Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week, I had the sad duty to discard one snapshot due to a bug that snuck through staging and was only identified later in the full product test suite (systemd 253, restarting some services failed weirdly). But as we know from the past, users prefer no snapshot as opposed […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week we have only published 6 snapshots. One was held back as we identified an issue in one package (libfdisk1) which requires manual intervention (on transactional updates) or an error to be ignored. The problem is in the %postun script of the package, so it’s already ‘on disk’, and […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The weather is unpredictable and here changes from almost spring-like back to winter in a few days. In this world I am happy to have one constant: snapshot delivering 7 snapshots in as many days (0223…0301). Snapshot 0226 has not been announced to the mailing list as it did not […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The week having 7 days is defined. Tumbleweed reaching a daily snapshot is almost as defined. It’s pretty rare to do anything else. No surprise on this front this week when we delivered the 7 snapshots (0216…0222) to the users. The most relevant changes delivered include: Staging projects are mostly […]