph OS, which is based on Debian Stretch: packages and build dependencies. (h01ger) Two new armhf build nodes have been added (thanks Vagrant Cascadian) and integrated in our Jenkins setup with 8 new armhf builder jobs. (h01ger)

strip-nondeterminism development strip-nondeterminism version 0.016-1 was released on Sunday 28th. It will now normalize the POT-Creation-Date field in GNU Gettext .mo files. (Reiner Herrmann) Several improvements to the packages metadata have also been made. (h01ger, Ben Finney)

Package reviews 185 reviews have been removed, 91 added and 33 updated in the previous week. New issue: fileorder_in_gemspec_files_list. 43 FTBFS bugs were reported by Chris Lamb, Martin Michlmayr, and gregor herrmann.

Misc. After merging the patch from Dhiru Kholia adding support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in rpm, Florian Festi opened a discussion on the rpm-ecosystem mailing list about reproducible builds. On March 4th, Lunar gave an overview of the general reproducible builds effort at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia.

23 March 2009

Julian Andres Klode: Change has come to python-apt - aka 0.7.9 released


With version 0.7.9 change has come to python-apt, and I will tell you now what the new stuff is about: 1. Introduction of the documentation As you may know, python-apt 0.7.8 s only documentation was available from the source code and to some parts from the docstrings. This changed in python-apt 0.7.9~exp2, when I introduced a complete documentation written in reStructuredText, and generated using Sphinx. This documentation has even improved in the final 0.7.9 release, and I will push it to the online mirror at http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/ soon (it currently still has 0.7.9~exp2). 2. Graphical Progress The module apt.progress.gtk2 provides widgets for Python GTK+ coders, allowing them to easily build graphical applications interacting directly with apt. I am still looking for someone to write a apt.progress.qt4 module, if no one wants to do this, I will do it myself. 3. Enhanced apt.debfile module A lot of code has been merged from gdebi, now allowing to do a large set of operations on local .deb files. For example, you can now install these packages. This module is also the first module to follow PEP8 naming conventions (lowercase_with_underscores), the others will be adapted at a later point. 4. Complete code cleanup I have worked on cleaning up the whole code, fixing white space problems, and more. Ben Finney was very helpful, I merged some of his patches for whitespace. I also fixed several other problems related to PEP8 conformance. Previously the PEP8 checking tool (see documentation) found about possible 964 issues, this has been reduced to 7 (-957), but these 7 issues are simply the usage of has_key() at locations where it can t be avoided [interfacing with TagSection objects], i.e. they are false positives. 5. Introduction of apt.package.Version In python-apt 0.7.9 I am introducing a new class apt.package.Version. This class provides access to various attributes of a version, like the record, the version number, the origin and even allows you to fetch the corresponding source code. But one of the best things about it is that it is sortable, allowing you to write: 
print 'Highest bash version:', max(apt.Cache()['bash'].versions)
This makes it very clear that you can build really cool applications with it. The various candidate*() and installed*() methods of apt.Package objects haven been deprecated, and you should use the Version() objects available via Package.installed or Package.candidate properties. Summary All in all, the python-apt 0.7.9 is a big step forward. It is one of the largest releases in the history of python-apt and provides various new features to make developing easier. With all the code cleanups, and the documentation, you should be able to find everything you need; if not please report a bug. When we are asked Can we do this with python-apt? , we can finally say: Yes we can! Posted in Debian

11 January 2009

Julian Andres Klode: What have you done this week?


