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1. Raw Development TODO Sep 2016

   mini-buildd Development TODO

   (0) MOTM: Sep 2016

   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 …

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2. APT weak digest warning under wheezy

   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 …

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3. On automatic debug packages ("dbgsym"), and how to prepare jessie to support this

   For 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 …

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4. ThinkPad T460s with NVMe on jessie

   This 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 …

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5. Website relaunched (s/hyde/pelican/g)

   hyde 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 …

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