Posts Tagged ‘Development’

DSPAM 3.9.0 released!

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 [...]

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Switched to GIT

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 [...]

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Converted my packages to 3.0 (quilt) source format

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 [...]

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(Almost) inactive

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 [...]

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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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