Time flies, I'm still busy, but I'll give a talk at Tokyo Debian Meeting online about "Make legacy .deb package modern (live demo)" Why live demo? Because I'm busy and don't have a time to prepare docs for it... ;-)

Weather: We can only forecast the weather a few days into the future. Nuclear: I had no idea Thorium-based nuclear power was a thing. Fluid dynamics applied to traffic: Traffic Flow and Phantom Jams. Psychology, economics, and a history of culturally biased experiment results: We aren t the world.

I had attended to Tokyo area debian seminar #157. The day s special guest is Chris Lamb, the Debian Project Leader in 2017. He had attended to Open Compliance Summit, so we invited him as our guest. The following pdf file is the day s presentation:

• http://tokyodebian.alioth.debian.org/pdf/debianmeetingresume201711-presentation.pdf

And Hideki Yamane(henrich) talked about a new idea of Debian distribution fresh , pull-based rolling release. The details would be published by him in a few days. There were some discussion, and we need to introduce more information aboud Japanese Debian/FLOSS scene, so now I am writing this article. Anything else, I ccould get good time with debian developers and community. Our community, especially in Japan, requires more new commers, young people.

We re coming closer to the Debian/stretch stable release and similar to what we had with #newinwheezy and #newinjessie it s time for #newinstretch! Hideki Yamane already started the game by blogging about GitHub s Icon font, fonts-octicons and Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote a nice article about nftables in Debian/stretch. One package that isn t new but its tools are used by many of us is util-linux, providing many essential system utilities. We have util-linux v2.25.2 in Debian/jessie and in Debian/stretch there will be util-linux >=v2.29.2. There are many new options available and we also have a few new tools available. Tools that have been taken over from other packages

• last: used to be shipped via sysvinit-utils in Debian/jessie
• lastb: used to be shipped via sysvinit-utils in Debian/jessie
• mesg: used to be shipped via sysvinit-utils in Debian/jessie
• mountpoint: used to be shipped via initscripts in Debian/jessie
• sulogin: used to be shipped via sysvinit-utils in Debian/jessie

New tools

• lsipc: show information on IPC facilities, e.g.:

root@ff2713f55b36:/# lsipc
RESOURCE DESCRIPTION                                              LIMIT USED  USE%
MSGMNI   Number of message queues                                 32000    0 0.00%
MSGMAX   Max size of message (bytes)                               8192    -     -
MSGMNB   Default max size of queue (bytes)                        16384    -     -
SHMMNI   Shared memory segments                                    4096    0 0.00%
SHMALL   Shared memory pages                       18446744073692774399    0 0.00%
SHMMAX   Max size of shared memory segment (bytes) 18446744073692774399    -     -
SHMMIN   Min size of shared memory segment (bytes)                    1    -     -
SEMMNI   Number of semaphore identifiers                          32000    0 0.00%
SEMMNS   Total number of semaphores                          1024000000    0 0.00%
SEMMSL   Max semaphores per semaphore set.                        32000    -     -
SEMOPM   Max number of operations per semop(2)                      500    -     -
SEMVMX   Semaphore max value                                      32767    -     -

• lslogins: display information about known users in the system, e.g.:

root@ff2713f55b36:/# lslogins 
  UID USER     PROC PWD-LOCK PWD-DENY LAST-LOGIN GECOS
    0 root        2        0        1            root
    1 daemon      0        0        1            daemon
    2 bin         0        0        1            bin
    3 sys         0        0        1            sys
    4 sync        0        0        1            sync
    5 games       0        0        1            games
    6 man         0        0        1            man
    7 lp          0        0        1            lp
    8 mail        0        0        1            mail
    9 news        0        0        1            news
   10 uucp        0        0        1            uucp
   13 proxy       0        0        1            proxy
   33 www-data    0        0        1            www-data
   34 backup      0        0        1            backup
   38 list        0        0        1            Mailing List Manager
   39 irc         0        0        1            ircd
   41 gnats       0        0        1            Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin)
  100 _apt        0        0        1            
65534 nobody      0        0        1            nobody

• lsns: list system namespaces, e.g.:

root@ff2713f55b36:/# lsns
        NS TYPE   NPROCS PID USER COMMAND
4026531835 cgroup      2   1 root bash
4026531837 user        2   1 root bash
4026532473 mnt         2   1 root bash
4026532474 uts         2   1 root bash
4026532475 ipc         2   1 root bash
4026532476 pid         2   1 root bash
4026532478 net         2   1 root bash

• setpriv: run a program with different privilege settings
• zramctl: tool to quickly set up zram device parameters, to reset zram devices, and to query the status of used zram devices

New features/options addpart (show or change the real-time scheduling attributes of a process):

--reload reload prompts on running agetty instances

blkdiscard (discard the content of sectors on a device):

-p, --step <num>    size of the discard iterations within the offset
-z, --zeroout       zero-fill rather than discard

chrt (show or change the real-time scheduling attributes of a process):

-d, --deadline            set policy to SCHED_DEADLINE
-T, --sched-runtime <ns>  runtime parameter for DEADLINE
-P, --sched-period <ns>   period parameter for DEADLINE
-D, --sched-deadline <ns> deadline parameter for DEADLINE

fdformat (do a low-level formatting of a floppy disk):

-f, --from <N>    start at the track N (default 0)
-t, --to <N>      stop at the track N
-r, --repair <N>  try to repair tracks failed during the verification (max N retries)

fdisk (display or manipulate a disk partition table):

