The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:
Python, Golang and Cloud teams, packaging dependencies and maintaining various tools. However, I soon felt the need to focus on packaging software I truly enjoyed, tools I was passionate about using and maintaining.
That s when I turned my attention to Kubernetes within Debian.
1.20.5.
Due to this abandonment, critical bugs emerged and the package was removed from Debian s testing channel, as we can see in the package tracker.
kubectx, kubernetes-split-yaml and kubetail into a dedicated namespace on Salsa, Debian s GitLab instance.
Many of these tools were stored across different teams (like the Go team), and consolidating them helped us organize development and focus our efforts.
kubectl, Kubernetes CLI.Files-Excluded in debian/copyright to cleanly drop unneeded files during source imports.uscan, a standard Debian packaging tool that fetches upstream tarballs and prepares them accordingly. The Files-Excluded directive in our debian/copyright file instructed uscan to automatically remove unnecessary files during the repackaging process:
$ uscan
Newest version of kubernetes on remote site is 1.32.3, specified download version is 1.32.3
Successfully repacked ../v1.32.3 as ../kubernetes_1.32.3+ds.orig.tar.gz, deleting 30616 files from it.
75%:
$ du -h upstream-v1.32.3.tar.gz kubernetes_1.32.3+ds.orig.tar.gz
14M upstream-v1.32.3.tar.gz
3.2M kubernetes_1.32.3+ds.orig.tar.gz
30,000 files, we simplified the package, making it more maintainable. Each dependency could now be properly tracked, updated, and patched independently, resolving the security concerns that had plagued the previous packaging approach.
debtree, visualizing all the Go modules and other dependencies required to build the kubectl binary.
This web of nodes and edges represents every module and its relationship during the compilation process of kubectl. Each box is a Debian package, and the lines connecting them show how deeply intertwined the ecosystem is. What might look like a mess of blue spaghetti is actually a clear demonstration of the vast and interconnected upstream world that tools like kubectl rely on.
But more importantly, this graph is a testament to the effort that went into making kubectl build entirely using Debian-packaged dependencies only, no vendoring, no downloading from the internet, no proprietary blobs.
1.32.3+ds of kubectl to Debian unstable.
kubernetes/-/merge_requests/1
Zsh, Fish, and Bash completions installed automaticallyMan pages and metadata for improved discoverabilitykind and docker for testing purposes
Here s what the data tells us:
kubectl (new binary): Already installed on 2,124 systems.golang-k8s-kubectl-dev: This is the Go development package (a library), useful for other packages and developers who want to interact with Kubernetes programmatically.kubernetes-client: The legacy package that kubectl is replacing. We expect this number to decrease in future releases as more systems transition to the new package.Also worth mentioning: this number is not the real total number of installations, since users can choose not to participate in the popularity contest. So the actual adoption is likely higher than what popcon reflects.
kubectl version 1.32.3, built from a clean, de-vendorized source. This version includes nearly all the latest upstream features, and will be the first time in years that Debian users can rely on an up-to-date, policy-compliant kubectl directly from the archive.
By comparing with upstream, our Debian package even delivers more out of the box, including shell completions, which the upstream still requires users to generate manually.
In 2025, the Debian Kubernetes team will continue expanding our packaging efforts for the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Our roadmap includes:
kubeadm in Debian, users will then be able to bootstrap minimum viable clusters directly from the official repositories.
Python, Golang and Cloud teams, packaging dependencies and maintaining various tools. However, I soon felt the need to focus on packaging software I truly enjoyed, tools I was passionate about using and maintaining.
That s when I turned my attention to Kubernetes within Debian.
1.20.5.
Due to this abandonment, critical bugs emerged and the package was removed from Debian s testing channel, as we can see in the package tracker.
kubectx, kubernetes-split-yaml and kubetail into a dedicated namespace on Salsa, Debian s GitLab instance.
Many of these tools were stored across different teams (like the Go team), and consolidating them helped us organize development and focus our efforts.
kubectl, Kubernetes CLI.Files-Excluded in debian/copyright to cleanly drop unneeded files during source imports.uscan, a standard Debian packaging tool that fetches upstream tarballs and prepares them accordingly. The Files-Excluded directive in our debian/copyright file instructed uscan to automatically remove unnecessary files during the repackaging process:
$ uscan
Newest version of kubernetes on remote site is 1.32.3, specified download version is 1.32.3
Successfully repacked ../v1.32.3 as ../kubernetes_1.32.3+ds.orig.tar.gz, deleting 30616 files from it.
