Catching up
I did a bit of catching up on my Debian backlog over the last week or so. Among the things I got round to:
- I released man-db 2.5.7. This was mostly an “I’ve been meaning to do this for ages” kind of thing to reduce the bug …
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Tissue of lies
In case it isn’t obvious, in “Ubuntu 9.10 SP1 coming in spring 2010”, “Ubuman” is blatantly lying in attributing a number of statements to me. None of the text there was written by me, and if you thought any of it was true then you should probably make …
Keysigning bits
If you’re generating one of these shiny new RSA keys, do please remember to generate an encryption subkey too if you expect people to sign it - at least your more obscure UIDs. I’m not going to mail unencrypted signatures around unless I have some out-of-band knowledge that the …
man-db: ‘man -K’
I recently implemented man -K (full-text search over all manual pages) in
man-db. This was inspired by a similar feature
in Federico Lucifredi’s man
package (formerly maintained by Andries Brouwer). I think I did a much
better job of it, though. The man package just forks grep for every …
Python SIGPIPE handling
Enrico writes about
creating pipelines with Python’s subprocess module, and notes that you
need to take care to close stdout in non-final subprocesses so that
subprocesses get SIGPIPE correctly. This is correct as far as it goes
(and true in any language, although there’s a Python bug report …
code_swarm video of Ubuntu uploads
Joey Hess posted a draft of a code_swarm video for d-i a couple of weeks ago, which reminded me that I’ve been meaning to do something similar for Ubuntu for a while now as it’s just about our archive’s fifth birthday. I have a more or less …
Bug triage, redux
I’ve been a bit surprised by the strong positive response to my previous post. People generally seemed to think it was quite non-ranty; maybe I should clean the rust off my flamethrower. :-) My hope was that I’d be able to persuade people to change some practices, so I …
Bug triage rants
I hate to say this, but often when somebody does lots of bug triage on a package I work on, I find it to be a net loss for me. I end up having to go through all the things that were changed, correct a bunch of them, occasionally pacify …
Re: Perl is strange
Christoph: That’s
because =~ binds more tightly than +. This does what you meant:
$ perl -le 'print "yoo" if (1 + 1) =~ /3/'
perlop(1) has a useful table of precedence.
Don’t use sshkeygen.com to generate keys!
To my horror, I recently saw this online SSH key generator.
I hope nobody reading this needs to be told why this is a bad idea. However, in case you do, here are a few reasons:
- Every SSH implementation I know of - certainly all the major ones - that support public …
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