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Discontinuing Zg2 backports for woody - No more systems left

Looks like I finally got rid of my last woody system on 2005-07-26, so two months after sarge's release it is now time to discontinue supply of woody backports on zg.debian.zugschlus.de. Cleaning up the actual package pool will take a whileis finished and reduced the pool from 803MB to a mere 35MB, and it looks like I'm gonna miss again the opportunity of converting my local package-pool-helper scripts to debpool.

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Updates to clamav-data build process for volatile

I have again worked on the automatic package build, test and publishing process for clamav-data, which runs twice an hour on a volatile.debian.net host. Details of the process are described in VUA 2-2 on debian-volatile-announce

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My packages cdebconf blockers?

Surprise: Packages depending on debconf should have an alternative for debconf-2.0, so Joey says in a Mail to -devel. I must have missed something.

I have never heard of that requirement before, and I surely am not the only one. I won't be able to update my packages quite soon, but I'll try to get things sorted out in August.

I'll have to touch:

  • adduser - doesn't use debhelper, manual change committed to VN
  • clamav-data
  • clamav-getfiles
  • snoopy - fixed in 1.3-10, now properly using debhelper's macros

Packages that I co-maintain which are affected as well (so I need to keep an eye on):

  • aide

exim4 is not affected, Andreas has thought of that. Good.

N*rt*n Internet Security Überdosis

Überall wo man hinkommt (auch dort, wo man eigentlich nicht hin will) sind die Computerbild lesenden "Profis" mit ihren voll krass konkreten persönlichen Feuerwänden schon da. Und unsereins steht da wie der Ochs vorm Berg, will keine Verantwortung tragen und steht im Bekanntenkreis als nicht hilfsbereiter <zensiert> dar.

Ähnlichkeiten mit in den letzten Tagen real besuchten Personen sind rein zufällig und nicht beabsichtigt.

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DSL-Modem, billitsch, kaputt, neun Monate alt

Seit dem letzten Reset hat mein heimisches DSL-Modem gerade mal vier Stunden durchgehalten. Das Teledat 431 LAN ist immerhin schon seit neun Monaten im Dauerbetrieb, da kann man ja nicht erwarten, dass es den Connect so lange hält.

Was neues geht bei zirka 50 Euro los. Was kann man da kaufen, was länger als nur ein paar Monate hält?

hp compaq nc 8000 and its built-in modem

The softmodems that can be found in today's notebooks have been a mess from the very beginning. This especially holds when such a modem is to be used on Linux. Today, we have gazillions of different (and incompatible!) methods of using these gadgets, but none of them works with all softmodem flavours out there. This article describes what I have tried to bring my hp compaq nc8000 online, and how I finally succeeded.

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Webmailer auf Steroiden

Mindestens ein Betreiber eines großen Webmailportals in Deutschland scheint noch nie etwas von Spamassassin gehört zu haben. Anders ist doch kaum zu erklären, dass eine Mail aus diesem Webmailportal in Standardeinstellung aus dem Stand einen Score von 5.2 in einem in Standardeinstellung betriebenen Spamassassin bekommt.

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Debian BTS with version tracking

The Debian BTS has recently learned to track versions. Bugs can be closed and "found" for certain package versions, so that it is easier now to determine whether a bug is present in a distribution or not. However, Colin still needs to write a "metric shitload of documentation", and I still fall way short of understanding how to use the feature.

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Was haben die eigentlich alle?

module-assistant (0.9.5) unstable; urgency=low

\ the "fighting Zugs\^h\^h\^h\^h Murphy's law" release
\
printing one summary of installation error messages on multiple packages
(closes: #318856)
\* typo fixes in de.po

-- Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:10:15 +0200

HRMPF

Warum man auf jedem Host unterschiedliche Passworte haben sollte

"Ich boote die Kiste grad nochmal schnell"


[7/505]mh@scyw00225:~$ ssh q
Linux q 2.6.12.2-zgsrv #1 SMP Mon Jul 4 06:59:29 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Last login: Thu Jul 14 15:14:14 2005 from 193.151.248.5
System bootup in progress - please wait
Connection to q.bofh.de closed.
[8/506]mh@scyw00225:~$ sudo shutdown -r now
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
sudo: 2 incorrect password attempts
[9/507]mh@scyw00225:~$ 

Zum Glück hatte ich auf scyw00225 in den letzten fünf Minuten kein sudo benutzt...