We were then hit by a quite severe bug where files ACLs are messed up on Excel files after saving the files (upstream #4308, fixed upstream in 3.2.8).
I will probably consider fixing the official Lenny packages (there is no bug reported about this in Debian, though) along with a few other quite severe ACL-related bugs (Mathieu Parent, who maintains ctdb, pointed me to a few such bugs).
However, I couldn't wait for such a long time and backporting the fix for #4308 isn't completely straightforward. So, I decided to upgrade our server to the latest Samba 3.2 version, namely 3.2.15 (upgrading to 3.4 series could bring other kind of regressions and we have no time to properly test everything...users already have their guns handy).
This is where the Debian Samba packaging team unofficial repository becomes handy. It is meant as as service to users who want to run the very latest samba code and have the same packaging choices we have in supported Debian releases. We already had 3.2.14 there but I never took time to update to 3.2.15. This is done now.
Moreover, as our production server uses the amd64 architecture, these unofficial backports are now available for both i386 (my usual build machine) and amd64.
Using this repository is as easy as:
deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/ deb-src http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/
Please note that this APT source does not use GPG signing of Packages files. When I am less lazy, I'll try to at least sign it with my GPG key.
posted at: 11:44 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
They mostly seem to be related to my dual screen setup at work (no crashes at home) and/or VirtualBox use (I use VB at work to host my work Windows machine).
Of course, as expected, X.org 7.5 migrated to testing and now I'm screwed. I still have the crashes...and can't even easily downgrade..:-(
Apart from beating myself, would there be a chance that someone still has these packages somewhere? I probably need 7.4+4 packages.
posted at: 06:58 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Apparently, from my cumulated experience, joking about funny translations is a very widespread game among german-speaking developers (of course, as everybody knows, us French do translate everissing and no single Frainche DiDi will make such fun abaouttel10n wouhorke, aha).
I'd say: more generally widespread among people .who jargonize about computing so often in their daily work that they often forget that not everybody, even in a country where people are as clever about English as German/Austrian/Swiss folks are (we all know that 100% population in these places speak a very perfect English) do understand what "downgrade" means.
Seriously, "funny" translations are our (translators) daily nightmare. We hate them because we know people hate us (or make jokes about our work) when they face them.
The example taken by Patrick is a nice case as "downgrade" is tricky for all of us. For instance, French translators have chosen "revenir à la version précédente" as "bring back to former version". This is about the only "right" way to say what's being done ("dégrader" is another option but that has a negative connotation). Of course, I often *hear* people (incl. me) say "downgrader" which is an horrible neologism....and of course doesn't say anything to people who are clueless in English.
English is, unfortunately, often a very compact language. This is our daily pain.
So, as German translation of "to downgrade", what do *you* propose, Patrick? "Downgradieren"?
Tricky, eh? Taken from APT for "downgrade":
That sounds funny to you? Fine. But as usual in free software, please report.....and patches welcome...
posted at: 18:52 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
After all, it's only 3.5 years that it's sitting here waiting for me..:-)
Looks like I'll have to do an upload for geneweb which I'll do happily as it will drop what I consider a quite bad hack.
posted at: 06:23 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
That release will unfortunately be the first to use a "~dfsg" suffix to upstream version. In short, upstream used to distribute RFC files in their tarball. They first removed them when we pointed them at this (because we had an RC bug by our zealous "non-free documentation" hunters). However, they were reinstated after a discussion in upstream lists where it was pointed that these RFC files were needed for Samba 4 sources (that are distributed along with Samba 3 though not used to build Samba 3 packages).
So, well, even though I don't feel really concerned by cutting hair in 4 about documentation files freeness, I fixed this by repackaging the upstream tarball without these files.
I did choose to use "~dfsg" as suffix so that someone wanting to upgrade from our packages to some unofficial packages using the standard versioning (such as SerNet packages) can do it.
posted at: 06:25 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Along the 15.4km running path, I took "some" pictures, so you can run virtually with me without even freezing.
