So, I have finally visited my first Debconf, and it was a phenomenal experience. To meet persons who have guided you, persons work with, and persons you respect face-to-face and have conversations with them about several topics ranging from their vision for Debian to their views on topics totally unrelated to software is something truly great. I am now convinced that events like this, which provide the right environment to socialize and discuss various issues concerning Debian, will go a long way into getting several aspects of the project moving along in the right directions, as well as create awareness to the outside world about what the project is about and how it benefits users.In terms of discussions, the Debian Science track was a nice way to see how contributors are putting Debian to good use for scientific research, and it was a nice opportunity to list out the things to be done to fill in the gaps and take Debian as a science platform forward. The Debian Python BoF was also a good place to meet many contributors face-to-face, and learn more about the technical concerns which people have in regard to the future of Python in Debian.While I didn't hack much during the conference, Christian's presence made me finish the Hindi translation of the Debian Installer. We can now shift focus to other aspects, such as getting packages in order for a short freeze-to-release cycle.Columbia University provides for a very nice venue, with easy access while maintaining a quaint environment within itself. Since this is my second visit to New York City, I had an idea of the common tourist locations, so I did not go around much during the conference. However, since I have a buffer day, I might try my hand at some photography around the place.Have a safe trip home, and a wonderful time ahead! I leave you with a photo I took when I went with a friend across the Brooklyn Bridge after Debconf.

Back in 2009, I did some analysis of the number of developers per country. Apparently, some people at DebConf remember this and asked if I could update this data. So, here we are with the 2010 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
Code	Name		Population	Act	Dev	A/M	D/M	2009	2010
fi	Finland		5359538		21	32	3,92	5,97	1	1
ch	Switzerland	7782900		22	26	2,83	3,34	2	2
nz	New Zealand	4386207		11	15	2,51	3,42	4	3
no	Norway		4895500		11	14	2,25	2,86	5	4
lu	Luxemburg	502202		1	1	1,99	1,99	8	5
se	Sweden		9354462		18	34	1,92	3,63	3	6
de	Germany		81757600	148	212	1,81	2,59	7	7
at	Austria		8356707		14	23	1,68	2,75	6	8
ie	Ireland		6197100		9	12	1,45	1,94	13	9
au	Australia	22413132	32	56	1,43	2,5	9	10
be	Belgium		10827519	14	16	1,29	1,48	10	11
fr	France		65447374	84	112	1,28	1,71	12	12
nl	Netherlands	16607943	20	38	1,2	2,29	11	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62041708	64	102	1,03	1,64	14	14
ca	Canada		34199000	27	56	0,79	1,64	15	15
es	Spain		46030109	34	52	0,74	1,13	16	16
dk	Denmark		5540241		4	8	0,72	1,44	17	17
hr	Croatia		4489409		3	3	0,67	0,67	20	18
lt	Lithuania	3341966		2	2	0,6	0,6	28	19
cz	Czech Rep	10506813	6	6	0,57	0,57	21	20
us	USA		309913000	165	360	0,53	1,16	19	21
it	Italy		60231214	32	46	0,53	0,76	23	22
bg	Bulgaria	7563710		4	4	0,53	0,53	25	23
il	Israel		7602400		4	6	0,53	0,79	24	24
hu	Hungary		10005000	5	11	0,5	1,1	18	25
lv	Latvia		2217969		1	2	0,45	0,9	26	26
uy	Uruguay		3494382		1	2	0,29	0,57	22	27
jp	Japan		127420000	32	45	0,25	0,35	30	28
pl	Poland		38192000	9	13	0,24	0,34	29	29
cr	Costa Rica	4253897		1	1	0,24	0,24	31	30
sk	Slovakia	5379455		1	1	0,19	0,19	32	31
pt	Portugal	11317192	2	4	0,18	0,35	27	32
ar	Argentina	40134425	6	8	0,15	0,2	34	33
tw	Taiwan		23119772	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34
br	Brazil		192272890	20	21	0,1	0,11	36	35
by	Belarus		9648533		1	1	0,1	0,1	35	36
mg	Madagascar	20653556	2	2	0,1	0,1	44	37
gr	Greece		11306183	1	3	0,09	0,27	33	38
kr	South Korea	48758000	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39
ec	Ecuador		14790608	1	1	0,07	0,07		40
cl	Chile		17063000	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41
ru	Russia		141927297	7	8	0,05	0,06	43	42
ro	Romania		22215421	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43
co	Colombia	45393050	2	3	0,04	0,07	41	44
ve	Venezuela	26814843	1	1	0,04	0,04	40	45
pe	Peru		29461933	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46
tr	Turkey		72561312	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47
za	South Africa	49991300	1	8	0,02	0,16	38	48
mx	Mexico		111211789	2	2	0,02	0,02	49	49
th	Thailand	66404688	1	2	0,02	0,03	50	50
eg	Egypt		78737000	1	2	0,01	0,03	51	51
in	India		1184344000	7	7	0,01	0,01	52	52
cn	China		1338612968	6	10	0	0,01	53	53
ua	Ukraine		45888000	0	0	0	0	48	54
								
