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I managed to catch up in my Debian packaging work today, with not less then 4 uploads to my personal and unoficial repository, 2 backports (dspam and reprepro) and 2 updates (interbench and contest).
I have also worked a lot on the Debian python transition, and asked my sponsor for Ajaxterm to check my changes preparing [...]

Since the release of linux 2.6.17, I had some problems with several kernel modules, that still use MODULE_PARM calls. Such calls have been depreciated since the first 2.6.x releases, and their support has now been dropped out from the kernel.
For examples, Kqemu uses such a call in kqemu-linux.c. Here is a simple patch dealing with [...]

Thanks to Nikita V. Youshchenko for providing a solution to “fix” the bug(s) that currently hits libfreetype6 and OOo in Debian.
Here is his proposal:

putting a copy of older libfreetype6.so.6 somewhere in the filesystem,
starting OOo with path to that library added to LD_PRELOAD variable.

You can download the older version of libfreetype from snapshots.debian.net and use dpkg [...]