Admittedly, most pics are slightly (or highly) fuzzy which proves that I did shoot the pictures *while running* (except a few!).
posted at: 11:02 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
At least one is scheduled, of course Paris. The highest probability as
of now if Berlin in September (probable enough for me to register as
soon as it becomes possible)...which would also leave a possibility to
run Donostia in late November if I manage to convince Elisabeth that
running 3 marathons in a year is not entirely crazy. I'll also try
again to run a solo marathon in late May in forêt de
Rambouillet (: I
still have to see some wallabies that are said to be living here).
Other planned runs include the Semi de Paris
(Paris half-marathon), which is twinned with the Paris marathon, 5
weeks before, as well as a much smaller one, the semi-marathon
des Lions in Bullion, in the Rambouillet forest, where I had a memorable
run on Dec 17th on a snowy day. That will make 3 mass runs in a
row, one per month, culminating to Paris marathon. Sounds like a good plan.
So, since I ran the Cologne marathon, my plans were mostly to stay
trained enough. For this, I went back to me regular schedule of one short
10km run on Saturday morning, then a longer one on Sunday morning,
plus hopefully small runs with colleagues, or alone, at lunch break.
The most interesting things to notice during this October-December
timeframe were then:
The goal right now is to both enjoy winter runs in snowy landscapes as
we are very lucky to have a real winter this year in Paris area (I'll
try to shoot some pictures tomorrow and post them on my
gallery)....and properly prepare the Paris marathon, where my goal is
to break the 4h barrier and go down to about 3h50 (some might say I'm
not ambitious enough).
A long term goal (probably 2011) is the well-known SaintéLyon
long distance night run, starting from my birth city, Saint-Étienne:
69km, departure at midnight, 1300m positive slope (1700m negative),
up to 850m altitude from 500m, 55 editions. This on the first week-end
of December, which in that season may mean "snow" (the 1990 edition
was stopped at the 2/3 of the run because of a 70cm snow fall, but 80
heroes completed the whole run anyway). That run will be the next
Grail, as it seems.:)
All this, plus many others cumulated about 375km in 3 months which is
fairly what I planned to do.
posted at: 14:38 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
It seems that several of these suffer from low interest from their respective maintainers, so that task will often involve checking whether the said font is still wished in Debian, then talk with the maintainer if there is still one to convince him|her to maintain the package collaboratively....or adopt the package when it is clearly abandoned.
As of now, I already imported 4 ttf-arphic-* packages in our SVN and I'm working to modernize them.
Dear readers, please feel free to point me to good candidates for this. Otherwise, I'll process the output of "apt-cache search -n ttf-" alphabetically...
posted at: 11:52 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
And, finally, in a very last rish, I ùade it and completed my remaining 541 mails to review in the bloody debian-user mailing list.
By the way, you could be interested in learning that I flagged all messages from the "Sponge Burning|A Republican!" giant thread (probably the biggest thread in Debian mailing lists ever) as spam. That's debatable but such huge crap is definitely not something I personnally think belonging to the Debian mailing list archives..:-)
To others: we still need a few other crazy minds to continue cleaning up spam from our lists archives (at least, debian-boot is in the way to become the first entirely spam-free mailing list on lists.debian.org).
posted at: 16:17 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Well, sorry to disagree, but there's nearly nothing true in this, IMNSHO. I have never noticed that family name capitalization is more widespread in my own country (which I pretend to know in details, when it comes at its culture) than it is elsewhere. This is more personal habits than anything else. The only thing I can see where one is instructed to use capitals are manually-filled forms, where capitals are often the best way to avoid misreadings.
I though my main point was clear: I don't like name capitalization. I just see it as a practical way to silently tell people "*this* is my family name and *that* is my first name". Actually, this is exactly what several Asian contributors are doing on a daily basis and, from what I've been told, for that exact purpose. So, my "proposal" is just returning them the favor and give them a chance to call me "Dear Christian" and call you "Dear Wouter". Let's say this is a way to show them some consideration. This is somewhat ugly but unless someone has a better proposal, I'll stick with it.
