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does Linux development include regression tests?

fEnIo — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:31:28 +0000

In October I announced that starting with 3.6 kernel it was eventually safe to unplug Zenbook.
Then in bugreport I was told that Sentelic touchpad driver was included in 3.8 kernel.
And guess what… I don’t have to patch kernel to have working touchpad using 3.8 kernels but I have to worry about unplugging laptop cause with 3.8.x kernel it’s quite common that it turns laptop off again.
So the question is… do we have any regression tests in kernel?
Should I test every kernel release between 3.8.5 and 3.6.0 to find the one that incorporated that bug again?

talk about packaging

fEnIo — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:23:42 +0000

Dear lazyweb.

I remember that not so long ago someone on planet.debian.org shared info about he/she’s talk about packaging Debian with link to both video of the talk and sources of presentation. Since I would like to prepare similar talk for some local Polish OpenSource conference I’d be thankful if someone could remind me a link in comments.

TIA.

Two full-time days to work on Debian

fEnIo — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:17:19 +0000

My current employer as a benefit offers two days of paid volunteer time every calendar year. In September I decided to devote this time for Debian project.

It wasn’t easy to convince HR and my manager (hi Gloria ) that such activity can be considered as volunteering but I eventually did it!

So last Thursday and Friday were days I could spent working on my packages and other stuff related to Debian

Let’s talk about effects. 5 packages updated, 16 bugs closed, more than 50 lintian warnings/errors solved.

Here goes changelogs from updated packages:

calcurse (3.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.

  * Package made from scratch (this was funny experience):

    - uses new quilt source format

    - uses new copyright format

    - uses debhelper compatibility level 9 w/hardening options

    - uses the newest Standards-Version

  * New upstream version:

    - supports UTF8 (Closes: #558671)

    - hopefully fixes problem with accented characters (Closes: #466010)
 -- Bartosz Fenski   Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:51:08 +0100
httpie (0.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.

  * Includes manual page (Closes: #673067)

    Courtesy of Khalid El Fathi . Thanks!

  * New upstream version. (Closes: #693810)

    - handles binary transfers properly (Closes: #689974)
 -- Bartosz Fenski   Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:27:59 +0100
skipfish (2.10b-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.

  * New upstream version.

  * Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed).

  * Various path fixes because of upstream changes.

  * Added new libpcre3-dev build dependency.

  * Totally rewritten copyright file to comply with new copyright standard.
 -- Bartosz Fenski   Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:59:36 +010
ipcalc (0.41-3) unstable; urgency=low
  * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.

  * ACK previous NMU, thanks Christopher!

  * Documents some missing features in the manpage (Closes: #588143)

    Thanks Tanguy Ortolo !

  * Fixes other minor problems in manpage (Closes: #688148)

  * Description now says it's tool IPv4 only (Closes: #628955)

  * Fixes lack of  tag when printing supernets (Closes: #600251)

  * The following changes are courtesy of Jari Aalto :

    - Remove deprecated dpatch and upgrade to packaging format "3.0 quilt".

    - Update to Standards-Version to 3.9.3 and debhelper to 9.

    - Add build-arch and build-indep targets; use dh_prep in rules file.

    - Patch 03: update with "quilt refresh" to make it apply cleanly.

      Thanks to these changes (Closes: #670737)
 -- Bartosz Fenski   Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:30:11 +0100
netw-ib-ox-ag (5.39.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * The Akamai Technologies paid volunteer days release.

  * New upstream version.

  * Uses Homepage header. (Closes: #615219, #615294, #615321, #615436, #645522)

  * Bumped Standards-Version (no changes needed).

  * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format)

  * Fixes FTBFS on s390x and sparc64 (Closes: #639493)

  * Fixes 29 (sic!) lintian warnings/errors thus many small changes

    in packaging scripts.

-- Bartosz Fenski Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:38:29 +0200

Despite this I did something else. I sent “end of the world” joke-mail to debian-mentors mailing list stating (ignore the fact that my own server marked me as spammer; fixed already ;P) that I’m going to review and try to upload every package that will be send to me during end-of-the-world day.
That action was quite successful although no package has been uploaded yet. I reviewed 4 of them and two more are yet to come.

So it looks that these two days sponsored by Akamai motivated me enough to spent few more days or even months and help other people to contribute to Debian.

Thank you Akamai!

ipv6

fEnIo — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:04:40 +0000

It’s quite funny than the only service that is fully accessible (at least that’s my impression) through IPv6 is IRC which is usually considered as something deprecated/obsolete.

UPnP/DLNA player

fEnIo — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:25:43 +0000

I really tried to find solution myself but I failed.
Please tell me that we have some player that’s able to play videos through UPnP/DLNA *with* subtitles available in external file.

amazing

fEnIo — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:45:42 +0000

It rocks!

Zenbook and kernel 3.6

fEnIo — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:04:12 +0000

Eventually after upgrade to kernel 3.6 I can without stress unplug power cable from my Zenbook.
It doesn’t randomly die after that.

Yay!

Certificate of volunteering work for Debian

fEnIo — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:26:56 +0000

My current employer has some internal program that it allows employee to devote two days a year for volunteering work.
It doesn’t matter what it is (work for hospice, planting trees, helping in some foundation) so I thought about devoting this time for the Debian project.

Either fixing RC bugs or finally give my packages enough attention and take care of their updates.

Anyway the employer needs the certificate that I took participation in such event.
So the question is if it is possible to get some official document/certificate that I devoted some time to work on Debian?

Bureaucracy has to be fulfilled unfortunately.

Choosing the tablet

fEnIo — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 07:49:49 +0000

Dear lazy web,

The electronic devices are much cheaper in US than in Poland and I’ve got an opportunity to get one without duty/taxes and all that crap.

I wonder if Kindle Fire HD is the right choice for someone outside of US/UK?
We don’t have access to all Amazon services but still this tablet specification looks interesting.

Any other hints? I’m looking for something under 300 bucks, so no fruits please

TV with PVR from HDMI

fEnIo — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:23:24 +0000

Please tell me that it’s not truth and there are TVs capable to record video that came in from HDMI.
I’m trying to find TV that would allow me to record video from my cable TV provider and he gives me router/cable modem that has HDMI output.

Please tell me that there are some devices that are able to store signal going through it… I can upload some handcrafted firmware if I have to.