Igor's blog

Yesterday I put the new features for ddpo in a test environment. The new features are:

• better show the sections that are expandable/collapsable;
• give the possibility to show/hide some columns and store the settings in a cookie;
• give the possibility to override the display settings by providing extra url args.

After some feedbacks, I decided to put it in production environment today and announce to all the new version

Feedbacks are welcome

Since the last entry, I worked on ddpo again and added more features:

• provide popcon information for the source package;
• add watch information provided by http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/. All this work was done by Stefano Fabri Kudos to him :);
• extract Watch information from version because it is not as important as version information is;
• reorganize columns by importance order;
• give the possibility to dynamically hide/show help and genral information;
• provide information about wnpp entries for every maintainer.

This was quite some work But it seems that the users are happy

Yestarday and today I work on a feature that permit the user to hide the columns he want to hide and keep the settings in a cookie
You can check it for the moment (before the big commit) here

Feedbacks are welcome

Today we had a strange problem when generating bts-unreproducible.html just after I changed templates to provide utf-8 charset (what a coincidence... :)) Martin Michmayr alert me and I spent the afternoon to undertstand the problem and to fix it.

One bug have a title that could b interpreted by wml. Gasp ! The guilty is #260758
[INTL:tr] Wrong symbol conversion when console is in ASCII mode

The fix is to protect on wml pass 9 the $subject variable:
- printf "<A HREF = \"http://bugs.debian.org/$bugid\">#$bugid</A>: $subject\n";
+ printf "<A HREF = \"http://bugs.debian.org/$bugid\">#$bugid</A>: <protect pass=9>$subject</protect>\n";

I think a wml guru should have found it within few minutes...

With the latest changes I applied to developer.php the displayed data are full UTF-8
Look at an example Ondřej Surý page

Yeah, «Ça commence a ressembler à quelque chose» (private joke)

I'm definitively not a good developer

I need to think before "coding" (coding is a great word ! ) Using a regex instead of basically searching for a substring is really bad. I need to patch once again the ddpo backend.

Moreover, I mailed Ben Burton about the Kexi packaging. As he is the koffice maintainer and kexi will be fully part of koffice, I need to know if he wish to have a look at the packging I did.

Gasp, my regex are not as good as I wanted. All the revoked or expired keys where not considered as they need to be.

A small fix for that:
- reg21 = re.compile(r'0x(\w{16})">', re.I)
+ reg21 = re.compile(r'^pub.+0x(\w{16})">', re.I)

So stupid bug.

I found some time to work on DDPO

I rewrited all the gpg key gathering from external keyserver and added a reference to the excelent excuses parsing url written by Björn Stenberg

Check it now !

I'm interested in packaging kexi. I did some work and produced a snapshot. You can test it by adding
deb http://genibel.org/packages/ ./
deb-src http://genibel.org/packages/ ./

to you sources.list

I woke up quite late today, I watched with Céline (my wife) Master and Commander. Quite good film, without real script but very beautiful scenes

I'have decided to log my different activities in order to let you know who is behind igor !

Nothing to say today but I'm really busy at work...