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Bits from Debian: Debian Project Leader Election 2024, Andreas Tille elected.

22.04.2024 12:00

The voting period for the Debian Project Leader election has ended. Please join us in congratulating Andreas Tille as the new Debian Project Leader. The new term for the project leader started on...

Vincent Fourmond: QSoas version 3.3 is out

22.04.2024 10:50

Version 3.3 brings in new features, including reverse Laplace transforms and fits, pH fits, commands for picking points from a dataset, averaging points with the same X value, or perform singular va...

Russ Allbery: Review: The Stars, Like Dust

22.04.2024 02:22

Review: The Stars, Like Dust, by Isaac Asimov Series: Galactic Empire #2 Publisher: Fawcett Crest Copyright: 1950, 1951 Printing: June 1972 ...

Bastian Venthur: Help needed: creating a WSDL file to interact with debbugs

20.04.2024 11:45

I am upstream and Debian package maintainer of python-debianbts, which is a Python library that allows for querying Debian’s Bug Tracking System (BTS). python-debianbts is used by reportbug, the...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal's Debian & Stuff - March 2024

19.04.2024 21:45

Time really flies when you are really busy you have fun! Our Montréal Debian User Group met on Sunday March 31st and I only just found the time to write our report :) This time around, 9 of us we...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 265 released

19.04.2024 00:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 265. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Ensure that tests with ">=" version constr...

Jonathan McDowell: Sorting out backup internet #2: 5G modem

18.04.2024 17:21

Having setup recursive DNS it was time to actually sort out a backup internet connection. I live in a Virgin Media area, but I still haven’t forgiven them for my terrible Virgin experiences when...

Thomas Koch: Minimal overhead VMs with Nix and MicroVM

18.04.2024 15:27

Posted on March 17, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, nix Joachim Breitner wrote about a Convenient sandboxed development environment and thus reminded me to blog about...

Thomas Koch: Rebuild search with trust

18.04.2024 15:27

Posted on January 20, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, life, search, decentralization Finally there is a thing people can agree on: 2023-08-28, OSNews: The end of the...

Thomas Koch: Using nix package manager in Debian

18.04.2024 15:27

Posted on January 16, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, nix, life The nix package manager is available in Debian since May 2020. Why would one use it in Debian? learn ...

Thomas Koch: Chromium gtk-filechooser preview size

18.04.2024 15:27

Posted on January 9, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, life I wanted to report this issue in chromiums issue tracker, but it gave me: “Something went wrong, please ...

Thomas Koch: Good things come ... state folder

18.04.2024 15:27

Posted on January 2, 2024 Tags: debian, free software, life Just a little while ago (10 years) I proposed the addition of a state folder to the XDG basedir specificati...

Russ Allbery: Review: Unseen Academicals

18.04.2024 02:37

Review: Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett Series: Discworld #37 Publisher: Harper Copyright: October 2009 Printing: November 2014 ...

Samuel Henrique: Hello World

18.04.2024 00:00

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

Petter Reinholdtsen: RAID status from LSI Megaraid controllers in Debian

17.04.2024 15:00

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 ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.12.8.2.1 on CRAN: Micro Fix

17.04.2024 02:00

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately cl...

Andreas Rönnquist: Status update for Allegro packaging in Debian

15.04.2024 16:10

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...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Time to move orphaned Debian packages to git

14.04.2024 07:30

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...

Simon Josefsson: Reproducible and minimal source-only tarballs

13.04.2024 16:44

With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions. We also publish a signed minimal source-only tarball, produced by git-archive which is the sam...

Paul Tagliamonte: Domo Arigato, Mr. debugfs

13.04.2024 13:27

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 .no...

Russell Coker: Software Needed for Work

13.04.2024 07:08

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 ot...

Scarlett Gately Moore: Kubuntu: Noble Numbat Beta available! Qt6 snaps coming soon.

12.04.2024 19:29

It has been a very busy couple of weeks as we worked against some major transitions and a security fix that required a rebuild of the $world. I am happy to report that against all odds we have a...

NOKUBI Takatsugu: mailman3-web error when upgrading to bookworm

12.04.2024 13:34

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, infrom django.contrib.auth.views i...

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2024 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)

12.04.2024 00:00

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In March, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are avai...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: SSO Authentication for jitsi.debian.social, /usr-move updates, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)

12.04.2024 00:00

Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing t...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 264 released

12.04.2024 00:00

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 e...

Jonathan McDowell: Sorting out backup internet #1: recursive DNS

11.04.2024 17:41

I work from home these days, and my nearest office is over 100 miles away, 3 hours door to door if I travel by train (and, to be honest, probably not a lot faster given rush hour traffic if I driv...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in March 2024

11.04.2024 16:49

Welcome to the March 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we attempt to outline what we have been up to over the past month, as well as mentioning some of the importan...

Russell Coker: ML Training License

11.04.2024 11:30

Last year a Debian Developer blogged about writing Haskell code to give a bad result for LLMs that were trained on it. I forgot who wrote the post and I’d appreciate the URL if anyone has it. I re...

Wouter Verhelst: OpenSC and the Belgian eID

11.04.2024 09:33

Getting the Belgian eID to work on Linux systems should be fairly easy, although some people do struggle with it. For that reason, there is a lot of third-party documentation out there in the for...

Ian Jackson: Why we’ve voted No to CfD for Derril Water solar farm

09.04.2024 21:38

ceb and I are members of the Derril Water Solar Park cooperative. We were recently invited to vote on whether the coop should bid for a Contract for Difference, in a government green electricity auc...

Gunnar Wolf: Think outside the box • Welcome Eclipse!

09.04.2024 16:38

Now that we are back from our six month period in Argentina, we decided to adopt a kitten, to bring more diversity into our lives. Perhaps this little girl will teach us to think outside the box! ...