And, on that matter, well, I think that Wolf's proposal to do the opposite would probably lead to weird results. Though let's admit that Gunnar has a point: there's often more than just "first" and "family" names in many places (including mine as my full name is "Christian Jean Antoine Perrier") and that make things pretty more complicated. Maybe we should all call ourselves "dude" or "pal", after all..:-)...but that again is "western" style habits. In some places, that would obviously be considered very rude...even in our friendly free software community.
I just had the case 10 minutes ago, by the way. Had to answer by mail to the Khmer translator of D-I whose name is "Khoem Sokhem". And it just took me quite a while to dig into my archives and find out that I should use "Dear Sokhem" (plus another 10 minutes to confirm that he is a "he".... as I previously worked for months with the former translator before learning that "he" was indeed a "she"...quite a shame for someone who pretends to have some awareness about gender considerations in free software, sin't it?).
Anyway, thanks for this "conversation" and Happy New Year to all my friends around. At least for those who celebrate a new year in the upcoming hours..:-)
posted at: 08:56 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
As many of my readers may guess, being involved in internationalization means interacting with people of different cultures.
And, when it comes at names, this is just a nightmare..:-)
Most so-called "westerners" (western of what, by the way?) are used to the common tradition we share to use people's "first" name....at first...followed by what is most often the "family" name (the one we usually get from our parents).
As a consequence, it is fairly easy for me to guess that, interacting with someone named "Barack Obama", I can use "Dear Barack" if I'm in position to use his first name and "Mr Obama" if I need to show some respect|distance|whatever.
Also, as most "western" names are quite familiar in my ears (international culture, blah blah), I can easily guess what is a first name and what is a family name (though, here, "Barack" is probably not the best example). Gender may become a little bit trickier in several cases, but, thankfully, in English, "Dear" does not change with gender (but the third person does whic sometimes leads to problems).
The problem arises when interacting with many other culturally different people such as my friends in Japan, China, India, Africa, etc. Here, dammit, the habits might vary a lot and things get harder.
Should I call my friend "Kenshi Muto" as "Dear Kenshi", "Kenshi-san", "Muto-san" or whatever? From my readings, I see that most Japanese people do put their family name at first. So, I should then call him "Dear Muto" if I'm very close to him (oh, maybe it's 'her', by the way, who knows?)...or maybe "Kenshi-sensei" because he (oh...or she) is a respected figure in the Japanese FLOSS community...or whatever. Damn!
Thankfully, I know Kenshi for years, we're good friends and I know that he's using the "western" way to write his name. I also know he's a man : after 5 or 6 Debconfs, you know everything about people!
But, of course, it becomes harder when it comes at people I never had contacts before.....and I don't want to appear as impolite, or silly so, then we jump into my daily "nightmare". Using Wikipedia for hints about Chinese, Indian (the many ones) or even Icelandic or Indigenous peoples of the Americas helps a lot, still. I can only encourage my various friends in free software to do the same. We probably all deeply appreciate when someone shows some knowledge of our culture or at least tries to do his|her best to understand our culture. That is probably also part of the mutual enrichment we get in our free software activities.
As a tribute for this, I now write my own name as "Christian PERRIER" in my email headers, so that people have a slightly better clue that "Perrier" is my family name and that someone who wants to be familiar with me should call me "Dear Christian".
I can probably ncourage my friends all around the world to do the same. For once, using capitals is not about 'shouting' but more about helping other people to figure things out.
Next blog writing about the interesting challenge we all face in free software meetings and conferences: shake hands, kiss, hug or just wave? :-)
posted at: 09:12 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Apparently, after TeXLive packages changes, this one will not be the only one discovered by Lucas automated archive rebuilds.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it.
posted at: 09:26 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Along with these changes, we also moved all our packages to debhelper v7 and minimal rules files. We also dropped the dependency on the obsoleted defoma.
The team maintains 77 source packages for fonts and has now built a quite solid experience in this. In the upcoming weeks, I'll try to get in touch with other people who maintain fonts, inviting them to join the team and maintain their packages in our SVN (we don't do very fancy things so SVN is very well suited for such work). The maingoals will be to continue dropping support for defoma (dropping defoma hints files: you can see good examples on how to do this properly in packages maintained by the team, such as ttf-dejavu).
