Holger Levsen

Debian LTS, the good, the bad and the better

Started in late 2014, Debian LTS exists and has provided additional security support for the Squeeze, Wheezy and Jessie releases. LTS support for Stretch is also planned.

In this BoF we want to briefly explain how LTS is done, how you can support it, either finanically or by volunteer work and provide a venue for discussions how to improve it.

The targetted audience for this talk is everyone, user, contributor, sysadmin, sponsor, you. Though of course due to the subjects being discussed this will be a quite technical discussion.

Reproducible Builds - aiming for bullseye

The goal of this talk is to give the whole Debian community an update on the state of Reproducible Builds in Debian and in the whole free software world as well as to explain what we are aiming for the bullseye release.

It’s been 6 years since Reproducible Builds were first introduced to the Debian community at large at DebConf13 in Vaumarcus and much progress has been achieved since, yet the buster release has not really achieved reproducible builds.

In this talk we will explain the current status, explain what’s missing and hopefully present workable ideas how to improve things for bullseye.

i'm (a bit) sick of maintaining piuparts.debian.org (mostly) alone, please help

Since more than ten years I have been maintaining (what has become) piuparts.debian.org mostly by myself, with some notable help by DSA hosting stuff and Andreas Beckmann providing patches and filing (lots of very valuable RC) bugs. There also have been many people who have submitted bugs and patches, for which I’m very thankful too.

But, the everyday maintenance of the piuparts.debian.org service is on my shoulders, I’m deploying changes and I’m deciding what code to merge and deploy. This works nicely but has become boring and tedious too.

Recently I have asked for i386 piuparts-slaves to be provided by DSA. DSA replied (on irc, there’s no reply on https://rt.debian.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6787 ) that they would prefer if those systems were not maintained by DSA but by the piuparts.d.o maintainers which is largely/only me. (And don’t get me wrong, I ♥ DSA, this is just an example where I feel I cannot commit to do more permanent maintenance work on p.d.o…)

I’d like piuparts.d.o to be extended to other architectures and whatnot, also to use piuparts for release.d.o even more, but, I also like this to be long term sustainable.

This is like my 3rd or 4th attempt to improve this situation, I’m curious for the DebConf19 edittion ;)

Disclaimer for readers in the future: of course this talk description is exaggerated, born out exhaustion and frustration. It’s is a lame attempt to get more people involved. A non-lame attempt would focus more on the fun sides and the joys of being (partly) responsible that Debian lives up to the high quality standards it’s known for. Hopefully $you will be proposing this talk for DebConf20 or 21! It’s a bit more work than such a lame attempt but it’s totally worth it! Carry the piuparts torch into the next decade!

MiniDebConf2020 in Deutschland

Get-together to discuss if, how, when and where to possibly have a MiniDebconf 2020 in Germany.