dcmd: what is in the dsc file
Notice to my future self: If you want to see a list of files that are referenced by a Debian dsc-file, you need to use: dcmd dsc-file The output is the list of files in its ‘Files’ section, plus the...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in December 2015
FTP assistant Due to Christmas, I only marked 254 packages for accept and rejected 17 of them. I had to send 14 emails to maintainers. Squeeze LTS This was my eighteenth month that I did some work for...
View Articlebook: Building Microservices from Sam Newman
Recently I read the book Building Microservices from Sam Newman, published by O’Reilly. Up to now I didn’t have to deal with microservices and this book gave a very good summary of this topic....
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My Debian Activities in January 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 281 package for accept and rejected 58, so almost back to normal processing. I also sent 19 emails to maintainers asking questions. As mentioned in October the...
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My Debian Activities in February 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 364 package for accept and rejected 66. Due to the help of lamby, the length of the NEW queue dropped mostly below 50, so there is no need for complaints anymore . I...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in March 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 226 packages for accept and rejected 22. I also sent 5 emails to maintainers asking questions. It seems to be that a rather quiet month is behind us. As I have seen...
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My Debian Activities in April 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 171 packages for accept and rejected 42. I also sent 3 emails to maintainers asking questions. It seems to be that another quiet month is behind us. Nevertheless the...
View ArticleDebian and the Internet of Things
Everybody is talking about the Internet of Things. Unfortunately there is no sign of it in Debian yet. Besides some smaller packages like sispmctl, usbrelay or the 1-wire support in digitemp and owfs,...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in May 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 286 packages for accept and rejected 35. I also sent 13 emails to maintainers asking questions. Apart from this nothing unusual happened this month. Debian LTS This...
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My Debian Activities in June 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 233 packages for accept and rejected 29. I also sent 11 emails to maintainers asking questions. Currently there are 33 packages in NEW and the minimum this week has...
View ArticleAPU and Debian
I just got an APU1D4 made by PC Engines. I bought it from a German retailer called VARIA System GmbH. They are also located in Chemnitz, so at least I could support the local economy. I purchased a...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in July 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 248 packages for accept and rejected 60. I also sent 13 emails to maintainers asking questions. Again, this was a rather quiet month without much trouble. Debian LTS...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in August 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 257 packages for accept and rejected only 26. Seems to be that I mostly choosed the high quality packages this month. I also sent 12 emails to maintainers asking...
View ArticleOpenzwave in Debian
It was a real surprise when I saw activity on #791965, which is my ITP bug to package openzwave. As Ralph wrote, the legal status of the Z-Wave standard has been changed. According to a press release...
View ArticleBuild software on Mac OS X
When trying to use XCode to compile an open source project on Mac OS X Mountain Lion, you might have realized that build tools like GNU Autoconf, Automake or Libtool are no longer available. I think...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in September 2016
FTP assistant This month I was rather busy with other stuff and only marked 191 packages for accept and rejected 21 packages. I also sent 6 emails to maintainers asking questions. Debian LTS This was...
View ArticleDOPOM: libmatthew-java – Unix socket API and bindings for Java
While looking at the “action needed”-paragraph of one of my packages, I saw that a dependency was orphaned and needed a new maintainer. So I decided to restart DOPOM (Debian Orphaned Package Of the...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in October 2016
FTP assistant This month I caught up from last month and marked 317 packages for accept and rejected 23 packages. I also sent 5 emails to maintainers asking questions. Debian LTS This was my...
View ArticleDOPOM: gnupg-pkcs11-scd – GnuPG smart-card daemon with PKCS#11 support
According to the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page 1002 packages are ophaned at the moment. Why is this number always tending upwards? Anyway, this month I adopted gnupg-pkcs11-scd. It did not...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in November 2016
FTP assistant This month I marked 377 packages for accept and rejected 36 packages. I also sent 13 emails to maintainers asking questions. Debian LTS This was my twenty-ninth month that I did some work...
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