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Planet Debian

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 ).

Automatic Updates

We have instructions for setting up new Tor relays on Debian. The only time the word “upgrade” is mentioned here is:

Be sure to set your ContactInfo line so we can contact you if you need to upgrade or something goes wrong.

This isn’t great. We should have some decent instructions for keeping your relay up to date too. I’ve been compiling a set of documentation for enabling automatic updates on various Linux distributions, here’s a taste of what I have so far:

Free Software Efforts (2017W40)

Here’s my weekly report for week 40 of 2017. In this week I have looked at censorship in Catalonia and had my “deleted” Facebook account hacked (which made HN front page). I’ve also been thinking about DRM on the web.

Debian

I have prepared and uploaded fixes for the measurement-kit and hamradio-maintguide packages.

I have also sponsored uploads for gnustep-base (to experimental) and chkservice.

I have given DM upload privileges to Eric Heintzmann for the gnustep-base package as he has shown to care for the GNUstep packages well. In the near future, I think we’re looking at a transition for gnustep-{base,back,gui} as these packages all have updates.

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