Please don't use libgpod 0.4.0 ...
... or "why breaking your SONAME is a bad idea". If you ever had any questions on why it is a bad idea to break your SONAME (i.e. not changing it despite of ABI and/or API changes in your library),...
View ArticleSearching for pbbuttonsd i386 users
For about five months now the Debian package of pbbuttonsd builds a package on i386, too, since it might actually be useful to have these available on MacBook (Pro) machines as well. What I don't know...
View Articlepackages.debian.org status and development
Copy of a mail I sent to debian-www earlier today. I don't think it warrants posting to -devel-announce, but I post it here to make it visible to people not usually following debian-www. Since I seem...
View ArticleExperimental tabbing on packages.d.o
Too make the pages for single packages on packages.debian.org less loaded with information I experimented today with changing the layout to a "tabbed" one, so that information is spreaded over several...
View ArticleIntroducing sourcedeps.d.n
I get regulary annoyed by the fact that I find random -dev packages on my main system and can't figure out which package's build-depends I satisfied by installing them. Also they don't disappear if the...
View ArticleSome packages.{debian.org,ubuntu.com} updates
I've moved packages.ubuntu.com to a new server but until one day ago forgot to tell anyone about that :( The old server will probably go offline today and it might be some time until the IP address...
View ArticleMore updates about packages.{debian.org,ubuntu.com}
packages.ubuntu.com is now fully migrated to the new server. Since the old server was not shut down for four days after my contract expired, the actual downtime was very small (yay for busy admins...
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Introducing archive.debian.net
Just the other day I was wondering about what release of Debian a specific version of a package was in, and I knew it was older than oldstable. But searching the Packages files of archive.debian.org...
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Just booked my flights
I really hope the sponsoring situation still improves, but I've decided to go either way. Judging from the last years, it's worth it :)
View Articlepackages.ubuntu.com moved to Canonical machine
packages.ubuntu.com is now hosted on a server provided by Canonical. This will hopefully greatly improve performance and reliability, since my own server was increasingly swamped and had repeated...
View ArticleMoving a mailing list from SF.net to another Mailman instance
I had to move a mailing list from SourceForge to a self-hosted Mailman instance while preserving all the user options. Since one has no shell access to these SF's Mailman I decided to extract the...
View ArticleRC bugs in etch (Starting Stable QA, Part 1)
As everyone can see in the graph of release critical bugs, the number of RC bugs in etch had constantly risen since the release (which was already noted in some other blogs) up until last week. Since I...
View ArticleSource Views
(This is a more detailled and hopefully better structured explanation of the topic of my Lightning Talk during Debconf) With the ever growing number of packages in our archive we need ever better...
View ArticleBackport of git 1.6 to etch
Since I can't upload git 1.6 from experimental to backports.org (because that is only for packages available in testing), I've made a backport to etch available at people.debian.org. If you have any...
View ArticleLintian 2.0.0~rc2 in experimental
For the impatient reader: New lintian in experimental, please test and give feedback. You will miss most changes though unless you read the rest of the post (Hint, Hint ;)) During the past week I've...
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