• Submitted a pull request to Quadrapassel (the Gnome version of Tetris) to start a new game when the pause button is pressed outside of a game. This means you would no longer have to use the mouse to start a new game. [...]
• Made a large number of improvements to AptFS my FUSE-based filesystem that provides a view on unpacked Debian source packages as regular folders including moving away from manual parsing of package lists [...] and numerous code tidying/refactoring changes.
• Sent a small patch to django-sitetree, a Django library for menu and breadcrumb navigation elements to not mask test exit codes from the surrounding shell. [...]
• Updated travis.debian.net, my hosted service for projects that host their Debian packaging on GitHub to use the Travis CI continuous integration platform to test builds:
  • Add support for "sloppy" backports. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz for the idea and ongoing testing. [...]
  • Merged a pull request from James McCoy to pass DEB_BUILD_PROFILES through to the build. [...]
  • Workaround Travis CI's HTTP proxy which does not appear to support SRV records. [...]
  • Run debc from devscripts if the build was successful [...] and output the .buildinfo file if it exists [...].
• Fixed a few issues in local-debian-mirror, my package to easily maintain and customise a local Debian mirror via the DebConf configuration tool:
  • Fix an issue where file permissions from the remote could result in a local archive that was impossible to access. [...]
  • Clear out empty directories on the local repository. [...]
• Updated django-staticfiles-dotd, my Django staticfiles adaptor to concatentate static media in .d-style directories to support Python 3.x by using bytes objects (commit) and move away from monkeypatch as it does not have a Python 3.x port yet (commit).
• I also posted a short essay to my blog entitled "Ask the Dumb Questions" as well as provided an update on the latest Lintian release.

• Updated travis.debian.net, my hosted service for projects that host their Debian packaging on GitHub to use the Travis CI continuous integration platform to test builds:
  • Support Debian "buster". (commit)
  • Set TRAVIS=true environment variable when running autopkgtests. (#45)
• Updated the documentation in django-slack, my library to easily post messages to the Slack group-messaging utility to link to Slack's own message formatting documentation. (#66)
• Added "buster" support to local-debian-mirror, my package to easily maintain and customise a local Debian mirror via the DebConf configuration tool. (commit)

deb [trusted=yes] https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/tmp/systemd-master-20170225/ /

• Started work on a Python API to the UK Postbox mail scanning and forwarding service. (repo)
• Lots of improvements to buildinfo.debian.net, my experiment into how to process, store and distribute .buildinfo files after the Debian archive software has processed them, including making GPG signatures mandatory (#7), updating jenkins.debian.net to sign them and moving to SSL.
• Improved the Django client to the KeyError error tracking software, enlarging the test coverage and additionally adding support for grouping errors using a context manager.
• Made a number of improvements to travis.debian.net, my hosted service for projects that host their Debian packaging on GitHub to use the Travis CI continuous integration platform to test builds on every code change:
  • Install build-dependencies with debugging output. Thanks to @waja. (#31)
  • Install Lintian by default. Thanks to @freeekanayaka. (#33).
  • Call mktemp with --dry-run to avoid having to delete it later. (commit)
• Submitted a pull request to Wheel (a utility to package Python libraries) to make the output of METADATA files reproducible. (#73)
• Submitted some miscellaneous documentation updates to the Tails operating system. (patches)

autopkgtest/
    lib/
        adt_testbed.py
        adtlog.py
        VirtSubproc.py
    runner/
    setup-commands/
    ssh-setup/
    tests/
    tools/
    virt/
        chroot
        lxc
        lxd
        null
        qemu
        schroot
        ssh

reprotest/
    reprotest/
    __init__.py
        lib/
            adt_testbed.py
            adtlog.py
            VirtSubproc.py
        runner/
        tools/
        virt/
            chroot
            lxc
            lxd
            null
            qemu
            schroot
            ssh
    tests/

• It accepts only exactly one tested source package, and gives a proper error if none or more than one (often unintend) is given. Binaries to be tested, --override-control, etc. can now be specified in any order, making the arguments position independent. So you now can do things like:

  autopkgtest *.dsc *.deb [...]

  Before, *.deb only applied to the following test.
• The explicit --source, --click-source etc. options are gone, the type of tested source/binary packages, including built vs. unbuilt tree, is detected automatically. Tests are now only specified with positional arguments, without the need (or possibility) to explicitly specify their type. The one exception is --installed-click com.example.myapp as possible names are the same as for apt source package names.