We also intend to drop useless Recommends or Suggests that appear in
some font packages (often on "x-ttcidfontconf | fontconfig" which is
now completely useless) as well as harmonizing package naming schemes
(with a "(ttf|otf)-
Feel free to join and share your advice and thoughts about The Right
Way To Maintain Font Packages on our mailing
list.
posted at: 12:21 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Bug #550000 was reported as of October 7th 2009. So, again, no matter what, we're still keeping up with the very regular "10,000 bugs in 2 months" pace
This time, I would like to highlight a specific bug that missed to be #560000 by very few hours: namely "#559980: aptitude: Totally broken on GNU/kFreeBSD". Please read that bug report and take time to send Cyril "KiBi" Brulebois a nice "Chapeau" ("hat off") for the time he invested in analyzing this bug and providing a good workaround.
Update: KiBi told me that his workaround is broken. Still, the "hat off" still stands as what impressed me is more the nice investigation work than the workaround itself. Of course, admittedly, Cyril is not alone doing such work but it never hurts telling good people they are doing good work. To all Planet readers: <Teletubbies mode ON>from time to time, please remember putting more light on those people doing great and sometimes obscure work in our project</Teletubbies>. After all, blogs are not only about ranting, right? :)
posted at: 21:02 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
posted at: 17:37 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Booting our master CD (that uses a Dos-based system and Symantec Ghost to write a sysprepped image on the new machine) in a virtual machine, and write the master on the virtual disk was really straightforward.
Then, the magic processes we have for our automated masters, ran nearly flawlessly and, apart from figuring out which network setup to choose for the Windows machine to properly join the company's domain, I had na real headache.
So, now, I have a working double machine with no big trouble. The only pain is switching in on/off from the docking station: I found no way to have the double screen setup I use when the laptop is docked (main KDE screen on laptop and emulated machine on the desktop screen) to automatically shrink down to the laptop's screen when I undock the machine. So, I had to hack down two little xrandr-based scripts to do this manually before undocking and after docking.
And the final reault is there: the Dell Latitude E 4200 farly well survives to all this and both machines are fast enough for my needs (except when I compile packages on the laptop, which is very rare now).
posted at: 17:40 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
The wiki page linked above explains how to report spam on Debian mailing lists. This is in short as easy as bouncing a mail to a specific address, from your favourite MUA.
These "reported spams" then need to be reviewed. Once a given message has been identified as "spam" by enough DD's (there are many false positives in the candidates, particularly in non English-speaking mailing lists), it is removed from the archives.
Many mails have already been removed and any help is welcomed.
Since Frans Pop launched this for debian-boot, back in May, I use 1 or 2 hours every Sunday to this work. After working on debian-boot only, I gradually worked on reported spams in other lists. As of now, I only have 4 lists where I still have work to do:
What about you? Will you be able to help the few of us who work on getting clean archives (noticeably, Sandro Tosi, Giacomo Catenazzi, Cord Beermann, Luk Claes, Frans Pop, Bastian Blank, Luca Falavigna, Michael Koch, Bernd Steinmetz, Thoomas Viehmann, Florian Ernst, Adam D. Barratt, to name thos ewho reviewed more than 1000 mails)?
Working on lists in your own language might be a good idea (I'm particularly thinking about lists in German, Spanish, Chinese and French).
posted at: 14:05 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
As expected, when one posts such angry post, reactions come. Guess what: that was intended..:-)
So, I got more background on this KDE pulls MySQL in issue. The issue is more subtle than just KDE upstream being dumb and using a MySQL daemon or database for desktop operations.
In short, akonadi uses mysqld to manage its cache, from what I understood. So, what's needed is indeed the mysqld binary and not necessarily having it running as a *daemon*.
Bug #513382 explains it all. I really hope that MySQL and KDE maintainers will settle to find a solution for this. Apparently, other distros managed to get such issue solved and I would hate Debian being laughed at because we are the only ones where "thy laptop shalt be a database server".
