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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. If there are some other items already, please sort your item in descending order of importance to the Debian development community. See /Help for more information on how to write entries. If you have any questions, please ask the publicity team or the Debian English localisation mailing-list.

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-- Your Name

lintian.debian.org lives again

After a lot of work from Nicolas Peugnet, Otto Kekäläinen and Philipp Kern, lintian.debian.org is back online.

Bugs and patches can be submitted to https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian-ssg

-- pollo

reportbug ports related changes

reportbug 13.0.3 has merged support for setting architecture User/Usertags/X-Debbugs-Cc pseudo-headers. When reporting a bug that is specific to one or more architectures (especially FTBFS bugs), please select the 'arch' virtual tag at the tags menu, then select the architectures that are affected by the bug and the appropriate User/Usertags/X-Debbugs-Cc pseudo-headers will be automatically added to the bug report. Access to this feature depends on the reportbug operating mode; it is unavailable in novice mode, standard mode lists official architectures only, advanced mode lists all current official/unofficial architectures and expert mode lists all architectures that have usertags. The 'arch' virtual tag and the appropriate architectures will be automatically selected (they can be deselected) when:

• the package is cdimage.debian.org or installation-reports
• the subject contains architecture names
• the subject, justification or tags indicate a build failure
• the XCC list contains an architecture mailing list
• the tags include the d-i (Debian installer) tag

The data within reportbug used by this feature is a cache of data maintained elsewhere, so any desired updates to it must be done in those other locations first, and then a merge request sent to update the reportbug cache. The guide for new ports also reminds porters when updates should be made.

Some related changes were also added; allow removing tags at the tags editing menu, tagging more FTBFS bugs based on the subject, XCCing debian-boot when d-i tag is present, using the architecture menu for ftp/release arch-specific removals/binNMUs and switching arch-specific binNMU requests to all-arches ones for Multi-Arch: same packages.

Thanks to Nis Martensen for reviewing/merging the changes and Thorsten Glaser, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Niels Thykier, Cyril Brulebois, E Shattow and others I may have forgotten for making suggestions and approving the changes related to their teams.

-- Paul Wise

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