  # Old:
  adt-run --unbuilt-tree pkgs/foo-2 [...]
  # or equivalently:
  adt-run pkgs/foo-2// [...]
  # New:
  autopkgtest pkgs/foo-2

  # Old:
  adt-run --git-source http://example.com/foo.git [...]
  # New:
  autopkgtest http://example.com/foo.git [...]
  

• The virtualization server is now separated with a double instead of a tripe dash, as the former is standard Unix syntax.
• It defaults to the current directory if that is a Debian source package. This makes the command line particularly simple for the common case of wanting to run tests in the package you are just changing:

  autopkgtest -- schroot sid

  Assuming the current directory is an unbuilt Debian package, this will build the package, and run the tests in ./debian/tests against the built binaries.
• The virtualization server must be specified with its short name only, e. g. ssh instead of adt-virt-ssh . They also don t get installed into $PATH any more, as it s hardly useful to call them directly.

• AUTOPKGTEST_APT_PROXY
• AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS
• AUTOPKGTEST_AUTOPILOT_MODULE
• AUTOPKGTEST_NORMAL_USER
• AUTOPKGTEST_REBOOT_MARK
• AUTOPKGTEST_TMP

• Markus Koschany uploaded antlr3/3.5.2-3 which includes a fix by Emmanuel Bourg to make the generated parser reproducible.
• Markus Koschany uploaded maven-bundle-plugin/2.4.0-2 which includes a fix by Emmanuel Bourg to use the date in the DEB_CHANGELOG_DATETIME variable in the pom.properties file embedded in the jar files.
• Niels Thykier uploaded debhelper/9.20151116 which makes the timestamp of directories created by dh_install, dh_installdocs, and dh_installexamples reproducible. Patch by Niko Tyni.

• bindex/2.2+svn101-3 by Markus Koschany.
• glyr/1.0.8-2 by Etienne Millon.
• jenkins-json/2.4-jenkins-3-4 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• pkg-config/0.29-1 uploaded by Tollef Fog Heen, original patch by Juan Picca.
• plexus-containers1.5/1.6-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• polyglot-maven/0.8~tobrien+git20120905-5 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• sigil/0.9.0+dfsg-3 uploaded by Mattia Rizzolo, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• simutrans/120.1.1+repack-2 uploaded by J rg Frings-F rst, fix by Markus Koschany.
• torrus/2.08-4 by Bernhard Schmidt.
• trigger-rally-data/0.6.1-2 uploaded by Bertrand Marc, patch by Mattia Rizzolo.

• castle-game-engine/5.2.0-1 by Paul Gevers.
• libam7xxx/0.1.6-2 by Antonio Ospite.
• libpdfbox-java/1:1.8.10-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• xfaces/3.3-29 uploaded by Hakan Ardo, original patch by Chris Lamb.

$ cat adt_sid
--output-dir=/tmp/out
-s
---
schroot
sid
$ adt-run libpng @adt_sid

Test-Command: xvfb-run -a src/tests/run
Depends: @, xvfb, [...]

• Keep all test metadata, such as test dependencies, commands to run the test etc., in the project/package source itself instead of external. We have had that for a long time for Debian packages with DEP-8 and debian/tests/control, but not yet for Ubuntu s Click packages.
• Use the same tools for Debian and Click packages to simplify what developers have to know about and to reduce the amount of test infrastructure code to maintain.
• Use the exact same testbeds and test runners in production CI than what developers use locally, so that you can reproduce and investigate failures.
• Re-use the existing autopkgtest capabilities for using various kinds of testbeds, and conversely, making all new testbed types immediately available to all package formats.
• Stop putting tests into the Ubuntu archive as packages (such as mediaplayer-app-autopilot). This just adds packaging and archive space overhead and also makes updating tests a lot harder and taking longer than it should.

# if you don't have one, create it with "nova keypair-create"
$ nova keypair-list
[...]
  pitti   9f:31:cf:78:50:4f:42:04:7a:87:d7:2a:75:5e:46:56  
# find a suitable image
$ nova image-list 
[...]
  ca2e362c-62c9-4c0d-82a6-5d6a37fcb251   Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (amd64 20140607.1) - Partner Image                           ACTIVE    
$ nova flavor-list 
[...]
  100   standard.xsmall    1024        10     10                 1       1.0           N/A        
# now run the tests: please be patient, this takes a few mins!
$ adt-run libpng --setup-commands="apt-get update" --- ssh -s /usr/share/autopkgtest/ssh-setup/nova -- \
   -f standard.xsmall -i ca2e362c-62c9-4c0d-82a6-5d6a37fcb251 -k pitti
[...]
adt-run [16:23:16]: test build:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
build                PASS
adt-run: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ tests done.

