Archive for August, 2008
tiling terminals manager
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I tried terminator (thanks go to Nicolas Valcarcel for asking me to sponsor a Debian upload, thus forcing me to try it, and Asheesh Laroia for doing a lightning talk at debconf about it), but I’m not convinced. – More keybindings are clearly missing. You can only switch terminals using Previous/Next keybindings. – More features [...]
Debian’s Freeze
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Debian’s freeze sounds like a technical hack to address a social problem, and that disturbs me a bit. The social problem is: At some point, we need everybody in Debian to make only non-disruptive changes, so everything can converge very fast into a releasable state. The “solution” we are using is that we are blocking [...]
Code for Debian versions comparison?
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Do you know code that compare versions of debian packages (for example, that knows if 2:23.2.3~rc1-1 is lower than 2:23.2.3-2?), besides dpkg –compare-versions? If yes, please write a comment to this blog post, preferably with a link to the code. Also, did someone already write a test suite for that? Who would be interested in [...]
Of popular packages removed from testing, and the Ultimate Debian Database GSOC project
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Some time ago, there was some flamewars^H^Hdebate about the Release Team’s removals of RC-buggy packages from testing. Basically, some people claimed that popular packages shouldn’t be removed, even if RC-buggy. But, do we really miss popular packages in testing? It’s difficult to know. You could get the popcon data, and compare it with the Packages [...]
Exporting logs from Suunto X6HR watches on Linux
Thursday, August 7th, 2008I’m the happy owner of a nice geeky toy: a Suunto X6HR watch, that includes an altimeter and an heart rate monitor, which I use mainly for moutain biking and hiking. During outings, the watch can log the altitude and heart rate every 2, 10 or 60 seconds, and the data can be transfered to [...]