Some notes/news about release planning:
Within stretch development, lots of changes in 1.0.x were needed to accomodate for new versions of packages in sid.
As this needed/needs quite some elaborate changes to the code anyway, I also broadened the …
Newer apt versions warn if the repository release files are signed using "weak" digests algorithms like SHA1:
W: http://mini-buildd-uff.ta.ta:8066/repositories/test/dists/sid-test-unstable/InRelease: Signature by key FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)
This should usually not occur as mini-buildd is ignorant of the digest used …
read moreFor some time now, Debian supports automatic debug packages ("dbgsym"). These will just be available now, for any package now rebuild for sid/stretch, without any extra support needed in the source package.
That's great!
So, does mini-buildd support this, too? Of course -- actually no change at all was needed …
read moreThis is rather "a note to self"; maybe this is of any worth for others too...
Since recently, I own a new Thinkpad T460s, including a "NVM Express" ('NVMe') SSD.
Unfortunately, plain jessie can't deal with initramfs creation for nvme properly, and also some other skylake related updates seem mandatory …
read morehyde is unmaintained as it seems, so this here website is now relaunched using the new hot shit on the sky of static web site generators, pelican. At least, it all-in-all provides less pain, and it's still maintained ;).
So I hope everything looks somewhat better now, and nothing is worse …
read moreThe Debian jessie release implicitly inflicts some mandatary (new apt keys!) as well as some recommended (jessie! stretch! backports-sloppy!) housekeeping on an existing mini-buildd installation.
So this is what I would recommend you to do:
Given how the configuration currently works (i.e., affecting dependencies when you change …
Some notes/news about the release planning concerning official Debian:
We are still in jessie freeze; for mini-buildd release planning, this means (basically purely due to practical considerations) the "1.2 dev kick off" will be delayed at least until jessie is actually released.
In the …
Subject for patching up stable 1.0.x.
No known issues atm (Nov 14 2014).
Fixes for the minor issues ("buglets" below) eventually may or may not be subjects for backports (depending of how invasive the patch is).
With the upcoming jessie freeze, time was due to re-check if everything is still fine for jessie/sid.
Well, it wasn't. Esoteric bugs came up, some even making it rc buggy:
xfce "4.11" (i.e., the current versions from Debian unstable+experimental) are now available in wheezy-ab-testing: