KDE Snaps, Security updates, Debian Freeze

Posted on February 16, 2023 by sgmoore

Icy morning Witch Wells Az
Icy morning Witch Wells Az

Much like our trees, Debian is now in freeze stage for Bookworm. I am still working on packages locally until development opens up again. My main focus is getting mycroft packages updated to the new fork at https://github.com/orgs/OpenVoiceOS/repositories.

On the KDE Snaps side of things:

My PPA is not going well. There is a problem in Focal here qhelpgenerator-qt5 is a missing dependency, HOWEVER it is there… as shown here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+package/qhelpgenerator-qt5 a fun circular dependency for qtbase. It also builds fine in a focal chroot. I have tried copying packages, source recipe builds, adding another PPA with successful builds, to no avail. My PPA does not seem to use its own packages, or universe for that matter. I have tried all of the dependency settings available and nothing changes. If any of you launchpad experts out there want to help me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated !

This PPA is mandatory for our core20 snaps moving forward, as they currently have no security updates, and I refuse to have my name on security riddled snaps.

As for the kde-neon extension for core22, I have fixed most of the tests and Sergio is wrapping it up, thank you!!!!

I am still looking for work!!! Please reach out if you, or anyone you know is looking for my skill set.

Once again, I ask for you to please consider a donation. We managed to get the bills paid this month ( Big thank you! ) but, March is quickly approaching. The biggest thing is Phone/Internet so I can keep working on things and Job hunt. Thank you so much for your support!

https://gofund.me/a9c36b87

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KDE Snaps, snapcraft, Debian packages.

Posted on February 3, 2023 by sgmoore

Sunset, Witch Wells Arizona
Sunset, Witch Wells Arizona

Another busy week!

In the snap world, I have been busy trying to solve the problem of core20 snaps needing security updates and focal is no longer supported in KDE Neon. So I have created a ppa at https://launchpad.net/~scarlettmoore/+archive/ubuntu/kf5-5.99-focal-updates/+packages

Which of course presents more work, as kf5 5.99.0 requires qt5 5.15.7. Sooo this is a WIP.

Snapcraft kde-neon-extension is moving along as I learn the python ways of formatting, and fixing some issues in my tests.

In the Debian world, I am sad to report Mycroft-AI has gone bust, however the packaging efforts are not in vain as the project has been forked to https://github.com/orgs/OpenVoiceOS/repositories and should be relatively easy to migrate.

I have spent some time verifying the libappimage in buster is NOT vulnerable with CVE-2020-25265 as the code wasn’t introduced yet.

Skanpage, plasma-bigscreen both have source uploads so the can migrate to testing to hopefully make it into bookworm!

As many of you know, I am seeking employment. I am a hard worker, that thrives on learning new things. I am a self starter, knowledge sponge, and eager to be an asset to < insert your company here > !

Meanwhile, as interview processes are much longer than I remember and the industry exploding in layoffs, I am coming up short on living expenses as my unemployment lingers on. Please consider donating to my gofundme. Thank you for your consideration.

I still have a ways to go to cover my bills this month, I will continue with my work until I cannot, I hate asking, but please consider a donation. Thank you!

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KDE Snaps, Debian uploads and much more in the works!

Posted on January 28, 2023 by sgmoore

Witch Wells, AZ Snow
Witch Wells, AZ Snow

It has been a very busy few weeks as we endured snowstorm after snowstorm!

I have made some progress on the Mycroft in debian adventure! This will slow down as we enter freeze for bookworm and there is no way we will make it into bookworm as there are some significant issues to solve.

  • lingua-franco uploaded and accepted
  • pako uploaded and accepted
  • speechpy-fast uploaded
  • fitipy ready to upload

On the KDE side of things:

  • Plasma-bigscreen uploaded and accepted
  • skanpage uploaded and in NEW

In the Snap arena, I have made my first significant contribution to snapcraft upstream! It has been a great learning experience as I convert my Ruby knowledge to Python. Formatting is something I need to get used to!

https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/4023

Snaps have been on hold due to the kde-neon extension not having core22 support and the above pull request fixes that. Meanwhile, I have been working on getting core20 apps ( 22.08.3 final KDE apps version for this base. ) rebuilt for security updates.

As many of you know, I am seeking employment. I am a hard worker, that thrives on learning new things. I am a self starter, knowledge sponge, and eager to be an asset to < insert your company here > !

Meanwhile, as interview processes are much longer than I remember and the industry exploding in layoffs, I am coming up short on living expenses as my unemployment lingers on. Please consider donating to my gofundme. Thank you for your consideration.

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Debian: Coming soon! MycroftAI! KDE snaps update.

Posted on January 8, 2023 by sgmoore

https://mycroft.ai/about-mycroft/

I am excited to announce that I have joined the MycroftAI team in Salsa and working hard to get this packaged up and released in Debian. You can track our progress here:

https://salsa.debian.org/mycroftai-team

Snaps are on temporary hold while we get everything switched over to core22. This includes the neon-extension, that requires merges and store requests to be honored. Hopefully folks are returning from holidays and things will start moving again. Thank you for your patience!

I am still seeking work if you or anyone you know is willing to give me a chance to shine, you won’t regret it, life has leveled out and I am ready to make great things happen! I admit the interviewing process is much more difficult than in years past, any advice here is also appreciated. Thank you for stopping by.

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Debian uploads, Core22 KDE snap content pack and more!

Posted on December 23, 2022 by sgmoore

Sunset, Witch Wells Arizona

I have been quite busy! I have been working on several projects so my cover image is a lovely sunset where I live.

Debian:

I have updated and uploaded several packages and working on more.