Well, I wrote 2599 lines of documentation. More detailed I wrote 2599 lines of documentation from Thursday to Sunday. In total, the jak branch of python-apt now has a diffstat (compared to debian-sid) of: Changes: 113 files changed, 5845 insertions (+), 2763 deletions(-) Partly responsible is Ben Finney, whose patches I merged. I also closed 7 bugs not relevant anymore in current versions of python-apt. This is the changelog to from debian-sid to jak: 
python-apt (0.7.9~exp2) experimental; urgency=low
  * apt/*.py:
    - Almost complete cleanup of the code
    - Remove inconsistent use of tabs and spaces (Closes: #505443)
    - Improved documentation
  * apt/debfile.py:
    - Drop get*() methods, as they are deprecated and were
      never in a stable release
    - Make DscSrcPackage working
  * apt/gtk/widgets.py:
    - Fix the code and document the signals
  * Introduce new documentation build with Sphinx
    - Contains style Guide (Closes: #481562)
    - debian/rules: Build the documentation here
    - setup.py: Remove pydoc building and add new docs.
    - debian/examples: Include examples from documentation
    - debian/python-apt.docs:
      + Change html/ to build/doc/html.
      + Add build/doc/text for the text-only documentation
  * setup.py:
    - Only create build/data when building, not all the time
    - Remove build/mo and build/data on clean -a
  * debian/control:
    - Remove the Conflicts on python2.3-apt, python2.4-apt, as
      they are only needed for oldstable (sarge)
    - Build-Depend on python-sphinx (>= 0.5)
  * aptsources/distinfo.py:
    - Allow @ in mirror urls (Closes: #478171) (LP: #223097)
  * Merge Ben Finney's whitespace changes (Closes: #481563)
  * Merge Ben Finney's do not use has_key() (Closes: #481878 )
  * Do not use deprecated form of raise statement (Closes: #494259)
  * Add support for PkgRecords.SHA256Hash (Closes: #456113)
 -- Julian Andres Klode   Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:01:59 +0100
This will again close 7 bugs. But the most important part is to actually have the complete documentation (OK, some descriptions are missing, but all classes,functions,methods,attributes,data should be there now). I still need to rearrange parts of the documentation and add some descriptions to some pieces, but all in all I am satisfied with what I have done this week. Take a look at the documentation: http://people.debian.org/~jak/python-apt-doc/apt/, it received documentation for 9 new classes today. I also added an entry to the DeveloperNews page on wiki.debian.org. Posted in Debian

1 March 2007

MJ Ray: OpenWRT (2)

OK, it's taking longer to find time to do this. The network is holding up this week and customers have work that needs doing urgently, so I've not risked bricking the router. sdf commented:
"i would try dd-wrt (dd-wrt.de) instead..."
Mark commented:
"Install OpenWRT 0.9 (not "Kamikaze", which is a ground-up rewrite in pre-alpha). Install X-WRT to get webinf^2 (better web interface for configuration). Read the OpenWRT documentation on how to backup/restore your firmware. Make a backup once after you get everything configured, again before installing any major new packages, and again just before a firmware upgrade. The IRC channel is hit-or-miss but the forums are well-attended by knowledgeable people. Hope this helps."
Thanks. That's a great help. sebastian commented:
"Just saw your blog entry, you could have a look at X-WRT, which is an enhanced web configuration frontend to OpenWRT. ( http://x-wrt.org/ ) otherwise, they just plain rock (my opinion) ;-)"
Ben Finney commented:
"One warning I'd give is to make clear that OpenWRT happily sets up a 'non-free' repository source for its 'ipkg' package manager. This is necessary to get the Linux 2.4.3x module for most Broadcom wireless chips, and for 'nas' which is apparently needed for WPA encryption. I vaguely recall someone announcing recently that free-software drivers were now available for most Broadcom chipsets, but that's likely only in Linux 2.6.x and may take quite some time to appear in OpenWRT."
I'm aware that I'm pretty screwed by the Broadcom chipset, but it's a step forwards from where I am. The reply:
"I'm not sure whether to hope for an improvement. Do you know if the Broadcom chipset on these devices is one that now has free drivers available? If so, possibly we could agitate for those drivers to be backported to the kernel used in OpenWRT."
I don't know, but I guess I'll find out soon. Thanks for all the great comments so far, but now I'm not sure whether I want OpenWRT, X-WRT or dd-wrt!