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In this issue:
+ New Debian mailing lists
+ Debian bug tracker changes
+ screenshots.debian.net refurbished
+ Debian Developers can now create new Debtags tags
+ Your Lintian Tags on the Web
+ new ia64 porterbox
New Debian mailing lists
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The Debian listmasters have recently created these new mailing lists:
* debian-bazel[1]: for discussions related to packaging, using and
building with Bazel, a build system created by Google
* debian-localgroups[2]: for discussions related to local Debian groups,
such as co-ordinating between them, organising events and other
activities
* debian-rust[3]: for discussions related to packaging, using and
building with Rust, a programming language originally created by
Mozilla
-- Paul Wise
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-bazel/
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-localgroups/
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-rust/
Debian bug tracker changes
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The Debian bug tracker now supports setting usertags for multiple users
at bug submission time. Each Usertags pseudo-header sets the usertags for
the last User psuedo-header, or for the bug submitter if there was no
earlier User pseudo-header. This is especially useful for setting
usertags for a team with multiple users, setting usertags for multiple
teams, or setting the architecture usertags[4] for bugs affecting
multiple architectures, for example:
User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: hurd-i386
The Tags and Usertags pseudo-headers used at bug submission time are now
correctly pluralised, so Tag and Usertag will work too in case you use
them accidentally.
-- Paul Wise
[4] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchitectureTags
screenshots.debian.net refurbished
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The website that collects screenshots[5] of Debian-packaged applications
received an overhaul. It has been providing the image backend for several
package managers and packages.debian.org[6] for over 10 years now. Anyone
can upload new screenshots anonymously which are then manually approved.
If you have an account on Salsa[7] you can now login to
screenshots.debian.net[8] as a moderator. You can directly publish your
own screenshots, approve anonymously contributed uploads and hide other
people's screenshots that you consider inappropriate.
The source code[9] of the web application is also kept on Salsa for
fellow Debianistas. There is also a list of (currently 77) open issues
with feature requests and improvement suggestions. If you have a
suggestion feel free to create an issue there.
If you like numbers: today we have 11,396 screenshots online. And did you
know that the idea for the web site came from a Windows sysadmin of a
large corporation doing his first steps with Ubuntu?
-- Christoph Haas
[5] https://screenshots.debian.net
[6] https://packages.debian.org/
[7] https://salsa.debian.org/
[8] https://screenshots.debian.net/users/sign_in
[9] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debshots
Debian Developers can now create new Debtags tags
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Group Debian was added[10] to the git repository for the Debtags tag
vocabulary[11], and any Debian Developer can now create new tags for
Debtags. People who are not Debian Developers are welcome to submit merge
requests, which any Debian Developer can now approve.
Pushing to master in that git repository triggers a quick CI job that
checks the vocabulary for consistency. If the CI passes, the new tag
vocabulary is automatically deployed to debtags.debian.org and becomes
immediately visible on the site.
-- Enrico Zini
[10] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/04/msg00059.html
[11] https://salsa.debian.org/debtags-team/debtags-vocabulary
Your Lintian Tags on the Web
----------------------------
Lintian's new website is now live at lintian.debian.net[12]. The service
is a bit sluggish while we wait for an upgrade, but hopefully worth the
wait. Soon, your uploads will be processed when they arrive, like CI.
Please invent something creative with our JSON interface[13] and check
back often for new features.
-- Felix Lechner on behalf of the Lintian maintainers
[12] https://lintian.debian.net
[13] https://lintian.debian.net/query
new ia64 porterbox
------------------
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz has setup a new ia64[14] (wiki[15]) porterbox
called yttrium[16]. It is available to Debian members and others[17] via
SSH to yttrium.debian.net using the SSH keys setup in LDAP[18]. The usual
porterbox[19] documentation[20] applies. The machine is an HPE Integrity
rx2800 i2 Server with Intel Itanium Processor 9320 @ 1.33 GHz and 24 GB
RAM. Thanks go to WILL GmbH&Co.KG[21] for their sponsoring of the machine
and its hosting in Dettelbach, Germany.
-- Paul Wise
[14] https://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/
[15] https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/ia64
[16] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=yttrium
[17] https://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/
[18] https://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html
[19] https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/
[20] https://wiki.debian.org/PorterBoxHowToUse
[21] http://www.will.de/
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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