Notice to my future self: If you want to see a list of files that are referenced by a Debian dsc-file, you need to use:
dcmd dsc-file
The output is the list of files in its ‘Files’ section, plus the dsc-file itself. You can also apply dcmd to changes-files. You can also use a command as the second parameter and do funny stuff with all those files within the dsc-file.
Debian Med Bug Squashing in Advent 2015
The Debian Med Bug Squashing just ended and the Debian Med Advent Calendar is full to bursting.
Like the years before, the Debian Med team performed a bug squashing event from December 1st to 24th. All bugs that have been closed during that period got an entry in the calendar. This year I am really impressed with the achievement of all participants. After the rather small quantity last year, the incredible number of 150 bugs have been closed this year! Thanks alot!
| year | number of bugs closed |
| 2011 | 63 |
| 2012 | 28 |
| 2013 | 73 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 150 |
Litecoin and IPv6
Notice to my future self: If you start the litecoin client (v0.10.2.2) all peers in peers.dat seem to be IPv4 only. At least, I got no connection to the Litecoin network. After looking at the list of supernodes, I could filter two supernodes with IPv6 addresses:
- ltc.block-explorer.com
- ltc.lfcvps.com
Putting them as
addnode=ltc.block-explorer.com
addnode=ltc.lfcvps.com
into litecoin.conf, I got my connection and could do some transactions.
My Debian Activities in November 2015
FTP assistant
This month I marked 352 packages for accept and rejected 61 of them. I had to send only 15 emails to maintainers.
I also started to work on #796095 and #796784, but my first patch was rejected. So expect more to come here …
Squeeze LTS
This was my seventeenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
Due to Toshiba becoming the first platinum sponsor, I got a workload of 21.25h. This is a new and delightful record! Altogether I uploaded those DLAs:
- [DLA 341-1] php5 security update
- [DLA 343-1] libpng security update
- [DLA 355-1] libxml2 security update
- [DLA 356-1] libsndfile security update
I also started to work on two bugs that were filed against the pseudo-package ftp.debian.org, which are somehow related to the security team: #796095 and #796784 (see above). Moreover I started to work on the next php5 upload, which will happen at the end of December.
As more and more people work at the LTS frontdesk now, this month I could chill out a bit and let the others do the work.
Other stuff
As the Advent season started again I would also like to draw some attention to the Debian Med Advent Calendar. It was announced here and like the past years, the Debian Med team starts a bug squashing event from the December 1st to 24th. Every bug that is closed will be registered in the calendar. So instead of taking something from the calendar, this special one will be filled and at Christmas hopefully every Debian Med related bug is closed. Don’t hestitate, start to squash 🙂 .
My Debian Activities in October 2015
FTP assistant
This month I marked 492 packages for accept and rejected 50 of them. I had to send only 11 emails to maintainers.
Up to now I accepted about 6000 packages, my first one was pexpect_3.0-1 on 20131211.
| date | package | |
| 1 | 20131211 | pexpect_3.0-1 |
| 1111 | 20140506 | dochelp_0.1 |
| 2121 | 20140825 | cl-parse-number_1.3-1 |
| 2222 | 20140903 | node-websocket-driver_0.3.5-1 |
| 3333 | 20150303 | libparse-keyword-perl_0.08-1 |
| 4242 | 20150625 | python-monotonic_0.2-1 |
| 4444 | 20150708 | libmusicbrainz5_5.1.0+git20150707-1 |
| 5555 | 20150928 | golang-github-yosssi-ace_0.0.4+git20150515.41.78e48a2-3 |
So, when do you expect accepted package number 6666, 7777, 8888 and 9999?
Squeeze LTS
This was my sixteenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
This month I only got a workload of 13.25h. Altogether I uploaded those DLAs:
- [DLA 327-1] freeimage security update
- [DLA 331-1] polarssl security update
- [DLA 334-1] libxml2 security update
- [DLA 334-2] libxml2 regression update
While preparing the libxml2 upload, I mixed up things for the i386 build and so [DLA 334-2] had to follow shortly after [DLA 334-1].
I also prepared a new upload of PHP5 with nine CVEs fixed. I put the i386 and amd64 versions at people.d.o and invite everybody to test them and give positive or negative feedback. The real upload to the archive will happen next week.
This month I also had another term of doing frontdesk work and looked for CVEs that are important for Squeeze LTS or could be ignored.
Other stuff
This month I only polished some packages and uploaded:
I also manually closed #711329 and #352421. After adopting package chktex I inherited #352421, which was one of my oldest bugs. It was about emacs longlines-mode support and I could close it without actually fixing something. The longlines-mode vanished from emacs. So, sorry for that …
openvpn: ping only works between server and client
Notice to my future self:
- an openvpn connection can be stablished between client and server
- you can ping the server from the client
- you can ping the client from the server
- you added the route in your server config
- route -n shows everything is in place
- but you can not ping any host on an attached network
… then you forgot to add a file in the ccd-directory for the correct common name of your client containing all iroute statements.
