'Debian' Tag

  • Jan
    25
    2010

    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:
    1alias eclipse="GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse"
    The Debian bug tracker also [...]

  • Nov
    29
    2009

    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 Radeon HD 3300 (on-board)
    RAM
    8 GB, DDR3
    Hard drives
    2x SATA [...]

  • Nov
    22
    2009

    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 stumbled [...]

  • Nov
    14
    2009

    Weird: lenny install freezes in virtualbox

    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 install [...]

  • Nov
    12
    2009

    Extra commas are allowed in debian/control

    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 in the dpkg [...]

 
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