Debian has generally always had, as a rule, “sane defaults” and “no surprises”. This was completely shattered for me when Vim decided to hijack the mouse from my terminal and break all copy/paste functionality. This has occured since the release of Debian 9. I expect for my terminal to behave consistently, and this is broken every time I log in to a Debian 9 system where I have not configured Vim to disable this functionality.
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.
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 .