Archive for June, 2007
How old are our packages?
Friday, June 29th, 2007Debian’s binary packages are only built when they are uploaded (or when a binNMU is requested, but that doesn’t happen frequently). They are never rebuilt later. This means that some binary packages in etch weren’t build in an up-to-date etch environment, but possibly in a much older environment. Is this a problem? It depends. Old [...]
debconf7
Monday, June 25th, 2007DebConf7 finished today. This was my first DebConf, and probably not my last one :-) I had a really interesting time in Edinburgh, despite the weather (but at least we are prepared for DebConf8 now!). The organization team really did a fantastic work, the venue was gorgeous, etc, etc, etc. Again, I was positively surprised [...]
maintainer wanted for next generation tetrinet server!
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007You probably all know tetrinet – if you don’t, you should really try that game. There are several servers for that game out there, and one of them is tetrinetx. It is packaged in Debian, but it has several problems: It doesn’t support tetrifast mode. So you have to deal with that stupid 1-second delay [...]
Distributed SCM and branching a sub-directory ?
Monday, June 4th, 2007I am considering switching from SVN to a distributed SCM for my personal stuff. I had a look at git and mercurial, but neither really support branching a sub-directory: Often, I am working on a big private project, and, while working on a sub-project (stored inside the project’s repository), I’d like to share that sub-project [...]