Sometimes I want to deploy Swift, the OpenStack object storage system.
Well, no, that’s not true. I basically never actually want to deploy Swift as such. What I generally want to do is to debug some bit of production service deployment machinery that relies on Swift for getting build …
The Debian repository format was designed a long time ago. The oldest
versions of it were produced with the help of tools such as
dpkg-scanpackages and consumed by dselect access methods such as
dpkg-ftp. The access methods just fetched a Packages file (perhaps
compressed) and used it as an index …
Julian has written about their efforts to strengthen security in APT, and shortly before that notified us that Launchpad’s signatures on PPAs use weak SHA-1 digests. Unfortunately we hadn’t noticed that before; GnuPG’s defaults tend to result in weak digests unless carefully tweaked, which is a …
The Ubuntu Code of Conduct says:
Step down considerately: When somebody leaves or disengages from the project, we ask that they do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. They should tell people they are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick …
We had some requests to get GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler) up and running on two new Ubuntu architectures: arm64, added in 13.10, and ppc64el, added in 14.04. This has been something of a saga, and has involved rather more late-night hacking than is probably good for me …
This is mostly a repost of my ubuntu-devel mail for a wider audience, but see below for some additions.
I’d like to upgrade to GRUB 2.02 for Ubuntu 14.04; it’s currently in beta. This represents a year and a half of upstream development, and contains many …
I’ve just finished deploying automatic installability checking for Ubuntu’s development release, which is more or less equivalent to the way that uploads are promoted from Debian unstable to testing. See my ubuntu-devel post and my ubuntu-devel-announce post for details. This now means that we’ll be opening the …
I’ve managed to go for eleven years working on Debian and nearly eight on Ubuntu without ever needing to teach myself how APT’s resolver works. I get the impression that there’s a certain mystique about it in general (alternatively, I’m just the last person to figure …
As is natural for an LTS cycle, lots of people are thinking and talking about work focused on quality rather than features. With Canonical extending LTS support to five years on the desktop for 12.04, much of this is quite rightly focused on the desktop. I’m really not …
The Ubuntu Technical Board conducts a regular review of the most popular Ubuntu Brainstorm ideas (previous reviews conducted by Matt Zimmerman and Martin Pitt). This time it was my turn. Apologies for the late arrival of this review.
Unity supports Lenses, which provide …