Archive for January, 2009

Counting Debian source packages #2

Thanks to Joerg for pointing out pkg-nums.
I was pretty sure such a tool already existed but could not find it.
At least, my script (with Thomas’ amendments) allow distinctions between sections (free, contrib, non-free) And thanks to pkg-nums, I was able to check the results.

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IPv6: Miredo link to HE Tunnel endpoint

As announced a few weeks ago, my website should now be accessible through IPv6. The connectivity is made thanks to Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel service as recommended on Linode wiki.
At home, I use Miredo, an open-source Teredo IPv6 tunneling software for GNU/Linux and BSD. This works great with many websites. I can ping6 servers I [...]

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Counting Debian source packages

Following to Kushal’s post about counting total number of Debian packages, he concluded that sid currently has more than 30,000 binary packages (free, contrib & non-free).
IMHO it is more relevant to count source packages. I couldn’t find any existing way of doing it, I have hence written a short bash script.

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DSPAM-Community – first RC: call for testing

I was happy to receive Dov Zamir’s email announcing the creation of a fork of the DSPAM anti-spam filter, called dspam-community.
I have been using DSPAM for a while now, and am very happy with it, but was quite anxious that the project is left out by Sensory Networks (the company took over DSPAM in May [...]

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