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Squeeze RCs's Squashing 2012 #1

Rhonda — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:29:00

As sort of new year's resolution I started picking up the habit to work on release critical bugreports for squeeze again. The number is way to high to be healthy, but at least it is (still) below the amount of release critical bugreports for unstable.

It will be an uneven fight because it seems that there are quite some people working on weeding out release critical bugreports in unstable, but those who are interested in weeding out releasing critical bugreports in stable seems to be limited, even though it is one of our supported releases and thus should receive quite some attention, at least by the corresponding package maintainers themself.

So here is the list that I managed so far:

651792: not relevant for squeeze
653520: builds on squeeze
654568: re-add version information lost in reassign
654276: not relevant for squeeze
654257: not failing on squeeze
654810: not happening on squeeze
654459: not relevant for squeeze
654406: not release critical at all, shipped as upstream
655007: python2.7 isn't default in squeeze
655372: doesn't fail in squeeze
527403: libjack-dev in squeeze provides libjack0.100.0-dev
622903: not relevant for squeeze
625764: squeeze has older version of libvelocity-tools-java, not affected
654818: does work in squeeze
647795: squeeze still has libahven1-dev
647796: squeeze still has libahven1-dev
636823: not obsolete in squeeze
628500: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
629255: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
629284: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
629293: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636132: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636268: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636271: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636517: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636520: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636521: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636522: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636823: not obsolete dependencies in squeeze

That makes 29 squeeze RCs squashed so far, I hope I can keep up with it.

Enjoy!

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Global2000 Geburtstagsfest

Rhonda — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:53:00

No, my blog isn't dead, and neither is me. It's just that way too many things happened since this year's debconf that got me a bit off tracks. I managed to do daily business like keeping my packages in shape and the backports queue low, and that was mostly it.

No clue if that will change anytime soon, but I guess I would like to keep you updated with an event where you can meet me next week: There will be the Global 2000 Birthday Party going on in the WUK on Thursday 20th, so if you happen to be in Vienna at that time, drop by and enjoy some great bands.

... which brings me to one of the local bands from Vienna: Heinz aus Wien. They are around for well over 10 years now and are still rocking quite well. Here are some examples of their songs, like always:

Wir sind immer noch: A sort of love song for this great town, Vienna.
Lieb im Prinzip: A very pithy song about relationships.
Ich hab mit Tocotronic Bier getrunken: Quite funny song from their early days, and interestingly, people regularly claim that it was done by a different band ...

Like always, enjoy!

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Games Team IRC Meeting #4

Rhonda — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:59:00

Another month, another Games Team IRC Meeting happening. This time it was decided to have it again on Sunday, the time was set to 10 am UTC. To find out the time in your localtime, issue date -d '2011-06-26 10:00 UTC' in your shell. The agenda can be seen as always in the wiki.

If the time or agenda doesn't fit your ideas, feel free to join our mailinglist to be informed about the discussion of agenda and time for the next meeting and raise your voice at that time. Please notice that the agenda isn't final yet, you can still drop your ideas for that.

Enjoy, and join if you care about improving games packaging in Debian and influence future development!

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Debian/Ubuntu packages for pgadmin3 1.14.0 Beta 1

Rhonda — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:53:00

Martin Pitt announced packages of PostgreSQL 9.1 Beta 2 in his blog. Following this, I am hereby announcing the availability of pgadmin3 version 1.14.0 Beta 1 which amongst other things has added support for PG 9.1. You can find it in Debian experimental and backports for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10 and 11.04 in my pgadmin3 backports for stable Ubuntu releases PPA.

Enjoy!

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Reinhard Mey

Rhonda — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:02:00

This is a very special person. He is a very well known songwriter, at least in German language countries because he sings in German. He was that special kind of person with his lyrics when I was still a kid, and is still around continuing to write his songs in his very own special way. This person is Reinhard Mey, and if you understand German and have missed him so far, you have missed a lot.

The songs that I present to you are special in the way that they are all contained in the special compilation titled Mein Apfelb�umchen. The dedication he wrote for the album is also very special:

Ich glaube, Kinder zu haben ist das aufregendste Abenteuer, das wir erleben k�nnen. Es ist der schwerste Beruf und die gr��te Herausforderung, die ich mir denken kann, und die gl�cklichste Erfahrung zugleich. Ich bin dankbar daf�r! Dies sind die Lieder, die ich bis heute daf�r geschrieben habe. Mein Anteil aus dem Erl�s dieser Schallplatte gebe ich der Hilfe f�r krebskranke Kinder.

Rough translation: I believe that having kids is the most exciting adventure that we can undergo. It is the hardest job and the biggest challenge that I can think of, and at the same time the happiest experience. I'm thankful for it! These are the songs that I wrote up to today for it. My part of the revenues of this record go to Help for children with cancer.

So here are the songs:

Mein Apfelb�umchen: The song that gave this compilation its title. Extremely touching, and it manages regularly to wet my eyes... Absolutely lovely.
Keine ruhige Minute: This is actually a live version of the song with a longer introduction that is worth listening to on its own.
Menschenjunges: A thoughtful song about the thoughts when seeing your kid for the first time.

Enjoy! And if you feel like it, support these kind of special people.

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