Making debug symbols discoverable and fetchable
Michael wrote a few days ago about the experience of debugging programs on Debian. And he is certainly not the only one, who found it more difficult to find debug symbols on Linux systems in general....
View ArticleA decline in the use of hints in the release team
While we working the release, I had a look at how many hints we have deployed during buster like I did for wheezy a few years back. As it seemed we were using a lot fewer hints than previously and I...
View ArticleSupport for Debian packaging files in IDEA (IntelliJ/PyCharm)
I have been using the community editions of IntelliJ and PyCharm for a while now for Python or Perl projects. But it started to annoy me that for Debian packaging bits it would “revert” into a fancy...
View ArticleImprovements to IntelliJ/PyCharm support for Debian packaging files
I have updated my debpkg plugin for IDEA (e.g. IntelliJ, PyCharm, Android Studios) to v0.0.8. Here are some of the changes since last time I wrote about the plugin. New file types supported .dsc (as a...
View Articlewrap-and-sort with experimental support for comments in devscripts/2.22.2
In the devscripts package currently in Debian testing (2.22.2), wrap-and-sort has opt-in support for preserving comments in deb822 control files such as debian/control and debian/tests/control....
View ArticleA new Debian package helper: debputy
I have made a new helper for producing Debian packages called debputy. Today, I uploaded it to Debian unstable for the first time. This enables others to migrate their package build using dh +debputy...
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