More bugs need to go away
On Monday, I sent out the next release update (which was under preparation for a few days). Basically, Debian is doing quite well - we just have a few items left open before we can have the full...
View ArticlePreparing freeze
Blogging about recent Friday is a bit late now, but there you are: On Friday, I was busy preparing the full freeze for Etch - this included e.g. polishing the announcement mail as well as letting linux...
View ArticleReading is difficult - or why the current number of RC bugs is ok for the freeze
People who have following our release update mails have seen that we are tracking different numbers this time. There is the total number of RC bugs relevant for etch, which is currently 122. And there...
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Release update and more
(This blog entry is a bit delayed because I have been on the QA meeting.) On Monday and Tuesday last week we did one important step: We sent out the release update that etch is fully frozen now....
View Articlemidterm report
This is the first of the two "larger" reports during the release management funding experiment. I suppose I don't need to be more specific about what I did in detail - my blog postings in...
View Articleattr and libpng
Monday morning started with seeing lots of brand new release bugs about attr being broken so bad that "ls -la" failed, and also buildds were affected negatively. As a consequence, I few-hour-NMUed this...
View ArticleHow to read text in somebody's text which is not there, and not meant to be...
That sometimes journalists have obvious reading problems, well, isn't a too new thing. One has to deal with that, e.g. by appending more text to the cited blog entry. If someone inside the Debian...
View ArticleWho is lying?
One library is lying on ia64 - it tells libtool to have a link to /usr/lib/libasound.la, but there is no dependency to that on the package. Please compare...
View ArticleNeglected RC bugs
I dived through the list of open RC issues, and found some without any (real) activity for at least 20 days. Please remember: If we want to release Etch, we need to get rid of any such bug prior to...
View Articletest svn-buildpackage
A new version of svn-buildpackage has appeared in unstable now. If you use this package, please test it, and if something bad happens, please file appropriate bugs and alert the release team. Thanks.
View ArticleTop testing migration blockers
During the recent weeks, we started to hunt and hint large batches of packages together to testing (and this blog is just to show a bit of what is part of the tasks of release team members). This...
View ArticleAny good web user selfmanagemenet out there?
I'm looking for some time for a good user self management. "Good" means: User can add their own accounts, gets approved (or not), can recover the password, ... Of course, there are plenty...
View ArticleUninstallability down again
trying: mysql-dfsg-5.0 accepted: mysql-dfsg-5.0 ori: 71+890: i-3:a-0:a-0:a-23:h-13:i-0:m-8:m-10:p-0:s-0:s-14:a-890 pre: 71+887: i-3:a-0:a-0:a-23:h-13:i-0:m-8:m-10:p-0:s-0:s-14:a-887 now: 71+773:...
View Articlesemantics in ldap - anyone out there?
Ldap seems like a good database to store accounts in: Lots of tools can use it, it's easily integrated into pam, and lots more. But one sometimes just hits borders in the data model of openldap: There...
View ArticleMass-transition
aba@ries:~$ grep final update_out/update.OUTPUT_py | cut -f 2 -d ' '| tr , '\n'|wc -l 901 This means 901 packages went from unstable to testing with the most recent britney run (though counting each...
View Articleapache, ldap and using different attributes as user names
I'm currently considering how to allow users to log on with different attributes as user names, e.g. with their "real" user name or their mail adress. Unfortunatly as described on...
View ArticleBinding with ldap to attributes
I wanted to be able to not only bind with the normal dn, but also to attributes. This means I e.g. have an attribute mail, and want the people to be able to login with their mailaddress as username....
View ArticleWhy can't apache just bind against an ldap-dn?
The current apache ldap documentation explains that apache first looks up in the directory before performing an bind. Sometimes it would be much easier if one can just tell apache "take this dn, add...
View Articleldap and webauth / kerberos
I'm currently looking for some software that user can login on the webserver, but for the scripts, it doesn't look too different from basic auth. One example of that kind is webauth, however that...
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