  • Umbrello
  • Squashfuse with the help of Scott Moser ( Thanks! )
  • libappimage
  • plasma-bigscreen WIP

KDE Snaps:

I have reworked the CI to now do Core22 snaps! They will publish to the beta channel until we get them tested. First snap completed is the ever important KDE Frameworks / QT content snap + SDK! Applications will start after I tackle the kde-neon extention in snapcraft.

GUI-Testing:

I have begun learning/writing some GUI tests using python and https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi/, inspired by one of my favorite people, Harald. See https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ for more info and I hope to get these in repos near you soon!

In closing, I am still seeking employment/sponsor amidst this terrible layoff season. If anyone knows of anyone with my diverse skill set please let me know.

In the meantime if you can spare anything to keep the lights on I would be ever so grateful.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore

Cash App: $ScarlettMoore0903

Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/28o16y3PHcISfaE8ww

Thank you,

I want to wish everyone a very merry < insert your holiday here > !!!

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Representing KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague

Posted on November 16, 2022 by sgmoore

KDE @ Ubuntu Summit in Prague

First, I would like to send a big Thank you! to Canonical for sponsoring my trip to Prague for the Ubuntu Summit! It was a great success. I saw some great talks and valuable workshops. I now know how to snap our applications the have daemons and services thanks to the Snapping Daemons and Services workshop. Prague itself is an amazing city. Wow. Just wow. I got to see old friends and meet many new ones. I will take away some wonderful memories. Did I mention a river cruise? Yes! It was great fun.

I did a lightning talk with Jonathon and a Snapping Desktop Applications workshop with Olivier. The talk was “lightning” fast! But good practice for my speech giving skills ( a challenge for a shy person such as myself!) The workshop was great presentations of different ways snaps are done for different projects. The audience was smaller than I had hoped ( it was the end of the summit and many folks were wrapping up to leave.) I still left with a feeling of accomplishment.

Snapping Desktop Applications Workshop @ Ubuntu Summit
Snapping Desktop Applications Workshop @ Ubuntu Summit

This week I will apply my new found knowledge and push out some more snaps!

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KDE snaps at Ubuntu Summit 2022, see you in Prague!

Posted on November 1, 2022 by sgmoore

I am pushing out a few more snaps as I prepare for the Ubuntu Summit next week! At the summit I will be co-hosting a snap workshop where I will dissect and explain what goes into snapping KDE apps. I am very excited! Some of the main goals to accomplish while I am there include:

  • Start knocking out our wonderful PIM suite.
  • Sort out apps that want access to system-files and give it to them.
  • Calligra office suite.
  • Access to the neon extention so I may update some issues I am running into.
  • A few apps that require daemon ability ( I believe there is a workshop for this 🙂 )
  • See old friends that I haven’t seen in forever it seems!

Todays releases are as follows:

  • Kig
  • Kreversi
  • Kruler
  • Kshisen
  • Kigo
  • Killbots
  • Kiriki
  • Kiten

Please consider donating! Helps keep the lights on so I can get more Kool software out to you.

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KDE Gear Snaps fixes and new releases

Posted on October 31, 2022 by sgmoore

Another continuation of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-3 ! This week I solved a few more problems.

  • Lokalize: Dictionaries are now available via the hunspell content snap! To enable:

sudo snap install hunspell-dictionaries

sudo snap connect lokalize:hunspell-dictionaries-plug hunspell-dictionaries:hunspell-dictionaries

  • Ktorrent: First time release on both amd64 and arm64! Closes bug 412734
  • Kdenlive: Glaximate animations are now available! Closes bug 459338
Kdenlive with Glaximate animations!
  • Okular
  • Kgeography
  • Kpatience
  • Palapeli: Now launches! Closes bug 426177
  • Krdc: Now on arm64!
  • Kdiamond: Now with sound!

More coming tomorrow!

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KDE Gear snaps round 3!

Posted on October 26, 2022 by sgmoore

First Snow! Witch Wells Arizona

While trying to stay warm in our first snow of the year, I got several apps tested and released in round 3 of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-2/ ! All of these are being ( re ) tested on both arm64 and amd64. Hence, the release is going slower than it will in the future. Thank you for your patience.

  • Kalzium ( again ) Molecule editor works. Known bug downloading molecules. Just go to Home/Documents and rename the file hotsuff-access.xml to themolecule.cml and load molecule as a temporary work around until a permanent fix comes about. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461027
  • Ktuberling
  • Kbounce
  • Kmplot
  • Kbreakout
  • Knavalbattle
  • Kubrick ( Not on chromebook unfortunately, opengl errors need looking into. )
  • Kbruch
  • Knetwalk
  • Kwordquiz
  • Knights ( Sound is fixed! )
  • Kollision
  • Lokalize
  • Kfourinline

More rounds of bug gardening has been done, if you find bugs, or know one of your bugs is related to it being a snap, please assign to me. https://bugs.kde.org

Please consider a donation so I may bring many more apps your way.

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I am working on one time donations.

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KDE Gear Snaps round 2

Posted on October 20, 2022 by sgmoore

As a continuation of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/new-kde-gear-snaps-in-the-works/

Todays releases, tested on both amd64 and arm64, are:

  • Falkon
  • Umbrello
  • Step
  • Kompare
  • Rocs ( First time release on arm! )
  • Kgoldrunner
  • Gwenview

This week has also been a busy week gardening snap bugs in bugs.kde.org. They are all over the place 🙁 I am trying to sort out getting them there own section. I have assigned all snap bugs I have found to myself and requested that this is default. If you have bugs, please report them at bugs.kde.org , for now under neon / Snaps.

More coming next week!

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