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Re: How many bugs have you fixed today?

Bastian Venthur notices how the „How many bugs have you fixed today“ question is used as a killer-argument against critism at the release-process. I must confess that I also don’t like this attitude of...

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How to NOT improve relationships to your peer projects

I don’t know if Aaron is an Ubuntu Developer. I hope not. And I hope that no one of the commenters is one. But this post and especially the comments to it (because the article may have some...

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Re: Vimoutliner… finally!

Hi Matthew, you don’t have comments in your blog, so I feel the urge to reply to your post this way.I recently took over the vim-vimoutliner package, unfortunately too late to fix it for Lenny. >...

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How to not make manpages

% lintian $unnamed.changes|grep manpage|wc -l1312 Congratulations to the the unnamed upstream.

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Debian translations – EPIC LOL

As a german I’m used to strange translations in computer context.I saw it back when I was using Microsoft products and I regulary stumble upon it on Debian systems. But whats actually kind of...

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Ubuntu considering critical bugs an „invalid“ bug?

I just discovered that bug report over at Ubuntu.Short summary:They have a script in upstart which is not meant to be run manually and if you do it will erase your whole file system. Additionally it...

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Let me introduce DPKG::Log and dpkg-report

We have customers, which require a report about what we’ve done during maintenance windows. Usually this includes a report about upgrades, newly installed packages etc. and obviously everything we’ve...

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Last time I’ve used network-manager..

Theres an ongoing thread on the Debian mailing lists about making network-manager installed by default on new Debian installations. I won’t say much about the thread. Its just a prototype example for...

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password-gorilla 1.5.3.4 ACCEPTED into unstable

The password-gorilla package has lacked some love since a while and at some point in time I orphaned it.That happened due to the fact, that the upstream author was pretty unresponsive and inactive and...

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On Debian discussions

In my article „Last time I’ve used network-manager“ I made a claim for which I’ve been criticized by some people, including Stefano, our current (and just re-elected) DPL.  I said that a certain...

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