Looking at the sorry state of Python in Debian, makes me wonder if we shouldn’t enforce team maintainance of packages above a certain popularity/importance/whatever threshold. People worked hard in the last months to fix any bugs that would prevent Python2.6 to land in unstable and yet …
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Today’s work: 5 lazy NMUs (thanks again Kumar). Leaves us with only five open python2.6 blockers to fix and a whopping 62 of closed ones.
read morereportbug-ng has localization support again
After having ported reportbug-ng from PyQt3 to PyQt4 over a year ago, reportbug-ng lost it’s localization, since the gettext based translations where incompatible with Qt4’s translation system.
This weekend I finally had the time to have a closer look at this problem. To make a long story short …
read morePython 2.6 Transition
Today I NMUed over a dozen of Python packages with bugs which blocked the Python 2.6 transition.
I really want to thank Kumar Appaiah for his work. He provided patches for all the bugs I NMUed today and lots more. I really did not much more than applying, testing …
read morepython-debianbts 1.0 uploaded to unstable
Today I was working all day on python-debianbts 1.0 and uploaded it to unstable a few minutes ago. This version breaks backwards compatibility with previous versions. I removed lots of unneeded old cruft like the HTMLStripper class needed ages ago when I was still using HTML instead of debbugs …
read morePlease help to complete python-debianbts
I’m currently working on an updated version of python-debianbts a Python interface to Debian’s Bugtracker. The goal is to equip the Bugreport class with all available attributes delivered by the SOAP interface. The problem is, that for some attributes it is not quite clear what data they provide …
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Dear Lazyweb,
I have a simple test application where a TCP/IP server listens for incoming connections, reads the data and closes the connection again and a client which opens connections to the server and sends a package and closes the connection as fast as it can:
The server looks …
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