My Debian Activities in September 2015
FTP assistant
Another month passed and another statistic arrives: This month I marked 341 packages for accept and rejected only 48 of them. Almost like last month I had to send 14 emails to maintainers.
Squeeze LTS
This was my fifteenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
This month I only got a workload of 14.5h. I finally uploaded a new version of php5. Unfortunately in one library a parameter to a function call introduced new values. As a result all running processes that used the old version of that library produced an error message until they got restarted. As complaints showed up on all channels, I rechecked my patches again and again but could not find an error. I wonder whether this happened once before. At least the php package does not have a mechanism to restart something…
Altogether I uploaded those DLAs:
- [DLA 307-1] php5 security update
- [DLA 309-1] openldap security update
- [DLA 311-1] rpcbind security update
- [DLA 312-1] libtorrent-rasterbar security update
I also started to work on an upload of freeimage and the next upload of php5.
This month I also had another term of doing frontdesk work. So I answered questions on the IRC channel and looked for CVEs that are important for Squeeze LTS or could be ignored.
Other stuff
Some time ago someone mentioned pump.io and that it would be nice to have it in Debian. I found a Wiki page listing dependencies, with lots of stuff already done and just a few holes. It didn’t look like much work todo until I realized that this page showed only the surface and the shoals are hidden below. Anyway, I started to work on it and up to now
- node-boolbase
- node-domelementtype
- node-eventsource
- node-querystringify
- node-rai
- node-requires-port
- node-url-parse
- node-wrappy
- node-xoauth2
are uploaded and
- node-schlock
- node-array-parallel
- node-css-what
- node-bufferjs
- node-exit
are still in NEW. Luckily most of them could be handled by npm2deb, so it was mainly routine piece of work. So, expect more to come …
I also polished some smaller packages and could even close some bugs:
- dict-elements
- rplay -> #741567 #597152
- setserial -> #786976 #761951 #761951
- siggen -> #772364
- texify
Package of the Day: ansiweather
While looking at NEW I sometimes see a package and think “wow this is great, you have to try this”.
One of these packages is ansiweather. It looks at the data at openweathermap and presents them on the console. So with
ansiweather -l chemnitz -u metric
I get something like:
Current weather in Chemnitz => 12 °C ☔ – Wind => 2.52 m/s WNW – Humidity => 80 % – Pressure => 1014 hPa
Now I see that I need a coat and an umbrella for my walk. Or better I don’t go outside and continue looking at other stuff in NEW 🙂
My Debian Activities in August 2015
FTP assistant
Another month passed and another statistic arrives: This month I marked 408 packages for accept and rejected only 32 of them. Almost like last month I had to send 14 emails to maintainers.
Squeeze LTS
This was my fourteenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
As anybody else visited Debconf15, I got assigned a workload of 17h this month. I spent some time to prepare an upload of php5, which I did to people.d.o to let others do some tests with the package. I also uploaded some DLAs
- [DLA 290-1] xmltooling security update Thorsten Alteholz
- [DLA 290-2] opensaml2 security update Thorsten Alteholz
- [DLA 292-1] libstruts1.2-java security update Thorsten Alteholz
- [DLA 296-1] extplorer security update Thorsten Alteholz
- [DLA 297-1] wesnoth-1.8 security update Thorsten Alteholz
- [DLA 298-1] roundup security update Thorsten Alteholz
The patch for [DLA 290-1] was prepared by Ferenc Wagner. As opensaml2 needed a rebuild with the new version of xmltooling, that upload got [DLA-290-2] instead of an own DLA-number.
This month I also had another term of doing frontdesk work. So I answered questions on the IRC channel and looked for CVEs that are important for Squeeze LTS or could be ignored.
Other stuff
As $WORK needed some time this month, my other activities had been almost nil. But expect more to come in September :-).
My Debian Activities in July 2015
FTP assistant
This month I marked 485 packages for accept, rejected 87 of them and had to send 18 emails to maintainers. The NEW-queue is below 100 again, but you hardworking fellows don’t make a break, but start the GCC5 transition. This is so much fun :-).
Squeeze LTS
This was my thirteens month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
This month I got assigned a workload of 15h and I spent again most of it to work on a new upload of php5. I finally prepared the patches for the CVEs and realized only then that the number of failed tests drastically increased. So return to beginning and checking why everything is broken now :-(.
- [DLA 269-1] linux-ftpd-ssl security update
- [DLA 271-1] libunwind security update
- [DLA 280-1] ghostscript security update
- [DLA 281-1] expat security update
The patch for [DLA 269-1] was prepared by Mats Erik Andersson.
This month I also had another term of doing frontdesk work. So I answered questions on the IRC channel and looked for CVEs that are important for Squeeze LTS or could be ignored.
Other stuff
This month I could finally finish the harminv transition and all affected packages migrated to testing meanwhile.
I also uploaded a new version for pipexec.
Donations
Again, thanks alot to all donors. I really appreciate this and hope that everybody is pleased with my commitment. Don’t hesitate to make suggestions for improvements.