Bleeding edge

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 version, I’d really like to get this change into etch. You can get it right now from incoming, or wait till the next install run for it to get into sid.

I went to the bookstore yesterday, hoping to advance in my Honya Budo training. I actually expected to reach “The feeling of the touch”. I succesfully dodged the powerful alure of a book of photographs by Juan Rulfo, a collection of maps showing the advance of european knowdledge of asian cartography from atiquity, and a collection of MC Escher engravings.

Alas, the power of a cheap (MXN30) edition of Pirandello’s Six characters in search of an author proved too much for me. Back to square one, I go.

I have a pretty thin voice for a male. Thus, it’s not rare that people will take me for a female when on the phone. I’ve rather gotten used to it, and it no longer bothers me that much, specially since it usually happens with people I’ll never speak to again anyways (such as telemarketers).

But, today, this guy called asking for info on an apartment we’re selling. I gave him the price, he said something about calling back later, called me “Ma’am”. So far, business as usual. He then reiterated he’d call back and ended by saying something like “thanks, cutie”! He actually hit on me! And it’s just so upseting! I mean, what could posibly make him think I want total strangers to call me that?

So now, I just try to think about how it must be to be a woman, and have random strangers hitting on you all the time and on top of that thinking you’ll like it, and I think I just could not bear it. Most of us males really are just pigs. Ugh.

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 seconds later): Nope, I was wrong. It does crash.

I jumped on the gender quiz meme. I found this question rather funny: ‘You think this quiz is quite superfluous’.

Anyways. It said that:

After that, I changed my mind. I do find it superfluous.

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 courage to apply damped the sorrow.

Up and onwards, I guess.

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.

1. When you test the new debian installer, and use it’s new automatically configuring encrypted partitions feature, do record the passphrase.
2. 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 version of sawfish, which finally documents how to prepare the source tarball. sawfish has so many old bugs I’m at a loss as how to handle them. I’ll be RFHing it soon, to see if someone can help me triage. But still, with upstream almost dead, it’s hard to think of a good approach.