Debian turns 22!
On Sun 16 August 2015 with tags birthday debianWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez and Valessio Brito
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Debian Perl Sprint 2015
On Mon 13 July 2015 with tags perl sprint barcelonaWritten by Alex Muntada
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The Debian Perl team had its first sprint in May and it was a success: 7 members met in Barcelona the weekend from May 22nd to May 24th to kick off the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA tasks across the more than 3000 packages that the team maintains.
Even though the participants enjoyed the beautiful weather and the food very much, a good amount of work was also done:
- 53 bugs were filed or worked on, 31 uploads were accepted.
- The current practice of patch management (
quilt) was discussed and possible alternatives were shown (git-debcherryandgit-dpm). - Improvements were made in the Debian Perl Tools (
dpt) and discussed how to get track of upstream git history and tags. - Team's policies, documentation and recurring tasks were reviewed and updated.
- Perl 5.22 release was prepared and
src:perlplans for Stretch were discussed. autopkgtestwhitelists were reviewed, new packages added, and IRC notificacions by KGB were discussed.- Outstanding migrations were reviewed.
- Reproducibility issues with
POD_MAN_DATEwere commented.
The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
The participants would like to thank the Computer Architecture Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.
Reproducible Builds get funded by the Core Infrastructure Initiative
On Tue 23 June 2015 with tags debian reproducible buildsWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez
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The Core Infrastructure Initiative announced today that they will support two Debian Developers, Holger Levsen and Jérémy Bobbio, with $200,000 to advance their Debian work in reproducible builds and to collaborate more closely with other distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenWrt to benefit from this effort.
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) was established in 2014 to fortify the security of key open source projects. This initiative is funded by more than 20 companies and managed by The Linux Foundation.
The reproducible builds initiative aims to enable anyone to reproduce bit by bit identical binary packages from a given source, thus enabling anyone to independently verify that a binary matches the source code from which it was said it was derived. For example, this allow the users of Debian to rebuild packages and obtain exactly identical packages to the ones provided by the Debian repositories.
Debian Ruby team sprint 2015
On Tue 12 May 2015 with tags ruby sprint paris irillWritten by Antonio Terceiro
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The Debian Ruby Ruby team had a first sprint in 2014. The experience was very positive, and it was decided to do it again in 2015. Last April, the team once more met at the IRILL offices, in Paris, France.
The participants worked to improve the quality Ruby packages in Debian, including fixing release critical and security bugs, improving metadata and packaging code, and triaging test failures on the Debian Continuous Integration service.
The sprint also served to prepare the team infrastructure for the future Debian 9 release:
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the
gem2debpackaging helper to improve the semi-automated generation of Debian source packages from existing standard-compliant Ruby packages from Rubygems. -
there was also an effort to prepare the switch to Ruby 2.2, the latest stable release of the Ruby language which was released after the Debian testing suite was already frozen for the Debian 8 release.
Left to right: Christian Hofstaedtler, Tomasz Nitecki, Sebastien Badia and Antonio Terceiro.
A full report with technical details has been posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
Debian 8.0 Jessie has been released!
On Sun 26 April 2015 with tags jessieWritten by Ana Guerrero Lopez
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There's a new sheriff in town. And her name is Jessie. We're happy to announce the release of Debian 8.0, codenamed Jessie.
Want to install it? Choose your favourite installation media among Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks. Then read the installation manual. For cloud users Debian also offers pre-built OpenStack images ready to use.
Already a happy Debian user and you only want to upgrade? You are just an apt-get dist-upgrade away from Jessie! Find how, reading the installation guide and the release notes.
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