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Apport crash processing now enabled for Maverick

pitti — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:46:06 +0000

The Debian import freeze is settled, the first rush of major changes went into Maverick, and the dust now has settled a bit. Thus it’s time to turn back some attention to crashes and quality in general.

This morning I created maverick chroots for the Apport retracers, and they are currently processing the backlog. I also uploaded a new Apport package which now enables crash reporting by default again.

Happy segfaulting!

PostgreSQL bug fix releases up for testing in Ubuntu

pitti — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:08:29 +0000

PostgreSQL did microrelease updates three weeks ago: 8.4.3, 8.3.10, and 8.1.20 are the ones relevant for Debian/Ubuntu. There haven’t been reports about regressions in Debian or the upstream lists so far, so it’s time to push these into stable releases.

The new releases are in Lucid Beta-2, and hardy/jaunty/karmic-proposed. If you are running PostgreSQL, please upgrade to the proposed versions and give feedback to LP #557408.

Updates for Debian Lenny are prepared as well, and await release team ack.

On a related note, I recently fixed quite a major problem in pg_upgradecluster in postgresql-common 106: It did not copy database-level ACLs and configuration settings (Debian #543506). Fixing this required some reenginering of the upgrade process. It’s all thoroughly test case’d, but practical feedback would be very welcome! Remember, if anything goes wrong, the cluster of the previous version is still intact and untouched, so you can run upgrades as many times as you like and only pg_dropcluster the old one when you’re completely satisfied with the upgrade.

Thanks,

Martin

New PostgreSQL releases need testing

pitti — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:16:40 +0000

Yesterday PostgreSQL released new security/bug fix microreleases 8.4.2, 8.3.9, and 8.1.19, which fix two security issues and a whole bunch of bugs.

Updates for all supported Ubuntu releases are built in the ubuntu-security-proposed PPA. They pass the upstream and postgresql-common test suites, but more testing is heavily appreciated! Please give feedback in bug LP#496923.

Thanks!

New Jockey 0.5 Beta 1 release

pitti — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:18:54 +0000

I just released the first beta release of Jockey 0.5, which fixes a ton of bugs compared to the first Alpha from two weeks ago. Compared to 0.4, it grew quite a lot of new features:

Split program into a privileged system D-BUS backend (access controlled by PolicyKit), and unprivileged frontend. This provides a cleaner design, gets rid of ugly distribution specific hacks and makes the program more portable.
Add support for detecting printers. Add Driver DB implementation for openprinting.org database lookup. Supports package systems “apt”, “urpmi”, and “yum” right now.
New Driver DBs can now added dynamically at run time through a D-BUS call (such as adding an XMLRPC compatible DB on a new server).
Upstream OSLib now uses PackageKit’s “pkcon” for query operations, so that distributions which support packagekit do not need to implement their custom functions for it. (Package installation/removal does not use packagekit yet, due to a bug in dbus-glib, but it is planned).
Provide a session D-BUS interface so that applications like system-config-printer can call Jockey through an abstract interface for looking for a driver for a particular device. This will search for a driver in all databases, ask the user for confirmation, and install it.
Add support for “recommended” driver versions, in case several different versions of a driver are available (which is e. g. the case with the proprietary NVidia driver, or lots of drivers from openprinting.org).
GTK and KDE user interface got some usability and workflow improvements. They also show the license and support status now:
KDE user interface got ported to PyKDE 4:

As of today, 0.5 beta 1 was uploaded to Ubuntu Intrepid, too.