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 ...
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAID_status_from_LSI_Megaraid_controllers_in_Debian.html
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 c...
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/04/16#rcpparmadillo_0.12.8.2.1
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 a...
https://www.gusnan.se/blog/programming/status-update-for-allegro-packaging-in-debian/
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 ar...
https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_move_orphaned_Debian_packages_to_git.html
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 th...
https://blog.josefsson.org/2024/04/13/reproducible-and-minimal-source-only-tarballs/
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 ....
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...
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/04/13/software-needed-for-work/
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 ...
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kubuntu-noble-numbat-beta-available-qt6-snaps-coming-soon/
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.con...
http://blog.daionet.gr.jp/knok-e/2024/04/12/mailman3-web-error-when-upgrading-to-bookworm/
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 264. This version includes the following changes: * Don't crash on invalid zipfiles, even if we en...
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 subscribin...
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...
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 dri...
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2024/04/backup-internet-rdns.html
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 im...
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. ...
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 ...
https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/eID/OpenSC_and_the_Belgian_eID/
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 electri...
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!...
https://gwolf.org/2024/04/think-outside-the-box-welcome-eclipse.html
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 r...
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/04/09/how-i-tripped-over-the-debian-weak-keys-vuln.html
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 ...
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 depend...
http://blog.alteholz.eu/2024/04/my-debian-activities-in-march-2024/
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 ...
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 minute...
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2024-Apr-6.html.en#2024-Apr-6-12:37:09
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 o...
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 c...
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/04/05#rcpparmadillo_0.12.8.2.0
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 th...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/dpl-interview-AndresTille.html
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 mana...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/dpl-interview-SruthiChandran.html
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/ T...
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 263. This version includes the following changes: * Add support for the zipdetails(1) tool included�...
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 Softw...
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10642-the-xz-issue-isnt-about-open-source
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 ava...
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 a...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/proxmox-platinum-debconf24.html
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 improveme...
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2024.html
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 ...
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 transit...
https://arnaudr.io/2024/04/03/firefox-moving-from-the-debian-package-to-the-flatpak-app-long-term/
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 ...
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...
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 mis...
https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/bits-from-the-dpl-april.html
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 som...
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2024/04/01/foss-activity-in-march-2024.html
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 ch...
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2024-03.html
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...
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. Appare...
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.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2024-Apr-1.html.en#2024-Apr-1-07:02:00
Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about his workshop on reimagining democracy and the unusual way he structured it . It would be fun to have a security conference run like that! Ma...
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 ...
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2024-03-30-11-39_xz_backdooring.html
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 a...
NOTE: THE CURRENCY USED IN THIS POST IS INDIAN RUPEES, WHICH WAS AROUND 83 INR FOR 1 US DOLLAR AS THAT TIME. I and my friend Badri visited the Taj Mahal this month. Taj Mahal is one of the mai...
syncoid to TrueNAS In my homelab, I have 2 NAS systems: Linux (Debian) TrueNAS Core (based on FreeBSD) On my Linux box, I use Jim Salter’s sanoid to periodically take snapshots of my ZFS pool....
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 262. This version includes the following changes: * Factor out Python version checking in test_zip.p...
Turns out that VPS provider Vultr's terms of service were quietly changed some time ago to give them a "perpetual, irrevocable" license to use content hosted there in any way, including modifyin...
PERSONAL: As many of you know, I lost my beloved son March 9th. This has hit me really hard, but I am staying strong and holding on to all the wonderful memories I have. He grew up to be an ama...
https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kubuntu-kde-report-in-loving-memory-of-my-son/
Small teaser: Probably won't show up in aggregators (try this link instead).
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2024-03-27-18-56_git_grudge.html
Today at $WORK I needed to add the private company Certificate Authority (CA) to Firefox, and I found the steps were unnecessarily complex. Time to blog about that, and I also made a Debian wiki ...
I recently became a maintainer of/committer to IkiWiki , the software that powers my site. I also took over maintenance of the Debian package. Last week I cut a new upstream point release, 3.2020...
Posted on March 25, 2024 Tags: madeof:bits , craft:cartonnage > This article has been originally posted on November 4, 2023, and has > been updated (at the bottom) since. ...
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/11/04-piecepack_and_postcard_boxes/index.html
Earlier today, I have just released debputy version 0.1.21 to Debian unstable. In the blog post, I will highlight some of the new features. PACKAGE BOILERPLATE REDUCTION WITH AUTOMATIC RELATION...
https://people.debian.org/~nthykier/blog/2024/debputy-v0-1-21.html
A few days ago CISPE , a trade association of European cloud providers, published a press release complaining about the new VMware licensing scheme and asking for regulators and legislators to in...