Matthew Palmer: How I Tripped Over the Debian Weak Keys Vulnerability

09.04.2024 00:00

Those of you who haven’t been in IT for far, far too long might not know that next month will be the 16th(!) anniversary of the disclosure of what was, at the time, a fairly earth-shattering rev...

Bastian Blank: Python dataclasses for Deb822 format

08.04.2024 17:00

Python includes some helping support for classes that are designed to just hold some data and not much more: Data Classes. It uses plain Python type definitions to specify what you can have and some...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in March 2024

07.04.2024 11:56

FTP master This month I accepted 147 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 151. If you file an RM bug, please do check whether there are reverse dependenc...

John Goerzen: Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas

06.04.2024 14:00

It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change...

Junichi Uekawa: Trying to explain analogue clock.

06.04.2024 03:37

Trying to explain analogue clock. It's hard to explain. Tried adding some things for affordance, and it is still not enough. So it's not obvious which arm is the hour and which arm is the...

Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities March 2024

05.04.2024 23:24

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. Changes gt: use standard systemd usb-gadget.target SWH docs: add FAQ item reportbug: allow overrid...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.12.8.2.0 on CRAN: Upstream Fix

05.04.2024 22:12

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately cl...

Bits from Debian: apt install dpl-candidate: Sruthi Chandran

05.04.2024 18:36

The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The DPL is the official representative of representative of The Debian Project tasked with managi...

Bits from Debian: apt install dpl-candidate: Andreas Tille

05.04.2024 18:36

The Debian Project Developers will shortly vote for a new Debian Project Leader known as the DPL. The Project Leader is the official representative of The Debian Project tasked with managing the ...

Emanuele Rocca: PGP keys on Yubikey, with a side of Mutt

05.04.2024 13:22

Here are my notes about copying PGP keys to external hardware devices such as Yubikeys. Let me begin by saying that the gpg tools are pretty bad at this. MAKE A COUPLE OF BACKUPS OF ~/.gnupg/ TO ...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 263 released

05.04.2024 00:00

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 263. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Add support for the zipdetails(1) tool includ...

John Goerzen: The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source

04.04.2024 22:07

You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to ...

Lukas Märdian: Netplan v1.0 paves the way to stable, declarative network management

04.04.2024 15:39

New “netplan status –diff” subcommand, finding differences between configuration and system state As the maintainer and lead developer for Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general a...

Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf24

03.04.2024 23:17

We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly open-source server software. Enterprises of all size...

Guido Günther: Free Software Activities March 2024

03.04.2024 10:12

A short status update of what happened on my side last month. I spent quiet a bit of time reviewing new, code (thanks!) as well as maintenance to keep things going but we also have some improvemen...

Joey Hess: reflections on distrusting xz

03.04.2024 08:48

Was the ssh backdoor the only goal that "Jia Tan" was pursuing with their multi-year operation against xz? I doubt it, and if not, then every fix so far has been incomplete, because everything is...

Arnaud Rebillout: Firefox: Moving from the Debian package to the Flatpak app (long-term?)

03.04.2024 00:00

First, thanks to Samuel Henrique for giving notice of recent Firefox CVEs in Debian testing/unstable. At the time I didn't want to upgrade my system (Debian Sid) due to the ongoing t64 transition tr...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: ulid 0.3.1 on CRAN: New Maintainer, Some Polish

02.04.2024 23:14

Happy to share that ulid is now (back) on CRAN. It provides universally unique identifiers that are lexicographically sortable, which improves over the more well-known uuid generators. ulid is a n...

Sven Hoexter: PKIX: pathLen Constrain on Root Certificates

02.04.2024 19:07

I recently came a cross a x509 P(rivate)KI Root Certificate which had a pathLen constrain set on the (self signed) Root Certificate. Since that is not commonly seen I looked a bit around to get a be...

Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL

02.04.2024 17:00

Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistak...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in March 2024

01.04.2024 14:51

I updated the Linux (4.19) package for buster to upstream version 4.19.311, but I did not make an upload this month. I triaged recent CVE IDs assigned for kernel security issues, and queried ...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in March 2024

01.04.2024 13:10

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. Python team: I updated zope.testrunner to 6.4. I fixed a build failure in celery-haystack-ng, which included an upstream...

Simon Josefsson: Towards reproducible minimal source code tarballs? On *-src.tar.gz

01.04.2024 10:28

While the work to analyze the xz backdoor is in progress, several ideas have been suggested to improve the software supply chain ecosystem. Some of those ideas are good, some of the ideas are at bes...

Arturo Borrero González: Kubecon and CloudNativeCon 2024 Europe summary

01.04.2024 09:00

This blog post shares my thoughts on attending Kubecon and CloudNativeCon 2024 Europe in Paris. It was my third time at this conference, and it felt bigger than last year’s in Amsterdam. Apparen...

Junichi Uekawa: Learning about xz and what is happening is fascinating.

31.03.2024 22:02

Learning about xz and what is happening is fascinating. The scope of potential exploit is very large. The Open source software space is filled with many unmaintained and unreviewed software. ...

Russell Coker: Links March 2024

31.03.2024 12:51

Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about his workshop on reimagining democracy and the unusual way he structured it [1]. It would be fun to have a security conference run like that! Matth...

Steinar H. Gunderson: xz backdooring

30.03.2024 10:39

Andres Freund found that xz-utils is backdoored, but could not (despite the otherwise excellent analysis) get quite to the bottom of what the payload actually does. What you would hope for to be...

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian is looking to expand its team with more Debian contributors

29.03.2024 15:13

It’s been a while that I haven’t posted anything on my blog, the truth is that Freexian has been doing very well in the last years and that I have a hard time to allocate time to write art...