I have just released a new version of pcsc-lite 2.5.2.
pcsc-lite is a Free Software
implementation of the PC/SC
(also known as WinSCard) API for Unix systems. It provides an API for
using smart ca...
Introduction
After bazel-bootstrap 7.7.1 was landed into Debian unstable,
I'm working on packaging newer Mozc (Most famous Japanese input method editor) with Bazel.
Here is the blog entry initia...
As a graduate of a liberal arts university, I wound up, unsurprisingly, taking a
lot of classes in every possible academic discipline. Thinking back to the
person that I was going into university,...
It is said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it, a quote often attributed to the American philosopher George
Santayana. And to remember the past, records must be maint...
This is a new series1 I'm starting on the tools I have been crafting and
buying to play pedagogical games in my Economics classes.
These games, aside from being just plain fun for the students, of...
Introduction
After bazel-bootstrap 7.7.1 was landed into Debian unstable,
I'm working on packaging newer Mozc (Most famous Japanese input method editor) with Bazel.
Here is the blog entry initia...
Nheko is my current favourite client for the Matrix IM system, which is my favourite IM system.
Matrix is an open system with end to end encryption and Nheko is free software and runs well on Linux ...
I’ve long been interested in hardware key material storage devices. I’ve been
a fan of yubikeys (I still remember
when my fancy new NEO-N showed up), PIV
(and its associated
smattering of
addi...
Heads up, Debian IKE/IPsec users.
Starting with strongSwan 6.1.0-1 (currently
in Debian unstable and targeted at Debian 14 Forky), the IKEv1
protocol has been disabled. This is aligned with
upstr...
The Reproducible Builds project relies on several projects, supporters and sponsors for financial support, but they are also valued as ambassadors who spread the word about our project and the wor...
Debian Contributions: 2026-08
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 ...
A new version 0.0.7 of the td package for accessing
the twelvedata API for
financial is now on CRAN, and
has been built for r2u.
This release combines the standard set of maintenance changes that
...
The third release (in twelve years !!) of the sanitizers package
is now on CRAN. sanitizers
provides ‘true positives’ for programming errors detected by the Address
Sanitizer and friends such...
Welcome to the August 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project!
In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap a...
Two weeks ago, I released AppStream 1.2.0. This release contains a lot of great changes, but one of the most important ones concerns how media are being handled, and AppStream’s default image expo...
An new maintenance version 0.2.8 of the random-number generator
tester RDieHarder
(based on the DieHarder
suite developed / maintained by Robert Brown with contributions by David
Bauer and myself ...
There’s not a whole lot to report here. During August I spent some
time on holiday and also had less work time available for Debian LTS.
Debian packages:
firmware-nonfree:
...
Just some notes about fixing some issues while installing Ubuntu on Macbook Pro 2017Fix AudioAudio is not working by default after a fresh install. GitHub - davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro: Kernel audio ...
podlators is the package containing Pod::Man, Pod::Text, and other
tools for converting POD documentation into manual pages and simple
text documents.
This release fixes a long-standing bug in P...
I’m looking at something entirely unrelated, but tripped over some search results that made me realise that a lot of people still think getting errors like ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000...
A new maintenance release 0.0.7 of RcppXts is now on CRAN, and has been built for r2u. The RcppXts package
demonstrates how to access the export C API of xts which we
contributed a looong time ago...
Debian LTS/ELTS
This was my hundred-forty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
Unfortunately the number of distributed working...
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...
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post
you've found, it'd be worth reading the
intro post first and then looking over
all posts in the series.
The final...
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post
you've found, it'd be worth reading the
intro post first and then looking over
all posts in the series.
If you're...
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post
you've found, it'd be worth reading the
intro post first and then looking over
all posts in the series.
Now that ...
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post
you've found, it'd be worth reading the
intro post first and then looking over
all posts in the series.
If you're...
🕊️ This post is part of a series called "Pigeon". If this is the first post
you've found, it'd be worth reading the
intro post first and then looking over
all posts in the series.
If you're...
I asked the banker who is my reference at the bank something like this:
Give that we are talking about the consequences of the tantrum of a fascist
foreign government, what happened to them (who ar...
