Android's Calendar app

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5484

Such a basic/important app and such a stupid bug... 3 years and not fixed yet? Seriously? and people claim Android is ready for lambda users?

</rant>

Adding useful links on bugreports pages

I'm a heavy user of Debian's Bug Tracking System (especially during this period of the year ;)) and I quite like it. And as a Debian developer, I have to check multiple sources when looking at some source package. Namely, I mainly check the following sources:

• Packages Tracking System — gives almost all information concerning a source package (maintainer, available versions, number of bugs, etc…)
• Buildd Status Pages — build status for the package on each architecture
• and sometimes Popularity Contest numbers

All this is great since you can move from the first one to the second one (and vice-versa) just by clicking with your mouse. It becomes less handy when you are looking at any bug report. In fact, the BTS doesn't link back to the previously mentioned services [1]. So, you have to copy/paste the name of the package or start a new tab and write down the address of the desired service. All this is not very nice for a lazy person like me :)

A few days ago, I remembered that I was already using GreaseMonkey and thought : "Hey, it would be nice to hack quickly something using GM to add the missing links". After a few tests, I've come up with a (very simple, yet extremely useful to me) user script that I called Debian BTS extra links [2]. It adds what I've been missing for years. If you are lazy and don't want to install right now, you can check the following pages to see what it adds:

• A regular bug report page
• A modified bug report page

The userscript will add links to PTS, Buildd status pages and Popcon near every pkgreport.cgi?src= link. Simple and useful. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do.

Of course, I've submitted a bug (#679282) against the pseudo package bugs.debian.org kindly asking its maintainer to add a link to (for now) the PTS. But I know that they are busy so I'm not expecting a result soon. Fow now, my simple and dumb userscript WFM.

[1] This is partly true since it links back to the PTS on main pages (pages that list all bug reports of a given set of packages).

[2] Only tested with a recent Iceweasel (from experimental) and Chromium (from unstable).

P.S.: If you do wonder, #4300 is the least bug number known to the BTS. Well, or at least, the result of running ls -1 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool/archive/00/ | sort -h | head -n1 on bugs.debian.org.

Au revoir président !

La vidéo la plus regardée du moment :



Ça fait plaisir de respirer de l'air frais :)

I'm going to DebConf 2011

I'm really happy to be able to attend DebConf11. It will be my third DebConf. I hope it will be as productive and enjoyable as past editions :) I'll arrive on July 20th and stay until the end of DebConf.

See you all there soon!

First Tunisian Debian mirror

It seems that Tunisia hosts a new shiny complete Debian mirror since a few days. It's available at http://debian.mirror.tn. It even has all release architectures, which was a good surprise. Possibly, this new mirror will get its ftp.tn.debian.org some day if it implements all the requirements (which are listed here). As far as I know, this is the second complete Debian mirror in Africa. The first one is hosted in South Africa. Algeria hosts a Debian mirror too, but has i386 only. http://debian.mirror.tn had even a complete debian-cd/ directory when I had a look at it last Friday, but it disappeared over the week-end. I do wonder if it will come back at some point. It would make a lot of people happier, in my opinion.

This new mirror is hosted by ATI (Tunisian Internet Agency), a government agency which organizes anything that has something to do with Internet :) (IP addressing, interconnection of ISPs, mail gateways, main registrar of .tn domain extension, …). During Ben Ali's era, they were known for Internet censorship. But, it seems that censorship was controlled directly by the palace. Since the revolution in Tunisia, ATI tried to clean his name and start a "new life".

At the same location, they also host other mirrors among which we can find: Ubuntu, Mozilla, Eclipse, CPAN, Apache and Fedora. So, I think I'm not mistaken to say that there is a real intention to support Free Software. I hope they'll be able to go further and provide hosting for Free Software Clubs/Groups in Tunisia, or even help to organise FOSS events.

Anyway… It's nice to know that I'll have a decent Debian mirror to use this summer from Tunisia :)

The revolution continues… stay tuned!

Aubry en a marre !

Le prochain qui fera un scandale au Parti Socialiste aura affaire à Martine Aubry !

P.S.: Photo trouvée sur le site de 20minutes.fr. Elle montre Martine Aubry donnant le départ de la route du Louvre à Lille, le 15 mai 2011.

Oops!… I did it again

Well, I still don't feel ready enough to go back to (real) work. So, once more, I had to get my fingers on something to hack and I picked the Buildd Status Pages once more. It's not my favorite project, but I decided to implement the few remaining ideas and get (temporarily) done with it. So, here we are with new features (and a few bug fixes):

• Add option to show (co-)maintained packages (Closes: #559515, #507782). It takes as input two files (Maintainers and Uploaders) to find the list of packages. Unfortunately, they contain binary packages (and particularly architecture "all" packages) that wanna-build doesn't know anything about. On buildd.debian.org, I don't have enough data (yet) to filter out that list manually. Ideally, my input should be a list of sources packages with at least one binary non architecture "all" packages only. Anyway… now, if you enter an email address, the script should parse those files looking for your list. Then, it adds a link to DDPO using that email address and replaces it by the list of found packages in the form, so that you can manually filter it.
  Update: I ended up filtering manually the list of packages. I keep only packages that wanna-build knows something about, on at least one architecture.


• Escape special HTML characters when we fetch a log (Closes: #621739). No comment on this one please :) At least, it was very easy to fix.


• Add a "raw" option to fetch.php so that it outputs only what's in the log file, without any processing or escaping.


• Add a link to buildd.debian-ports.org, with the same list of selected packages and suite. Additionally, I've made some changes so that the deployment there becomes a bit easier.


• Try to produce valid XHTML code. I just went through errors I've seen and fixed them. The produced XHTML code is rather simple. So, I don't need a real library for that yet.


• Add support for tail of logs. If your package fails to build on some architecture, the script will show you the last 15 relevant lines below the status table.

In my opinion, this new set of features deprecates totally the old version, since all (and more) is now covered and working with this new version. So, I think we can remove pkg.cgi and friends and put some redirection to the new scripts. If you disagree, please tell us ! I'll submit a bugreport to QA folks asking them to change/remove links still present on the PTS and DDPO.

I think that this is the last set of changes before a while (except fixes). I hope that you'll enjoy these new features as much as I do. If I still have some energy, I'll try to spend it on -release stuff where there are several ongoing transitions (and many others waiting for acks, hints, analysis, etc…).