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Welcome Michael Gilbert!

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:03:34 +0100

I just approved his request for joining the DKMS team. Welcome on board!

New team member in bash-completion

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:19:35 +0100

I'm glad to announce that we accepted a new member in bash-completion's upstream team: Dan-Leonard Crestez. He's an active guy in the F/OSS world, and I'm glad he's now in our team.

Welcome on board!

WICD 1.7.0 in unstable!

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:26:21 +0100

WICD 1.7.0-1 just landed in Unstable! This is supposed to be the last 1.* release -- upstream will actively work on 2.0, and fix bugs on 1.7 only if they're serious enough. I will obviously support 1.7 until 2.0 comes out

Enjoy!

WICD 1.7.0~b3 in experimental

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:34:53 +0100

I just uploaded WICD 1.7.0~b3 to experimental. This was supposed to be the last pre-release before the official one, but a ~b4 has just been released, adding one more patch I'm keeping in debian/patches/. Luckily enough, my previous big hacking to split the source code (to make it easier for packagers to have separate binary packages) has been merged upstream! So one less patch for me to maintain

It would be cool if experienced people (this is not (yet) for the faint of heart!) could test this package, before 1.7.0 gets released as stable and I upload it to sid. Or maybe you could just want to help us

Let's find bugs now!

RC bug squashing

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:13:43 +0100

Just had some time in the last two days, and here's the list of uploaded NMUs. So far, I had only one maintainer complaining (again, sorry!), but I must admit that on Sunday I just didn't follow the correct NMU procedure

Anyhow, here's what I have:

#504824 [libnids] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: #elif used instead of #else
#504864 [omnievents] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#504871 [bookmarkbridge] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#504902 [libofa] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#504943 [libassa] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#504963 [libfcgi] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#504970 [italc] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#504973 [libspiff] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#505021 [passepartout] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#505078 [codeine] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#505333 [gloox] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#505372 [bobot++] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#505420 [esteidutil] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#510759 [log4cxx] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#526151 [openmovieeditor] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#551107 [fusecompress] FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include
#551718 [eboard] eboard: FTBFS with latest eglibc and gcc 4.4

Some highlights

Most of these bugs, if not all, already had a patch attached. Thanks to Martin Michlmayr for his work on this!

Regarding fusecompress, after my upload to DELAYED/2, the maintainer promptly replied asking for sponsorship of a package he already had. So this does not really count

If you want to participate in this great game too, and improve our loved distribution, you can have a look at this list of possibly easy bugs to fix.

Have fun!

wicd_1.6.2.2-5~exp1_i386.changes is NEW

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:23:20 +0100

Why is wicd NEW? Simple, I managed to split the files into separate packages.

As soon as it clears NEW, those who are using experimental will be able to install a cli-only wicd, i.e. no more unnecessary throwing in of GTK+ and X

I will make a call for testing as soon as this package clears the queue. Hope I didn't make too much mistakes

Finally a DD!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:50 +0100

Finally, it happened! I became a Debian Developer!

I wish to thank everybody involved in this process: from those who helped me in my initial packaging efforts, to who actually created the account.

Many thanks to the pkg-perl team for accepting newbies and helping them: props to Damyan Ivanov, Gregor Herrmann, Gunnar Wolf!

Thanks to Debian-Med and Debian CLI: they always believed in me, and I had a great time in these teams. A special thanks goes to Andreas Tille, who advocated my NM candidature.

Thanks to my two AMs, Bart Martens and Bernd Zeimetz. Even if my NM was long, difficult and not so flawless, it all went good, at the end :).

A special thanks to Enrico Zini: he was the first DD signing my GPG key, thus allowing me to have more "rights" (being a DM), and experience some more responsibility than I previously had. Thanks to his "Become a DD. NOW!" right after checking my ID in Palermo -- Enrico, it finally happened!

Thanks to Christoph Berg, Ron Lee, and Stephen Gran, which handled the final steps of the overall process.

And now, dapal is here to break the world. Be warned!

Bash-completion 1.1 released

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:16:08 +0200

Here we go, another release has been cooked for your enjoyment: bash-completion 1.1 is here!

