Just had some time in the last two days, and here's the list of uploaded NMUs. So far, I had only one maintainer complaining (again, sorry!), but I must admit that on Sunday I just didn't follow the correct NMU procedure

Anyhow, here's what I have:

1. #504824 [libnids] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: #elif used instead of #else
2. #504864 [omnievents] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
3. #504871 [bookmarkbridge] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
4. #504902 [libofa] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
5. #504943 [libassa] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
6. #504963 [libfcgi] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
7. #504970 [italc] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
8. #504973 [libspiff] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
9. #505021 [passepartout] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
10. #505078 [codeine] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
11. #505333 [gloox] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
12. #505372 [bobot++] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
13. #505420 [esteidutil] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
14. #510759 [log4cxx] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
15. #526151 [openmovieeditor] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
16. #551107 [fusecompress] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
17. #551718 [eboard] eboard: FTBFS with latest eglibc and gcc 4.4

Some highlights

Most of these bugs, if not all, already had a patch attached. Thanks to Martin Michlmayr for his work on this!

Regarding fusecompress, after my upload to DELAYED/2, the maintainer promptly replied asking for sponsorship of a package he already had. So this does not really count

If you want to participate in this great game too, and improve our loved distribution, you can have a look at this list of possibly easy bugs to fix.

Have fun!

Why is wicd NEW? Simple, I managed to split the files into separate packages.

As soon as it clears NEW, those who are using experimental will be able to install a cli-only wicd, i.e. no more unnecessary throwing in of GTK+ and X

I will make a call for testing as soon as this package clears the queue. Hope I didn't make too much mistakes

Finally, it happened! I became a Debian Developer!

I wish to thank everybody involved in this process: from those who helped me in my initial packaging efforts, to who actually created the account.

Many thanks to the pkg-perl team for accepting newbies and helping them: props to Damyan Ivanov, Gregor Herrmann, Gunnar Wolf!

Thanks to Debian-Med and Debian CLI: they always believed in me, and I had a great time in these teams. A special thanks goes to Andreas Tille, who advocated my NM candidature.

Thanks to my two AMs, Bart Martens and Bernd Zeimetz. Even if my NM was long, difficult and not so flawless, it all went good, at the end :).

A special thanks to Enrico Zini: he was the first DD signing my GPG key, thus allowing me to have more "rights" (being a DM), and experience some more responsibility than I previously had. Thanks to his "Become a DD. NOW!" right after checking my ID in Palermo -- Enrico, it finally happened!

Thanks to Christoph Berg, Ron Lee, and Stephen Gran, which handled the final steps of the overall process.

And now, dapal is here to break the world. Be warned!

Following zack's suggestions, I've been looking at RC bugs in my sparetime.

In two days (well, two evenings really), I've been able to cope with a good number of bugs:

• #543063 - ann: FTBFS: /bin/sh: aclocal-1.10: not found (DELAYED/7 RFS!)
• #527823 - elisa-plugins-bad: FTBFS: rm: cannot remove `/build/user-elisa-plugins-bad_0.3.5-1-amd64-0hSRfJ/elisa-plugins-ba d-0.3.5/debian/elisa-plugins-bad//usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/. pth': No such file or directory *(DELAYED/2 RFS!)
• #536924 - gai: FTBFS: gai-private.h:66:35: error: libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h: No such file or directory (DELAYED/10)
• #537019 - gimp-dcraw: FTBFS: Unrecognized switch --build-strip (DELAYED/2)
• #536945 - hdate-applet: FTBFS: hdate_applet.c:21:35: error: libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h: No such file or directory (DELAYED/7)
• #519056 - im-sdk: FTBFS with glibc 2.8 (DELAYED/2 RFS!)
• #536964 - im-sdk: FTBFS: Package libglade-2.0 was not found (RFS! - see above)
• #543083 - libcsoap: FTBFS: aclocal-1.10: not found (DELAYED/7)
• #543036 - honeyd: FTBFS: configure: error: dumbnet-config not found (closed, unreproducible)
• #543045 - farpd: FTBFS: configure: error: libdumbnet not found (closed, unreproducible)
• #536967 - glunarclock: FTBFS: configure: error: Library requirements (libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0 ) not met (0-day)
• #521942 - jabsorb: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends on servlet-api and commons-httpclient (0-day)

I must admit that some of them (didn't count them, might also be the greatest part of them) already had patches, and I just prepared the NMU. For others, there were other FTBFS's other than the ones filed, and those were fixed too.

It would be extra cool if some DD uploaded the remaining 3 NMUs!

