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Removal of the Sarge suite from my repository
May 8th
One month after the release of the latest stable version of Debian GNU/Linux (codename etch), the removal of the sarge (currently oldstable) suite from my repository is now imminent.
I guess most of you will already have upgraded their box to the new stable release.
If you haven’t yet upgraded, please remove the line(s) regarding this unofficial archive and upgrade to etch.
First steps with SELinux
Apr 1st
I made my first steps with SELinux today, on an up-to-date Etch system. So far, everything is running smoothly thanks to the Debian wiki, and to other distributions online documentation (namely Gentoo’s and Fedora’s).
I have even bought a book on SELinux, which isn’t exactly what I expected, ie. a little bit too technical for beginners like me.
My system is now fully working (hopefully securely) with SELinux enabled and enforced.
Playing with Linux-Vserver
Mar 18th
I have set up my first vserver to play with. I am very impressed how easy the process is! The performance on my Dell Inspiron 1300 seems very good as well.
I have almost no experience with virtualization techniques, and was stuck to User-Mode Linux until today. According to the Wikipedia article, Linux-Vserver has many advantages compared to other tools due to the fact the virtual servers share the same system call interface and do not have any emulation overhead (I do obviously agree this can also be a drawback).
I haven’t yet had the chance to study the security part in depth, this will be my main task this week, I will then be able to make the choice between UML and Linux-Vserver – I’m not yet ready for Xen.
Better follow bugs reported in Launchpad
Mar 14th
In a previous entry, I explained how you can be assimilated to an Ubuntu developer without even being an official Debian developer, and of course without prior notice.
I am now quite ashamed: I have just discovered that this was already discussed some time ago (read: months before my post), and led to the following results:
- If the package is in universe or multiverse, the Maintainer field will be set to Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
- If the Maintainer field is modified, the old value will be saved in a field named XSBC-Original-Maintainer
However, packages where my name appears either in the Maintainer or in the XSBC-Original-Maintainer field still “belong” to me in Launchpad (see https://launchpad.net/~julienv/+packages for example).
However, I am not responsible for the bugs of these packages (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/~julienv/+assignedbugs)
Now that my blog is syndicated on Planet Debian, I ask it again:
Am I supposed to look on Launchpad for bugs reported against the packages I maintain in Debian?
Obviously, if a bug wasn’t reported by a Debian user, it might mean nobody suffers from it, but fixing it could avoid future bug report anyway (except if this particular bug is very specific to Ubuntu).
In order to improve the Debian maintainers’ work, I think it would be great that the PTS integrates the bugs in Launchpad in a simple way. This would allow us to easily subscribe to the bugs, and eventually get a notice if the bug is fixed, or at least allow us to be aware of the issue.
First time in Debian Weekly News
Mar 14th
I was surprised to read my name in yesterday’s edition of the (now monthly) Debian Weekly News.
I have been quoted thanks to my question on debian-mentors@l.d.o about when a maintainer may close an unreproducible bug report.
This particular bug was closed a few days after, as it was due to a misconfiguration on the bug reporter’s machine.
Thank you joey!
Murrine gtk theme engine
Mar 3rd
I uplodaded this morning the Murrine gtk theme engine to my unofficial repository. I have used the source package from Ubuntu Feisty as a basis and build the newer version available from the official website.
I have learned how to build packages in pbuilder with build-dependecies from the experimental distribution (nothing to do but adding the experimental repositories to sources.list and pining the experimental packages to be equal to those coming from unstable).
I have thus opened again my experimental repository for this package, Note that gtk2-engines-murrine only includes the gtk engine, themes have to be installed separately on a per-user basis.
I know there is already an ITP for the package, I just wanted to try some new themes, I will however contact the ITP owner to let him know about “my” package.
MacNorth takes over Tovid packaging
Feb 27th
As preivously announced, MacNorth, alias Joe Friedrichsen, has taken over Tovid packaging. The announcement was made this morning on the Tovid users mailing-list.
The new repository is hosted on Sourceforge. If you use Debian, please update your /etc/apt/sources.list so that they read:
deb http://tovid.sf.net/download/debian unstable contrib
deb-src http://tovid.sf.net/download/debian unstable contrib
The tovid packages have thus been removed from my repository.
Thanks to Joe for his great job!
Debian packages
Feb 25th
I spent quite some time last week to work on Debian packages.
First, listen and nautilus-open-terminal were uploaded to the official archive to be in sync with Ubuntu packages. Thanks to my sponsors, respectively Christoph and Free.
As for the unofficial packages:
- tovid was updated to latest release (0.30) – needed 4 uploads in something like 1 hour. This could be my last update, as MacNorth is going to take over the package maintainance work. I will help him at least for a few weeks, but should go quite quickly.
- I have renamed maildrop to maildrop-mysql to avoid any confusion and any conflicts with the official packages available from Debian FTP. People using this package should simply run aptitude update && aptitude install maildrop-mysql as I haven’t built any virtual transition package. Please report if any issue.
I have also work on a new package called openvpn-admin. I have translated the GUI into French, and contacted both the upstream developer and the ITP owner, as I would be very interested in seeing this package uploaded to the official archive. However, I still have to achieve some work on both translation and Debian packaging,
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