Really, I won't be getting deeper into that issue, because I don't have the expertise but, really also, we can't seriously ship Squeeze with the current setup. What's unclear from the pointed bug report is whether someone is doing something about this.
Yes, the issue is not new. I actually went on it because I was installing a new laptop and noticed questions about MySQL. My former laptop already had MySQL for other reasons, so I never noticed that my KDE packages were suddenly pulling more stuff in.
Thanks to Sune Vuorela, from the Debian KDE team, and Eckhart Wörner, from upstream KDE, for bringing more light on this.
Ah, and thanks also to people who reworked the design of kdm login screen. It's really nice..:-) (and this is not sarcasm, here, I really mean it).
posted at: 06:39 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
I think we should really congratulate KDE upstream developers for this very wise decision that's definitely a big progress in terms of user friendlyness. Being prompted for the MySQL root password while installing a new shiny laptop is a huge progress and will certainly never make Windows users laugh loudly.
As a very longstanding KDE user, I am incredibly happy that Debian has chosen to install GNOME by deault. Really.
posted at: 07:10 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
It's very much appreciated. So, Patrick, Dan, Dirk and Noèl, you just won a free beer for your wise advice.....except the two marathoners among you guys who shouldn't drink beer (though it would help you slowing down enough to be able to run along with me).
In short, all this can be summarized to "Christian, you're going the wrong way with Xen, use KVM". One of the advices was using VirtualBox OSE, which is certainly a wise advice as well...but not what I want to experiment (I already use VB for the few D-I work I'm still doing and that would not be a new experiment for me).
I'll go your proposed way and will let you know. Still, I'd love being able to figure out Xen stuff as this is what we're more and more using at ONERA.
posted at: 05:34 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
I'm currently installing my new toy^W laptop, namely a shiny Dell E4200 that will replace my good old X1.
As this is not only my Debian laptop but also my work machine and I need to work with Windows several hours a day...but still receive my mail through my Debian laptop, I decided to put my fingers into virtualization.
I know nearly nothing about this whole thing (up to now, my Windows work machine was a desktop machine). So, that's a perfect occasion to make my mind abou tall this, right?
What I have been able to figure out as of now is that I could use Xen for this: the Debian machine would be the host machine (if I understand properly Xen jargon, that would be the dom0) and I would run Windows in a virtual machine (domU).
Another option would be having the host system run a very small Debian system and use two "domU", one with Debian unstable and the other one with Windows.
But, indeed, I don't really see the benefit of this except wasting my resources.
As I'm having hard times having a Xen hypervisor work properly (I iitially installed the machine as a regular Debian machine), I actually wonder whether I'm going The Right Way.....and I also try to find some good "virtualization with Xen for dummies" references.
For instance, about how to boot the damn hypervisor when using grub2, an encrypted root file system (/boot on ext2), etc.
Where, really, do I need to look?
posted at: 16:37 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
The next step is definitely Paris. The race is close to my home, this is a great race in a great city at a great time. I really can't miss it. So, that one is registered.
The point is "what about 'the other one'". I plan to run another marathon during that year, preferably during autumn. Actually, I would probably be able to run at least one more but, well, many people urge me to avoid exxagerating and that includes my beloved wife..:-)
So, one more. Which one?
At this very moment, I have about 4 options:
We'll see..
posted at: 18:54 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Bug #540000 was reported as of August 5th 2009. We're apparently back to our "10,000 bugs in 2 months pace"...or close to it.
Halfway to bug #600000...
posted at: 15:59 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
The major event of this week-end was running the Köln|Cologne marathon. Why Cologne? Mostly because my marathon|Debian friends Ralf Treinen and Noèl Köthe ran it last year and enjoyed it. So, when we ran the Paris marathon together back in April, we decided to run either Berlin or Cologne later on.
I finally settled for Cologne because this is closer from Paris and the date was more convenient. That was great also for Noèl, who lives close to Köln, so of course he planned that race in his (busy) schedule. Unfortunately, Ralf got tendinite problems since last Spring and could not join us. We really hope this will be temporary and we will enjoy running together in the future.
So, I spent most of the week-end both visiting Cologne with Elizabeth...and running these 42,195 km.
