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-- Paul Wise

=== Help check all the things! ===

check-all-the-things is a tool to check all of the things, well, most of them, well, some of the ones related to an unpacked or post-build source package or VCS repository anyway. It will [[https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/check-all-the-things_2015.02.04.html|soon]] be available in experimental and can be checked out from [[https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git|collab-maint git]]. It is designed to be used on developer systems and it is a wrapper to make it easier to run many checker tools like lintian or cppcheck with one command. I gave a demo at the [[https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/40/live-demos/|DebConf14 live demo session]] ([[http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/Live_Demos.webm|video]]). I'm looking for collaborators and knowledge of tools we can use to check Debian. If you know of a tool in Debian it could wrap, please commit a checker, send a patch or a link. If you know of a tool not yet in Debian it could wrap, please package the tool or send a link. You can ask questions about it on the Debian QA mailing list or IRC channel.

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News for Debian developers

This wiki page collects small news that all developers should know but that are not worth a dedicated mail to debian-devel-announce. Follow the template "Example of news" and add your news below it. See /Help for more information on how to write entries.

If you are able to post to debian-devel-announce (all Debian members can) and there are 5 or more items below, you might want to send out the news. To send out a new issue, you can use this helper script to generate the email version of this page. After generating the mail, proof-read it, correct any spelling, formatting or grammatical errors and send out the mail. Once the mail is sent and archived, please delete the items that were sent, add a link to the archived mail in the Previous news section and mention the mail in ProjectNews.

Example of news

This is a sample news. Copy it and edit the title, content and signature... You can use links like this. Put real news below this sample.

-- Your Name

Gitorious and Codehaus closing

Both and Gitorious and Codehaus are closing soon. Gitorious will shut down at the end of May and Codehaus will be removing projects from April 2nd onwards (most around May 17th). There are quite a number of projects in Debian that use Gitorious or Codehaus for their hosting. Folks who maintain packages whose upstream projects use Gitorious or Codehaus might want to talk to their upstreams about where they will move to and or backup code repositories and other data.

-- Paul Wise

More Application Managers needed

There is currently a queue of prospective Debian members waiting for Application Managers (AMs). If you would like to help increase the number of Debian members after the recent set of retirements, please read the AM tutorial and contact the New Members Front Desk. Any Debian Developer is eligible to become Application Manager.

-- Paul Wise

Help check all the things!

check-all-the-things is a tool to check all of the things, well, most of them, well, some of the ones related to an unpacked or post-build source package or VCS repository anyway. It will soon be available in experimental and can be checked out from collab-maint git. It is designed to be used on developer systems and it is a wrapper to make it easier to run many checker tools like lintian or cppcheck with one command. I gave a demo at the DebConf14 live demo session (video). I'm looking for collaborators and knowledge of tools we can use to check Debian. If you know of a tool in Debian it could wrap, please commit a checker, send a patch or a link. If you know of a tool not yet in Debian it could wrap, please package the tool or send a link. You can ask questions about it on the Debian QA mailing list or IRC channel.

-- Paul Wise

Hardware donations moved to wiki

Debian's hardware donations wishlist has moved to the Debian wiki as the current content was obsolete and moving it to the wiki allows all Debian contributors to add their Debian-related hardware wishlists. If you have a need for hardware to enable your work on Debian, please add an entry to the wiki so that hardware donors can contact you about it. You may also usertag (bts user hardware-donations@debian.org , usertag 123456 hardware-needed) bugs that need hardware. If you receive hardware from donors, please post a report about your use of it to the relevant places and update your page. Obsolete hardware wishlist pages should be renamed so they are moved to the list of received hardware. Hardware that is no longer needed should be returned, donated again or disposed of responsibly.

-- Paul Wise

SSL certificate verification on debian.org hosts

For those of you running services on debian.org hosts run by DSA, there has been a change in how our SSL cert config is setup. Until now /etc/ssl/certs mostly contained only certs for debian.org services but this was not consistent between hosts. Going forward, DSA-administered machines do not trust any CA certs and only trust SSL certs for debian.org services. Some software is unable to verify debian.org service certs without the CA cert being present and trusted. For such software, DSA has provided /etc/ssl/ca-debian as a workaround. Some services need to verify the SSL certs of arbitrary services on the Internet that could change their SSL provider at any point in time. For such software, DSA has provided /etc/ssl/ca-global, which contains all the certs trusted by ca-certificates. Please read the announcement and the workarounds wiki page for details of how to use these new directories.

-- Paul Wise

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