Archive of posts from 2009
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Debian kernel team at Linux Plumbers Conference
Most of the Debian kernel team members are attending the Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland over the next 3 days. We'll be discussing kernel packaging and integration issues among ourselves and with upstream and other distributors.~
You may have noticed that Linux 2.6.31 is out but not yet in sid. This kernel version contains a large number of known regressions which should be fixed in subsequent stable updates, so we will wait for those. In the mean time we've uploaded an update to 2.6.30 which should resolve the most serious bugs.
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DebConf 9 videos - progress
Low-bandwidth versions of the recorded talks are now available. There are currently two exceptions:
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DebConf 9 videos
Several people have been asking after the videos. My answer to them is "we release when it's ready".
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Photos from DebConf 9
My photos from DebConf 9. These are all taken with my new digital compact as my film SLR is in need of repair. I'm quite pleased with the results. -
¡Olé!
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Status of firmware in Debian
A question from AJ reminded me that I haven't said much about the changes to packaging of firmware in Debian, and in particular the separation of non-free firmware from the Linux kernel.
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DebConf
I'll be involved in the video team again.
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Python relicencing
One of the more interesting talks at last week's PyCon was on the new Python licence.
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Busy at PyCon
This week I'm at PyCon in Chicago, helping to train and supervise the A/V team in recording the tutorials and talks. We have a lot of inexperienced volunteers but they're learning quickly. Carl Karsten (in charge of A/V) and Ryan Verner (another outsider with long experience from LCA) are organising things. Ryan, Dave Noble and I provide technical assistance to the rest of the team.
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Going to PyCon
I'm going to
Carl Karsten of the PyCon organisers recruited three of us from the DebConf video team to lead and train the video team at PyCon.
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Searching for invalid object code
Jérémy Bobbio suggested that I should explain how I looked for packages affected by a compiler bug (Debian bug 506713; gcc bug 38287). I don't claim that this is a particularly good way to do it, but here it is: