remove me from the email list please regards, On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:19 AM Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote:
> The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > > In this issue: > + anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed > + riscv64 porterbox > + porterbox DNS alias maintainers needed > + debtags.d.o maintainers needed > + lintian contributors needed > + Experimental manual migration pseudo-excuses > + CPU instruction selection documentation > > anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed > ------------------------------------------------------ > > If you run Debian testing/unstable and ever installed anacron 2.3-33 on > a systemd based system, then anacron will no longer be enabled and the > daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs will not be run until it is. > > Since not all cron jobs have migrated to systemd timers, Debian > testing/unstable systems with systemd and anacron may be missing > some essential cron jobs, such as making backups of aptitude state. > > To see if a system is affected you can use these commands: > > zgrep -i anacron.*2.3-33 /var/log/apt/history.log* > systemctl status anacron.service anacron.timer > > To re-enable anacron you can use these commands: > > sudo systemctl enable anacron.service anacron.timer > sudo systemctl start anacron.service anacron.timer > > More details of this problem are available in these bugs: > > https://bugs.debian.org/1019554 > https://bugs.debian.org/1020966 > https://bugs.debian.org/1021496 > > -- Paul Wise > > riscv64 porterbox > ----------------- > > There is now a porterbox for riscv64[1] available for Debian contributors > to use[2] for porting packages to RISC-V. > > Thanks to SiFive for providing the HiFive Unmatched board, OSUOSL for > assembling and hosting the hardware and Aurélien Jarno and Manuel A. > Fernandez Montecelo for installing/setting up/admining the porterbox. > > -- Paul Wise > > [1] https://blog.aurel32.net/riscv64-porterbox.html > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PorterBoxHowToUse > > porterbox DNS alias maintainers needed > -------------------------------------- > > Jakub Wilk has mentioned[3] that the DNS aliases to Debian porterboxes are > now unmaintained and in need of new maintainers. > > -- Paul Wise > > [3] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20221107213046.atgukd2iogsay...@jwilk.net > > debtags.d.o maintainers needed > ------------------------------ > > Enrico Zini has announced debtags.d.o[4] is in need of new maintainers > and will be shut down if none are forthcoming. > > -- Paul Wise > > [4] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20221019132043.d4c4liyt6s6qe...@enricozini.org > > lintian contributors needed > --------------------------- > > The primary lintian contributors have stopped[5] working[6] on it. Axel > Beckert has stepped up[7] to provide maintenance work, but requests help > adding new tags, performance tuning and other important work. > > If you are interested in working on it, please join the lintian group on > salsa[8] (DD will be accepted instantly, non-DD should show some > contributions first, e.g. via Merge Requests), add yourself to the > lintian team wiki page[9], join the debian-lint-maint[10] mailing list, > and review the bugs filed against lintian[11], issues on salsa[12] and > merge requests on salsa (1[13] 2[14]). > > -- Paul Wise + Axel Beckert > > [5] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5e4d0e28-a3f4-4302-8364-5afd93d8a...@www.fastmail.com > [6] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/cafhyt550_6hc-2srjqyv0z9kgpwulpgnnxvoonpohp3r+pa...@mail.gmail.com > [7] https://bugs.debian.org/1012289 > [8] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian > [9] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian > [10] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/ > [11] https://bugs.debian.org/src:lintian > [12] https://salsa.debian.org/groups/lintian/-/issues > [13] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests > [14] https://salsa.debian.org/groups/lintian/-/merge_requests > > Experimental manual migration pseudo-excuses > -------------------------------------------- > > The experimental pseudo-excuses[15] (warning: large file) help > maintainers discover problems that will be introduced when they manually > migrate packages from experimental to unstable. These excuses are now > imported into the Debian QA excuses page[16], which allows checking > individual package excuses for testing migration and now also > pseudo-excuses for experimental manual migration. This is much more > convenient than loading the very large excuses and pseudo-excuses HTML > files. Help[17] is needed[18] from Python/Django developers to integrate > the pseudo-excuses into the Debian Package Tracker[19], see the guide to > contributing[20] if you would like to help. > > [15] https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html > [16] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php > [17] https://bugs.debian.org/944737 > [18] https://bugs.debian.org/991237 > [19] https://tracker.debian.org > [20] https://qa.pages.debian.net/distro-tracker/contributing.html > > CPU instruction selection documentation > --------------------------------------- > > New documentation has been written summarising all the options for > selection of CPU instructions[21], including porting between SIMD > instructions, emulating atomic instructions, manual runtime code path > selection, manual runtime function selection, compiler function > multi-versioning, glibc hwcaps library selection, runtime binary > selection, blocking installation and blocking running binaries. When you > discover a package has limited portability due to a higher baseline, use > of SIMD/atomic instructions, or other CPU instruction related problem, > please consider perusing the new documentation, improving the portability > using the documented techniques and contributing your changes upstream > where possible. If you see others discovering these issues, please > suggest they take a look at the documentation. > > -- Paul Wise, Gioele Barabucci and Bastien Roucaries > > [21] https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
