Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• myrepos: link to multi-git-status
• pytest-rerunfailures: relax dep version, typos, rst syntax, https, yaml syntax
• morfessor: metadata fixes
• nmslib: URL, license
• gensim: relax dep version
• Debian portfolio: link to Debian Janitor service (sent privately)
• Debian QA services: link to Debian Janitor service
• Debian mirror list: remove ftp.utexas.edu
• Debian package uploads: python-preshed
• Debian wiki pages: CopyrightReviewTools, DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Installation, DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/orga (1 2), DebianLocations, de/CopyrightReviewTools, DellServerManagement, Derivatives/Census/Auxtral, DeveloperNews (1 2), DontBreakDebian, Games/Suggested, InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/ROCK64, Keysigning/Need, LocalGroups, LudovicRousseau, MemberBenefits, Po4a, PrivacyIssues, qa.debian.org, StaticLinking, Statistics, Teams/Welcome/BrainStorming
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: resources

Issues

• Crashes in gnome-shell-extension-log-out-button, gnome-shell-extension-show-ip, geeqie, webdl (sent privately), webkit2gtk
• Broken apt sources in calamares-settings-debian, apt, cloud-init, debian-edu-config, debian-lan-config, debirf, docker.io, dpmb, fai-doc, golang-pault-go-archive, lxc-templates, mariadb-10.3, marionnet, mercurial
• Broken symlink in ansible
• Broken feeds in ooni.org
• Python 3 support needed in git-remote-hg
• Features in Hefur
• New versions of libtorrent-rasterbar, restic
• Website outdated for morfessor
• Dependency issues in libintellij-annotations-java
• Code copies in cython-blis
• License change needed in visdom
• Incorrect homepage in thermald
• Conffile removal needed in tracker
• Git tag issue in gensim
• Intent to package morfessor, nmslib, pyemd, pytest-rerunfailures, gensim

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug reports and 179 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved dde-calendar deja-dup dstat eventstat facter fbset forkstat friendly-recovery galternatives goodvibes grub2-splashimages grub-splashimages gtimelog hdparm health-check hostname info2www iotop-c iselect jack-keyboard jerry xmaxima
  • rejected grub2-splashimages (not useful screenshot), cockpit-system (menacing cartoon character), gpsbabel (help output), openscenegraph (no UI shown, content of unknown license), tesseract-ocr-ara (random Android app), libkdepimdbusinterfaces5 (unrelated logo)
  • approved deletion of vidalia (unrelated screenshot), bochs-wx (screenshot of wrong package)
  • rejected deletion of xfce4 (boilerplate reason), qtcreator (screenshots are versioned), gnome-icon-theme-blankon (incomprehensible), hashcat/kcharselect/phpbb3/xbubble/youtube-dl/jack-keyboard (spam)

Administration

• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Attempt to initiate discussion about packages broken by the bullseye transition from /updates to -security
• Respond to queries from Debian users and developers on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The gensim, cython-blis, python-preshed, pytest-rerunfailures, morfessor, nmslib, visdom and pyemd work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes

• Barry Warsaw uploaded wheel/0.26.0-1 which now uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH instead of WHEEL_FORCE_TIMESTAMP and uses time.gmtime() to avoid timezone issues. Patches by Chris Lamb and Reiner Herrmann.

Andreas Metzler uploaded autogen/1:5.18.6-1 in experimental with several patches for reproducibility issues written by Valentin Lorentz. Groovy upstream has merged a change proposed by Emmanuel Bourg to remove timestamps generated by groovydoc. Ben Hutchings submitted a patch to add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in linux-kbuild as an alternate way to specify the build timestamp. Reiner Herrman has sent a patch adding support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in docbook-utils. Packages fixed The following packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: commons-csv. fest-reflect, sunxi-tools, xfce4-terminal, The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:

• httpcomponents-client/4.5.1-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• jhead/1:3.00-2 by Ludovic Rousseau.
• libvigraimpex/1.10.0+dfsg-10 by Daniel Stender.
• linux/4.2-1~exp1 by Ben Hutchings.
• maelstrom/1.4.3-L3.0.6+main-7 by Santiago Vila.
• nedit/1:5.6a-3 by Paul Gevers.
• pitivi/0.94-4 by Sebastian Dr ge, reported by Scott Kitterman.
• procenv/0.40-2 by James Hunt.
• seyon/2.20c-32 by Santiago Vila.
• slib/3b1-5 by Santiago Vila.
• spock/0.7-groovy-2.0-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• u-boot/2015.10~rc4+dfsg1-1 by Vagrant Cascadian.
• vdr-plugin-remote/0.7.0-1 by Tobias Grimm.

Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them:

• dutch/1:2.10-4 uploaded by Thijs Kinkhorst, original patch by Chris Lamb.

Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:

• #800776 on cluster-glue: exports SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in debian/rules.

