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Converted my packages to 3.0 (quilt) source format
Nov 22nd
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.
Start compiz (or any non-default WM) automatically with GNOME
Oct 25th
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…
HADOPI II law adopted
Sep 26th
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.
HADOPI I & II: letter from my local representative
Jul 25th
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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Email management and spam fighting, testing Google Apps
Jul 14th
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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(Almost) inactive
Jul 5th
Things have been quiet recently which explains I haven’t blogged for a long time.
I have been mostly working on keeping my unofficial dspam development packages up-to-date to allow good testing amoungst Debian users.
For those who want to upgrade from the 3.6.8 Debian package, please make sure you read and follow the instructions of the UPGRADING file: the upgrade steps are not done automatically! I let it to the official maintainers. However, I am sad to see no activity in the pkg-dspam svn repository since last September!
DSPAM 3.9.0 is now in the final testing step, 2 alpha releases have already been published, I hope we can have updated Debian packages shortly when the final version is released.
My plans for the summer are to update all my articles, most of them being unfortunately outdated, though still usable.
French income tax e-declaration
May 30th
As usual, I have chosen to use the online way of declaring my incomes for the French income tax. This year, I could declare everything without any issue using Iceweasel and Icedtea on Debian GNU/Linux amd64. However, I was unable to sign my declaration using my certificate.
I have tried installing sun-java6-plugin, which allowed me to go one step further, but I was still unable to choose the certificate with which I had to sign my declaration. Actually, it was only a display problem (the combo box was simply not displayed).
Guess what? I had to use the Windows 7 RC version I had installed in a VirtualBox to be able to sign my declaration!
I didn’t want to lose more time with this, but my girlfriend hasn’t yet made her declaration, hence any hints on how to do this on GNU/Linux would be highly apprciated.
HADOPI law finally voted by my local representative
May 12th
As expected, the French HADOPI law was voted earlier today by the Assemblée Nationale.
As expected, my local representative voted in favour of this law.
I had however kept a secret hope that he would abstain for this vote, following to the email I have received from his assistant following to our meeting. Mr Vannson planned to take the floor during the finale discussions. He had sent me for review the text they wrote, which perfectly matched my arguments, and even referred to the law as a “Rube Goldberg machine” (“Ma conviction est que nous avons monté une usine à gaz” in the original version). This text also stated that he was netiher convinced nor satisfied by the law.
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