Debian bits

• I'm now a Debian Maintainer. Yay :)
• New releases of libgda3 and libgnomedb3 were uploaded. On both of them, I've added the Dm-Upload-Allowed, VCS-* and Homepage fields, updated the standards version and fixed FTBFSes on BDFH's dirty chroot, along with some other minor bugfixes.

Hacking on bug-triage

A lot has happened after the Summer of Code has ended, and I haven't been able to work on bug-triage after that, in part due to "Real Life", in part due to laziness. Anyway, I've finally got some time to work a bit on it today. First, I've taken care of Debian's 452918, where the reporter said that using "pending" on bug status meaning open might cause confusion with the pending tag. Actually, pending is the word used internally by debbugs to mean open bugs, and its also what is returned by the debbugs' SOAP interface (bugs tagged pending get the status pending-fixed instead). Anyway, I've just mapped the internal/SOAP debbugs status to the ones used by pkgreport.cgi, that should avoid misunderstandings. While at it, I also took some time to add a feature I've missed while using bug-triage myself: When browsing upstream bugs in search of a match for a Debian bug, it's necessary to read the upstream bug log; now double-clicking on a upstream bug on bug-triage will open it's log on a browser (the same way that selecting a Debian bug and clicking "Go to" in the toolbar works). It's only small changes by now, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to dedicate myself much more to this in the (near) future, but I'll try my best.

mergeant 0.67-1

The newest version of mergeant, a GNOME GUI for database manipulation, has hit the Debian archives earlier this week (hmm... actually last week, as today is sunday). Thanks Loïc for the sponsorship. This version was a minor one, the biggest change being the use of a library to allow the binary to find its resources in different directories on runtime, which was disabled on the Debian package as the user isn't supposed to move its files around anyway. Another change was the migration of the mime data to the newer shared mime/freedesktop style. It took me some time to figure out that I had to install the mime file through dh_installmime to have it add the mime snippets on the maintainer scripts, as dh_installmime is called before dh_install on CDBS (I wonder if there is some reason for the calling order...) Update: I've missed that .sharedmime isn't a list of files to install like, say, .install; it is the file to install itself.

Mergeant 0.66-1

The latest version of mergeant, a GNOME GUI for database manipulation, has finally reached the Debian archives, closing all bugs which were open against the previous one. Thanks, Loïc, for the sponsorship. As a side note, this version of mergeant has got an implicit pointer conversion bug due to missing includes in two different files. This was my first chance to test the bug forwarding feature of the Bug Triaging and Forwarding Tool (my project in Google's Summer of Code 2007). It isn't as comprehensible as I would like due to limitations on bugzilla, but was pretty handy nevertheless.