Presentations of shell commands
Today I was sitting in the plane from Dresden to San Francisco, and worked on my DKMS demo for the Linux Foundation summit. DKMS is a command line tool for managing device driver packages. I wondered...
View ArticleEasier testing for Apport bug patterns
This morning I added a test script to the Apport bug patterns. This finally allows you to reliably test a new bug pattern before you actually commit/push it. You can invoke it with either a .crash...
View ArticleAutomated release tarball upload to Launchpad
I often do upstream releases of my upstream projects that I do on Launchpad, mostly for Apport and jockey. But doing this has been quite tedious until now: You have to go to the project page, pick the...
View Articlelpshell – convenient launchpadlib script
These days I often use launchpadlib in my projects for scripting access/modifications in Launchpad. While launchpadlib has quite a good API documentation, this only covers the method calls, not the...
View ArticleNew tool to check support status of dependencies
A common source of unnoticed depwaits or uninstallability are main packages which introduce new build or binary dependencies from universe. These either require fixing, or filing a main inclusion...
View ArticleNew Apport feature: custom bug duplicate identification
Apport has provided built-in support for automatically identifying and marking duplicate bug reports for normal signal as well as Python crashes. However, we have more kinds of bug reports submitted...
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