Planet Debian

Review: Unseen Academicals , by Terry Pratchett Series: Discworld #37 Publisher: Harper Copyright: October 2009 Printing: November 2014 ISBN: 0-06-233500-6 Format: Mass market Pages: 517 Unseen Academicals is the 37th Discworld novel and includes many of the long-standing Ankh-Morpork cast, but mostly as supporting characters. The main characters are a new (and delightful) bunch with their own concerns. You arguably could start reading here if you really wanted to, although you would risk spoil…

I am happy to report that the megactl package , useful to fetch RAID status when using the LSI Megaraid controller, now is available in Debian. It passed NEW a few days ago, and is now available in unstable , and probably showing up in testing in a weeks time. The new version should provide Appstream hardware mapping and should integrate nicely with isenkram. As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address 15oWEoG9dUPovwmU…

This is my very first post, just to make sure everything is working as expected. Made with Zola and the Abridge theme .

I have mailed to a Debian bug on allegro4.4 describing my reasoning regarding the allegro libraries – in short, allegro4.4 is pretty much dead upstream, and my interest was basically to keep alex4 (which is cool) in Debian, but since it migrated to non-free, my interest in allegro4.4 has waned. So, if anybody would like to still see allegro4.4 in Debian, please step up now and help out. Since it is dead upstream, my reasoning is that it is better to remove it from Debian if no maintainer who wa…

There are several packages in Debian without a associated git repository with the packaging history. This is unfortunate and it would be nice if more of these would do so. Quote a lot of these are without a maintainer, ie listed as maintained by the ' Debian QA Group ' place holder. In fact, 438 packages have this property according to UDD ( SELECT source FROM sources WHERE release = 'sid' AND (vcs_url ilike '%anonscm.debian.org%' OR vcs_browser ilike '%anonscm.debian.org%' or vcs_url IS NULL O…

With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions. This is continuously tested for regressions via GitLab through a CI/CD pipeline. In addition to traditional tarballs with generated content, we publish a signed minimal source-only tarball, produced by git-archive used by Savannah , Codeberg , GitLab , GitHub and others. Reproducibility of this source-only tarball is tested in the pipeline too. If that wasn’t enough to excite you, the Debian …

Years ago, at what I think I remember was DebConf 15, I hacked for a while on debhelper to write build-ids to debian binary control files , so that the build-id (more specifically, the ELF note .note.gnu.build-id ) wound up in the Debian apt archive metadata. I’ve always thought this was super cool, and seeing as how Michael Stapelberg blogged some great pointers around the ecosystem, including the fancy new debuginfod service, and the find-dbgsym-packages helper, which uses these same headers,…

When I first started studying computer science setting up a programming project was easy, write source code files and a Makefile and that was it. IRC was the only IM system and email was the only other communications system that was used much. Writing Makefiles is difficult but products like the Borland Turbo series of IDEs did all that for you so you could just start typing code and press a function key to compile and run (F5 from memory). Over the years the requirements and expectations of co…

I tried to upgrade bullseye machien to bookworm, so I got the following error: File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/mixins.py”, line 5, in from django.contrib.auth.views import redirect_to_login File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/views.py”, line 20, in from django.utils.http import ( ImportError: cannot import name ‘url_has_allowed_host_and_scheme’ from ‘django.utils.http’ (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/utils/http.py) During handling of the abov…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 264 . This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't crash on invalid zipfiles, even if we encounter 'badness' through through the file. (Re: #1068705) [ FC (Fay) Stegerman ] * Add note when there are duplicate entries in ZIP files. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!140) [ Vagrant Cascadian ] * Add an external tool reference for GNU Guix for zipdetails. You find out more by visiting t…