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 》

The work on the Ubuntu version of debimg has begun. The majority of changes will be the following ones (in the order they will be done): 1. Change debimg to use germinate to calculate dependencies (package lists) 2. Add the additional stuff (live, etc.) Once we can recreate the Ubuntu hardy i386 and amd64 alternate disks, work starts on the live filesystem and on merging these features back into debimg master, which will also get support for more archs. ... 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 》

Today, I decided to try out the new kernel mode setting feature in Fedora 9, which moves some stuff about video from userspace into the kernel. I tested this on my notebook, a HP Compaq 6720s with Intel X3100 (GM965) graphics controller. I downloaded the preview live image for x86_64 and booted with the i915.modeset=1 option. The boot was almost normal, except that it was flicker-free. After the system booted I switched the virtual terminal from Xorg to tty1 and back, and it was extremely fast. ... Read more 》

A first preview of the python-libisofs bindings is available now. It’s currently located in a git branch at git.debian.org, but this may change at a later point. The bindings support the creation of ISO Images and (almost) all options libisofs supports, like Rockridge, Joliet, and much more. Reading and Modifying existing images is not supported yet. The code is written in Cython and you need cython installed for building from the git branch. ... Read more 》

A backport of gnash 0.8.2 is available in my PPA at deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/juliank/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/juliank/ubuntu</a> <span>gutsy</span> main I wanted to try it, but I had no time to compile it, so I uploaded it to the PPA. The next day, I had a compiled backport. I don’t use it actively because it does not support some sites I visit. Another news is the recent addition of ndisgtk to the ship and ship-live seeds, which means it will be available on the disk. ... Read more 》

Reading about the idea of pristine-deb, I actually noticed that using ar -rc file.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz does not work, due to timestamps and other differences. I am currently working on a pristine-deb program which will workaround all these issues. It will be able to work with git repositories like pristine-tar and uses pristine-tar for control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz. I may also add a function to decompress all compressed files (like changelog. ... Read more 》

Colin Watson today uploaded casper 1.118, now supporting aufs. To use aufs in future Ubuntu disks built with casper 1.118 or newer, use union=aufs. Please test it. Another upload today was ndisgtk 0.8.1-1ubuntu1, bringing Ubuntu up-to-date with Debian and closing 3 bugs. BTW, I requested to include ndisgtk in main, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportNdisgtk. Having ndisgtk on the Ubuntu disks would be very useful for users without linux network drivers available and without enough experiences to use ndiswrapper from the commandline. ... Read more 》

In the last days, I used git very often. It was almost the first time I really used it, but I quickly understand the basic commands. As some of you may know, the readahead-list package is now maintained in a git repo in the collab-maint project. I decided to use git instead of bzr (which I used for everything before), because of its speed and because I wanted to learn more about git, how it works. ... Read more 》

Two days ago, zobel uploaded some of my package updates for me. One of them was ndisgtk 0.8.1, which adds more translations and fixes some problems. I intent to create a 0.9 release soon, with support for PolicyKit. I will upload the release candidate of this version to Debian experimental and Ubuntu Hardy. The other upload was readahead-list 1:1.20060421.1016-1, which I found on the Gentoo mirrors, but not where previous releases were located. ... Read more 》