I have now finished converted most of the packages I maintain (part of the official archive or not) to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format.

I first had to switch from dpatch or cdbs’ simple-patchsys to quilt, which was easy thanks to Romain Francoise’s old blog post.

Also note this quick adaptation for cdbs:

for i in $(ls debian/patches/*.patch); do \
    I=$(basename $i | sed 's/.patch$//'); \
    quilt import -P $I.diff $i; \
done

The rest was much easier than what I thought, thanks to the related page on the wiki.

I have already tried uploading a package to my personal repository, and reprepro just worked as expected.

I have just noticed the latest gnome-session package doesn’t use compiz as default WM if installed.

I have had to found the right way starting it for my session, anf finally found the following was the easiest and cleanest solution:

echo export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compiz >> ~/.gnomerc

Writing it here so that I can find it again…

The HADOPI II law was finally adopted on September the 15th by the Assemblée Nationale. Guess what? My local representative, who wrote recently a very nice letter against this project, voted in favor of this law.

This is not a real surprise, as it has also happened with the HADOPI I law last May, but this time, I will take the time to write him a letter to express my feelings.

I have received an official letter from my local representative, in which he sums up the recent events in the area of the HADOPI law.

I will only quote the following parts of his letter, referring to the amendments proposed to this law, following to the partial censure of the Constitutional Council:

[...] ce qui me laisse plus que très dubitatif sur l’efficacité du dispositif. [...] cette procédure me semble tout à fait inadaptée.

Which can be translated as follows:

[...] I doubt this disposal will have any effect. [...] I think this procedure is absolutely not adapted.

Now, let’s bet what will be his vote in September!
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I have been thinking a lot lately about email management and spam fighting.

For my personal email, I use a setup based on Postfix, RBL and WL, grey listing, and DSPAM (by the way, you can find unofficial packages of current development version in my personal repository).

To better train DSPAM, I have removed all other filters (except some very basic controls at SMTP time), and I am very happy of this setup (grey listing delays receipt of email, which I am not very satisfied with, and relying on third-parties RBL is also not the best thing imho). This lead however to much more mail in my DSPAM quarantine queue.
I will hence re-enable more advanced filters at SMTP time once DSPAM bayes are large enough.
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