								
					873	1410	61,91%			

A few interesting facts:

• We now have 62% of active DDs while we had 73% last year. This year's campaign of MIA work has been somehow "successful", apparently
• No earthquake happened in Finland and there hasn't been a huge increase in DD birth in Switzerland, so the first two stay the same. And Luxembourg didn't have a second DD to beat this.
• Sweden lost many active DDs and is no longer close to Switzerland.
• New Zealand made its way in the top 3. I want them to make a special haka for this
• Ireland won 4 places and is now in the top 10. Thanks for their 3 new active DDs
• And France still hasn't kicked Belgium's ass. Maybe will we win when the country splits out?

After Arjuna Rao Chavala successfully completed enough of D-I translation, I just activated support for the Telugu language in Debian Installer. Given the currently planned released, that will be available in the next release, so hopefully for Squeeze. Telugu is spoken in Andhra Pradesh, one of the largest states in India, on the south-eastern coast of the country. The main city of Andrha Pradesh is Hyderabad, the 6th largest city of India. Telugu is the third most-spoken language in India, with about 74 million native speakers. As of now, out of the 29 languages in India with over 1 million speakers, we do support 9 of them that represent over 70% of the population of India. We indeed now support the five most spoken languages in India (of course, all this by excluding English).

The 7th C&W party (6 at DebConfs plus one in an Extremadura meeting) just happened. Thank you to all ladies and gentlemen who attended. You've been awesome as usual, and this event, which is your event....has been even better than the former one, etc. Just because you guys were there. Thumbs up.

I was up early this morning for the 17km run with bubulle over the George Washington Bridge and back. We had an interesting diversion near the start, as we tried to go cross-country through a woodland path that slowly disappeared. I was quite happy to have finished at the same time as the "real" runners... and grabbed a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. During the day I attended a few talks from the Java track. I had afternoon tea with Safir, and then chatted to a few people before the Cheese & Wine party this evening. My kettle and teapot were commandeered to provide Taiwanese tea. The US supplies electricity at about half the voltage of the UK. So my US kettle has a power rating of a mere 1500W (compared to 3kW for my UK one) and takes twice as long to boil water. Also, if I took it home, it would probably blow a fuse, I guess. This is probably why everyone uses stove-top kettles here. While walking back from the hacklab to Carman, there were some fireflies glowing yellow on the corner near where the Columbia flag flies. They didn't seem to be there on the way back from the party - maybe they only shine at dusk.

