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News for Debian developers

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Source package cross build quality assurance

Helmut Grohne has created the Debian cross build quality assurance service, which continually tests cross-build-dependency satisfiability and when possible, does cross-builds of source packages that produce architecture-specific binary packages. The packages are currently built on amd64 for all non-x86 release architectures. If your package has binary packages that are not arch:all, the Debian Package Tracker will have a "cross" item in the links panel that links to the available results for the source package. You might want to visit the crossQA service and fix simple issues before doing uploads. Please note that some cross-build failures are caused by other packages such as toolchains, libraries and other build-dependencies. If you would like to ask questions, report issues, discuss the service or offer your help with the service, please use the debian-cross mailing list or #debian-bootstrap IRC channel.

-- Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

Buster/Testing Virtual Machine image for Vagrant

If you want to quickly spin a Buster/Testing VM in Virtualbox, there is now a new Vagrant Base Box for it at https://app.vagrantup.com/debian

Follow the quickstart instructions from the Debian Wiki, replacing "stretch64" with "buster64", and using only three shell commands, you have a ready to use VM where you can login via ssh.

-- Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org>

New wiki tag CategoryDebianSpeaker for Debian Speakers

The Debian web team is in the process of removing the list of Debian Speakers from the website. As an alternative, we have created a wiki category CategoryDebianSpeaker that you can use in your personal wiki page on the Debian wiki to be listed as speaker.

When adding the category to your personal page, please include a section with some information useful to people seeking speakers such as links to your previous talks, the languages you give talks in, the regions/locations you give talks in and the topics you are able to give talks about.

More details about the reasoning and how the new system will work are available.

-- Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@debian.org>

DLAs now published on www.debian.org

Since February 2019 Debian LTS Announcements (DLAs) are now published on https://www.debian.org/lts/security/.

This means the procedures to release a DLA have changed, so please make yourself familiar with the procedure if you are preparing an update to oldstable.

#debian-til IRC channel

In 2017 Jonathan Carter created the #debian-til IRC channel. TIL is an acronym for "Today I Learned" and the channel is a place for people to share anything vaguely Debian related that they have learned recently or been reminded of recently. Some recent examples of things we learned recently:

<pabs> TIL systemd-escape for escaping the systemd unit names according to systemd's rules for escaping arbitrary strings
<pabs> TIL debugging why new packages are installed during an upgrade: apt dist-upgrade -o Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker=1
<pabs> TIL `GET -dS http://debian.org` to display the redirect chain of a URL (needs libwww-perl installed)
<anarcat> TIL that UDD is ruby
<anarcat> TIL that dselect is still maintained (!) and still kind of works (!!)
<anarcat> TIL about the Sequoia OpenPGP packet dumper https://dump.sequoia-pgp.org/
<anarcat> TIL that there *are* blob-free 5GHz wifi network cards, just not that support "AC" (only N is supported)

-- Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

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