TLDR: we are making progress on the Rust implementation of the GNU coreutils.
Well, it is an understatement to say my previous blog post interested many people. Many articles, blog posts and some podcasts talked about it! As we pushed coreutils 0.0.12 a few days ago and getting closer to the 10 000 stars on github, it is now time to give an update!
tldr: Rust/coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ ) is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang. Even if I wrote more than 100 patches to achieve that, it will probably be a bumpy ride for many other use cases.
It is also a terrific project to learn Rust. See the list of good first bugs.
Because of the lock-down in France and thanks to Lucas, I have been able to make some progress rebuilding Debian with clang instead of gcc.
Instead of patching clang itself, I used a different approach this time: patching Debian tools or implementing some workaround to mitigate an issue.
The percentage of packages failing drop from 4.5% to 3.6% (1400 packages to 1110 - on a total of 31014).
As part of the LLVM release cycle, I am continuing rebuilding the Debian archive with clang instead of gcc to evaluate potential regressions.
Processed results are available on the website: https://clang.debian.net/status.php - Now includes some fancy graphs to show the evolution
Raw logs are published on github: https://github.com/opencollab/clang.debian.net/tree/master/logs
tldr: The percentage of failure is decreasing, Clang support is improving but there is a long way to go.
The goal of this initiative is to rebuild Debian using Clang as a compiler instead of gcc. I have been doing this analysis for the last 6 years.
Clang 3.5.0 has just been released. A new rebuild has been done highlight the progress to get Debian built with clang.
tl;dr: Great progress. We decreased from 9.5% to 5.7% of failures. Full results are available on http://clang.debian.net
At time of the rebuild with 3.4.2, we had 2040 packages failing to build with clang. With 3.5.0, this dropped to 1261 packages.
Clang is finally co installable on Debian. 3.4, 3.5 and the current trunk (snapshot) can be installed together.
So, just like gcc, the different version can be called with clang-3.4, clang-3.5 or clang-3.6.
/usr/bin/clang, /usr/bin/clang++, /usr/bin/scan-build and /usr/bin/scan-view are now handled through the llvm-defaults package.
After some downtime due to the identi.ca changes, the Debian Twitter accounts are now back.
New Twitter feed ideas are welcome.
Implemented in bug 853108 by the bmo team, using the tracking flags will automatically updated the comment field with some templates.
The goal is to reduce back and forth in Bugzilla on bug tracking. We also hope that is going to improve our response time.
| Extension | Occurrences |
| js | 10 |
| jsm | 7 |
| java | 7 |
| cpp | 7 |
| html | 6 |
| h | 4 |
| xml | 3 |
| ini | 2 |
| sh | 1 |
| json | 1 |
| css | 1 |
| Module | Occurrences |
| dom | 11 |
| toolkit | 10 |
| mobile | 10 |
| layout | 5 |
| browser | 4 |
| js | 3 |
| content | 2 |
| services | 1 |
| hal | 1 |
| build | 1 |
| Extension | Occurrences |
| cpp | 39 |
| h | 15 |
| js | 8 |
| css | 4 |
| mm | 2 |
| xml | 1 |
| webidl | 1 |
| mozbuild | 1 |
| m4 | 1 |
| jsm | 1 |
| java | 1 |
| ini | 1 |
| html | 1 |
| cc | 1 |
| Module | Occurrences |
| js | 22 |
| content | 13 |
| browser | 9 |
| editor | 6 |
| dom | 6 |
| services | 4 |
| widget | 3 |
| layout | 3 |
| gfx | 3 |
| embedding | 3 |
| build | 2 |
| testing | 1 |
| mobile | 1 |
| media | 1 |
| Extension | Occurrences |
| cpp | 21 |
| html | 16 |
| js | 15 |
| h | 9 |
| css | 8 |
| list | 3 |
| ini | 3 |
| webidl | 2 |
| py | 2 |
| mozbuild | 2 |
| mn | 2 |
| jsm | 2 |
| xul | 1 |
| xml | 1 |
| mm | 1 |
| gypi | 1 |
| build | 1 |
| Module | Occurrences |
| layout | 18 |
| browser | 18 |
| gfx | 13 |
| dom | 11 |
| content | 9 |
| toolkit | 6 |
| media | 3 |
| testing | 2 |
| netwerk | 2 |
| widget | 1 |
| mozglue | 1 |
| modules | 1 |
| mobile | 1 |
| js | 1 |
| ipc | 1 |
| docshell | 1 |
| build | 1 |
| Extension | Occurrences |
| cpp | 6 |
| jsm | 4 |
| js | 4 |
| ini | 3 |
| html | 2 |
| h | 2 |
| xul | 1 |
| txt | 1 |
| nsi | 1 |
| nsh | 1 |
| css | 1 |
| Module | Occurrences |
| browser | 7 |
| dom | 5 |
| content | 4 |
| caps | 4 |
| toolkit | 2 |
| services | 1 |
| netwerk | 1 |
| layout | 1 |
| build | 1 |
List of changesets:
| Shawn Huang | Bug 1000961 - Make DBusReplyHandler use thread-safe ref-counting. r=echou, a=sledru - 306759b08bbf |
| Ryan VanderMeulen | Backed out changeset ccde75e4b1af (Bug 1004152) for Mnw bustage. DONTBUILD - 1c4fdb3d772d |
| Marco Castelluccio | Bug 981085 - Stop using OS.File in apps code. r=fabrice, a=lsblakk - ed09e2b74d14 |
