In a fit of carelessness, I decided to pull one of my test notebooks to current unstable, including the Xfree 86 => X.org migration. To my surprise, the migration was not only absolutely painless, but the new X server worked on the first try. This is a new experience with X11 for me.
Splendid work, Guys! Keep it up!
After the weekend (where I need my main notebook to be operational), I am going to try moving my main work vehicle to X.org.
The update of my main work notebook was as painless as expected after the test with the unimportant box. aptitude, clean up dependencies, and you're back in business. On the first starts (from the command line), fonts were broken (too large), but after rebooting and logging in from kdm, the fonts are ok again.
Thanks to Jörg Hoh, who submitted a number of cleanup patches against adduser, the package has changed quite bit. This is the reason for the 3.68 upload going into experimental. Please go ahead, test, report bugs, submit patches. Thanks!
exim4, sarge's default MTA, uses gnutls for the obvious license reasons. However, gnutls does seem to have issues of interoperability, which have manifested themselves in a list of bugs, most prominently being #297174, which we are at a loss to debug.
Neither Andreas nor me have the knowhow to debug gnutls, and Upstream uses openssl - the gnutls patch was contributed and the author of the original patch doesn't seem to be around any more.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
\ 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
Nach einem Debian-Update tut es an manchen Stellen mehr, und an manchen anderen Stellen weniger weh. Ich fasse zusammen, wo ich mir bei den bisherigen Updates in den Fuß geschossen habe.
Seit eben läuft nun auch mein erstes produktives System mit Debian sarge: torres musste mal wieder als Testobjekt herhalten. Bis jetzt schaut's so aus, als ob alles sauber gelaufen wäre.
LVM rockt. Gerade mal wieder gemerkt, als in dem von mir betreuten Newsserver die (einzige) Platte ihr Ableben angekündigt hat. 40 GB Daten im laufenden Betrieb von einer alten auf eine neue Platte schieben ist einfach sexy. Die einzige Downtime hatte ich mir dadurch eingehandelt, dass die Overviews durch die kaputte Platte beschädigt waren, und deswegen ein makeh*story fällig war.
Diese Gelegenheit nutze ich, einen alten Artikel zum Thema LVM für mein Blog zu recyceln.
