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25 May 2023

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2023)

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!

6 October 2017

Raphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in September 2017

My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donors (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me. Debian LTS This month I was allocated 12h but I only spent 10.5h. During this time, I continued my work on exiv2. I finished reproducing all the issues and then went on doing code reviews to confirm that vulnerabilities were not present when the issue was not reproducible. I found two CVE where the vulnerability was present in the wheezy version and I posted patches in the upstream bug tracker: #57 and #55. Then another batch of 10 CVE appeared and I started the process over I m currently trying to reproduce the issues. While doing all this work on exiv2, I also uncovered a failure to build on the package in experimental (reported here). Misc Debian/Kali work Debian Live. I merged 3 live-build patches prepared by Matthijs Kooijman and added an armel fix to cope with the the rename of the orion5x image into the marvell one. I also uploaded a new live-config to fix a bug with the keyboard configuration. Finally, I also released a new live-installer udeb to cope with a recent live-build change that broke the locale selection during the installation process. Debian Installer. I prepared a few patches on pkgsel to merge a few features that had been added to Ubuntu, most notably the possibility to enable unattended-upgrades by default. More bug reports. I investigated much further my problem with non-booting qemu images when they are built by vmdebootstrap in a chroot managed by schroot (cf #872999) and while we have much more data, it s not yet clear why it doesn t work. But we have a working work-around While investigating issues seen in Kali, I opened a bunch of reports on the Debian side: Packaging. I sponsored two uploads (dirb and python-elasticsearch). Debian Handbook. My work on updating the book mostly stalled. The only thing I did was to review the patch about wireless configuration in #863496. I must really get back to work on the book! Thanks See you next month for a new summary of my activities.

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17 May 2016

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible builds: week 55 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between May 8th and May 14th 2016: Documentation updates Toolchain fixes Packages fixed The following 28 packages have become newly reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: actor-framework ask asterisk-prompt-fr-armelle asterisk-prompt-fr-proformatique coccinelle cwebx d-itg device-tree-compiler flann fortunes-es idlastro jabref konclude latexdiff libint minlog modplugtools mummer mwrap mxallowd mysql-mmm ocaml-atd ocamlviz postbooks pycorrfit pyscanfcs python-pcs weka The following 9 packages had older versions which were reproducible, and their latest versions are now reproducible again due to changes in their build dependencies: csync2 dune-common dune-localfunctions libcommons-jxpath-java libcommons-logging-java libstax-java libyanfs-java python-daemon yacas The following packages have become newly reproducible after being fixed: The following packages had older versions which were reproducible, and their latest versions are now reproducible again after being fixed: Some uploads have fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Patches submitted that have not made their way to the archive yet: Package reviews 344 reviews have been added, 125 have been updated and 20 have been removed in this week. 14 FTBFS bugs have been reported by Chris Lamb. tests.reproducible-builds.org Misc. Dan Kegel sent a mail to report about his experiments with a reproducible dpkg PPA for Ubuntu. According to him sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dank/dpkg && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dpkg should be enough to get reproducible builds on Ubuntu 16.04. This week's edition was written by Ximin Luo and Holger Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible builds folks on IRC.

9 November 2010

Julien Valroff: I am a Debian Developer!

A few months after starting the NM process, I have just been accepted as a Debian Developer. My account name is simply: julien I have been a Debian user for about 10 years now, and have begun contributing to Debian in 2005. I have then been accepted as a Debian Maintainer in 2007. This post is mainly to thank: Also thanks to all people who have already sent their congratulations, it makes me very proud!

5 September 2010

Julien Valroff: End of my vacation

My vacation is now over, and I think it is now time for me to summarise what I have done with regards to free software. First, I have sent my first real contributions to OpenStreetMap, in the area of my small town: http://osm.org/go/0DCaXeZ
I still have a lot of things to learn, but things are already better than they were!
I will also shortly write an article about how to use the GlobalSat DG-100 data logger on Debian GNU/Linux.
Working on OSM is real fun, as it can be done in family. I have also spent some time to test & improve the Debian packages for DSPAM (available from my repository). I have moved the SVN repository to a new GIT repository available at: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-dspam/dspam.git;a=summary. Matthijs M hlmann (matthijs) is currently reviewing the packages, and will upload them to the official archive if everything is ok. Matthijs also accepted to be my advocate for my New Maintainer application. Thanks a lot to him! I am now waiting to be assigned an Application Manager: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=julien%40kirya.net As usual, I have also been quite active at reporting bugs on the Debian BTS. unfortunately, I haven t had the possibility to fix (RC) bugs.

