For all of you that were clamoring to have 1.2 packaged, I’ve finally managed to tie up most loose ends. 1.2.7-1 is now available in experimental. The only problem that seems to remain is that it doesn’t build in kFreeBSD, because it is using network manager, which seems to be available only for Linux. I’ll [...]
As of 1.0.27-2, the GtkHTML rendering backend for liferea is disabled. It simply caused too much trouble, randomly segfaulting on every architecture and reliably segfaulting on 64bit ones. So I ended up deciding to just disable it and leave only the xulrunner engine. Please, if you use liferea, help test the transition to the new [...]
Enrico reported this morning that liferea dies on Sam’s entry about file parsing vulnerabilities (talk about irony). So, what does silly me do almost right after? Well, I went and read Planet Debian on liferea, of course. And, behold, liferea 1.2 doesn’t crash! I really must finally get my experimental packages ready and uploaded.
Update (5 [...]
Gunnar, how can you take with such calm this horrible cold weather? I mean, 10°! In november! Yesterday’s forecasted minimum was – 1°, and it even snowed on the Ajusco. We’re supposed to be a nice tropical country.
OTOH, I do commiserate with you on the christmas music.
Things come and go. In batches, it seems. Tonight, at exactly the very same time I was filling out my NM application, I received the final, definitive, no self-denial-possible message that my previous life is over. With prejudice. Kind of ruined the moment. Or, maybe it was the other way around and having mustered the [...]
We’ve just uploaded liferea 1.1.7c to experimental. Get it on the next dinstall run, or from incoming if you’re eager. Please help us test it, especially the new features, such as scripting and https.
When you test the new debian installer, and use it’s new automatically configuring encrypted partitions feature, do record the passphrase.
When you write patches for bugs in games, do not untruthfully argue you “need” to do full coverage testing .
I’ve finally finished packaging keytouch, and gotten approval for it by my sponsor. It’s currently in NEW, and probably won’t make it to etch, because of the freeze. Kind of a shame, since I could have finished a little earlier and it would have gotten in.
Well, can’t have everything.
I did manage to upload a new [...]
Been doing some squashing today. No uploads, since I’m not at a BSP. Just posted patches for 389630 and 389375.
Let’s go, everyone! If I can fix bugs, so can you!
So, how does one go about becoming a DD? Well, one reads the new maintainer section of the debian website, of course. And then?
The path I’m going to travel is that of being a maintainer for some packages. It’s supposed to be possible to enter Debian by being a translator or a documentation writer, but [...]