This release's development cycle has seen the release of bash4: this introduced a number of bugs, which have been hopefully fixed. Blame us if you find any other

Many completions were split out of bash_completion: this prepares the road to dynamic loading of needed completions (in a future major release), resulting in a smaller and faster completion!

Furthermore, like each release, many new completions have been added, many old ones were improved, and some bugs have been fixed (more than 20). For more info, look at the changelog file.

Still there? Go download bash-completion-1.1!

For any bug you might find, please contact us at our mailing list, or directly file it at the Alioth tracker.

For the Debian users out there: package coming soon!

Happy installation!

RC bug squashing

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:48:05 +0200

Following zack's suggestions, I've been looking at RC bugs in my sparetime.

In two days (well, two evenings really), I've been able to cope with a good number of bugs:

#543063 - ann: FTBFS: /bin/sh: aclocal-1.10: not found (DELAYED/7 RFS!)
#527823 - elisa-plugins-bad: FTBFS: rm: cannot remove `/build/user-elisa-plugins-bad_0.3.5-1-amd64-0hSRfJ/elisa-plugins-ba d-0.3.5/debian/elisa-plugins-bad//usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/. pth': No such file or directory *(DELAYED/2 RFS!)
#536924 - gai: FTBFS: gai-private.h:66:35: error: libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h: No such file or directory (DELAYED/10)
#537019 - gimp-dcraw: FTBFS: Unrecognized switch --build-strip (DELAYED/2)
#536945 - hdate-applet: FTBFS: hdate_applet.c:21:35: error: libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h: No such file or directory (DELAYED/7)
#519056 - im-sdk: FTBFS with glibc 2.8 (DELAYED/2 RFS!)
#536964 - im-sdk: FTBFS: Package libglade-2.0 was not found (RFS! - see above)
#543083 - libcsoap: FTBFS: aclocal-1.10: not found (DELAYED/7)
#543036 - honeyd: FTBFS: configure: error: dumbnet-config not found (closed, unreproducible)
#543045 - farpd: FTBFS: configure: error: libdumbnet not found (closed, unreproducible)
#536967 - glunarclock: FTBFS: configure: error: Library requirements (libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0 ) not met (0-day)
#521942 - jabsorb: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends on servlet-api and commons-httpclient (0-day)

I must admit that some of them (didn't count them, might also be the greatest part of them) already had patches, and I just prepared the NMU. For others, there were other FTBFS's other than the ones filed, and those were fixed too.

It would be extra cool if some DD uploaded the remaining 3 NMUs!

I also had time to release and package syslog-summary 1.14, but, not being DMUA yet, I'd need a sponsor for that too (but I'll probably ask my AM, since this upload sets DMUA).

Happy RC-bug-squashing!

Your friendly neighborhood hanska

wicd 1.6.1 in sid

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:13:30 +0200

For those of you who don't use experimental, the 1.6.x branch of wicd has been sitting there for some time. It had some bugreports, and I closely cooperated with upstream to get patches merged.

Here we come then, wicd 1.6.1 has been uploaded to unstable. Upstream merged all the patches I provided them (yay!), and it has lots of improvements from 1.5.9.

On the packaging side, it now provides a nice Debconf script to add/remove users to/from the netdev group (already translated into 9 languages, thanks d-i18n people!).

Upstream side:

it gracefully handles daemon restarts. That was a major issue before, because every package upgrade caused the GUI not to work anymore;
udhcpc support has been added, this is rather useful to FSO people (thanks gismo for the initial patch!);
a message box shows up when DBus blocks access to the daemon (just make sure you add yourself to the netdev group, and reload DBus);
I added support for pre/post-down connection scripts, which upstream kindly merged;
other smaller things

I am expecting more bugs yet to come, since experimental doesn't have the same userbase as unstable, but, hey, that's how it works.

Also, I'm going to requestsync it to Ubuntu Karmic Koala as soon as possible, hope to get it there before the Debian Import Freeze, planned on Jun 25.

Enjoy it!