After I finished an re-read my epic post describing my first day and a half at Debconf10 I suddenly realised that if I continue to describe the rest of 13 days here in such style and verbosity this would become a book, a boring one at that, so I decided to limit myself to 2 posts for Debcamp and then a post a day for the Debconf. But about the first half of the Debcamp week there are things that are as usual and there are things that are not. Let s start with the usual bits: more people arriving every day, evening parties are getting more and more fun and wild (or so people say) and the Internet and power at the hacklabs magically becomes more and more reliable day by day, the cabling mess grows organically trying to spread out evenly and not overload any individual socket, extension cords with non-local plugs appear and spread the load some more, people stress out, volunteer, crash out and repeat. All in all nothing can stop the freight train of few hundred Debian developers determined to have fun. With out own DFSG-free definition of fun. (But this year we appear to be running very close to the edge on volunteers if we run out of those, there will be a train-wreck, so please volunteer!) Now off to the unusual stuff. The City is well it is cool and very, very impressive. It is not terribly different to me at least I am used to such structure of the city: grid based layout of the downtown city (with some parks) and then branching out to separate, but different across-the-river districts and then sprawling out to slightly chaotic suburbs. Riga is very much like New York in the design. The difference is that New York is 10-20 times larger: the areas are 10 times larger, the buildings are 3-4 times higher on average, the streets are 2-3 times wider and yet have more traffic and there are far, far more shops, shows and restaurants. Also there is the subway. It is a great thing in that it hides the size of the city take a bus downtown once, to find out what I mean it takes ages to drive the distance that takes 20 minutes on the subway. I like this city, I am getting a feeling, that I could live here without much problem for me. So far I ve only had this feeling in Riga and Berlin. On the other hand this is USA. I ve so far only encountered one bad thing about it, but it is a pretty big one food. Basically all food that I ve tried so far in the USA has been crap. It was tasty salt, sugars and fat took care on my brain thinking it s food, but underneath that it was pretty crap: there was no texture, no content, no soul. The John Jay cafeteria where we are eating lunch and dinner is better than the most other options, because it is an all-you-can-eat buffet where you can choose your poison and it was also the place where I had the best piece of food in USA so far a slice of pepperoni pizza, that had a bit of taste behind the fat. Also, surprisingly, the fast food options (McDonalds, Burger King, ) are better than the equivalents in Europe, far better. In fact the fast food is cheap and in some cases tastes better than regular food, so there is no wonder why people might prefer it in some situations. So it is easy to see how people just accept shoving bland fast food or bland all-you-can-eat food into their mouths and not think much about it and thus become fat and put undue stress on their health. I expect the average weight of Debian developers to increase by 5 kg by the end of the conference. If you want to prove me wrong, running with bubulle would help you a lot with that. Events downtown. New York is a huge city with a lot of events going on every day, so everyone should be able to find something of interest for them. For me it was the free tickets for tapeings of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I got into both of those and for me The Colbert Report was by far the better experience. For one you can not get into Daily Show without a ticket (some tickets show up on the web site on the morning of the shoot around 11am), while 18 people from the stand-by list at Colbert Report got in. At The Daily Show you stand in a live line with ticket holders in one line and stand-by line separate. If you have tickets and arrive around 3pm you should be fine any later than that and you risk to be standing outside even with a ticket. You find that out around 4.30pm when they hand out physical tickets you have one, you get in. If not you might rush over to Colbert Report where a more humane system is used a staffer takes down your name and email on a numbered list and then you can walk around until 5.30pm then they let the ticket holders in and after that call the names of stand-by people that get in. The Colbert Report studio is brighter, more colourful and closer to the action, also it is very rare that cameras block the view from the audience (which is common on The Daily Show). It might have also been my luck when I got on the most boring The Daily Show episode I can remember, ever. The best joke was a woman asking John is she could get a ticket for her friend in August. The warm-up act and crowd control at The Colbert Report was also way better: Colbert staff was hyper, security was ever-present, warm-up was funnier and very engaging (he grilled me for several minutes and I replied making the audience laugh very hard explaining that Latvia was like India of Eastern Europe in regards to IT exports) and Colbert himself was very gracious talking to us out-of-character before the show for a good 10 minutes. Location, location, location. The talk rooms and event rooms and hacklabs are spread out across multiple buildings and there is a lot of other activities going on in those buildings besides Debconf, so moving between place might be confusing for the first day or two. Also the rooms are quite dark that might cause a noise problem for me and the video team as we ll have to up the sensitivity settings on our gear. The video team is working on fixing that by throwing a bit more light on to the speakers. Elevators are wicked fast, but can also be confusing, because the ground floor is on a different number for different buildings it can be G, 1 or even 4. Usually on campus there is a star next to the level with the exit. The dorms. I am in the Carman building and it looks like its interior has not been updated since it was built large ceramic bricks with very visible gaps (for the interior walls), raise-to-open windows, huge aircon fans that take up the whole bottom of the window, plumbing from the 60ies (at least). The security is weird on one hand you have to give your room card to the guard when entering the building, but on the other hand the room cleaning crew can simply forget to close your door after they are done. Like this Thursday I returned to the dorm just before lunch only to find the door of my room open. No one was around and nothing was missing, but it s still worrying. In any case I am steadily uploading photos from Debconf 10 to my Flickr page and new stuff should show up every day.