I also had time to release and package syslog-summary 1.14, but, not being DMUA yet, I'd need a sponsor for that too (but I'll probably ask my AM, since this upload sets DMUA).

Happy RC-bug-squashing!

Your friendly neighborhood hanska

For those of you who don't use experimental, the 1.6.x branch of wicd has been sitting there for some time. It had some bugreports, and I closely cooperated with upstream to get patches merged.

Here we come then, wicd 1.6.1 has been uploaded to unstable. Upstream merged all the patches I provided them (yay!), and it has lots of improvements from 1.5.9.

On the packaging side, it now provides a nice Debconf script to add/remove users to/from the netdev group (already translated into 9 languages, thanks d-i18n people!).

Upstream side:

• it gracefully handles daemon restarts. That was a major issue before, because every package upgrade caused the GUI not to work anymore;
• udhcpc support has been added, this is rather useful to FSO people (thanks gismo for the initial patch!);
• a message box shows up when DBus blocks access to the daemon (just make sure you add yourself to the netdev group, and reload DBus);
• I added support for pre/post-down connection scripts, which upstream kindly merged;
• other smaller things

I am expecting more bugs yet to come, since experimental doesn't have the same userbase as unstable, but, hey, that's how it works.

Also, I'm going to requestsync it to Ubuntu Karmic Koala as soon as possible, hope to get it there before the Debian Import Freeze, planned on Jun 25.

Enjoy it!

Because of the recently announced attack against the SHA-1 digest algorithm, I finally decided to move away from my old 1024-bit DSA OpenPGP key, landing to a shiny new 4096-bit RSA one.

The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer all future correspondence to come to the new one. I would also like this new key to be re-integrated into the web of trust. I'm attaching a file with
the complete text of the transition, clearsigned by both keys to certify the transition.

You can find the transition statement also on http://www.hanskalabs.net/key-transition_20090509.txt .

You can check the validity of the file with something like:

$ gpg --decrypt key-transition_20090509.txt | gpg --decrypt

If you need to transition your key too, and you're one of my signees, then let's please coordinate, so that we have the new keys cross-signed, without spurious signatures fromgoing-to-be-revoked keys

Thank you for your help.

I've just uploaded wicd 1.5.9-1 to Debian/unstable. From this version onwards, to be able to use wicd-client to connect to the wicd daemon, you need to be part of the netdev system group.

Today I was watching some DebConf8 videos and... well, someone cited me!

That's almost incredible, uh?

That was Andreas Tille (thanks!), talking about the framework for CDDs we initially made for Debian-Med.

You can grab the video at the meetings-archive.debian.net website (low - high) (it's an OGG video), go to 43:20 mins... and hear my name!

Again, thanks Andreas!

Dear Julien,

that proposal is not about censoring mails sent in by people. Think to it as that "karma" thing many sites have.

And yes, I'm one of those in favour of such project. I'm a free {software,speech} guy, but just hate all the flames seen lately on -devel. We must find a way to stop that, or at least to control it.

Again, it's not censorship, as I read it, all messages would go in. Citing:

I have also seen opinions that other "obvious" ways of addressing the issue, such as moderation of the lists or a new organizational entity, which would act as a list watchdog, is not the way to go, as it adds yet another layer of bureacracy and raises the usual questions of choosing the "right" people for the privileged position.

It's just an alternative way of expressing opinions about a mail. Consider it as those "+1"/"-1" mails that you can often see.

This is my first post on Planet. Great day!

Here's a presentation of myself. I'm David Paleino, I'm 21 and studying Odontology in Palermo, Italy. Yes, I'm Italian.

Some might know me because of my past "key-signing problems": that was a big issue, indeed. Anyway.

I've started contributing to Debian some time ago, initially in pkg-perl team. Then I joined debian-med, and I'm still in that team. Being a dentist in future, I wanted to help the "medical" section of Debian, even though there isn't any software I could use in my future work. I'll work on that, eventually.

I've developed, together with Andreas Tille, Debian Med's website and "scripts": those are intended to be used also for other Debian Blends (formerly CDDs).

Now I'm also active in pkg-mono: I'm helping in the transition to Mono 2.0, and that's a big task.

I also maintain some packages, even some more or less popular ones (gthumb, john, gnome-rdp, bash-completion).

I'm concerned with Free Software also outside Debian-specific work: I help my LUG (SputniX) in organizing various FOSS-related events. Incidentally, tomorrow there's the LinuxMeeting, and on Sunday we have JavaDay. Everyone's welcome!

I definitely hope I won't annoy you too much with my posts!