I have been working the whole week on python-apt and the result is the jak branch. This implements some of the proposals I made in my last post, but has one very interesting feature: REAL COOL DOCUMENTATION. After Sandro Tosi told me in a comment in my last post that the real big problem with python-apt is a lack of documentation, I immediately started writing it. UsingreStructuredText and Sphinx, we now have a really cool and much more detailed documentation. ... Read more 》

[as sent to deity@lists.debian.org] Hello, while hacking a bit on python-apt in the last days, I formulated some proposals which I want to present to you. I have already implemented proposals I and VII, started with the implementation of proposal II, and have partially implemented proposal III, all in my local branch. I could implement the rest next week, and this could result in python-apt 0.7.9~exp2 (at least this is my wish, I do not have commit access to the python-apt repository, and this mail is not discussed yet:) ). ... Read more 》

I just uploaded a new upstream snapshot of aufs (another unionFS) to experimental. But it is really more than just a new upstream snapshot: First of all, this release includes patches written by Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com. These patches enable the usage of NFSv2 and NFSv3 file systems as branches, even on the standard Debian kernel. The package does not support NFSv4 yet, but will support it at a later point (but only with a patched kernel) - the code exists, it’s just not enabled yet. ... Read more 》

14 months after applying for the NM process, I’m a Debian Developer. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51:43PM +0000, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: [ This is a long mail with important information, so please read it all carefully. ] Dear Julian Andres Klode! Your account ‘jak’ has just been created in the central LDAP database of the Debian project. […] Thank you everyone (in chronological order): * Daniel Baumann (daniel) - Sponsored my first packages * Joerg Jaspert (joerg) - The first DD who signed my key * Niv Sardi-Altivanik (xaiki) - Advocated me for NM * Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel) - My first AM * Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (tolimar) - The second DD who signed my key (at CeBIT) * Bernd Zeimetz (bzed) - Took over in June, because zobel was very busy * Christoph Berg (myon) - For checking the AM report and requesting the account creation * Jonathan McDowell (noodles) - For adding me to the keyring * Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel) - This time for creating my account And many thanks to Google - for helping me to find answers to important questions. ... Read more 》

I worked a bit with some Gentoo systems the last days and it was no fun. The whole compiling thing is no fun. In fact, it is a danger for the environment. If every computer in the world run Gentoo, power consumption would increase dramatically. There would also be no netbooks, as they are almost unusable for running Gentoo on it, compiling software. The path chosen by binary distributions like Debian is much better. ... Read more 》

On Monday, I joined Software in the Public Interest (SPI). I’m currently a non-contributing member and have already applied for contributing membership. MJ Ray asked why people do and dont join SPI, and received answers. Not knowing SPI is no good reason, at least if you are participating in Debian’s development, and you should really know SPI if you are a Debian Developer. For me, personally, not joining the SPI would not make any sense. ... Read more 》

Well, you may have noticed that debimg 0.1 is still not released. But a lot of work happened over the weekend in my local branch. First of all, debimg’s set support is almost finished. I uploaded a tarball containing the differences between the official lenny weekly build from yesterday and a build created today by debimg, using the tasks of debian-cd 3.0.4 (after manual conversion to a format supported by debimg). ... Read more 》

debimg 0.1 will be the first major milestone in the development of debimg. I will now list some changes compared to the current release, debimg 0.0.3 (Please note that the following text is from an internal NEWS file and may not be correct in some aspects, as it is already some days old) Support for disk splitting This release of debimg adds support for creating media sets, i.e. splitting the packages over multiple disks. ... Read more 》

Every time I receive an email at my ubuntu.com address, and respond to it, Evolution uses my jak@jak-linux.org e-mail address. It should be noted that the e-mails are fetched with a single account, as they are on an imap server, and because ubuntu.com is a forward address. Is there any way to make Evolution respond with the e-mail address at which I received an email? BTW, work on debimg 0.0.4ubuntu1 (previously 0. ... Read more 》

This is a summary of most of my activities since end of march. BTW, I’m still at the T&S step in NM since January (I completed P&P in about 3 days). Also, thank you Tolimar for being the second DD signing my key! GNOME 2.22 (Python) / Updated Packages At the end of march, I updated some GNOME packages. These packages were gnome-python and gnome-python-desktop. The upload of gnome-python-desktop was really important, because the old version depended on libtotem-plparser7, which was not available anymore, and FTBFS because the metacity API changed. ... Read more 》