The following contributor got their Debian Developer account in the last two
months:
Nicolas Peugnet (nicolasp)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two
months...
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors.
Personal note
This month, my Dad unexpectedly passed aw...
The AVIF image format gets more and more popular in the web dev community, so I needed to teach XFCE4's thunar (file manager) and Ristretto (image viewer) to thumbnail these.
Luckily that is not ...
I am a heavy user of sidenotes:1 they keep optional content next to the
text instead of sending the reader to the bottom of the page and back. Tufte
CSS renders them without JavaScript but only acce...
Contributor:
Jugal Patel (Jugal59)
Organization:
Debian
Project:
Provide debuginfod server
Mentor:
Colin Watson
About the project and me
Your program crashes. You open gdb and ge...
Looking at the reactions to the Debian AI vote, I think some people still think
the clock can be turned back, as if that ever worked in history. Rather than cry
about spilled milk, I prefer to find ...
I have just tried CoMaps, a free mapping program released under the Apache license [1]. I have tried it on Android on a Pixel 6a but it also runs on Linux so I’ll try it on a PinePhone or similar ...
After having witnessed how easy it is for good people to lose a .org domain
over a fascist tantrum (you can follow the Autistici/Inventati story
here and
here), I've started moving all my infrastruc...
I've released version 1.1.25 of plocate.
This time around, there's two security issues of unknown severity;
if you chain them with other bugs, they could lead to being able to
list files (but of c...
This August, I accomplished what I wanted for many years: I deleted the last cgo
dependency in Debian Code Search! This was made possible by Go’s recently
introduced SIMD support, because now we c...
Following the previous steps, we are now interested in getting a graphical environment with a VSCodium, the opensource rebuild of the VSCode IDE.
Configuring the display and development environmen...
Summer Vacation for my kids is over. And Peace is back to my life.
AI is transforming how I operate and view things. It was very different a few months back.
AI (as a product) is useful in g...
I’ve released a new version of
virtnbdbackup. The new version adds
a small plugin system layer that allows users to extend the backup targets by
creating plugins.
Past feature requests asked for ...
I just released a new version of PyKCS11, a Python wrapper above
the PKCS#11 API.
See PyKCS11 introduction or PyKCS11’s documentation.
The project is registered at Pypi: https://pypi.org/project...
Today marks the day of soft-launching of my Debian derivative, which I’ve been using on several of my own machines for the past year or so. This is still work in progress, but I wanted to establi...
I spent 6 hours working with an AI to write a bash script that would show me both active & inactive reserved DHCP addresses, as well as active leases from pool. I am pretty sure that it would...
Debian Related Work
Uploaded cage 0.3.1-1 to unstable
Uploaded swaylock 1.8.6-1 to unstable
Uploaded scdoc 1.11.5-1 to unstable
Uploaded xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.8.4-1 to unstable
Uploaded swayimg ...
I’ve been a Debian user since 1999, and a Debian developer since 2000. Given recent events it’s worth thinking about why that that is, and why I haven’t switched to something else in the pas...
Jumping a generation of electric cars
This February (2026) marks a full 10 years since I started working for BMW, and
a key employment bonus is the ability to drive a company car on special two-ye...
Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world.
Debian
I barely did anything this month as I was mostly on vacation - summer break. Went to Iceland for 2 ...
Preface: The Unanswered Frontier
In Part 1: Taming the AI Agents, I shared the architectural blueprint of CAMP (Cross-Agent Memory Protocol)—how we used Linux Bubblewrap (bwrap), camp-acpd, OPA ...
version 1.8.3 of the CCID driver (New version of libccid: 1.8.3)
addresses 6 security issues identified by an AI tool.
Very low impact
The reported issues are either not exploitable because the i...
I have just released version 1.8.3 of
libccid the Free Software CCID class smart
card reader driver.
Red Hat reported 6 security issues found by an AI tool. See
Security issues reported by an AI t...
Thirty years ago I became a Debian developer. Twelve years ago I left the
project. I left because it seemed that the Debian ship had become too slow
to turn, too barnacled with a series of individ...
It is widely accepted that there is an AI bubble in the financial markets at the moment. The moderate opinion is however that LLMs are constantly improving and will eventually take over more and m...
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