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autodie 2.21
A couple of days ago, the upstream maintainer of autodie, Paul Jamieson Fenwick (PJF), released autodie 2.21. It includes all of the performance improvements I had proposed in “Optimizing autodie”...
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Lintian 2.5.18
I have just uploaded Lintian 2.5.18 to unstable. While fixing 22 bugs, it only features 5 new tags. debian-changelog-has-wrong-weekday debian-rules-missing-good-practice-target-dfsg empty-udeb-package...
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Lintian 2.5.18.1
Today I had to pleasure of releasing Lintian 2.5.18.1. It is a minor bug fix release on top of Lintian 2.5.18 (which I also released today…). When I was about to deploy the new version of Lintian on...
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Lintian 2.5.19
Today, I released Lintian 2.5.19. It is mostly a bug-fix release, but it also features a new tag. The new tag, homepage-in-binary-package, is emitted for packages where the source package has no...
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Breaking the RC bug curve
Early this month, the first batch of packages were automatically removed from testing due to RC bugs. Personally, I find that the results stand out pretty well on the RC bug graph[1]. There has been...
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Breaking the 700 RC bug threshold for Jessie
It looks like we have dropped (or will drop) below 700 RC bugs affecting Jessie today[1]. On a related note, I got my eye on libfso-glib + fso-gsmd, samba + -samba4, mono and haskell. By my count,...
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Getting out of the way
I have decided to step down as main maintainer of Lintian and pass the baton to Bastien Roucariès. This is actually “fairly” old news, since I announced this almost a month ago. However, I was not...
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Automated reprocessing of packages on lintian.debian.org
Yesterday, I have managed to finish up an old pet peeve of mine. I wrote a series of patches to have harness reprocess all packages, which were last checked by an older version of Lintian than the...
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Jessie finally has less than 500 RC bugs
I am very pleased to say that RC bug counter for Jessie finally dropped below 500 RC bugs. For comparison, we broke the 700 RC bug curve in the start of November, so that is about 200 RC bugs in about...
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Release architecture meeting 2014-01-26
Today, we held an one-hour IRC-meeting to debate the status of the current architectures in sid. During that one hour, we brought up all 13 architectures. We made a decision on 9 of the...
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Upcoming changes to Lintian (in 2.5.22)
The next version of Lintian, 2.5.22, is long overdue – mostly because 2.5.21 FTBFS in sid. Besides fixing test failures, 2.5.22 also fixes: False-negative for most/all JAR related tags caused by...
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Recent improvements to Britney2
As mentioned by Raphaël Hertzog, I have been spending some time on improving Britney2. Just the other day I submitted a second branch for review that I expect to merge early next week. I also got...
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Lintian – Upcoming API making it easier to write correct and safe code
The upcoming version of Lintian will feature a new set of API that attempts to promote safer code. It is hardly a “ground-breaking discovery”, just a much needed feature. The primary reason for this...
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Release sprint – Preparing for Jessie
The release team are doing a sprint right now up the mini-DebConf in Cambridge, kindly hosted by ARM. We have a fairly large agenda of around 10 items, ranging from “simple” things like determine the...
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The first 12 days and 408 unblock requests into the Jessie freeze
The release team receives an extreme amount of unblock requests right now. For the past 22 days[1], we have been receiving no less than 408 unblock/ageing requests. That is an average of ~18.5/day....
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Release Team unblock queue flushed
At the start of this week, I wrote that we had 58 open unblock requests open (of which 25 were tagged moreinfo). Thanks to an extra effort from the Release Team, we now down to 25 open unblocks – of...
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Volume of debian-release mailing list
“Page 1 of 5“ To be honest, I do not know how many mails it shows “per page” (though I assume it is a fixed number). So for comparison, I found the month on debian-devel@l.d.o with the highest volume...
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Jessie has half the number of RC bugs compared to Wheezy
In the last 24 hours, the number of RC bugs currently affecting Jessie was reduced to just under half of the same number for Wheezy. There are still a lot of bugs to be fixed, but please keep up the...
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Status on Jessie (December 2014)
Here is a slightly overdue status on Jessie. We are not ready to set a date on a Jessie release yet. Even if we were, it would be unlikely that said date would be in January. Accordingly, it is...
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Partial rewrite of lintian’s reporting setup
I had the mixed pleasure of doing a partial rewrite of lintian’s reporting framework. It started as a problem with generating the graphs, which turned out to be “not enough memory”. On the plus side,...
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