31 January 2007

Thijs Kinkhorst: Taking some rest after a busy weekend

Friday was my birthday party, and is was a success. I got some nice presents even though I was unable to think up even one thing for my wish list beforehand. As an experiment I bought vegetarian bitterballs (a popular Dutch snack) to deep-fry, which were surprisingly well received. Stefan arrived at 03.00 so the party could then really commence. Saturday afternoon I spent with Matthijs tweaking some of our 1996 internet project, after which I went to visit Gerd-Jan's birthday party, who was born on the same day (and year) as myself, so I couldn't miss that. I was persuaded to join in on the current fad, poker, which left me with a whopping debt of five euros. Sunday marked the last day of the Winter Efteling season, which I visited with some Eftelist-moderators. I do not really like the WE, especially because it mostly lacks the green environment and real snow, but gains rain and cold, but it was interesting to study the Vogel Rok improvements. We closed the season off with some drinks in the Efteling Hotel bar, where I suddenly discovered it to be midnight. Not that I'm Cinderella, it rather meant that the last trains had already left. Jos and Ilona were kind enough to drop me off at Rotterdam Central station around 1:05, where I could take the 2:00 train. The night train takes this scenic route: Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Leiden, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Utrecht; so it was 4:15 when I was home. Now for some rest.

11 March 2006

Axel Beckert: Some new plugins, XFN, Technorati and yigg.de

After blathijs and I today talked a little bit about blosxom plugins on the #blosxom IRC channel, I installed the listplugins plugin. Since I’m a perfectionist in some things, I had to configure it to link every plugin I use to it’s web page or source. While going through my plugin list, I noticed that there were three additional plugins I wrote myself and of which I thought I should share: All plugins are published under the same open source license, they initially came with. In other news… I started using XFN, the XHTML Friends Network, at least the blogroll, and created accounts at Technorati and at yigg.de, a German Digg.com clone formerly respective yet still known as digg.de

Now playing: Battle Without Honor or Humanity — Hotei Tomayasu (from the Kill Bill Soundtrack)

22 February 2006

Axel Beckert: Some new plugins, XFN, Technorati and yigg.de

After blathijs and I today talked a little bit about blosxom plugins on the #blosxom IRC channel, I installed the listplugins plugin. Since I’m a perfectionist in some things, I had to configure it to link every plugin I use to it’s web page or source. While going through my plugin list, I noticed that there were three additional plugins I wrote myself and of which I thought I should share: All plugins are published under the same open source license, they initially came with. In other news… I started using XFN, the XHTML Friends Network, at least the blogroll, and created accounts at Technorati and at yigg.de, a German Digg.com clone formerly respective yet still known as digg.de

Now playing: Battle Without Honor or Humanity — Hotei Tomayasu (from the Kill Bill Soundtrack)

25 October 2005

Martin Michlmayr: Krak w, sightseeing

I spent a few days in Krak w, Poland for the CALIBRE workshop on Quality, Security and Safety and for KKIO 2005 and I used this opportunity to do some sightseeing. After the workshop on Tuesday, Matthijs den Besten and I wandered around the city for a a few hours, then went back to the hotel for a swim, just in time to go for dinner with the CALIBRE people. We went to a restaurant which served traditional food from the 17th century. It was a really amazing place with animal fur and carpets on the wall, big wooden tables and menus which had nice drawings on them. We had a selection of different food which we shared and it was really great. The following day, as part of KKIO, dinner was served in the Wieliczka salt mine after we went on a tour of it. It's pretty amazing what kind of art you can make out of salt. On Thursday, I did some more sightseeing, basically walking around the city center and looking at some of the nice attractions. Which turns out to be churches, given that this is Poland. I particularly liked the basilica of the holy trinity but many other sights, such as Wawel castle, were pretty impressive too.