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Free Software Efforts (2017W41)

Here’s my weekly report for week 41 of 2017. In this week I have explored some Java 8 features, looked at automatic updates in a few Linux distributions and decided that actually I don’t need swap anymore.

Debian

The issue that was preventing the migration of the Tasktools Packaging Team’s mailing list from Alioth to Savannah has now been resolved.

Ana’s chkservice package that I sponsored last week has been ACCEPTED into unstable and since MIGRATED to testing.

Tor Project

I have produced a patch for the Tor Project website to update links to the Onionoo documentation now this has moved (#23802 ). I’ve updated the Debian and Ubuntu relay configuration instructions to use systemctl instead of service where appropriate (#23048 ).

Shortcodes for my Weekly Reports

I’ve been writing weekly reports on my free software activities for over a month now, so I’m looking at ways of making these easier to write. Each review takes about an hour to write up, and I’m spending enough time formatting links to packages and bug reports that I’ve written some Hugo shortcodes to help.

For Debian:

{{ with ( .Get "bug" ) }}{{ range ( first 1 ( split . "," ) ) }}<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/{{ . }}">#{{ . }}</a>{{ end }}{{ if ( ( gt ( len ( split . "," ) )  1 ) ) }}{{ range ( after 1 ( split . "," ) ) }}, <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/{{ . }}">#{{ . }}</a>{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}
{{ with ( .Get "src" ) }}{{ range ( first 1 ( split . "," ) ) }}<a href="https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/{{ . }}">{{ . }}</a>{{ end }}{{ if ( ( gt ( len ( split . "," ) )  1 ) ) }}{{ range ( after 1 ( split . "," )) }}, <a href="https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/{{ . }}">{{ . }}</a>{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}
{{ with ( .Get "pkg" ) }}{{ range ( first 1 ( split . "," ) ) }}<a href="https://packages.debian.org/sid/{{ . }}">{{ . }}</a>{{ end }}{{ if ( ( gt ( len ( split . "," ) )  1 ) ) }}{{ range ( after 1 ( split . "," )) }}, <a href="https://packages.debian.org/sid/{{ . }}">{{ . }}</a>{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}

For Tor Project:

vimdiff

Yesterday I was looking at merging review edits in a LaTeX document. I decided that I would use vimdiff, which meant learning the keybindings (again, for maybe the fifth or sixth time).

It’s pretty easy to use vimdiff once you get the hang of it. Open two files like:

vimdiff file1.tex file2.tex

You navigate between the two windows just like any other split in vim: Ctrl-w followed by h or l (to move left or right). Then you can navigate the documents and merge things:

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