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[[Image:Debianelitism.jpg|right|thumb|Would you like some fries with that elitism?]]

It's the bees' knees. It's the wasps' nipples (though as of 2019, I have actually started using [[Arch]] on one of my laptops).
* Things I do to a new [[Debian Unstable|Unstable (sid) box]]
* [[Packages by Purpose]]
* (Some) [http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting DBTS] bugs filed by me, and their resolutions:
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076010 #1076010], regressions using babel+hebrew in luatex
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990798 #990798], switch to new '''libsixel''' fork (''provided patch'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989525 #989525], '''kbd''' references obsolete man page disalloc.8 (''provided patch'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965029 #965029], '''console-setup''' fonts missing unicode->fidx mappings for box-drawing (''provided patch'', ''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962969 #962969], '''lsb_release''' references non-existent lsb(8)
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958066 #958066], '''devscripts''' mk-origtargz fails silently with bad Files-Excluded line
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951748 #951748], '''dh-python''' subst emission results in dpkg-gencontrol warning in absence of deprecated field (''provided patch'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926743 #926743], '''fetchmail''' can't find invoke-rc.d (''provided patch'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925443 #925443], '''dovecot-core''' refers to deprecated /var/run (''provided patch'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924585 #924585], '''memcached''' refers to deprecated /var/run (''provided patch'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924585 #924584], '''memcached''' new version 1.5.12 available
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920308 #920308], '''compiz-core''' test is inverted in compiz-decorator (''provided patch'', ''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917581 #917581], '''nlohmann-json3''' new version 3.4.0 available (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904587 #904587], '''libconfig-dev''' missing CMake support
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845066 #845066], '''libmsgpack-dev''' new 2.0.0 available (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839767 #839767], '''ncmpcpp''' needs rebuild against new libtag (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801657 #801657], '''libdevmapper-dev''' don't expose librt dep (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801430 #801430], '''aptitude''' segfault on dependency loop (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700200 #700200], '''debhelper''' incomplete Depends lists due to deprecated find(1) usage (''provided patch'', ''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554901 #554901], '''[[glibc|eglibc]]''' is missing const casts in CPU_ISSET() (''provided patch'', ''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553298 #553298], '''libcpuset''' drops core if an empty [[Cpuset|cgroup/cpuset]] fs is mounted
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552260 #552260], '''kernel-package''' with <tt>install_vmlinux</tt> set + grub2 == unbootable entries
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533362 #533362], '''ia32-libs''' uninstallable against [[glibc|libc6]] 2.9-15 (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533360 #533360], '''[[glibc|libc6]]''' 2.9-15 broke [[Linux APIs|signalfd]] creation with SFD_* flags (''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530154 #530154], '''bugz''' doesn't provide a man page
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509499 #509499], '''strace''' doesn't match [[Linux APIs|sendfile(2)]] properly (''provided patch'', ''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471111 #471111], '''[[mpd]]''' isn't shut down properly
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469937 #469937], '''statsvn''' has problems with filenames containing spaces (''fixed upstream'', ''resolved'')
** [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469601 #469601], '''nut-hal-drivers''' locks up on post-install

Bug#585771
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Bug#520872
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Bug#703366
Bug#704298
Bug#704554
Bug#722632
Bug#722726
Bug#787638
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Bug#801488

==Debian Developer==
I'd like to become a [https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php Debian Developer]. ITP ideas:
* [[notcurses]] ([https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950492 in!])
* [[Growlight]] (in!)
* the [[SSHFP|sshfp]] program, maintained by [http://www.xelerance.com/software/sshfp/ Xelerance]
** someone else got this, but now it appears to be orphaned...hrmmm
* Florian Amrhein's [http://amrhein.eu/newsportal/ newsportal] NNTP-to-HTTP gateway
* Rice University's [http://hpctoolkit.org/ HPCToolkit]
* HP+MIT's [http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/dynamorio/ DynamoRIO]
* [[Omphalos]]

<b>update: I became a Debian Developer 2022-03-24.</b>

==Building kernels==
Up until the addition of a <tt>deb-pkg</tt> (and <tt>bindeb-pkg</tt>) target to the kernel [[Make|Makefile]] in 2004, the <tt>make-kpkg</tt> tool from <tt>kernel-package</tt> was the recommended way to build a Debian kernel package. This is now deprecated, and <tt>make deb-pkg</tt> (using an unmodified kernel tree) ought be used going forward.

To specify the package version on the command line, use e.g. <tt>KDEB_PKGVERSION=$(make kernelversion)-2</tt>.


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