    "x-test":  
        "unit": "tests/unittests",
        "smoke":  
            "path": "tests/smoketest",
            "depends": ["shunit2", "moreutils"],
            "restrictions": ["allow-stderr"]
         ,
        "another":  
            "command": "echo hello > /tmp/world.txt"
         
     

    "x-test":  
        "autopilot": "ubuntu_calculator_app"
     

$ bzr branch lp:ubuntu-calculator-app
# built straight from that branch; TODO: where is the official" download URL?
$ wget http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/tmp/com.ubuntu.calculator_1.3.283_all.click
$ adt-run ubuntu-calculator-app/ com.ubuntu.calculator_1.3.283_all.click --- \
      ssh -s /usr/share/autopkgtest/ssh-setup/adb
[..]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/adt-run.KfY5bG/tree/tests/autopilot/ubuntu_calculator_app/tests/test_simple_page.py", line 93, in test_divide_with_infinity_length_result_number
    self._assert_result("0.33333333")
  File "/tmp/adt-run.KfY5bG/tree/tests/autopilot/ubuntu_calculator_app/tests/test_simple_page.py", line 63, in _assert_result
    self.main_view.get_result, Eventually(Equals(expected_result)))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/testtools/testcase.py", line 406, in assertThat
    raise mismatch_error
testtools.matchers._impl.MismatchError: After 10.0 seconds test failed: '0.33333333' != '0.3'
Ran 33 tests in 295.586s
FAILED (failures=1)

adt-run --setup-commands /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/ubuntu-touch-session \
    ubuntu-calculator-app/ com.ubuntu.calculator_1.3.283_all.click --- schroot utopic

$ sudo lxc-clone -o adt-utopic -n click
$ sudo lxc-start -n click
  # run "sudo apt-get install click ubuntu-sdk-libs ubuntu-app-launch-tools" there
  # then "sudo powerdown"
# current apparmor profile doesn't allow remounting something read-only
$ echo "lxc.aa_profile = unconfined"   sudo tee -a /var/lib/lxc/click/config

$ adt-run --setup-commands /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/ubuntu-touch-session \
          --setup-commands /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/ro-apt \
          ubuntu-calculator-app/ com.ubuntu.calculator_1.3.283_all.click \
          --- lxc -es click

import os
import glob
import itertools
import collections
from dateutil.parser import parse
from debian.changelog import Changelog
data = collections.defaultdict(set)
for package in glob.glob('/apt/*'):
    if os.path.islink(package):
        continue # Consider source packages only
    try:
        changelog = Changelog(open('%s/debian/changelog' % package))
    except:
        continue # Ignore invalid changelogs
    for entry in changelog:
        try:
            data[entry.author].add(parse(entry.date).strftime('%z'))
        except ValueError:
            pass # Ignore invalid dates
fn = lambda x: len(x[1])
top = sorted(data.items(), key=fn, reverse=True)
for k, g in itertools.groupby(top, key=fn):
    print "\n%d timezone(s):" % k
    for author, timezones in sorted(g):
        print " * %s (%s)" % (
            author.encode('utf8', 'ignore'),
            ', '.join(sorted(timezones, reverse=True)),
        )

14 timezone(s):
 * Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> (-0800, -0700, -0600, -0500, -0400, -0300,
   +1300, +1100, +1030, +0900, +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
12 timezone(s):
 * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> (-1000, -0900, -0800, -0700, -0500, -0400,
   -0300, -0200, +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
11 timezone(s):
 * Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> (-0400, -0300, +1300, +1100, +1000, +0930,
   +0900, +0800, +0200, +0100, +0000)
9 timezone(s):
 * Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> (-0700, -0600, -0500, -0400, +0500,
   +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
 * Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (-1000, -0700, -0300, +1100, +1000,
   +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
 * Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> (-0800, -0700, -0600, -0500, -0400, +0300,
   +0200, +0100, +0000)
 * Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org> (-0700, -0500, -0400, -0300,
   +0930, +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)