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Imminent steep decline in RC bugs affecting Jessie – need more RC bug fixes
Earlier today, I posted a mail to debian-devel about how approximately 25 RC bugs affecting Jessie have been unblocked. As mentioned, I planned to age some of them. The expected result is that about...
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Jessie is coming the 2015-04-25
Indeed, we settled on a release date for Jessie – and pretty quick too. I sent out a poll on the 28th of March and yesterday, it was clear that the 25th of April was our release date. :) With that...
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The release of Debian Jessie from an RM’s PoV
It was quite an experience to partake in the Jessie release – and also a rather long “Saturday”. This post is mostly a time line of how I spent my release day with doing the actual release. I have...
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Intermission on the day of the Jessie release
During the “intermission” on the day of the Jessie release, Julien, Ivo, AJ and I spent some time improving Britney2. Due to said intermission, we can proudly say that from the very first run for...
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Introducing dak auto-decruft
Debian now have over 22 000 source packages and 45 500 binary packages. To counter that, the FTP masters and I have created a dak tool to automatically remove packages from unstable! This is also...
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Performance tuning of lintian
For quite a while, Lintian has been able to create performance logs (--perf-debug --perf-output perf.log) that help diagnose where lintian spends most of its runtime. I decided to make lintian output...
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Performance tuning of lintian, take 2
The other day, I wrote about our recent performance tuning in lintian. Among other things, we reduced the memory usage by ~33%. The effect was also reproducible on libreoffice (4.2.5-1 plus its...
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I accidentally dak
So, yesterday, I “unbroke” dak – twice even! It is of course slightly less awesome that one of the broken parts was in code written by yours truly. Anyhow: Unbreaking the dak auto-decrufter You may...
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The gcc-5 transition is coming to testing tonight
Thanks to hard work of Adam, Julien, Jonathan, Matthias, Scott, Simon and many others, the GCC-5/libstdc++ transition has progressed to a state, where we are ready to migrate the bulk of it to testing....
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With 3 months of automatic decrufting in unstable
After 3 months of installing an automatic decrufter in DAK, it: has removed 689 cruft items from unstable and experimental average removal rate being just shy of 230 cruft items/month has become the...
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There is nothing like (missing) iptables (rules) to make you use tor
I have been fiddling with setting up both iptables and tor on my local machine. Most of it was fairly easy to do, once I dedicated the time to actually do it. Configuring both “at the same time” also...
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Debian, please plan for Stretch
In the 4th quarter of 2016, we will freeze Debian Stretch. If you are hoping to do any larger changes for Stretch, please consider starting on them now. This also includes features that need to be in...
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“dput change-all-of-debian.changes”
Lucas Nussbaum recently did a blog post called “Debian is still changing“. I found it a very welcome continuation of his previous blog post on the same topic. I find the graphs very interesting and...
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Tor enabled MTA
As I posted earlier, I have migrated to use tor on my machine. Though I had a couple of unsolved issues back then. One of them being my Mail Transport Agent (MTA) did not support tor. A regular user...
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Lintian 2.5.40 – now with less output
You have probably tried to run lintian (-EIL +pedantic) on your packages only to watch lintian drown your terminal. If you have, you would certainly not be the first. A concrete example with lintian...
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Performance tuning of lintian, take 3
About 7 months ago, I wrote about we had improved Lintian’s performance. In 2.5.41, we are doing another memory reduction, where we primarily reduce the memory consumption of data about ELF binaries....
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Easter patching of Britney
I decided to take a couple of days of vacation next to Easter and obviously ended up with tons of time. I ended up channelling most of the (productive) time into improving Britney. In raw results: I...
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Putting Debian packages in labelled boxes
Lintian 2.5.44 was released the other day and (to most) the most significant bug fix was probably that Lintian learned about Policy 3.9.8. I would like to thank Axel Beckert for doing that. Notably...
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auto-decrufter in top 5 after 10 months
About 10 months ago, we enabled an auto-decrufter in dak. Then after 3 months it had become the top 11th “remover”. Today, there are only 3 humans left that have removed more packages than the...
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Another Britney patchset
I just submitted another patch series to improve Britney for review. If accepted, they will probably be merged into master within 2 weeks. The changes this time are probably most exciting for people...
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