75%:
$ du -h upstream-v1.32.3.tar.gz kubernetes_1.32.3+ds.orig.tar.gz
14M upstream-v1.32.3.tar.gz
3.2M kubernetes_1.32.3+ds.orig.tar.gz
30,000 files, we simplified the package, making it more maintainable. Each dependency could now be properly tracked, updated, and patched independently, resolving the security concerns that had plagued the previous packaging approach.
debtree, visualizing all the Go modules and other dependencies required to build the kubectl binary.
This web of nodes and edges represents every module and its relationship during the compilation process of kubectl. Each box is a Debian package, and the lines connecting them show how deeply intertwined the ecosystem is. What might look like a mess of blue spaghetti is actually a clear demonstration of the vast and interconnected upstream world that tools like kubectl rely on.
But more importantly, this graph is a testament to the effort that went into making kubectl build entirely using Debian-packaged dependencies only, no vendoring, no downloading from the internet, no proprietary blobs.
1.32.3+ds of kubectl to Debian unstable.
kubernetes/-/merge_requests/1
Zsh, Fish, and Bash completions installed automaticallyMan pages and metadata for improved discoverabilitykind and docker for testing purposes
Here s what the data tells us:
kubectl (new binary): Already installed on 2,124 systems.golang-k8s-kubectl-dev: This is the Go development package (a library), useful for other packages and developers who want to interact with Kubernetes programmatically.kubernetes-client: The legacy package that kubectl is replacing. We expect this number to decrease in future releases as more systems transition to the new package.Also worth mentioning: this number is not the real total number of installations, since users can choose not to participate in the popularity contest. So the actual adoption is likely higher than what popcon reflects.
kubectl version 1.32.3, built from a clean, de-vendorized source. This version includes nearly all the latest upstream features, and will be the first time in years that Debian users can rely on an up-to-date, policy-compliant kubectl directly from the archive.
By comparing with upstream, our Debian package even delivers more out of the box, including shell completions, which the upstream still requires users to generate manually.
In 2025, the Debian Kubernetes team will continue expanding our packaging efforts for the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Our roadmap includes:
kubeadm in Debian, users will then be able to bootstrap minimum viable clusters directly from the official repositories.
This year's Debian day was a pretty special one, we are celebrating 30 years! Giving the importance of this event, the Brazilian community planned a very
special week. Instead of only local gatherings, we had a week of online talks
streamed via Debian Brazil's youtube channel (soon the recordings will be uploaded to Debian's peertube instance). Nonetheless the local celebrations happened around the country and I've organized one in S o Carlos with the help
of GELOS, the FLOSS group at University of S o Paulo.
The event happened on August 19th and went on the whole afternoon. We had some
talks about Debian and free software (see table below), a coffee break where we
had the chance to talk, and finished with a group photo (check this one and
many others below). Actually, it wasn't the end, we carried on the conversation
about Debian and free software in a local bar :-)
We had around 30 people in the event and reached a greater audience via the
announcements across the university's press releases and emails sent to our
Brazilian mailing lists. You can check some of them below.
Getting things ready for the event.
Intro to GELOS talk.
A ~~not so~~ Brief Introdution to the Debian Project talk.
Everyone already knew Debian!
Debian and the Free Culture talk
People in the auditorium space.
Free Software: the paths to a free life talk
Coffee Break.
The FOSS Ecosystem and You talk.
Group photo.
Celebration goes on in the bar.
wcurl example.com/filename.txt
/usr/bin, the code is here:Example to download a single file:
- Encode whitespaces in URLs;
- Download multiple URLs in parallel if the installed curl's version is >= 7.66.0;
- Follow redirects;
- Automatically choose a filename as output;
- Avoid overwriting files if the installed curl's version is >= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);
- Perform retries;
- Set the downloaded file timestamp to the value provided by the server, if available;
- Default to the protocol used as https if the URL doesn't contain any;
- Disable curl's URL globbing parser so and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially.
wcurl example.com/filename.txt
--curl-options
wcurl option, anything set there will be passed to the curl invocation.
Just beware that if you need to set any custom flags, it's likely you will be
better served by calling curl directly. The --curl-options option is there to
allow for some flexibility in unforeseen circumstances.
-O, I really want wget like functionality where I don't have to specify the name
Downloading a file (like wget) could be improved - with automatic naming of the file
downloading files - wget is much cleaner
I wish the default behaviour when GETting a binary was to drop it on disk. That's the only reason 'wget foo.tgz" is still ingrained in my muscle memory .
