The DSPAM team have just announced their first official release, one year after the project was taken over by the Community.
You can download the sources from the SourceForge project.
Unofficial Debian packages are being built right now, but will only be uploaded to my repository after a bit more testing, during the week-end I guess.
They are [...]

Though I haven’t used (and won’t use) Ubuntu, it has a few things I appreciate (as far as I know them):
Ubuntu One: I wish we could have something similar for Debian users (ideally, it should be extended so that we could sync our calendars, contacts, liferea data etc.).
usb-creator: seems the easiest way to create a [...]

After having converted my packages to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format, I have decided to move everything to GIT.
rkhunter was moved to Alioth’s collab-maint project, and I have set up a personal GIT repository for the other packages.
This page on the wiki has helped a lot.
I now need to learn how to use this [...]

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 [...]

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…