That was great, really. Even if there were much more Germans than in Debian, they were really as friendly and welcoming as Debian Germans are...:-).
The race happens in Cologne center city and is well arranged for followers to be able to see runners several times, as the track comes back in the city center several times....with a memorable finish through the cathedral place, then central pedestrian streets and the bridge over the Rhein river (well, climbling it at km.42 is a small PITA, but still..).
Animation nearly all along the streets with many Köln inhabitants and tourists encouraging the runners and shouting and applausing and playing percussions, and....
My own race was really as I planned to do it. I targeted 4h exactly (Paris was 4h10) and thus tried to keep a pace of 5'41"/km....which I nearly respected. I had a small alert around km13-15 when my legs where kind of heavy....and I was already imagining a terrible second part for the race. Finally, seeing Elizabeth encouraging me at km.19 in the middle of a big crowd, then passing through Friesen Platz in a great noise and with huge encouragements, just made it. I then completed the first half in 1h59'20", which was just fine.
I slightly slowed down between km. 24 and 28, mostly because I was trusting my GPS watch to keep the pace...while it is indeed a bit inaccurate (its kilometers are about 950m long).
So, when I realized that I was about 1-2 mins late at km. 30, I decided to accelerate a little and thus target 5'30"/km on the watch...which I could sustain up to km.38.
I was fearing cramps and a very hard finish, just as it happened to me in Paris...but finally could finish in a quite good shape and keeping my pace.
My final time is officially 4h00'47". So, I missed my target by very few seconds but I am really very happy with the result and the way I finished.
Recovering in the hotel's sauna was amazing, after this, and I could then remember all the great moments of that race by viewing Elizabeth's pictures (soon online on my gallery, promise made).
And, finally, today, we had another day off to drive back home and continue recovering....and register for Paris Marathon on April 11th 2010..:-)... Hopefully, Noèl (who did an amazing 3h15) will convince self that he should come with his running friends.
So, dear readers, if you reached that part of my blog...I'm afraid you will again read about marathon stories from me.... As everybody was telling me: once you start, you never want to stop..:)
posted at: 17:06 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Indeed, thanks to the amazing work of the NM team, several people became DD recently and I though numbers might need an update.
So, here they are, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.
'Code' 'Pop' 'Act' 'Dev' 'Act' 'Dev' 'fi' 5340093 21 28 3,93 5,24 'ch' 7725200 20 22 2,59 2,85 'se' 9283722 24 35 2,59 3,77 'nz' 4317300 10 14 2,32 3,24 'no' 4828000 11 13 2,28 2,69 'at' 8356707 18 23 2,15 2,75 'de' 82060000 172 208 2,1 2,53 'lu' 491700 1 1 2,03 2,03 'au' 21807000 35 56 1,6 2,57 'be' 10741000 15 15 1,4 1,4 'nl' 16524463 23 38 1,39 2,3 'fr' 65073482 90 108 1,38 1,66 'ie' 4422100 6 9 1,36 2,04 'uk' 61612300 72 101 1,17 1,64 'ca' 33726000 38 56 1,13 1,66 'es' 46661950 44 52 0,94 1,11 'dk' 5475791 5 8 0,91 1,46 'hu' 9930915 7 11 0,7 1,11 'us' 305683227 214 353 0,7 1,15 'hr' 4491543 3 3 0,67 0,67 'cz' 10220911 6 6 0,59 0,59 'uy' 3477778 2 2 0,58 0,58 'it' 59619290 34 41 0,57 0,69 'il' 7282000 4 6 0,55 0,82 'bg' 7582000 4 4 0,53 0,53 'lv' 2245423 1 1 0,45 0,45 'pt' 10627250 3 4 0,28 0,38 'lt' 3565205 1 1 0,28 0,28 'pl' 38500696 10 13 0,26 0,34 'jp' 127288419 32 42 0,25 0,33 'cr' 4195914 1 1 0,24 0,24 'sk' 5455407 1 1 0,18 0,18 'gr' 11260000 2 3 0,18 0,27 'ar' 40677348 6 7 0,15 0,17 'by' 9685768 1 1 0,1 0,1 'br' 191043661 18 19 0,09 0,1 'tw' 22548009 2 2 0,09 0,09 'za' 49052489 4 8 0,08 0,16 'kr' 49232844 4 6 0,08 0,12 've' 28199822 2 2 0,07 0,07 'co' 44760630 3 3 0,07 0,07 'cl' 16454143 1 1 0,06 0,06 'ru' 141800000 8 8 0,06 0,06 'mg' 20042551 1 1 0,05 0,05 'ro' 22246862 1 2 0,04 0,09 'pe' 29180899 1 1 0,03 0,03 'tr' 71517100 2 2 0,03 0,03 'ua' 45994287 1 1 0,02 0,02 'mx' 106682500 2 2 0,02 0,02 'th' 65493298 1 2 0,02 0,03 'eg' 81713517 1 2 0,01 0,02 'in' 1145587234 6 6 0,01 0,01 'cn' 1360445010 5 9 0 0,01A few interesting facts:
posted at: 06:25 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
You may then remember me going over all of you with Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas book in French (definitely the best French book about Debian) and asking you to sign it and write down some words.
