Other articles


  1. 1.0.x maintenance moved to Hellfield Archive

    Table Of Contents

    Published: Fri Jul 19 12:17:28 UTC 2019
    Updated: Sun Sep 01 16:47:32 UTC 2019
    By Stephan Sürken

    In 2019.

    After the Debian buster release, django in Debian sid/bullseye has been updated to 2.2.

    Not only does this version have a number of incompabilities (to former 1.11), it also, more importantly, drops python 2 support.

    With mini-buildd 1.0.x (stable) being python 2, it cannot be …

    read more
  2. Hellfield Archive updated

    Published: Fri Jul 19 11:02:14 UTC 2019
    Updated: Sun Sep 01 16:47:32 UTC 2019
    By Stephan Sürken

    In 2019.

    As a housekeeping task after the Debian buster release, the Hellfield Archive has been upgraded and cleaned up as well.

    Most noteworthy, for Debian I decided to go for the "current Debian" versioning scheme starting with buster. This may make some manual upgrades which are technically downgrades necessary when upgrading …

    read more