Posted by Eriberto on set 18, 2016 in
Debian
In the last week I played a bit with UDD (Ultimate Debian Database). After some experiments I did a script to generate a daily report about source packages in Debian. This report is useful to choose a package that needs help. The daily report has six sections: Sources in Debian Sid (including orphan) Sources in […]
Tags:.deb, debhelper, Debian, empacotamento, NMU, packaging, pacote, Planet en, QA, Sid, UDD, Ultimate Debian Database, unstable
Posted by Eriberto on ago 18, 2016 in
Debian,
Sistema Operacional
Since GPG 2 was set as default for Debian (Sid, August 2016), an error message appeared inside jails triggered by chroot, when using debuild/debsign commands: clearsign failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device The problem is that GPG 2 uses a dialog window to ask for a passphrase. This dialog window needs a tty (from /dev/pts/ directory). […]
Tags:.deb, chroot, clearsign, Debian, debsign, debuild, devpts, empacotamento, GnuPG, GnuPG2, GPG, gpg2, ioctl, packaging, pacote, Planet en, tty
Posted by Eriberto on set 7, 2015 in
Debian
UPDATE: this post was originally published on Sep. 7, 2015. I did a full review on Sep. 5, 2017. This revision is full compliant with Debian 9 and dpkg 1.18.13 or latter. Implementing the hardening When packaging in Debian, is very common to see some lintian messages as ‘hardening-no-relro‘ and ‘hardening-no-fortify-functions‘ in softwares written in […]
Tags:blhc, CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, debhelper, Debian, dpkg, empacotamento, G++, GCC, hardening, hardening-no-fortify-functions, hardening-no-relro, LDFLAGS, Linux, packaging, pacote, Planet en
Posted by Eriberto on out 7, 2013 in
Debian,
Sistema Operacional
Short URL: http://bit.ly/debian_watch Updates: 2021-08-26: Updated the output of the watch command to a new format. 2016-10-16: Added a section about ‘fake watches’. Changed all versions from ‘version=3’ to ‘version=4’. 2015-08-25: Added a section about ‘merging uversionmangle and dversionmangle’. Writing a good watch file for a Debian package is simple. However, several maintainers don’t know […]
Tags:compose, debhelper, Debian, debian/watch, dversionmangle, empacotamento, Github, Google pages, Jessie, Linux, manual, mentors, newbie, packaging, pacote, Planet en, Sid, Squeeze, tips, tutorial, uversionmangle, watch, watch.ex, Wheezy
Posted by Eriberto on maio 9, 2013 in
Debian,
Linux,
Sistema Operacional
Lintian is a system that checks the Debian Policy when debhelper is building a package in Debian. Lintian has several verification levels. By default, some are used. However, you can refine it via config file. It’s a common error to use the default setting and submit packages with hidden problems to mentors. To activate all […]
Tags:check, debhelper, Debian, dh_lintian, empacotamento, errors, Jessie, lintian, Linux, mentors, package, packaging, pacote, pedantic, Planet en, Sid, sponsor, tip, warning, Wheezy
Posted by Eriberto on ago 11, 2009 in
Debian,
Sistema Operacional
Aos interessados, acabo de atualizar o meu guia de empacotamento para a versão 1.8. http://www.eriberto.pro.br/debian
Tags:.deb, debhelper, Debian, empacotamento, eventos, guia, Lenny, packaging, pacote, pacotes, palestras