I finally managed to give François the book this week and, on his behalf, I'd like to thank all people who contributed to this. This was much appreciated and having that great book with that special addition made him very happy (even if he managed to install his other gift, namely a Dell laptop, with Debian squeeze, without the help of any book).
Ladies and gentlemen, you rock. But you know that.
posted at: 05:12 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
I've already been among the pionneers for parallel and dependency-based boot stuff....and never had any problem with it. So, really, moving one step forward is tempting.
Anyone to discourage me to do so? :-)
posted at: 16:28 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Last 2 weeks, I was on holidays, in a place where we were supposed to have wireless access in apartments....and where it finally turned out that there was wireless coverage in *some* apartments, but not ours.
That doesn't help for keeping up with paid work, which was the priority. Therefore, my Debian activity was fairly low and I could just keep up with mail (sometimes, I fully understand the stance of ppl who just cut off reading their Debian mail, stay subscribed to d-d-a and that's all....it's awful to see how one can waste time by just reading mail).
Anyway, I'm back in my standard mode, at home. I'll resume working on Monday and will try to do some stuff in my TODO list these days: look at nasty issues in D-I, which got reported recently, check a few bugs in the samba packages (the number of bugs is increasing again)....and continue preparing for the Köln marathon, which is in 6 weeks now.
About running, I could keep up really well during my 5 weeks holidays by running every 2 or 3 days (and even more during Debconf first days). I didn't run over 25 kilometers, but I ran several half-marathons where I could sustain less than 2 hours each time. I even went down to 1h55 two days ago in an amazing run along the shore of the "bassin d'Arcachon" in southern France, along the shoreline walking path and an incredible amount of birds. These are moments where you really enjoy running very early in the morning.
Apart from this, our daughter Sophie is now relocated in Bordeaux after spendign one year in Toulouse. Bordeaux is a city I really enjoyed and I think she will spend 3 great years there (and maybe more in the future, who knows?). Moving her stuff was a really hard task, that included seceral drives between Paris, Toulouse and Bordeaux, turning into 4000 kilometers in two weeks. Phew.
Let's enjoy the final days of holidays and hot summer. Getting back to work *will* be hard..:-)
posted at: 09:34 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
All this already lead me to send signatures between 2 and 5 times to people whose keys I was signing (first time when coming back from Debconf, with weak signatures, second time when using Micah's method....and other times, in between, for some keys, while I was fighting with BDale's method.....where the 'delsig' part is a complete nightmare.
All this for nothing. Because, and thanks *again* to Micah who pointed me to the problem, I added the needed options to.....$HOME/.caff/gnupghome/options....while it should have gone in gpg.conf.
So, sigh, but I'll have to do it *again*. This time, I confirmed that things are working. Please don't hate me if I spam you.....this is really meant to improve the Web of Trust (and my GPG skills, but this, you would have guessed by yourselves, right?).