Tomasz Rybak uploaded pycuda/2015.1.3-1 which should fix reproducibility issues. The package has not been tested as it is in contrib. akira found an embedded code copy of texi2html in fftw. reproducible.debian.net Email notifications are now only sent once a day per package, instead of on each status change. (h01ger) disorderfs has been temporarily disabled to see if it had any impact on the disk space issues. (h01ger) When running out of disk space, build nodes will now automatically detect the problem. This means test results will not be recorded as FTBFS and the problem will be reported to Jenkins maintainers. (h01ger) The navigation menu of package pages has been improved. (h01ger) The two amd64 builders now use two different kernel versions: 3.16 from stable and 4.1 from backports on the other. (h01ger) We now graph the number of packages which needs to be fixed. (h01ger) Munin now creates graphs on how many builds were performed by build nodes (example). (h01ger) A migration plan has been agreed with DSA on how to turn Jenkins into an official Debian service. A backport of jenkins-job-builder for Jessie is currently missing. (h01ger) Package reviews 119 reviews have been removed, 103 added and 45 updated this week. 16 fail to build from source issues were reported by Chris Lamb and Mattia Rizzolo. New issue this week: timestamps_in_manpages_generated_by_docbook_utils. Misc. Allan McRae has submitted a patch to make ArchLinux pacman record a .BUILDINFO file.

I am now back home after 2 days spent at the first mini DebConf Paris. It was really nice to meet a lot of people, and to be able to discuss various aspects of Debian and Free Software in general. People came from all over Europe (at least from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, and obviously a majority of French people). All the talks I have been able to attend were really interesting, and some of the slides have already been made available by their author:

• Debian and Ubuntu by Lucas Nussbaum
• Debian Quality Assurance by Lucas Nussbaum
• Latest features of dpkg-dev by Rapha l Hertzog
• Smart cards in Debian by Ludovic Rousseau

I have also taken part to the keysigning party, which will now allows me to use my newly generated 4096R key. The group picture is also online, as well as a more comprehensive gallery. Thanks a lot to the organisation team, you guys have made an awesome work! See you all next year!

The Debian Python Modules Team is discussing which DVCS to switch to from SVN. Ondrej Certik asked how to generate a list of commiters to the team s repository, so I looked at it and got this:
emilio@saturno:~/deb/python-modules$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
865 piotr
609 morph
598 kov
532 bzed
388 pox
302 arnau
253 certik
216 shlomme
212 malex
175 hertzog
140 nslater
130 kobold
123 nijel
121 kitterma
106 bernat
99 kibi
87 varun
83 stratus
81 nobse
81 netzwurm
78 azatoth
76 mca
73 dottedmag
70 jluebbe
68 zack
68 cgalisteo
61 speijnik
61 odd_bloke
60 rganesan
55 kumanna
52 werner
50 haas
48 mejo
45 ucko
43 pabs
42 stew
42 luciano
41 mithrandi
40 wardi
36 gudjon
35 jandd
34 smcv
34 brettp
32 jenner
31 davidvilla
31 aurel32
30 rousseau
30 mtaylor
28 thomasbl
26 lool
25 gaspa
25 ffm
24 adn
22 jmalonzo
21 santiago
21 appaji
18 goedson
17 toadstool
17 sto
17 awen
16 mlizaur
16 akumar
15 nacho
14 smr
14 hanska
13 tviehmann
13 norsetto
13 mbaldessari
12 stone
12 sharky
11 rainct
11 fabrizio
10 lash
9 rodrigogc
9 pcc
9 miriam
9 madduck
9 ftlerror
8 pere
8 crschmidt
7 ncommander
7 myon
7 abuss
6 jwilk
6 bdrung
6 atehwa
5 kcoyner
5 catlee
5 andyp
4 vt
4 ross
4 osrevolution
4 lamby
4 baby
3 sez
3 joss
3 geole
2 rustybear
2 edmonds
2 astraw
2 ana
1 twerner
1 tincho
1 pochu
1 danderson
As it s likely that the Python Applications Packaging Team will switch too to the same DVCS at the same time, here are the numbers for its repo:

emilio@saturno:~/deb/python-apps$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
401 nijel
288 piotr
235 gothicx
159 pochu
76 nslater
69 kumanna
68 rainct
66 gilir
63 certik
52 vdanjean
52 bzed
46 dottedmag
41 stani
39 varun
37 kitterma
36 morph
35 odd_bloke
29 pcc
29 gudjon
28 appaji
25 thomasbl
24 arnau
20 sc
20 andyp
18 jalet
15 gerardo
14 eike
14 ana
13 dfiloni
11 tklauser
10 ryanakca
10 nxvl
10 akumar
8 sez
8 baby
6 catlee
4 osrevolution
4 cody-somerville
2 mithrandi
2 cjsmo
1 nenolod
1 ffm
Here I m the 4th most committer And while I was on it, I thought I could do the same for the GNOME and GStreamer teams:
emilio@saturno:~/deb/pkg-gnome$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
5357 lool
2701 joss
1633 slomo
1164 kov
825 seb128
622 jordi
621 jdassen
574 manphiz
335 sjoerd
298 mlang
296 netsnipe
291 grm
255 ross
236 ari
203 pochu
198 ondrej
190 he
180 kilian
176 alanbach
170 ftlerror
148 nobse
112 marco
87 jak
84 samm
78 rfrancoise
75 oysteigi
73 jsogo
65 svena
65 otavio
55 duck
54 jcurbo
53 zorglub
53 rtp
49 wasabi
49 giskard
42 tagoh
42 kartikm
40 gpastore
34 brad
32 robtaylor
31 xaiki
30 stratus
30 daf
26 johannes
24 sander-m
21 kk
19 bubulle
16 arnau
15 dodji
12 mbanck
11 ruoso
11 fpeters
11 dedu
11 christine
10 cpm
7 ember
7 drew
7 debotux
6 tico
6 emil
6 bradsmith
5 robster
5 carlosliu
4 rotty
4 diegoe
3 biebl
2 thibaut
2 ejad
1 naoliv
1 huats
1 gilir

