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random musings about computers, life, and everything
random musings about computers, life, and everything
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2025-04-03 23:42:29 +0200
Debian MountainCamp, Innsbruck, 16–18 May 2025
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the days are getting warmer (in the northern hemisphere), debian is getting colder, & quite a few debian events are taking place.
in innsbruck, we are organizing MountainCamp, an event in the tradition of SunCamp & SnowCamp: no schedule, no talks, meet other debian people, fix bugs, come up with crazy ideas, have fun, develop things.
- location: it-syndikat hackspace (tschamlerstraße 3, innsbruck, austria)
- dates: 16–18 May 2025
interested? head over to the information & signup page on the debian wiki.
2025-01-01 00:01:25 +0100
2024-03-14 23:10:53 +0100
teamwork in practice
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teamwork, or: why I love the Debian Perl Group:
elbrus has introduced a (very untypical) package into the Debian Perl Group in 2022.
after changes of the default compiler options
(-Werror=implicit-function-declaration) in debian, it didn't
build any more & received an RC bug.
because I sometimes like challenges, I had a look at it & cobbled together a patch. as I hardly speak any C, I sent my notes to the bug report & (implictly) asked for help. – & went out to meet a friend.
when I came home, I found an email from ntyni, sent less than 2 hours after my mail, where he friendly pointed out the issues with my patch – & sent a corrected version.
all I needed to do was to adjust the patch & upload the package. one
more bug fixed, one less task for us, & elbrus can concentrate on more
important tasks :)
thanks again, niko!
2024-01-01 00:01:24 +0100
2023-02-25 23:36:22 +0100
demo video: dpt(1) in pkg-perl-tools
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in the Debian Perl Group we are maintaining a lot of packages (around 4000 at the time of writing). this also means that we are spending some time on improving our tools which allow us to handle this amount of packages in a reasonable time.
many of the tools are shipped in the pkg-perl-tools package
since 2013, & lots of them are scripts which are called as subcommands
of the dpt(1) wrapper script.
in the last years I got the impression that not all team members are aware
of all the useful tools, & that some more promotion might be called for.
& last week I was in the mood for creating a short demo video to
showcase how I use some dpt(1) subcommands when updating a
package to a new upstream release. (even though I prefer text over videos
myself :))
probably not a cinematographic masterpiece but as the feedback of a few viewers has been positive, I'm posting it here as well:
(direct link as planets ignore iframes …)
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