Maybe have a way to download without specifying something in -o (the only reason i used wget still)
--remote-time should be default
--remote-name-all could really use a short flag
"Write the data to the file named in the URL (or in redirects if I'm feeling daring), and timestamp the file to the last-modified-date". This is the main reason I'm still using wget.I can finally feel less bad about falling back to wget due to not remembering the parameters I want.
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
This year's Debian day was a pretty special one, we are celebrating 30 years!
Giving the importance of this event, the Brazilian community planned a very
special week. Instead of only local gatherings, we had a week of online talks
streamed via Debian Brazil's youtube channel (soon the recordings will be
uploaded to Debian's peertube instance). Nonetheless the local celebrations
happened around the country and I've organized one in S o Carlos with the help
of GELOS, the FLOSS group at University of S o Paulo.
The event happened on August 19th and went on the whole afternoon. We had some
talks about Debian and free software (see table below), a coffee break where we
had the chance to talk, and finished with a group photo (check this one and
many others below). Actually, it wasn't the end, we carried on the conversation
about Debian and free software in a local bar :-)
We had around 30 people in the event and reached a greater audience via the
announcements across the university's press releases and emails sent to our
Brazilian mailing lists. You can check some of them below.
| Time | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:10 | GELOS | Intro to GELOS |
| 14:30 | Carlos Melara (Charles) | A |
| 15:15 | Guilherme Paix o | Debian and the Free Culture |
| 15:45 | z | Free Software: the paths to a free life |
| 16:15 | -- | Coffee Break |
| 17:15 | Prof. Dr. Francisco Jos Monaco | The FOSS Ecosystem and You |
From November 2nd to 4th, 2022, the 19th edition of
Latinoware - Latin American Congress of Free Software
and Open Technologies took place in Foz do Igua u. After 2 years happening
online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was back in person and we felt
Debian Brasil community should be there.
Out last time at Latinoware was in
2016
The Latinoware organization provided the Debian Brazil community with a booth
so that we could have contact with people visiting the open exhibition area and
thus publicize the Debian project. During the 3 days of the event, the booth was
organized by me (Paulo Henrique Santana) as Debian Developer, and by Leonardo
Rodrigues as Debian contributor. Unfortunately Daniel Lenharo had an issue and
could not travel to Foz do Igua u (we miss you there!).
A huge number of people visited the booth, and the beginners (mainly students)
who didn't know Debian, asked what our group was about and we explained various
concepts such as what Free Software is, GNU/Linux distribution and Debian
itself. We also received people from the Brazilian Free Software community and
from other Latin American countries who were already using a GNU/Linux
distribution and, of course, many people who were already using Debian. We had
some special visitors as Jon maddog Hall, Debian Developer Emeritus Ot vio
Salvador, Debian Developer Eriberto Mota, and Debian Maintainers Guilherme de
Paula Segundo and Paulo Kretcheu.
Photo from left to right: Leonardo, Paulo, Eriberto and Ot vio.
Photo from left to right: Paulo, Fabian (Argentina) and Leonardo.
In addition to talking a lot, we distributed Debian stickers that were produced
a few months ago with Debian's sponsorship to be distributed at DebConf22
(and that were left over), and we sold several Debian
t-shirts) produced by
Curitiba Livre community).
We also had 3 talks included in Latinoware official schedule.
I) talked about:
"how to become a Debian contributor by doing translations" and "how the
SysAdmins of a global company use Debian". And
Leonardo) talked about:
"advantages of Open Source telephony in companies".
Photo Paulo in his talk.
Many thanks to Latinoware organization for once again welcoming the Debian
community and kindly providing spaces for our participation, and we
congratulate all the people involved in the organization for the success of
this important event for our community. We hope to be present again in 2023.
We also thank Jonathan Carter for approving financial support from Debian for
our participation at Latinoware.
Portuguese version
De 2 a 4 de novembro de 2022 aconteceu a 19 edi o do
Latinoware - Congresso Latino-americano de Software
Livre e Tecnologias Abertas, em Foz do Igua u. Ap s 2 anos acontecendo de forma
online devido a pandemia do COVID-19, o evento voltou a ser presencial e
sentimos que a comunidade Debian Brasil deveria
estar presente. Nossa ltima participa o no Latinoware foi em
2016
A organiza o do Latinoware cedeu para a comunidade Debian Brasil um estande
para que pud ssemos ter contato com as pessoas que visitavam a rea aberta de
exposi es e assim divulgarmos o projeto Debian.