Yesterday late evening, Jean-Baptiste and I arrived in NYC after about a 16 hours trip. Amazingly, he mentioned to me that we entered a train in the station close to our home....and then never went outside until we exited the 1 line subway at 116th street on Broadway Ave.:

• Transilien line U from la Verri re to La D fense
• RER line A to Ch telet-les Halles
• RER line B to Roissy CDG terminal 1 train station
• CDGVal to Terminal 1
• Aer Lingus A321 to Dublin airport
• Aer Lingus A330-300 to JFK
• JFK Air Train to Howard Station (admittedly the platform here is technically partly outside)
• MTA subway line A from Howard Station to 59th St.-Columbus Circle
• MTA subway line 1 to 116th St.-Columbia university

It's indeed quite typical to notice that, these days, you can travel 1/4 of the planet, using 9 different trnsportation systems and never go outside. We made a quick appearance in the Hacklab yesterday, enough to say "hi" to a dozen of people around and mostlysee how things are organized. Then bed, which is probably the best way to avoid jetlag. This morning, I of course woke up quite early (Debian grandfathers, blah blah) and of course I went out running..:-) The initial plan was to do a short enough run in Central Park. However, I managed to get partly lost and, indeed, after entering the Park in the NW corner, I managed to read Columbus circle...in the SW corner after wandering around the large alleys. So, my only choice was then to come back through the westernmost part of the Park back to Columbia..and thus ended up with a 13km run (for running junkies, the pace was 5'31"/km (8'52"/mile for local runners). And now, I'm in the hacklab with JB (did I already say that I'm proud of this? Yes, dozens of times...OK...). And they're waiting for me to go to lunch....so, end of this blog post..:)

Joe Hansen reported the Debian bug #590000 on Thursday July 22nd, against the uif package. Guess what? That was a localization bug..:-)... Joe is doing a lot of work for Danish localization in Debian since a few months and I'm happy to see him rewarded byt this little "success". Bug #580000 was reported as of May 2nd. It is now confirmed that the rate for 10,000 bugs is more 2.5 months than 2 months as it was in the past. So, now my next post about this topic will be about Bug #600000 for which a bet was placed two years ago. I already lost the bet as I predicted it to happen on June 30th. Either Ren Mayorga or Josu Abarca are likely to win this bet, more likely Ren , I would say. One should note that all people who did bet where optimistic about the moment where bug #600000 would be reported.

This week-end, I didn't work a lot on Debian stuff (mostly running and gardeing...) but still managed to finally take care of my pet package, the one I maintain since 2001, namely geneweb. The package suffered from a very longstanding RC bug that made it unusable on amd64 machines. I had to call for help Ocaml gurus and R mi Vanicat kindly provided a working patch. So, now, geneweb can be released and I won't have to ask for my pet package to be removed from testing. I even switched it to dh7 and "minimal" debian/rules file (something I planned to do at DC10 but finally turned out to be easy to do. That will be my last week-end of activity in Debian until DebConf10 as I'll be away for the upcoming week-end. So, for those of you who attend DC10, see you in NYC. I'll arrive on Wed 28th evening for part of Debcamp and I'll have the great pleasure to introduce my son Jean-Baptiste to the Debian world.

After a quite long string freeze and last minute efforts by translators, I finally stopped the clock on Sunday July 11th for D-I localization update meant for the release of the beta1 version of debian-installer for squeeze. We finally have 65 supported languages. In a final effort, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Tagalog, Kurdish, Croatian and Macedonian were "rescued" and completed enough for being included in the release. Unfortunately, I had to deactivate Wolof, Serbian and Welsh because of lack of activity. For Serbian, this is very infortunate as new translators indeed tried to contact me with updates, which I missed and discovered only after it wasn't possible to revert the change. Good news are that Serbian is now already reactivated for the next release and we will even have both the Cyrillic and Latin versions of it. The mass upload of D-I packages happened mostly on Sunday 12th (you probably noticed that if you follow debian-devel-changes). It is already possible to test what will be D-I beta1: just go to the D-I development web page, then choose to download the daily built netboot image. Boot it with "install mirror/suite=unstable". This is not *exactly* what beta1 will give as this will install unstable and not testing, for non D-I packages...but I think that, until D-I packages migrate to testing, this is the best way to test beta1. The next step in D-I release preparation should be the mass migration to testing of most udeb packages.

