Posts Tagged ‘Planet Debian’

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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Moved to London!

Well, I haven’t moved myself, but my server is now hosted in the new Linode datacenter located in London.
The migration has caused a downtime of more or less 4 hours yesterday, time for the data to cross the ocean.
The migration was successful, though you might still experience issues to connect to the services hosts on [...]

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Things I like in Ubuntu

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 [...]

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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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