It is perhaps comforting to know that some believe American Empire is not doomed to irrelevance. But much of American Industry seems bent on trying. Aside from their usual shabby treatment of their customers with lawsuits and wholesale purchase of politicians through lobby organizations, they love to write law that suits their complacency, hoping to [...]
OH HAI! This is a short article / post on installing Web::Simple on Debian’s testing version codenamed Squeeze. Sometimes you may not need all the powerful tools that are bundled into Catalyst, the perl web framework. But you may want to use a module or two from the CPAN that you can be reasonably sure [...]
It’s a normal day, I am being bombarded by twitter, facebook, the intertubes, et. al. and I come across a tweet from @debian mentioning the new packages available from the last few weeks. I look at what has come into debian for something interesting and there is a lot, like an ofono package. What catchse [...]
This post is an introduction to some of the higher level concepts of packaging, more about the whys than the hows. I plan to start a series of posts on the anatomy of your average deb for Maemo, but before that I wanted to go through some of the reasons for packaging so that the [...]
I wanted to do a quick blog post with some resources for packaging python apps for Maemo. The resources I’ll post here are going to be debian related since maemo packages are based on debian packages. Later on I’ll go into more detail on the differences between debian python packages and maemo python packages, but [...]
If you are interested in installing debian, please use the new release candidate for lenny. This hopefully will be the last candidate and if no major bugs are found it will become the release. There are still release critical bugs, but some of them may be deferred until the lenny-and-a-half release. Some will be blockers [...]
The debian project’s secretary has resigned and all manner of flame is propagating on the debian lists. This time though the rest of the world and some debian people are pulling their hair out with worry. There is nothing to worry about, this is debian, this is how it works, enjoy the show. Then get [...]
So there has been a good deal of discussion on the debian developer’s mailing list about removing the non-free firmware blobs. Of the six general resolutions now being put up for a vote, only one would require a delay in releasing lenny. Or should I say further delay? Here is the text of that resolution: [...]