It's been a difficult time, the last few months, but I've finally got some short updates.
First, in two short weeks I will be gainfully employed again at (UltraSoc) as Senior Software Tester, developing test framework solutions for SoC debugging, including on RISC-V. Despite vast numbers of discussions with a …
more ...I've recently added two packages (and their dependencies) to Debian and thought I'd cover a bit more about why.
black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, has arrived in Debian unstable and testing.
black is being adopted by the LAVA Software Community Project in a gradual way and the new …
First of two posts reproducing some existing content for a wider audience due to delays in removing viewing restrictions on the originals. The first is a bit long... Those familiar with LAVA may choose to skip forward to Core elements of automation support.
A summary of this document was presented …
more ...My original home server rack is being upgraded to use more ARM machines as the infrastructure of the lab itself. I've also moved house, so there is more room for stuff and kit. This has allowed space for a genuine machine room. I will be using that to host test …
more ...I care a lot about free software, not only as a Debian Developer. The use of software as a service matters as well because my principle free software development is on just such a project, licensed under the GNU Affero General …
After a discussion in the cross-toolchain BoF at DebConf16, the gross hack which is packaged as the dpkg-cross binary package and supporting perl module have finally been deprecated, long after multiarch was actually delivered. Various reasons have complicated the final steps for dpkg-cross and there remains …
Prompted by Tollef, moving to Hugo, I investigated a replacement blog engine. The former site used Wordpress which is just overhead - my blog doesn't need to be generated on every view, it doesn't need the security implications of yet another website login and admin interface either.
The blog is static …
more ...With thanks to Iain Learmonth for the hardware, there is now a Debian instance of LAVA available for use and the Debian wiki page has been updated.
LAVA is a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for running tests. Tests can be simple boot …
more ...LXQt is a Qt lightweight desktop - the Qt port of LXDE. Packages exist in Debian - albeit without a top level metapackage or task package to make installing it easier. So I wrote up a simple-ish vmdebootstrap call:
$ sudo vmdebootstrap --image lxqt.img --size=5G --package=lxqt-panel \ --package=libqt5xcbqpa5 --package=qterminal …more ...
Just in case someone else finds these useful, some bash functions I've got into the habit of having in ~/.bashrc:
mcd(){ mkdir "$1"; cd "$1"; }
gum(){ git checkout "$1" && git rebase master && git checkout master; }
gsb() { LIST=`git branch|egrep -v '(release|staging|trusty|playground|stale …
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