Apparently I got an honour from OpenUK.
There are a bunch of people I know on that list. Chris Lamb and Mark Brown are familiar names from Debian. Colin King and Jonathan Riddell are people I know from past work in Ubuntu. I’ve admired David MacIver’s work on …
We released Storm 0.21 on Friday (the release announcement seems to be stuck in moderation, but you can look at the NEWS file directly). For me, the biggest part of this release was adding Python 3 support.
Storm is a really nice and lightweight ORM (object-relational mapper) for Python …
I’ve released binfmt-support 2.2.0. These are the major changes since 2.1.8:
I’ve been using Kitten Block for years, since I don’t really need the blood pressure spike caused by accidentally following links to certain UK newspapers. Unfortunately it hasn’t been ported to Firefox 57. I tried emailing the author a couple of months ago, but my email bounced …
I was recently asked to sort things out so that snap builds on Launchpad could themselves install snaps as build-dependencies. To make this work we need to start doing builds in LXD containers rather than in chroots. As a result I’ve been doing some quite extensive refactoring of launchpad-buildd …
I’ve had a kludgy mess of electronic address books for most of two decades, and have got rather fed up with it. My stack consisted of:
~/.mutt/aliases, a flat text file consisting of mutt alias commands~/.mutt/aliases, Debian’s LDAP database, and Canonical …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 …
OpenSSH 6.0p1 was released a little while back; this weekend I belatedly got round to uploading packages of it to Debian unstable and Ubuntu quantal.
I was a bit delayed by needing to put together an improvement to privsep sandbox selection that particularly matters in the context of distributions …
Apropos of my previous post, I see that dh has now overtaken CDBS as the most popular rules helper system of its kind in Debian unstable, and shows no particular sign of slowing its rate of uptake any time soon. The resolution of the graph is such that you can …
Note: I wrote most of this before Neil Williams’ recent comments on the 3.0 family of formats, so despite the timing this isn’t really a reaction to that although I do have a couple of responses. On the whole I think I agree that the Lintian message is …