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Debian desktop background/debian

Posted on 2004-01-19 by ivo :: /debian :: link

Most desktop backgrounds are way too bright for my taste, and the ones focused on Debian are no exception. I created a simple and dark image to put on my desktop. You can see it in action in this screenshot.

the background

Dependencies on libgnutls5/debian

Posted on 2004-01-16 by ivo :: /debian :: link

The number of packages that depend on libgnutls5 has dropped considerably since the introduction of libgnutls7. There are currently 22 binary packages that depend on libgnutls5 in any architecture, and only five source packages that have an explicit build dependency on libgnutls5-dev.

The ultimate goal is to get libgnutls5 and libopencdk4 out of sarge before it is released.

I am sending email to the maintainers of these packages, so please, if you maintain one of these, change your build dependency to libgnutls7-dev | libgnutls-dev.

anubis
Maintainer has promised an upload this weekend.
elinks
Build-Depends on libgnutls7-dev|libgnutls5-dev. Maintainer notified.
gtklp
Build-Depends on libgnutls-dev|libgnutls5-dev. Maintainer notified.
lynx
Maintainer notified.
thy
Maintainer notified.

Status updates can be found here.

gnutls10 1.0.4-1 finally uploaded/debian

Posted on 2004-01-14 by ivo :: /debian :: link

I have just uploaded gnutls10 1.0.4-1 in all its glory to unstable. It contains new binary packages, so it'll take a while before it shows up in incoming. Let's hope it's still in time to get released with sarge…

The only thing that was keeping it is a solution to bug #224846. I was unable to reproduce it for a while, until I found the culprit: it turned out that the chroot that I'm using to build packages was contaminated with latex2html and a few other tex-related packages. Removing them made me able to fix it quickly. Instead of rebuilding the documentation, I'm now just using the upstream version of the postscript file.

For those who want to test it before it hits incoming, and I know there are some of you who do, you can also get it from my package archive.

Blosxom and RSS/debian

Posted on 2004-01-05 by ivo :: /debian :: link

For planet Debian, this blog is being syndicated with others via RSS. It appears that Blosxom doesn't automatically add a release date+time (the pubDate tag) to the RSS document. Mark Howard mailed me how to fix this: in blosxom.cgi, find the line starting with rss story in the __DATA__ section, and change it to (all on one line):

rss story   <item>\n
    <title>$title</title>\n
    <pubDate>$dw, $da $mo $yr $ti:00 GMT</pubDate>\n
    <link>$url/$yr/$mo_num/$da#$fn</link>\n
    <description>$body</description>\n
  </item>\n