Martin Pitt

We currently use completely different methods and tools of building test beds and running tests for Debian vs.

Hot on the heels of my previous annoucement of my systemd PPA for trusty, I’m now happy to announce that the latest systemd 204-10ubuntu1 just landed in Utopic, after sorting out enough of the current uninstallability in -proposed.

On the last UDS we talked about migrating from upstart to systemd to boot Ubuntu, after Mark announced that Ubuntu will follow Debian in that regard.

Our current autopkgtest machinery uses Jenkins (a private and a public one) and lots of “rsync state files between hosts”, both of which have reached a state where they fall over far too often.

Today’s autopilot release provides a new feature for test case writers.

The current default D-BUS configuration (at least on Ubuntu) disallows monitoring method calls on the system D-BUS (dbus-monitor --system), which makes debugging rather cumbersome; this has worked years ago, but apparently got changed for security reasons.

I recently created a test for digicam photo import for Shotwell (using autopilot and umockdev), and made that run as an autopkgtest.

umockdev 0.3 introduced the notion of an “umockdev script”, i. e. recording the read()s and write()s that happen on a device node such as ttyUSB0.

I’m happy to announce a new release 0.3 of umockdev.

While GNOME as a whole does not have a planned 3.8.3 release, I got some requests to do a new stable release of PyGObject with some important bug fixes, so here it is: version 3.8.3.

I was asked to pour some love over autopilot-gtk, a GTK module to provide introspection of widget states to Autopilot.

I released umockdev 0.2.6.

You can now start translating Ubuntu Saucy on Launchpad.

I did a 0.2.2 maintenance release for umockdev to fix building with Vala 0.16.1, gcc 4.8 (the changed sizeof behaviour caused segfaults), and current udev releases (umockdev-record stumbled over the new “link priority” fields of udevadm).

Time for the first PyGObject release for GNOME 3.9.x!

Paul Wise poked me this morning about uploading fatrace (“file access trace”, see the original announcement for details) to Debian, thanks for the reminder!

PostgreSQL just released security updates. 9.1 (as found in Debian testing and unstable and Ubuntu 11.10 and later) is affected by a critical remote vulnerability which potentially allows anyone who can access the TCP port (without credentials) to corrupt…

I just pushed out a new python-dbusmock release 0.6.

I just released a new PyGObject for GNOME 3.7.92.

I just found out that PyGObject 3.7.91 as released yesterday breaks GEdit plugins.

Many libraries build a GObject introspection repository (*.gir) these days which allows the library to be used from many scripting (Python, JavaScript, Perl, etc.) and other (e. g.

I just released a new PyGObject for GNOME 3.7.91.

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s big 0.2 release, I pushed out umockdev 0.2.1 with a couple of bug fixes: umockdev-wrapper: Use exec to avoid keeping the shell process around and make killing the subprogram from outside work properly.

I just released umockdev 0.2.

I just released a new PyGObject for GNOME 3.7.90, with a nice set of bug fixes and some internal code cleanup.

What is this?

I just released a new PyGObject for GNOME 3.7.5.

I just released a new PyGObject, for GNOME 3.7.4 which is due on Wednesday.

I just released a new PyGObject, for GNOME 3.7.3 which is due on Wednesday.

When writing system integration tests it often happens that I want to mount some tmpfses over directories like /etc/postgresql/ or /home, and run the whole script with an unshared mount namespace so that (1) it does not interfere with the real system, and…

I just released Apport 2.7.

just released a new PyGObject, for GNOME 3.7.2 which is due on Wednesday.

With python-dbusmock you can provide mocks for arbitrary D-BUS services for your test suites or if you want to reproduce a bug.

I just released PyGObject 3.4.2, a bug fix release for GNOME 3.6.2.

A few days ago Olav Vitters announced the GNOME 3.8 goal of porting to Python 3.

For writing tests for GVFS (current tests, proposed improvements) I want to run Samba as normal user, so that we can test gvfs’ smb backend without root privileges and thus can run them safely and conveniently in a “make check” environment for developers…

I just released PyGObject 3.4.1, in time for the GNOME 3.6.1 release on Wednesday.

I found it surprisingly hard to determine in tearDown() whether or not the test that currently ran succeeded or not.

I was working on writing tests for gnome-settings-daemon a week or so ago, and finally got blocked on being unable to set up upower/ConsoleKit/etc. the way I need them.

I just released PyGObject 3.3.92, for GNOME 3.5.92.

PostgreSQL 9.2 has just been released, after a series of betas and a release candidate.

I just released PyGObject 3.3.91, for GNOME 3.5.91.

The unstoppable PostgreSQL team just announced the first release candidate of 9.2, with several bug fixes since the Beta 4.

I just released Apport 2.5 with a bunch of new features and some bug fixes.

I just released PyGObject 3.3.90, for GNOME 3.5.90.

Yesterday, GUADEC hosted a PyGObject hackfest.

I have had the pleasure of attending GUADEC in full this year.

I started to collect some easy PyGObject bugs which are appropriate for the PyGObject hackfest at GUADEC on July 30th.

I released PyGObject 3.3.4.

I just received confirmation that my request for a PyGObject hackfest has been approved by the GUADEC organizers.