| Marco Castelluccio | Bug 972927 - Re-enable dom/apps tests on b2g. r=RyanVM, a=test-only - 9c41e6f07c3e |
| Marco Castelluccio | Bug 991246 - Fix "aIdsApp is undefined" error in OperatorApps.jsm. r=cjc, a=lsblakk - a3d8c7c4f462 |
| Carmen Jimenez | Bug 992589 - OperatorApps.jsm errors when running with and without Single Variant apps. r=ferjm, a=lsblakk - bbac2a994298 |
| Shane Caraveo | Bug 983481 - Open a post activation landing page. r=markh, a=lsblakk - 315f0fda0470 |
| Timothy Nikkel | Bug 1000423 - Properly convert from appunits/layout device pixels to layer pixels for composition bounds calculation. r=botond, a=lsblakk - d7abd8044d61 |
| Mark Hammond | Bug 1006360 - prevent failures backing up bookmarks from stopping sync completing. r=rnewman, a=sylvestre - d202bb3a79cf |
| Matt Woodrow | Bug 1003707 - Pass surfaces sizes in to CreateSourceSurfaceFromNativeSurface instead of trying to extract it from cairo. r=Bas, a=sledru - 7d945895a6d9 |
| Nicholas Hurley | Bug 1007850 - Don't reset seer if it's not enabled. r=mcmanus, a=sledru - 9c27fdffe6f1 |
| Ryan VanderMeulen | Backed out changeset 7d945895a6d9 (Bug 1003707) for bustage. - eb84c3250ae3 |
| Marco Castelluccio | Bug 915879 - Wait for _writeFile to finish before continuing. r=fabrice, a=lsblakk - c81fd101b5a2 |
| Robert Strong | Bug 1004168 - Add an INI file option to prevent requiring a reboot when there are files in use. r=jmathies, a=lsblakk - afcec252f3b7 |
| Chris Pearce | Bug 1005622 - Reset media queues in Android media seek so that we don't think we're still at EOS after playing to EOS and then seeking. r=edwin, a=sledru - 63b001b6f985 |
| Nathan Froyd | Bug 1009042 - add example.net to server-locations.txt; r=jmaher - 913fb15c7218 |
| Bobby Holley | Bug 995943 - Clean up some silly stuff surrounding prefs in CAPS. r=bz - c1b7c8d03129 |
| Bobby Holley | Bug 995943 - Allow access to file:// URIs from pref-whitelisted sites. r=bz a=lsblakk - 5b3bfd0a529a |
| Edwin Flores | Bug 977089 - Don't pass ID3 headers to GStreamer. r=cpearce, a=lsblakk - e414a4798c7c |
| Gijs Kruitbosch | Bug 1003542 - Remove extra space at bottom of single-item menus in bookmarks menu button panel menus. r=mikedeboer, a=lsblakk - d27918134b3d |
| Extension | Occurrences |
| js | 9 |
| cpp | 8 |
| ini | 4 |
| xul | 3 |
| jsm | 3 |
| h | 3 |
| xml | 2 |
| html | 2 |
| webidl | 1 |
| sh | 1 |
| py | 1 |
| json | 1 |
| Module | Occurrences |
| toolkit | 10 |
| js | 7 |
| dom | 5 |
| browser | 4 |
| testing | 2 |
| image | 2 |
| content | 2 |
| services | 1 |
| netwerk | 1 |
| modules | 1 |
| mobile | 1 |
| layout | 1 |
| gfx | 1 |
29.0.1 fixes the PDF.js bug, a session storage error and a few other issues on Desktop. For mobile, this release fixes an encoding issue, bring back the "Send to tab" feature and a few other minor issues.
| Extension | Occurrences |
| js | 7 |
| txt | 2 |
| ini | 2 |
| cpp | 2 |
| xml | 1 |
| mn | 1 |
| java | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| Extension | Occurrences |
| js | 22 |
| cpp | 10 |
| java | 5 |
| html | 4 |
| xml | 3 |
| jsm | 3 |
| ini | 3 |
| py | 2 |
| xul | 1 |
| list | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| h | 1 |
| css | 1 |
| Module | Occurrences |
| browser | 24 |
| mobile | 8 |
| layout | 6 |
| js | 6 |
| toolkit | 3 |
| testing | 2 |
| mozglue | 2 |
| content | 2 |
| xpcom | 1 |
| intl | 1 |
| dom | 1 |
Last changes for the release. Fortunately, not too much changes. Mostly tests and a last minute top crash fix.
If needed, we might do a build2 but it is not planned.
| Extension | Occurrences |
| js | 8 |
| cpp | 7 |
| h | 4 |
| html | 3 |
| css | 2 |
| py | 1 |
| list | 1 |
| jsm | 1 |
| idl | 1 |
For the last beta for Desktop, this beta is smaller than the previous. This beta mostly fixes the remaining critical bugs including a critical Netflix bug with Silverlight. Some search configuration bugs with Bing and Yahoo have been fixed.
A bigger changelog that I would have liked. However, it is mainly about top crashs, polishing Australis and some sync bugs/improvements.
A few webapp bugs have been also fixed.
| Extension | Occurrences |
| js | 25 |
| css | 13 |
| cpp | 8 |
| xml | 6 |
| jsm | 6 |
| java | 5 |
| xul | 4 |
| ini | 3 |
| mn | 2 |
| html | 2 |
| h | 2 |
| json | 1 |
| inc | 1 |
| c | 1 |
This beta is a bit bigger than the beta6. It fixes some UI bugs, two bugs in the Gamepad API and some top crash bugs like bug 976536 or bug 987248.
| Extension | Occurrences |
| cpp | 21 |
| js | 10 |
| h | 5 |
| css | 4 |
| xul | 1 |
| mn | 1 |
| mk | 1 |
| json | 1 |
| jsm | 1 |
| java | 1 |
| ini | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| build | 1 |