'Debian' Category
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Aug102010
Merged wxWidgets 2.8.11.0 for Debian
Just in case I forget the link again: 7 weeks ago (says git) I merged upstream 2.8.11.0 into the Debian packaging git. The changes are available at a personal alioth repo if anybody cares. Edit: I just wanted to file a bug, only to notice that I did this weeks ago. Need more memory!
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Jul052010
Postprocessing conference videos
I was planning to attend DebConf New York this year, but for a number of reasons I decided not to go. Fortunately, Ferdinand Thommes organized a MiniDebConf in Berlin at LinuxTag and I managed to attend. Thanks, Ferdinand! There were a number of interesting Talks. I especially liked the talk of our DPL, and those [...]
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Jan252010
Eclipse 3.5.1 mouse event problems with gtk >= 2.18
Recently, Eclipse started ignoring clicks on dialog buttons for me. This seems to be due to some changes in gtk 2.18. It does not use native windows for all widgets anymore, and SWT seems to rely on it. Thanks to this blog post, I have this fix in my bashrc: alias eclipse=”GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse” The Debian [...]
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Jan192010
quiltrc for Debian packaging
Working on another laptop, I was missing my quiltrc settings. I think, I got them from a this email by Marco d’Itri. Perhaps it is of help to somebody (for example, when I go searching for it again). BTW, I changed it locally to check only for debian folder in parent directories and create debian/patches [...]
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Dec202009
Restoring a package selection on new system
I am moving from my old Debian development system to a new one, changing architectures from i386 to amd64. So I need to do a fresh install, but basically I want to keep my package selection. Conventional wisdom is to use dpkg –get-selections and dpkg –set-selections to preserve the package selection. However, this does not [...]
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Nov292009
New on Debian planet
Now that there is some content here, I added myself to the Planet Debian blog aggregator. Sorry for my weird head image, the shadow looked much better in Gimp. I’ll have to correct that on another day… Thanks to Holger Levsen for pointing me at the wiki entry which describes how a Debian developer can [...]
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Nov292009
New development box – installation woes
I got a new computer at home a week ago and finally got around to assemble all the parts. Which wasn’t as easy as expected, especially fitting the CPU cooler was a hard fight. Specs For the curious, here are the specs: CPU AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4×3.4 GHz) Mainboard MSI 790GX-G65 Graphics ATI [...]
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Nov222009
schroot and LVM snapshots
For the roundcube packages I wrote about before, I needed a lenny build system. I did not want to load the required packages to the production server. I used to use debootstrap for this but I wanted to keep a clean base system without copying around all the time. After a bit of searching, I [...]
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Nov142009
Roundcube 0.3.1 packages for lenny
As mentioned in my previous post, I created packages of roundcube webmail version 0.3.1 for Debian lenny. The original purpose was to have a better webmail interface at my company. These packages may also be of interest to other Debian users, therefore I make them available here: Roundcube packages jQuery package Everything else you need [...]