Thanks to my employer I had opportunity to spent two days just working on my packages.
I know it s kinda sad that I have to wait for these two special days to do my (volunteer but still) job. Anyway. I was able to dig through all changes in our policy and standards and update some of my packages. Changes include: potrace (1.13-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version.
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed) Bartosz Fenski Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:37:54 +0100 ipcalc (0.41-5) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* Updating to the newest standards of basically everything.
Very cool experience
* CGI script is now optional and put into examples (Closes: #763032) Bartosz Fenski Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:51:12 +0100 dibbler (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream release (Closes: #780232, #795493)
fixes segfaults in TClntCfgMgr::validateConfig (Closes: #732697)
* Includes debugging packages (Closes: #732707)
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed) Bartosz Fenski Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:33:56 +0100 calcurse (4.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version.
* Properly handles apts file with new line sign (Closes: #749282)
* Explicitly uses autotools-dev dependency.
* Bumped Standards-Version. (no changes needed) Bartosz Fenski Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:55:30 +0100 libstatgrab (0.91-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version (Closes: #804480)
* ACK NMUs, thanks Manuel!
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed) Bartosz Fenski Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:27:37 +0100 httpie (0.9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* ACK previous NMU, thanks a lot Vincent!
* Bumped required python-requests version (Closes: #802540) Bartosz Fenski Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:39:37 +0100 These uploads fixed 7 bugs and 9 lintian warnings/errors. Except that I reviewed mydumper package update and I uploaded it for Mateusz Kijowski who tries to became NM. Thanks Akamai!

Any good reason that we re not using SRS to make SPF aware servers happy?
That s kinda strange given that @debian.org is doing only forwarding.

Nice gift from Valve to Debian Developers although when I m reading first reactions on #debian-devel I expect this to be bigger flamewar than systemd/upstart battle

Last year I told you that I spent two full-time days working on Debian as a part of initiative sponsored by my current employer. This year I ve devoted these two days again for Debian. Quick summary of what I was able to do during these two days. 11 bugs, 4 lintian errors and 43 warnings were fixed. In addition 3 packages now use new source format (usually that means repackaging software from scratch). 4 uses new copyright format and the newest Standards-Version. 5 packages were updated to the newest upstream version. Changelog entries:
potrace (1.11-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version.
* Completely repackaged from scratch (funny experience as usual):
- uses new copyright format
- uses debhelper compatibility level 9 w/hardening options
- uses the newest Standards-Version
- fixes 11 lintian warnings and 2 errors
* Fixes typo in manpage. (Closes: #694492) -- Bartosz Fenski Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:23:32 +0100 makeself (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream release. (Closes: #690105)
- handles df output in more portable way (Closes: #641804)
* Repackaged from scratch.
- uses new packaging format 3.0 (Closes: #670738)
- uses new copyright format
- uses debhelper compatibility level 9
- uses the newest Standards-Version
- fixes 2 lintian errors and 6 warnings -- Bartosz Fenski Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:32:45 +0100 dibbler (1.0.0~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream release candidate 1 version (Closes: #686539)
- doesn't drop dhcp session during pppd restarts (Closes: #641237)
- doesn't hang indefinitely on 'stop' (Closes: #675272)
* Calls dh --with autotools_dev to prevent build failures (Closes: 727356)
* Includes Japanese debconf translation (Closes: #718921)
* Updated Standards-Version (no changes needed)
* Uses debhelper compatibility level 9 w/hardening options
* init scripts now source init functions
* Fixes 20 lintian warnings. -- Bartosz Fenski Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:05:56 +0100 calcurse (3.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version.
* ACK previous NMU - thanks!
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed) -- Bartosz Fenski Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:22:06 +0100 ipcalc (0.41-4) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* Fixes overzealous input checking (Closes: #332468)
* Martin F Krafft removed as co-maintainer (Closes: #719098)
+ package now uses new copyright format
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed) -- Bartosz Fenski Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:05:15 +0100 msort (8.53-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream release.
* ACK previous NMUs, thanks!
* Switched to new source format.
* Switched to new copyright format.
* Moved patches to new quilt format and described them.
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed)
* Has correct tcl/tk dependencies (Closes: #545135)
* Doesn't segfault with certain input (Closes: #630485) -- Bartosz Fenski Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:39:44 +0100
Thank you Akamai

Just to let you know. We ve been celebrating 20th anniversary also in Poland.
We spent 4 days near Polish sea. And we had great time.
Here goes pictures of cakes



One is made by my girlfriend. Guess which one

I ve just tried to paste a link to video material from DebConf13 on my Facebook wall and I got this warning:

Could someone tell me what privacy settings are set on materials from DebConf?
Or maybe the more applicable question is what is the license of these materials?

