Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during May 2018 (previous month):

• My activities as the current Debian Project Leader are covered in my monthly "Bits from the DPL" email to the debian-devel-announce mailing list.
• I gave a talk at the Redis London on the advantages of using Debian packages for the Redis key-value database.
• I also presented at the MiniDebConf in Hamburg, Germany where I gave a talk on the diffoscope tool and was part of a talk providing an update on the Reproducible Builds effort.

Coding-wise, I:

• Created a pull request for the Redis key-value database to appease GCC's "fallthrough" statement detection. [...]
• Opened two PRs against rjb Ruby-Java bridge, first to use javac -h over the deprecated a javah [...] and to correct a minor typo [...].
• Made the following upstream reproducibility-related contributions:
  • Reworked a patch for Fontconfig to make its output reproducible. [...]
  • Opened a pull request for tweeny to make the build reproducible. [...]
  • Opened a PR against Facebook's zstd library to make the build reproducible. [...]
  • Opened a pull request for the vcr.py HTTP mocking library to make its build reproducible. [...]
• Merged and reviewed the following changes in my Django web-development framework libraries:
  • django-autologin (URL-based authentication module): Handle multiple values for a given query parameter. [...]
  • django-enumfield (type-safe enumerations): Support using the enumfield_context outside of views. [...]
• More hacking on the Lintian static analysis tool for Debian packages, including:
  • New features:
    • Emit an error when a package bumps the epoch but the upstream version did not go "backwards". (#889816)
    • Specifically check for override_dh_build. (#900213)
    • Warn about packages that install files under /usr/include with overly-generic filenames. (#898377)
    • Warn about ancient/old X-Python{,3}-Version fields. (#892304)
    • Add scripts and script to the list of overly-generic Python module names. (#897692)
    • Prevent false-positives with comments and newlines when checking debhelper-compat-file-contains-multiple-levels. (#898799)
    • Also warn about the Python 3.x variants of malformed-python-version and python-version-current-is-deprecated. [...]
    • Warn about possibly-complete automatic debug symbol migrations. (#897608)
    • Add a pedantic warning for packages that do not use debhelper or CBDS. (#884499)
    • Add non-HTTPS gnu.org to the list of sites we warn about for homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri. (#898160)
    • Update the Vcs-* checks for PureOS now that code has moved to a GitLab instance.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Update shared object detection for file(1) as newer versions identify shared objects depending on the executable bit (!). (#896840)
    • Allow /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples to be a symlink when checking for packages that ship examples. (#897157)
    • Prevent false-positives when checking debug-package-for-multi-arch-same-pkg-not-coinstallable by ignoring Python "debug" packages. (#900122)
    • Don't warn about binary packages depending on toolchain packages via Conflicts/Breaks relations. (#896133)
    • Only warn about about (eg.) /usr/include/util.h when checking for overly generic header names. (#899192)
    • Correctly warn about packages that re-use a previous version number. (#889991)
    • Correct a default-mta-dependency-not-listed-first false-positive. (#897166)
    • Apply a patch from Ian Jackson to not flag browse.dgit.debian.org.git as a deprecated VCS. (#898708)
    • Support parsing tar(1) archives with high-resolution timestamps. (#898715)
    • Also permit python-scour to satisfy the requirement for the dh-scour addon. (#898077)
    • Also look in a package's dependencies for files listed in a doc-base control file. (#897244)
    • Fix orphaned-package-not-maintained-in-debian-infrastructure false positives for dgit. (#897915)
    • Pass --full-date and --utc to tar to ensure that we get a consistent output in the presence of spaces in other fields. (#897248 & [...])
    • Disable the duplicate word detection in copyright files to their extensive use of headings and other structures. (#897402)
    • Drop depends-on-mail-transport-agent-without-alternatives as it only consists of false-positives. (#898136)
  • Misc:
    • Update references from dep.debian.net to dep-team.pages.debian.net. [...]
    • Rename python-generic-modules data file to generic-python-modules. [...]
    • Update references to the Go and pkg-perl team's homepages for the Alioth to Salsa migration. [...] & [...]
    • Include the offending field name in the output of malformed-python-version and python-version-current-is-deprecated tags. [...]
    • Mark dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life as "experimental" and downgrade to "pedantic" severity. (#897213)
    • Add "DSFG" and "CBDS" spelling corrections. [...] & [...]

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