The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Notification of failed builds + Integration of experimental, non-free, backports.org, debian-edu and volatile into the official autobuilding infrastructure + Unification of buildd software + Browse WNPP bugs based on debtags + Multiple CSS skins disabled on the PTS Notification of failed builds ----------------------------- The autobuilding system now mails notifications for failed builds to the PTS, keyword buildd. Everybody who was subscribed to a package through the "default" keyword as of Jan 7, 2009 will receive them, it is also in the default set of keywords when you newly subscribe to a package. Please note that these notifications do not necessarily mean bug reports in your package but could also be caused by other packages, temporary uninstallabilities and arch-specific breakages. A look at the build log despite this disclaimer would be appreciated however. -- Philipp Kern Integration of experimental, non-free, backports.org, debian-edu and volatile into the official autobuilding infrastructure --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The unofficial autobuilding network hosted their own wanna-build and log handling instance in the past. These have now been integrated into the official setup running on buildd.debian.org. The old logs for those builds will also be integrated into the database running there. This means that logs and build state can now be retrieved through [1] as usual. The actual building will be split between unofficial and official hosts depending on the build load on the various architectures. -- Philipp Kern [1] https://buildd.debian.org Unification of buildd software ------------------------------ Work has been under way to unify the sbuild and buildd versions used for our autobuilding infrastructure. We are still not relying on official versions out of unstable, but the sbuild in use is already quite near to them and can be found on [2]. Almost all buildds have been converted to use just one version of buildd and sbuild and we hope to complete the transition until the end of this month. This also uses the tools within the chroot environment to unpack and install packages. -- Philipp Kern [2] https://buildd.debian.org/apt/ Browse WNPP bugs based on debtags --------------------------------- wnpp-by-tags[3] allows one to browse WNPP bugs (except RFP) based on the debtags of the package a bug belongs to. For instance, you can see what bugs relate to suite::gnome[4] or belong to packages that are implemented-in::python[5]. -- Serafeim Zanikolas [3] http://members.hellug.gr/serzan/wnpp/ [4] http://members.hellug.gr/serzan/wnpp/suite/gnome.html [5] http://members.hellug.gr/serzan/wnpp/implemented-in/python.html Multiple CSS skins disabled on the PTS -------------------------------------- For a while now, CSS skins other than the default one in the PTS have been broken. As a consequence, the CSS selection form has been temporarily disabled. If someone really cares about other CSS than the default, please volunteer to maintain them by contacting debian-qa@lists.debian.org. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Raphaël Hertzog
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