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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For testing packages of RoundCube webmail that I backported from Debian unstable to stable (lenny), I tried to install lenny in a virtualbox machine. But for some reason, the installation reliably freezes at some (variable) point. The last time (I think on the 4th run), the final state shows a progress bar titled “Select and [...]
Today the question came up at work if it is allowed to have extra commas in debian/control dependency fields as in Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlib:Depends} The substitution misc:Depends may well be empty. So is this allowed? It actually is as Tollef Fog Heen quickly replied on IRC (thanks). It is also covered by a test case [...]