Category: Technology
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Moving on with the Debian RC Tracker Bot
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The Debian RC Tracker, my little bot that tracks the number of RC Bugs in the Debian Testing distribution, has been up and running since August. While it has been running mostly without a problem…
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DebConf 20
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This is “Achievement Unlocked” for me. I’ve been using Debian for more than 20 years. During that time, I used it more or less, but ever since first coming into contact with it, all the…
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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…
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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;…
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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…
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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…
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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.…