-B, --protect-boot            don't erase bootbits when creating a new label
-o, --output <list>           output columns
    --bytes                   print SIZE in bytes rather than in human readable format
-w, --wipe <mode>             wipe signatures (auto, always or never)
-W, --wipe-partitions <mode>  wipe signatures from new partitions (auto, always or never)
New available columns (for -o):
 gpt: Device Start End Sectors Size Type Type-UUID Attrs Name UUID
 dos: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs Boot End-C/H/S Start-C/H/S
 bsd: Slice Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Bsize Cpg Fsize
 sgi: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs
 sun: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Flags

findmnt (find a (mounted) filesystem):

-J, --json             use JSON output format
-M, --mountpoint <dir> the mountpoint directory
-x, --verify           verify mount table content (default is fstab)
    --verbose          print more details

flock (manage file locks from shell scripts):

-F, --no-fork            execute command without forking
    --verbose            increase verbosity

getty (open a terminal and set its mode):

--reload               reload prompts on running agetty instances

hwclock (query or set the hardware clock):

--get            read hardware clock and print drift corrected result
--update-drift   update drift factor in /etc/adjtime (requires --set or --systohc)

ldattach (attach a line discipline to a serial line):

-c, --intro-command <string>  intro sent before ldattach
-p, --pause <seconds>         pause between intro and ldattach

logger (enter messages into the system log):

-e, --skip-empty         do not log empty lines when processing files
    --no-act             do everything except the write the log
    --octet-count        use rfc6587 octet counting
-S, --size <size>        maximum size for a single message
    --rfc3164            use the obsolete BSD syslog protocol
    --rfc5424[=<snip>]   use the syslog protocol (the default for remote);
                           <snip> can be notime, or notq, and/or nohost
    --sd-id <id>         rfc5424 structured data ID
    --sd-param <data>    rfc5424 structured data name=value
    --msgid <msgid>      set rfc5424 message id field
    --socket-errors[=<on off auto>] print connection errors when using Unix sockets

losetup (set up and control loop devices):

-L, --nooverlap               avoid possible conflict between devices
    --direct-io[=<on off>]    open backing file with O_DIRECT 
-J, --json                    use JSON --list output format
New available --list column:
DIO  access backing file with direct-io

lsblk (list information about block devices):

-J, --json           use JSON output format
New available columns (for --output):
HOTPLUG  removable or hotplug device (usb, pcmcia, ...)
SUBSYSTEMS  de-duplicated chain of subsystems

lscpu (display information about the CPU architecture):

-y, --physical          print physical instead of logical IDs
New available column:
DRAWER  logical drawer number

lslocks (list local system locks):

-J, --json             use JSON output format
-i, --noinaccessible   ignore locks without read permissions

nsenter (run a program with namespaces of other processes):

-C, --cgroup[=<file>]      enter cgroup namespace
    --preserve-credentials do not touch uids or gids
-Z, --follow-context       set SELinux context according to --target PID

rtcwake (enter a system sleep state until a specified wakeup time):

--date <timestamp>   date time of timestamp to wake
--list-modes         list available modes
-r, --reorder <dev>  fix partitions order (by start offset)

sfdisk (display or manipulate a disk partition table):

New Commands:
-J, --json <dev>                  dump partition table in JSON format
-F, --list-free [<dev> ...]       list unpartitioned free areas of each device
-r, --reorder <dev>               fix partitions order (by start offset)
    --delete <dev> [<part> ...]   delete all or specified partitions
--part-label <dev> <part> [<str>] print or change partition label
--part-type <dev> <part> [<type>] print or change partition type
--part-uuid <dev> <part> [<uuid>] print or change partition uuid
--part-attrs <dev> <part> [<str>] print or change partition attributes
New Options:
-a, --append                   append partitions to existing partition table
-b, --backup                   backup partition table sectors (see -O)
    --bytes                    print SIZE in bytes rather than in human readable format
    --move-data[=<typescript>] move partition data after relocation (requires -N)
    --color[=<when>]           colorize output (auto, always or never)
                               colors are enabled by default
-N, --partno <num>             specify partition number
-n, --no-act                   do everything except write to device
    --no-tell-kernel           do not tell kernel about changes
-O, --backup-file <path>       override default backup file name
-o, --output <list>            output columns
-w, --wipe <mode>              wipe signatures (auto, always or never)
-W, --wipe-partitions <mode>   wipe signatures from new partitions (auto, always or never)
-X, --label <name>             specify label type (dos, gpt, ...)
-Y, --label-nested <name>      specify nested label type (dos, bsd)
Available columns (for -o):
 gpt: Device Start End Sectors Size Type Type-UUID Attrs Name UUID
 dos: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs Boot End-C/H/S Start-C/H/S
 bsd: Slice Start  End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Bsize Cpg Fsize
 sgi: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs
 sun: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Flags

swapon (enable devices and files for paging and swapping):

-o, --options <list>     comma-separated list of swap options
New available columns (for --show):
UUID   swap uuid
LABEL  swap label

unshare (run a program with some namespaces unshared from the parent):

-C, --cgroup[=<file>]                              unshare cgroup namespace
    --propagation slave shared private unchanged   modify mount propagation in mount namespace
-s, --setgroups allow deny                         control the setgroups syscall in user namespaces

Deprecated / removed options sfdisk (display or manipulate a disk partition table):

-c, --id                  change or print partition Id
    --change-id           change Id
    --print-id            print Id
-C, --cylinders <number>  set the number of cylinders to use
-H, --heads <number>      set the number of heads to use
-S, --sectors <number>    set the number of sectors to use
-G, --show-pt-geometry    deprecated, alias to --show-geometry
-L, --Linux               deprecated, only for backward compatibility
-u, --unit S              deprecated, only sector unit is supported