Misc Developer News (#59)

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In this issue:
+ britney option enabled to look at tests.reproducible-builds.org
+ reportbug and ftp.d.o/release.d.o/wnpp pseudo-packages
+ non-free-firmware is now autobuilt
+ reform.debian.net
+ new sparc64 porterbox

britney option enabled to look at tests.reproducible-builds.org
- ---------------------------------------------------------------

Paul Gevers has enabled a no-penalty-no-gain reproducibility option for
amd64/arm64/i386/armhf in the migration software, which means that data
from the Overview of various statistics about reproducible builds[1] is
collected but causes neither migration bonuses nor blocks migration
yet.

The information only results are visible on
https://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html[2] as well as on
individual packages pages on the Debian Package Tracker[3].

-- Holger Levsen

[1] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian
[2] https://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html
[3] https://tracker.debian.org

reportbug and ftp.d.o/release.d.o/wnpp pseudo-packages
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The reportbug tool now has some features that are useful when filing
requests against the pseudo-packages ftp.debian.org, release.debian.org
and wnpp.

It now sets the usertag for ftp.debian.org removal requests (override
requests already had this). This is so that they are automatically
categorised correctly on the bug listing.

It now sets affects[4] and X-Debbugs-CC[5] on bugs against
pseudo-packages that are related to a real package in the archive;
including ftp.debian.org, release.debian.org and wnpp bugs (wnpp bugs
only had affects before). This is so that maintainers, package tracker
subscribers and folks viewing the bug lists for packages can see them.

Please consider using reportbug for filing removal or wnpp bugs so that
these things are done automatically for you. Some examples of the headers
it sets are listed below. If you have bug templates of your own for these
issues, please update them to include the correct pseudo-headers.

Please note that reportbug supports sending bugs via your normal mail
client[6] using xdg-email (available since bullseye), or via a specific
mail client[7] too.


Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.deb...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: f...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.deb...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: override
X-Debbugs-Cc: f...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.d...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
X-Debbugs-Cc: f...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: f...@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

-- Paul Wise

[4] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects
[5] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#xcc
[6] https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug#Using_your_normal_mail_client
[7] https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug#Using_a_specific_mail_client

non-free-firmware is now autobuilt
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non-free-firmware in unstable and experimental is now being autobuilt by
the regular Debian builders. It is subject to the same allowlist and
criteria[8] as regular non-free builds.

Allowlisting packages has been staffed with only a single person in the
last years. If you are a DD and interested in helping out with license
reviews, please contact the same email address.

-- Philipp Kern

[8]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#non-free-buildd

reform.debian.net
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Owners of a MNT Reform open hardware laptop[9] can now set up their
machine using OpenPGP signed packages built for Debian stable (Bookworm)
instead of using unsigned packages for unstable from the official MNT
repositories. In addition to the apt repository[10] containing the
Bookworm kernel with required patches on top, reform.debian.net provides
system images[11] which boot directly into a full Desktop as well as
Debian installer netboot images[12] patched with the custom kernel
required for the Reform. This service is for the MNT Reform what
raspi.debian.net is for the Raspberry Pi. Many thanks go to the
debian.net team for providing an ARM64 machine that builds the packages
and images and hosts the website. Head over to reform.debian.net[13] for
more information.

[9] https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
[10] https://reform.debian.net/repo/
[11] https://reform.debian.net/images/
[12] https://reform.debian.net/d-i/
[13] https://reform.debian.net

new sparc64 porterbox
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz announced[14] a new porterbox for sparc64; a VM
(LDOM) hosted on a SPARC T4-1 with 96 GB RAM and more than 500 GB disk.
Thanks to Cononva Communications GmbH for sponsoring the hosting in
Salzburg, Austria.

[14]https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/11/msg00086.html


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