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Birger Schacht: Status update, May 2026

Planet Debian [Unofficial] June 5, 2026
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Debian Related Work

  • Uploaded labwc 0.9.7-1 to unstable; labwc 0.20 was released upstream since then, but it requires wlroots 0.20.1 which has not landed in Debian yet
  • Uploaded usbguard 1.1.4+ds-3 & 1.1.4+ds-4: cleaned up the packaging and fixed some long standing issues with the configuration; the legacy permission system isn’t the default anymore
  • Uploaded foot 1.27.0-1 to unstable
  • Uploaded scdoc 1.11.4-2 to unstable
  • Uploaded cage 0.3.0-2 to unstable
  • Uploaded sway 1.12~rc3-2 to unstable; on the same day sway 1.12 was released and I uploaded 1.12-1 to unstable
  • Uploaded swayimg 5.2-1 to unstable
  • Uploaded git-quick-stats 2.11.0-1 to unstable
  • Uploaded grim 1.5.0+ds-1 to unstable

DH Related Work

A big chunk of my DH related work went into designing & implementing a search app for the APIS framework. Our goal is to have a way of searching over various types of Django models. The app introduces a search model that indexes all registered models. We use a combination of PostgreSQLs full text search and Trigram Similarity to find the search results. Using a SearchVectorField and GinIndices for the trigram indexed fields we can reach a somewhat acceptable performance.

We released versions 0.63 and 0.64 of the APIS framework. The 0.63 release introduced the new entities app, which will soon hopefully replace the legacy apis_entities & apis_metainfo modules. Version 0.64 moved some logic from the legacy modules the entities module.

We made some progress in defining the endpoints for the PFP API.

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