de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum




Author: fmneto


  • Bugs beware! Return of the Debian Tracker

    Bugs beware! Return of the Debian Tracker

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    A little more than a year ago, I published a series of posts talking about Debian’s release cycle, which was followed by an exercise in how a small python script could be used to track…

  • A perspective going “back to action”

    A perspective going “back to action”

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    Well, here we are again, almost a year after last post. It’s about time we talk about perspective again. At this point, it’s almost a personal tradition to occasionally abandon this blog and come back…

  • Buster Release: the Plan

    Buster Release: the Plan

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    Merely two hours after my last post, Niels Thykier sent an email to debian-devel-announce informing us that Buster’s Release is planned for July 6th (less than a month from now). Personally that makes me happy;…

  • Buster Release: the Forecast

    Buster Release: the Forecast

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    In my last post about Buster I explained how I devised a little Python script that tracks the number of RC Bugs in Debian’s current Testing distribution as a rudimentary way of tracking the progress…

  • The end of The Big Bang Theory

    The end of The Big Bang Theory

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    After twelve years, The Big Bang Theory has come to an end. It has been a journey, like any other, full of highs and lows. The series had its bad moments, but they were vastly…

  • Tracking the Debian Release cycle

    Tracking the Debian Release cycle

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    In my last post I went over how Debian’s release cycle works. In fact, all we can hope for is a planned release date, but even that depends on how things progress during the final…

  • Understanding Debian Releases

    Understanding Debian Releases

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    The cycle of Debian‘s releases is not an usual one. Most Linux distributions follow two paths. Some of them follow a strict periodicity, and we see a new version being released according to that periodicity.…