emilio@saturno:~/deb/pkg-gstreamer$ svn log egrep "^r[0-9]+ cut -f2 -d sed s/-guest// sort uniq -c sort -n -r
891 lool
840 slomo
99 pnormand
69 sjoerd
27 seb128
21 manphiz
8 he
7 aquette
4 elmarco
1 fabian
Conclusions:
- Why do I have the full python-modules and pkg-gstreamer trees, if I have just one commit to DPMT, and don t even have commit access to the GStreamer team?
- If you don t want to seem like you have done less commits than you have actually done, don t change your alioth name when you become a DD (hint: pox-guest and piotr in python-modules are the same person)
- If the switch to a new VCS was based on a vote where you have one vote per commit, the top 3 commiters in pkg-gnome could win the vote if they chosed the same! For python-apps it s the 4 top commiters, and the 7 ones for python-modules. pkg-gstreamer is a bit special

mbeventd 0.6 is out, featuring support for the MacBook. Thanks go to Ryan Lortie for his macbook-backlight tool, providing the backlight control routines for the Intel GMA950, and to Enrico Tassi for bringing this to my intention with his ITP (#402193) and testing the new version. Thanks to Ludovic Rousseau who confirmed that mbpeventd was working on the Core Duo MacBook Pro. Additionally, mbpeventd should now detect all versions of the Mac Intel laptops. If it doesn’t, please drop me a mail and the output of mbpeventd -f run as root. I’m still not sure that the SMBIOS detection will work when using an EFI-aware kernel. Note: for the Core2 Duo machines, you need to use a kernel >= 2.6.19 for the function keys to work. Version 0.6 AMD64 packages and sources: http://people.debian.org/~jblache/pkg/mbpeventd/ Still no sound support, it’s the next item on the TODO list. It’s going to be a bit tricky, and I’m not yet sure how that should work (wrt the fact that the laptops use 2 different outputs for the headphones and speakers).

So finally I got my card reader running on Linux. It was not that hard, but the main problem was caused by the proprietary Linux driver I installed. Thanks to Ludovic Rousseau's Generic CCID driver the reader is able to run just fine with only Free Software. It works even with libchipcard2, but a tiny fix to udev was necessary to fix a permission problem (you might need to adapt the vendor and product id to your local card reader, as shown by lsusb):

/etc/udev/rules.d/smart_card.rules:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS idVendor =="04e6", SYSFS idProduct =="5116", GROUP="chipcard", MODE="0664"

With this tiny fix chipcardd2 correctly opens the card as a non-privileged user. My thanks also go to Thomas Viehmann, who provides an HBCI branch of Gnucash on Alioth. Apart from the application crashing a bit too often, the HBCI part works fine with my card and PIN. The only problem left is the sudden disconnect of the reader when it's not used for a few minutes. Only a restart of chipcardd2 and gnucash resolves the problem temporarily. All my homebanking activities are now properly signed, and the retrieval of transactions works just fine. To credit my bank a bit, I am a customer of 1822direkt, a subsidiary of the Frankfurter Sparkasse, since a few weeks. They provided me with a free checking account, together with a free(!) HBCI card. Transactions are mailed just-in-time (checked for hourly during working hours) PGP-encrypted. (Yes, they are running PGP5i on OS/2. I needed to create a RSA key using PHP5i/Unix without a passphrase. The public key output of PGP5i had to be sent to the bank, and after an import of the resulting public and private key into my GPG instance I was able to read the statements correctly. The mail interface did not cope with GPG-generated keys.)

I hate folds, too. In fact, it's the sole reason why I just removed the blogs of Laurent Gatto an Frederik Rousseau from Planet Grep, a Planet dedicated to Belgian FLOSS people. In my arrogant opinion, a planet should be more than just a bunch of links. If I want a bunch of links, I'll just read debian-www for a few days; there'll be plenty of online casino or so owners asking for us to link back to them in that time. And rest assured, these people have a bunch of links. Instead, a planet such as Planet Debian, Planet Grep, or, say, Planet Gnome should be an easy read. A thing one can read top-to-bottom. Without having to follow links to be able to just read whatever people are talking about. And, the claim that folds help people ignore irrelevant stuff is just plain nonsense. If there's a post that I'm not interested in, I'm perfectly capable of using the scrollbar, thanks. It's no big deal; I do that for quite a number of blog posts already. Especially those suckers that come with folds.