Dear lazy web, Friend of mine ask me for help to find out bottleneck of performance problems he s dealing with.
Basically it looks like the most problematic are I/O operations and main reason for that are thousands of read/write operations on directory having about 150k files. Solution is easy right? Spread those files among some hashed subdirectories and we re fine.
But it is not so easy. There are about 200 bash/perl scripts operating on those files.
So it s not so simple as mv aaaaaaaaaaaaa.txt a/aa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.txt and so on.
Those scripts were developed for the past 10 or more years so yes noone really knows how and why do they work. So I m thinking about another approach which should be much easier and cheaper than rewriting hundreds of scripts. Something like proxy filesystem between those scripts and files.
So we could still move those files to hashed subdirectories but show them as they are in single directory for the scripts. Anyone knows about such filesystem? Or is it something that has to be written? And another question is it worth to go this way? Is there a chance that some kind of FUSE proxy filesystem with really fast hashed subdirectories will be faster than filesystem with one directory with a lot of files? Anyone tried such approach?

In October I announced that starting with 3.6 kernel it was eventually safe to unplug Zenbook.
Then in bugreport I was told that Sentelic touchpad driver was included in 3.8 kernel.
And guess what I don t have to patch kernel to have working touchpad using 3.8 kernels but I have to worry about unplugging laptop cause with 3.8.x kernel it s quite common that it turns laptop off again.
So the question is do we have any regression tests in kernel?
Should I test every kernel release between 3.8.5 and 3.6.0 to find the one that incorporated that bug again?

Dear lazyweb. I remember that not so long ago someone on planet.debian.org shared info about he/she s talk about packaging Debian with link to both video of the talk and sources of presentation. Since I would like to prepare similar talk for some local Polish OpenSource conference I d be thankful if someone could remind me a link in comments. TIA.

My current employer as a benefit offers two days of paid volunteer time every calendar year. In September I decided to devote this time for Debian project. It wasn t easy to convince HR and my manager (hi Gloria ) that such activity can be considered as volunteering but I eventually did it! So last Thursday and Friday were days I could spent working on my packages and other stuff related to Debian Let s talk about effects. 5 packages updated, 16 bugs closed, more than 50 lintian warnings/errors solved. Here goes changelogs from updated packages:
calcurse (3.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* Package made from scratch (this was funny experience):
- uses new quilt source format
- uses new copyright format
- uses debhelper compatibility level 9 w/hardening options
- uses the newest Standards-Version
* New upstream version:
- supports UTF8 (Closes: #558671)
- hopefully fixes problem with accented characters (Closes: #466010) -- Bartosz Fenski <fenio> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:51:08 +0100 httpie (0.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* Includes manual page (Closes: #673067)
Courtesy of Khalid El Fathi <khalid>. Thanks!
* New upstream version. (Closes: #693810)
- handles binary transfers properly (Closes: #689974) -- Bartosz Fenski <fenio> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:27:59 +0100 skipfish (2.10b-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version.
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed).
* Various path fixes because of upstream changes.
* Added new libpcre3-dev build dependency.
* Totally rewritten copyright file to comply with new copyright standard. -- Bartosz Fenski <fenio> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:59:36 +010 ipcalc (0.41-3) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* ACK previous NMU, thanks Christopher!
* Documents some missing features in the manpage (Closes: #588143)
Thanks Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy>!
* Fixes other minor problems in manpage (Closes: #688148)
* Description now says it's tool IPv4 only (Closes: #628955)
* Fixes lack of </table> tag when printing supernets (Closes: #600251)
* The following changes are courtesy of Jari Aalto <jari.aalto>:
- Remove deprecated dpatch and upgrade to packaging format "3.0 quilt".
- Update to Standards-Version to 3.9.3 and debhelper to 9.
- Add build-arch and build-indep targets; use dh_prep in rules file.
- Patch 03: update with "quilt refresh" to make it apply cleanly.
Thanks to these changes (Closes: #670737) -- Bartosz Fenski <fenio> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:30:11 +0100 netw-ib-ox-ag (5.39.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.
* New upstream version.
* Uses Homepage header. (Closes: #615219, #615294, #615321, #615436, #645522)
* Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed).
* Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format)
* Fixes FTBFS on s390x and sparc64 (Closes: #639493)
* Fixes 29 (sic!) lintian warnings/errors thus many small changes
in packaging scripts. -- Bartosz Fenski <fenio> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:38:29 +0200
Despite this I did something else. I sent end of the world joke-mail to debian-mentors mailing list stating (ignore the fact that my own server marked me as spammer; fixed already ;P) that I m going to review and try to upload every package that will be send to me during end-of-the-world day.
That action was quite successful although no package has been uploaded yet. I reviewed 4 of them and two more are yet to come. So it looks that these two days sponsored by Akamai motivated me enough to spent few more days or even months and help other people to contribute to Debian. Thank you Akamai!

