Planet Debian
Last week saw the quiet upload of live-wrapper 0.4 to unstable. I would have blogged at the time, but there is another announcement coming later in this blog post that I wanted to make at the same time.
live-wrapper is a wrapper around vmdebootstrap for producing bootable live images using Debian GNU/Linux. Accompanied by the live-tasks package in Debian, this provides the toolchain and configuration necessary for building live images using Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, MATE and XFCE.
As I posted yesterday, we released PATHspider 1.0.0. What I didn’t talk about in that post was an event that occured only a few hours before the release.
Everything was going fine, proofreading of the documentation was in progress, a quick git push with the documentation updates and… CI FAILED!?! Our CI doesn’t build the documentation, only tests the core code. I’m planning to release real soon and something has broken.
In today’s Internet we see an increasing deployment of middleboxes. While middleboxes provide in-network functionality that is necessary to keep networks manageable and economically viable, any packet mangling — whether essential for the needed functionality or accidental as an unwanted side effect — makes it more and more difficult to deploy new protocols or extensions of existing protocols.
For the evolution of the protocol stack, it is important to know which network impairments exist and potentially need to be worked around.