Durante os 3 dias do evento, o estande foi organizado por mim
(Paulo Henrique Santana) como Desenvolvedor Debian, e
pelo Leonardo Rodrigues como contribuidor Debian. Infelizmente o Daniel Lenharo
teve um imprevisto de ltima hora e n o pode ir para Foz do Igua u (sentimos sua
falta l !).
V rias pessoas visitaram o estande e aquelas mais iniciantes (principalmente
estudantes) que n o conheciam o Debian, perguntavam do que se tratava o nosso
grupo e a gente explicava v rios conceitos como o que Software Livre,
distribui o GNU/Linux e o Debian propriamente dito. Tamb m recebemos pessoas
da comunidade de Software Livre brasileira e de outros pa ses da Am rica Latina
que j utilizavam uma distribui o GNU/Linux e claro, muitas pessoas que j
utilizavam Debian. Tivemos algumas visitas especiais como do Jon maddog Hall,
do Desenvolvedor Debian Emeritus Ot vio Salvador, do Desenvolvedor Debian
Eriberto Mota, e dos Mantenedores Debian Guilherme de
Paula Segundo e Paulo Kretcheu.
Foto da esquerda pra direita: Leonardo, Paulo, Eriberto e Ot vio.
Foto da esquerda pra direita: Paulo, Fabian (Argentina) e Leonardo.
Al m de conversarmos bastante, distribu mos adesivos do Debian que foram
produzidos alguns meses atr s com o patroc nio do Debian para serem distribu dos
na DebConf22(e que haviam sobrado), e vendemos v rias
camisetas do Debian produzidas pela
comunidade Curitiba Livre.
Tamb m tivemos 3 palestras inseridas na programa o oficial do Latinoware.
Eu fiz as palestras:
como tornar um(a) contribuidor(a) do Debian fazendo tradu es e como os
SysAdmins de uma empresa global usam Debian . E o
Leonardo fez a palestra:
vantagens da telefonia Open Source nas empresas .
Foto Paulo na palestra.
Agradecemos a organiza o do Latinoware por receber mais uma vez a comunidade
Debian e gentilmente ceder os espa os para a nossa participa o, e parabenizamos
a todas as pessoas envolvidas na organiza o pelo sucesso desse importante
evento para a nossa comunidade. Esperamos estar presentes novamente em 2023.
Agracemos tamb m ao Jonathan Carter por aprovar o suporte financeiro do Debian
para a nossa participa o no Latinoware.
Vers o em ingl s
De 2 a 4 de novembro de 2022 aconteceu a 19 edi o do
Latinoware - Congresso Latino-americano de Software
Livre e Tecnologias Abertas, em Foz do Igua u. Ap s 2 anos acontecendo de forma
online devido a pandemia do COVID-19, o evento voltou a ser presencial e
sentimos que a comunidade Debian Brasil deveria
estar presente. Nossa ltima participa o no Latinoware foi em
2016
A organiza o do Latinoware cedeu para a comunidade Debian Brasil um estande
para que pud ssemos ter contato com as pessoas que visitavam a rea aberta de
exposi es e assim divulgarmos o projeto Debian.
Durante os 3 dias do evento, o estande foi organizado por mim
(Paulo Henrique Santana) como Desenvolvedor Debian, e
pelo Leonardo Rodrigues como contribuidor Debian. Infelizmente o Daniel Lenharo
teve um imprevisto de ltima hora e n o pode ir para Foz do Igua u (sentimos sua
falta l !).
V rias pessoas visitaram o estande e aquelas mais iniciantes (principalmente
estudantes) que n o conheciam o Debian, perguntavam do que se tratava o nosso
grupo e a gente explicava v rios conceitos como o que Software Livre,
distribui o GNU/Linux e o Debian propriamente dito. Tamb m recebemos pessoas
da comunidade de Software Livre brasileira e de outros pa ses da Am rica Latina
que j utilizavam uma distribui o GNU/Linux e claro, muitas pessoas que j
utilizavam Debian. Tivemos algumas visitas especiais como do Jon maddog Hall,
do Desenvolvedor Debian Emeritus Ot vio Salvador, do Desenvolvedor Debian
Eriberto Mota, e dos Mantenedores Debian Guilherme de
Paula Segundo e Paulo Kretcheu.
Foto da esquerda pra direita: Leonardo, Paulo, Eriberto e Ot vio.
Foto da esquerda pra direita: Paulo, Fabian (Argentina) e Leonardo.