It s quite funny than the only service that is fully accessible (at least that s my impression) through IPv6 is IRC which is usually considered as something deprecated/obsolete.

I really tried to find solution myself but I failed.
Please tell me that we have some player that s able to play videos through UPnP/DLNA *with* subtitles available in external file.

It rocks!

Eventually after upgrade to kernel 3.6 I can without stress unplug power cable from my Zenbook.
It doesn t randomly die after that. Yay!

My current employer has some internal program that it allows employee to devote two days a year for volunteering work.
It doesn t matter what it is (work for hospice, planting trees, helping in some foundation) so I thought about devoting this time for the Debian project. Either fixing RC bugs or finally give my packages enough attention and take care of their updates. Anyway the employer needs the certificate that I took participation in such event.
So the question is if it is possible to get some official document/certificate that I devoted some time to work on Debian? Bureaucracy has to be fulfilled unfortunately.

Dear lazy web, The electronic devices are much cheaper in US than in Poland and I ve got an opportunity to get one without duty/taxes and all that crap. I wonder if Kindle Fire HD is the right choice for someone outside of US/UK?
We don t have access to all Amazon services but still this tablet specification looks interesting. Any other hints? I m looking for something under 300 bucks, so no fruits please

Please tell me that it s not truth and there are TVs capable to record video that came in from HDMI.
I m trying to find TV that would allow me to record video from my cable TV provider and he gives me router/cable modem that has HDMI output. Please tell me that there are some devices that are able to store signal going through it I can upload some handcrafted firmware if I have to.

Correct me if I m wrong (and I really want to be wrong).
Is that whole LVM crap expects me to be forecaster/fortune-teller? I wanted to upgrade some squeeze based virtual machine to wheezy. Sounds nice, yeah?
So before the upgrade you should ensure that you have backup, right?
Assuming that whole system is LVM based all you have to do before upgrade is LVM snapshot.
I did it and I was quite surprised that I had to declare its size.
I did it basing on assumption that upgrade shouldn t take more than let say 5GB. Tada! Now I did upgrade redmine virtual machine and this is what I got: These attr flags mean Snapshot invalid and Invalid snapshot .
End of the story this is last time I actually tried that method of backup.
Happily I have also some traditional backup (mysqldump+rsync) but I m really surprised that LVM works this way.
There was plenty of free space to enlarge that volume and this is what you get in your logs: Unable to allocate exception? Did it really try to do it? I don t think so.

She s awesome!

To whom it may concern. I ve just uploaded new upstream version of dibbler (portable DHCPv6 client/server) to unstable.
The resolvconf patch needed some changes to apply on that version so whoever actually uses dibbler, please test it ASAP so we could address any issues. This version amongst other things fixes nasty Debian bug #659476.