fabre.debian.net is sponsored by FOSSHOST

PlanetDebian

Today, we are pleased to announce that fabre.debian.net has migrated to FOSSHOST

FOSSHOST provides us a VPS instance which is located at OSU Open Source Lab. It improves a lack of enough server resources then service availability especially.

About fabre.debian.net

fabre.debian.net is a experimental service to demonstrate how to improve user experience with finding and fixing Debian unstable related bugs for making "unstable life" comfortable.

Thank FOSSHOST for sponsoring,

Use external E-mail server for debian.net subdomain with Sakura Mailbox service

PlanetDebian

If you want to set up debian.net subdomain, you may setup E-mail server on your own. But if there is not afford to setup it by yourself, you need external E-mail server.

In this article, I'll explain how to use external mailbox service - Sakura Mailbox service.

Prerequisite

  • Owner of debian.net subdomain (fabre.debian.net)
  • Have an account of Sakura mailbox service

www.sakura.ne.jp

I've chosen Sakura mailbox service because of maintainance cost (87yen/month)

Configure dnsZoneEntry

Set dnZoneEntry, it means that gpg --clearsign and send to changes@db.debian.org. Here is an example for fabre.debian.net.

fabre IN A 140.227.125.189
mail.fabre IN A 49.212.207.226
fabre IN MX 10 mail.fabre.debian.net.

140.227.125.189 is Web server (https://fabre.debian.net) and 49.212.207.226 is E-mail server (Sakura mailbox service) for my case.

Note that It varies for your case.

DebianDotNet - Debian Wiki

Configure Sakura mailbox service

Set fabre.debian.net subdomain without transfer in Domain/SSL menu. Then create each account for @fabre.debian.net. After a while, you can use xxx@fabre.debian.net E-mail account. Yay!

My Free Software Activities in December 2020

ハイライトとしてはcollectdのLuaプラグインを6.0向けに対応したあたりだろうか。

Say Good-Bye and Thanks hal-flash

PlanetDebian Debian

Today, hal-flash package was removed from Debian unstable.

hal-flash is wrapper library for HAL which is not used nowadays. At that time, HAL was required because Adobe Primetime DRM uses libadobecp, but HAL was already replaced to udev or udisks. So we need emulation layer for HAL. hal-flash was it for such a purpose. (At least, hal-flash is required to play hulu.jp movies which uses Adobe DRM)

hal-flash package was already orphaned years ago, and removed from unstable now.

O: hal-flash -- Compatibility library to allow playback of Flash DRM content

Thanks hal-flash package!

My Free Software Activities in November 2020

今月はfabre.debian.netを使えるようになったのがハイライト。

Introduction about recent debexpo (mentors.debian.net)

PlanetDebian

I've make a presentation about "How to hack debexpo (mentors.debian.net)" at Tokyo Debian (local Debian meeting) 21, November 2020.

Here is the agenda about presentation.

  • What is mentors.debian.net
  • How to setup debexpo development environment
  • One example to hack debexpo (Showing "In Debian" flag)

The presentation slide is published at Rabbit Slide Show (Written in Japanese)

I hope that more people will be involved to hack debexpo!

debexpo: adding "Already in Debian" field for packages list

PlanetDebian

I've sent a merge request to show "Already in Debian" column in packages list on mentors.debian.net.

salsa.debian.org

At first, I've used Emoji, but for consistency, it has been modified to use "Yes or No".

This feature is not fully merged yet, but it may be useful to distinguish "This package is already in Debian or not" for sponsor.

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Aready in Debian