Fri, 05 Nov 2010
Release Critical Bug report for Week 44
The bug webinterface of the Universal Debian Database currently knows about the following release critical bugs:
| In Total: | 664 |
|---|---|
| Affecting Squeeze: | 261 |
| Squeeze only: | 60 |
| Remaining to be fixed in Squeeze: | 201 |
Of these 201 bugs, the following tags are set:
| Pending in Squeeze: | 8 |
|---|---|
| Patched in Squeeze: | 34 |
| Duplicates in Squeeze: | 22 |
| Can be fixed in a security Update: | 12 |
| Contrib or non-free in Squeeze: | 8 |
| Otherwise fixed in Squeeze: | 21 |
Ignoring all the above (multiple tags possible), 127
bugs need to be fixed by Debian Contributors to get Debian 6.0 Squeeze
released.
However, with the view of the Release Managers, 160 need to be dealt with for the release to happen.
Please see Interpreting the
release critical bug statistics
for an explanation of the different numbers.
postet at 13:01 into [Debian/rc-stats/6.0-squeeze] permanent link
Fri, 29 Oct 2010
Release Critical Bug report for Week 43
The bug webinterface of the Universal Debian Database currently knows about the following release critical bugs:
| In Total: | 695 |
|---|---|
| Affecting Squeeze: | 284 |
| Squeeze only: | 71 |
| Remaining to be fixed in Squeeze: | 213 |
Of these 213 bugs, the following tags are set:
| Pending in Squeeze: | 7 |
|---|---|
| Patched in Squeeze: | 40 |
| Duplicates in Squeeze: | 24 |
| Can be fixed in a security Update: | 14 |
| Contrib or non-free in Squeeze: | 7 |
| Otherwise fixed in Squeeze: | 32 |
Ignoring all the above (multiple tags possible), 126
bugs need to be fixed by Debian Contributors to get Debian 6.0 Squeeze
released.
However, with the view of the Release Managers, 169 need to be dealt with for the release to happen.
Please see Interpreting the
release critical bug statistics
for an explanation of the different numbers.
postet at 13:02 into [Debian/rc-stats/6.0-squeeze] permanent link
Wed, 27 Oct 2010
A big thank you
to those involved in power management development
A couple of month ago, my step-father-in-law encountered quite some
problems with the Windows installation on his Notebook and therefore
showed a great interest in dem Linux da
. So we installed him a
Debian in a dual-boot setting.
It was interesting to see how a basic school teacher (who is technical interested, but has no deeper technical knowledge of computers) worked with Linux, what problems he found, and how he solved them. But a big obstacle for him to work more or less entirely with Linux has always been power management problems with his notebook. To be more precise: While it was always possible to send his notebook into suspend or hibernate, it was also always impossible to wake the notebook up again. It seems that the (non-free but needed) NVidia driver was a part of the problem.
Last weekend we again tried to solve the problem by installing the latest backported kernel and updating the NVidia driver, but failed again. So we decided, that with the squeeze being frozen for quite some time, it would be safe to upgrade his Notebook to that system.
And believe it or not: It works! We can suspend the notebook without any problems and it will wake up again! And to his (and our) special delight waking the notebook up is a lot faster, than it used to be with his Windows (Vista?) installation. Not to mention that for some reason a suspended Linux-System seems to consume less power (he lend some kind of energy consumption measuring device from his power company to track energy saving potential, and while playing around, we also measured his notebook), than the suspended Windows on the very same system!
I don't know why, but finally the installation of dem Linux da
was a complete success :) So kudos to those who worked on that area :)
postet at 15:23 into [Debian] permanent link
(Delayed) Release Critical Bug report for Week 42
The bug webinterface of the Universal Debian Database currently knows about the following release critical bugs:
| In Total: | 700 |
|---|---|
| Affecting Squeeze: | 291 |
| Squeeze only: | 72 |
| Remaining to be fixed in Squeeze: | 219 |
Of these 219 bugs, the following tags are set:
| Pending in Squeeze: | 16 |
|---|---|
| Patched in Squeeze: | 44 |
| Duplicates in Squeeze: | 24 |
| Can be fixed in a security Update: | 15 |
| Contrib or non-free in Squeeze: | 8 |
| Otherwise fixed in Squeeze: | 27 |
Ignoring all the above (multiple tags possible), 125
bugs need to be fixed by Debian Contributors to get Debian 6.0
Squeeze
released.
However, with the view of the Release Managers, 173 need to be dealt with for the release to happen.
Please see Interpreting the
release critical bug statistics
for an explanation of the different numbers.
Connection to alioth.debian.org closed.
PS: Due to an unscheduled downtime, last weeks statistics have not been published. But better late than never, here are the current statistics.
postet at 10:51 into [Debian/rc-stats/6.0-squeeze] permanent link
Tue, 19 Oct 2010
Recent RC-Bug activity
Well, recently I didn't had that much time to squash RC bugs , too.. In the entire October I got the following things done:
- Fixed bug #595313 -- An installation problem with nagvis
- Fixed bug #598614 -- A FTBFS by
inactivity
timeout on mips simply by not building arch independent data - Fixed bugs #567770 and #572465 -- one FTBFS and one upgrade problem with enlightment; well... strictly speaking... The upgrade problem was a result of my previous NMU if that package, and the FTBFS was a trivial change of the build-depends (for which someone already submitted a patch).
- Commented on #591118 -- An unreproducible FTBFS under certain circumstances, no one could exactly find out so far; but at least I could help to verify that the problem has disappeared with the package in experimental
Hui, it seems I haven't done that much. But I think my examples shows, that there are still some very easy bugs left to be squashed or at least comment.
postet at 11:18 into [Debian] permanent link