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Amin Bandali: Free software activities in August 2025

Welcome to my first free software activities report, a monthly series
in which I aim to summarize my activities in the free software
projects and communities I participate in.

GNU & FSF

  • EmacsConf: I submitted a proposal to talk about reading and writing
    emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus     for EmacsConf 2025. This year marks
    the 10th anniversary of my involvement in EmacsConf, but I’ve yet to
    give a talk at the conference, so I thought it would be nice to try
    and change that. I’m happy that my proposed talk has been accepted
    by my fellow organizers and volunteers who review the proposals.
  • GNU Spotlight: I prepared and sent the August edition of the monthly
    GNU Spotlight to the FSF campaigns team, who will review and publish
    it on the FSF’s community blog and as part of the next issue of the
    monthly Free Software Supporter newsletter.

Debian

  • #1070268: I recently noticed that the recutils package is missing
    in the latest release of Debian, Trixie. Indeed, recutils’ page on
    the tracker shows that it was removed from testing last year due to
    FTBFS bug #1066370, and its maintainer requested it be adopted by
    someone else in this bug. This is unfortunate, because there are
    other pieces of software (including other GNU packages) that rely on
    recutils, and the GNU Project also uses recutils extensively for
    various record-keeping purposes.

    So I reached out to the package’s former maintainer Sven Wick, who
    gave their kind blessing for me to adopt it. I’ve adopted recutils
    in Debian with an upload that also addresses the FTBFS bug.

    Many thanks, Sven, for your years of work packaging and maintaining
    recutils in Debian!

  • #1066370: Fixed FTBFS bug in recutils and uploaded to unstable.

Devuan

  • devuan/documentation#13: Prepared screenshots of the installation
    steps for use in the upcoming Excalibur release’s installation
    guide.

Misc

  • doric-themes: I contributed a tiny patch (cea178c) to tweak the
    appearance of the diary and org-agenda-diary faces to make them
    stand out more.

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