Planet Debian
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Russ Allbery: Review: Full Speed to a Crash Landing
Review: Full Speed to a Crash Landing, by Beth Revis
Series: Chaotic Orbits #1 Publisher: DAW Copyright: August 2024 ISBN: 0-7564-1947-6 Format: Kindle Pages: 153 Full Speed to a Crash Landing is a science fiction novella and the first of a series. Beth Revis made the New York
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Emmanuel Kasper: Arm64 Linux Desktop: one year after, all systems up
...So I am using Debian on a System76 Arm64 (aarch64) workstation since 9 months, and I can say: everything works. It should be noted that I use very few proprietary software, so I rely mostly on Debian packages for what I am doing. What I can say is basically all open source software which exists today, takes care to build on aarch64 or is available as a binary, either in the Debian archive, in a Flatpak or Snap, or in a Github Artefact. From
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Jelmer Vernooij: Inquest, a test result repository in Rust
...testrepository
For a long time I’ve used Robert Collins’ testrepository (testr) to run tests in many of the projects I work on. It’s a small, focused tool built around a simple idea: decouple the running of tests from the recording and querying of their results.
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Birger Schacht: Status update, February - April 2026
Due to health reasons I did not have the energy to write individual status updates for February & March, so I’ll just combine them with the April update:
In February I cleaned out my GitHub account and moved all remaining projects to Codeberg. I archived the repositories on GitHub and added links to the new repositories on Codeberg. GitHub is a platform that is more and more frustrating to use. I still have to use it for my dayjob, though. The number of pull requests and issues that are written either by bots or by users that use bots
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Bits from Debian: Debian welcomes the 2026 GSoC interns
We are very excited to announce that Debian has been assigned seven contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code.
Here is a list of the projects and contributors, along with details of the tasks to be performed.
Project: Automated Debian Packaging with debianize
- Contributor: Anurag
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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in April 2026
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: binb 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
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Junichi Uekawa: A rainy day starts May.
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 318 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version
318. This version includes the following changes:[ Chris Lamb ] * Upload to test PyPI integration. * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4. [ Manuel Jacob ] * Remove a misleading comment.You find out more by visiting the project homepage.
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Sergio Cipriano: My experience at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026
My experience at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026
Last week, I spent the entire week in Campinas attending MiniDebConf and MiniDebCamp. The Debian Brazil community organizes this event every year, and this year's edition was the biggest so far.
During MiniDebCamp, I sponsored a few uploads and spent two days teaching packaging to two participants. I usually teach packaging online, so it was refreshing to do it in person. I believe the experience was much better than teaching online.
One of my mentees introduced me to the