Al m de conversarmos bastante, distribu mos adesivos do Debian que foram
produzidos alguns meses atr s com o patroc nio do Debian para serem distribu dos
na DebConf22(e que haviam sobrado), e vendemos v rias
camisetas do Debian produzidas pela
comunidade Curitiba Livre.
Tamb m tivemos 3 palestras inseridas na programa o oficial do Latinoware.
Eu fiz as palestras:
como tornar um(a) contribuidor(a) do Debian fazendo tradu es e como os
SysAdmins de uma empresa global usam Debian . E o
Leonardo fez a palestra:
vantagens da telefonia Open Source nas empresas .
Foto Paulo na palestra.
Agradecemos a organiza o do Latinoware por receber mais uma vez a comunidade
Debian e gentilmente ceder os espa os para a nossa participa o, e parabenizamos
a todas as pessoas envolvidas na organiza o pelo sucesso desse importante
evento para a nossa comunidade. Esperamos estar presentes novamente em 2023.
Agracemos tamb m ao Jonathan Carter por aprovar o suporte financeiro do Debian
para a nossa participa o no Latinoware.
Vers o em ingl s
From November 2nd to 4th, 2022, the 19th edition of
Latinoware - Latin American Congress of Free Software
and Open Technologies took place in Foz do Igua u. After 2 years happening
online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was back in person and we felt
Debian Brasil community should be there.
Out last time at Latinoware was in
2016
The Latinoware organization provided the Debian Brazil community with a booth
so that we could have contact with people visiting the open exhibition area and
thus publicize the Debian project. During the 3 days of the event, the booth was
organized by me (Paulo Henrique Santana) as Debian Developer, and by Leonardo
Rodrigues as Debian contributor. Unfortunately Daniel Lenharo had an issue and
could not travel to Foz do Igua u (we miss you there!).
A huge number of people visited the booth, and the beginners (mainly students)
who didn't know Debian, asked what our group was about and we explained various
concepts such as what Free Software is, GNU/Linux distribution and Debian
itself. We also received people from the Brazilian Free Software community and
from other Latin American countries who were already using a GNU/Linux
distribution and, of course, many people who were already using Debian. We had
some special visitors as Jon maddog Hall, Debian Developer Emeritus Ot vio
Salvador, Debian Developer Eriberto Mota, and Debian Maintainers Guilherme de
Paula Segundo and Paulo Kretcheu.
Photo from left to right: Leonardo, Paulo, Eriberto and Ot vio.
Photo from left to right: Paulo, Fabian (Argentina) and Leonardo.
In addition to talking a lot, we distributed Debian stickers that were produced
a few months ago with Debian's sponsorship to be distributed at DebConf22
(and that were left over), and we sold several Debian
t-shirts) produced by
Curitiba Livre community).
We also had 3 talks included in Latinoware official schedule.
I) talked about:
"how to become a Debian contributor by doing translations" and "how the
SysAdmins of a global company use Debian". And
Leonardo) talked about:
"advantages of Open Source telephony in companies".
Photo Paulo in his talk.
Many thanks to Latinoware organization for once again welcoming the Debian
community and kindly providing spaces for our participation, and we
congratulate all the people involved in the organization for the success of
this important event for our community. We hope to be present again in 2023.
We also thank Jonathan Carter for approving financial support from Debian for
our participation at Latinoware.
Portuguese version
Desde de setembro de 2015, o
time de publicidade
do Projeto Debian passou a publicar a cada dois meses
listas com os nomes dos(as) novos(as)
Desenvolvedores(as) Debian (DD - do
ingl s Debian Developer) e
Mantenedores(as) Debian
(DM - do ingl s Debian Maintainer).
Estamos aproveitando estas listas para publicar abaixo os nomes dos(as)
brasileiros(as) que se tornaram Desenvolvedores(as) e Mantenedores(as) Debian a
partir de julho de 2015.
Desenvolvedores(as) Debian / Debian Developers / DDs:
Marcos Talau
Desde de setembro de 2015, o
time de publicidade
do Projeto Debian passou a publicar a cada dois meses
listas com os nomes dos(as) novos(as)
Desenvolvedores(as) Debian (DD - do
ingl s Debian Developer) e
Mantenedores(as) Debian
(DM - do ingl s Debian Maintainer).
Estamos aproveitando estas listas para publicar abaixo os nomes dos(as)
brasileiros(as) que se tornaram Desenvolvedores(as) e Mantenedores(as) Debian a
partir de julho de 2015.
Desenvolvedores(as) Debian / Debian Developers / DDs:
Marcos Talau
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
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