Nico Della Torre

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Status Debian Contributor on nm.debian.org since 2026-10-15

Short Biography

Hi, I'm Nico Della Torre (nicoz on OFTC and Libera.Chat). I'm a Python and Java developer and I have been using Ubuntu and Debian since 2009. You can find my community contributions on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~nicoz91

I run only testing and unstable, and every day I test the development release and report the bugs I find. I am an op (delegate) of

debian-it, where we set up a bot for the Italian Debian community.

Packages

  • dh-virtualenv: adopted for the Debian Python Team (ITA #1141903). 1.2.2-3 was my first upload, sponsored by Alexandre Detiste. In 1.3 I made it a native package built with hatchling, added a dh-virtualenv-doc binary (accepted through NEW) and added autopkgtests. 1.3.1 is ready on Salsa and waits for 1.3 to migrate to testing.
  • pytoolconfig: being adopted (ITA #1093665).

Bugs fixed in dh-virtualenv

  • 845712, #856144, #984767: options passed to dh with -O--name=value

    were dropped (e.g. --python, --builtin-venv)
  • 1150720: the activate scripts kept the build path

  • 1150721: --builtin-venv without --python did not use python3

  • 1150722: the Perl buildsystem left the build path in activate* and

    in the long-path exec trampoline
  • 1150894: --setuptools was broken with virtualenv >= 20

  • 1150896: prerm left the runtime pycache behind after remove/purge

  • 997383: closed, it had been fixed in 1.2.2-1.4

I also removed the Python 2 era leftovers (Travis, tox, invoke, dh_python2/pycentral/pysupport in the sequence), fixed the Dockerfile and moved the documentation from the old, unmaintained Read the Docs project to Salsa Pages.

Personal history

New-style processes
Started Last Target Applicant UID Status AM
2026-10-15 2026-10-15 DM Nico Della Torre nicoz Collecting requirements
2026-10-15 2026-10-15 DD, upl. Nico Della Torre nicoz Closed
2026-10-15 2026-10-15 DD, non-upl. Nico Della Torre nicoz Closed
Old-style processes
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