Clueless Debian Developer, you said?
posted at: 16:11 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
I should contribute there because I have a file with much more local name of Spongebob Squarepants than they have, thanks to the wonderful crew of Debian translators.
posted at: 15:26 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Bug #530000 was reported as of May 22th 2009. The pace slowed down a little again as it took 2.5 months to get 10,000 bugs.
Finally, contrary to what I waas predicting, bug #540000 was not reported during Debconf 9.
posted at: 13:08 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
It took me time to figure out how to send Digikam's captions when uploading to a gallery (it was much easier in the past with Digikam from KDE 3.5 and Gallery1) but I made it. Enjoy...
(not sure that all capitons went through, though)
posted at: 12:57 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
We were roughly about 50% of the train passengers as far as I could easily guess (I did not count the total number of passengers to avoid looking too suspect to these passengers...the train conductor was already staring at me...quite puzzled of not being the only person counting people in that train).
To my knowledge, the record of highest number of Debian people in a plane was set in 2004, for Debconf 4, when several dozens of folks ended up in an Air France Sao Paulo-Porto Alegre flight that was the connection flight for most of Europe. However, at that time, I was too shy in the Debian community to even imagine counting. So, we still have to officially set that record.
Anyway, this has again been an amazing Debconf. Congratulations should of course go to the organizers, with special thanks to Anto and César (and their girlfriends) who will finally be able to live again.
Adios a todos!
posted at: 10:12 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
As of today, I can now speak spanish along with my friend from New-Zealand and another friend from the UK.
That, thanks to a wonderful flamenco+beer party at Debconf. Some pictures will probably ome out soon.
posted at: 08:50 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Thanks again to Wouter who did all the world.
Additionnal editorial note: I'll leave the former sentence despite the obvious typo. It is a too funny typo indeed.
posted at: 20:10 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
Now, it is really new. Doing "svn ci" after updating a file helps.
posted at: 20:09 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
So, even if the DPL could be counted as 2, we're now ahead of the UK gang. Aha.
posted at: 00:27 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
To folks at Debconf: I will have a special request to you.
I came to Debconf with a copy of Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas book ("Les Cahiers de l'Admin: Debian Lenny), known in France as the Debian Bible, along with the translation of Martin Krafft's book.
That copy is a gift I intend to offer to my former boss, who just retired, as a reward for his constant support of my Debian activities, even during my work time.
I intend to have it "dedicated" by as many Debian folks as possible (no matter whether you are a DD or not...the point is being someone who contributees to Debian).
I'll probably come at many of you asking you for that signature, but you can also come at me and ask about signing the book. You can even do it if I'm not around. I'll leave it close to my bag, with my mascots (that make the bag easy to spot). Feel free to sign, add you name in clear text, maybe your main activity in Debian (release manager, BTS developer, Spanish translator, Debconf organizer, random hacker...).
It just needs to spot me (which is fairly easy: track for someone who's more talking than hacking) or spot the book... Thanks in advance!
posted at: 12:25 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
World domination. Again.
posted at: 23:20 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry
The whole thing really started yesterday, which was the "shopping day". As the crazy person organizing the traditional Cheese and Wine party, I have to take care of bringing some "material" (understand stinking cheese and tasty wine) as well as various items to arrange things properly)
So, I spent part of my day yesterday shopping for cheese, and digging into my bottles. The result is a nice (hermetic!) box filled with 2.5kg of various French cheese, which I expect to easily survive the trip. Also travelling with me are two bottles of Red Sancerre (Loire valley) and my very last Chateau Palon 2000 (Montagne Saint-Émilion), as well as many material I don't want to have the hassle to buy in Cáceres.
This, along with enough t-shirts for 10 days (including the traditional Spongebob t-shirt for the Day Trip) as well as running stuff, makes a 20-25kg bag, which I'll have hard times carrying all along the way...:-)
Ah, and this time I'll bring "Ze Titeps", the mascots of the Perrier family for 12 years now (they even have their Facebook page). Feel free to come and say hi to Ze Titeps (pronounce "ze taïteupsse").
Now let's give you all steps:
posted at: 23:20 | path: /bubulle/planet-debian | permanent link to this entry