Today, I officially launched the discussion to prepare Debconf attendees mind that we will have the 6th Cheese and Wine party at DebConf 10 in New York City. It has to be awesome. It will be.

If you do, then please read the current status of D-I localization, 3 days before the official end of the string freeze. You should do it particularly if you care about Belarusian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Tagalog, Kurdish, Croatian, Macedonian, Wolof, Serbian, Welsh. (Brazilian Portuguese was also mentioned in that post but updates happened today and I'm confident that Felipe will soon catchup. Croatian is also likely to be OK as Josip is often updating at the last minute...).

I hope that some of you, outside the French Cabal, are able to understand French. I would be sorry if you missed the whole fun of this. The story starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2010/05/msg00178.html. In short, someone apparently named "Alain S<shhhhdonttellmyname>" mailed the debian-l10n-french mailing list to request for a message written in march 2006 by someone else whose name is also S<shhhhdonttellmyname> to be removed from the debian-*user*-french mailing list archives. "Someone" then politely answered him with http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2010/05/msg00179.html, trying to use as less irony as possible. At least, this "someone" refrained himself to explain that, doing so, yet another copy of Mr S<shhhhdonttellmyname> name was being replicated over dozens of servers all over the world, also exposing that he's probably living in Antony, Bourg La Reine, Chatenay Malabry, Chevilly Larue, Fontenay Aux Roses, Fresnes, L'Ha Les Roses, Le Plessis-Robinson or Sceaux, in France. Later on, this "someone" received many private mails from that Mr S<shhhhdonttellmyname>, which got automatically and gradually classified as spam. Funnily, a few days later, that "someone" received another mail from another person, posting from the very same IP address and requesting for such removal again. That "someone" being Very Evil and a little bit pissed off answered with http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2010/06/msg00136.html which is untranslatable. So, this is why I hope you can read French. Have fun.

Today, I launched a proposal for a string freeze in Debian Installer. A string freeze is a formal agreement among developers to avoid changing localizable material without concertation. This is a commitment towards translators to guarantee them that, while they're doing an effort to complete their work, this effort won't be broken by a developer adding of modifying translatable material. This can be seen as a first step towards the preparation of a release of D-I. Indeed, the only release we did for Squeeze (D-I alpha1 release) had no formal translation update round. We currently have 45 languages that are considered to be "in good shape" (even if not all complete) and very likely to remain activated in Squeeze. However, 20 (TWENTY) languages are in danger of being deactivated because of low activity. To avoid this, I will once again take my superhero suit, add some leather to it, take a whip and start nagging translators, doing noise and, in short, annoying the entire world (including blogging too often), in order to shake people enough so that we reduce this number to zero. Be prepared. Interesting links:

• Localization statistics for D-I and related packages (the most important part is "level 1"): http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/;
• Documentation for Debian Installer internationalization and localization: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/;
• Information about supported languages: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/languages.html.

What happened in my running life since my last update? In short, I achieved two races I was planning to do. I ran my first trail on May 16th, Le Trail des Cerfs ("deer trail"). The experience of trail running is awesome. Runners are very friendly and all of them are nature lovers. So, the feeling is completely different from mass macadam races (those are also a must-do, still!). I had a great time running that trail (which ended up to be exactly the distance of an half marathon). I completed it in less than 1h50, which is good, as the positive slope was about 300 meters, with sometimes very though rampswhere walking was nearly mandatory. At this occasion, during the "after", I discovered some members of an online community of runners, named Kikourou ("Who is running where?"), and I'm now a member of this online community (yet another one...). That makes the promise of lots of beers after races...:-) Today, I completed my "Maureparathon", a full marathon ran alone on small roads and bicycle lanes in my home city, and was happy to break my personal best by 6 minutes, down to 3h43'14". Yay. For sure, still very far from SuperNo l (3:03:56 in Mainz), but he's younger..:) As I planned, I'll be running the Sur les Traces du Loup ("The Wolf Track"?) 33km trail in La Ville aux Clercs, 2 hours away from our place. Elizabeth is very happy to come with me in a 2-day trip in Chateaudun neighbourhood. Renaissance castle visit mandatory for the following Sunday...:-) Nice planning, eh? And, guess what? I'm already trying to spot some local 10km races while being in New York. I would find it an interesting experience to run with local runners. Just like free software...and beer...and cheese, running is much better when shared.

During the week-end, samba 3.5.3 hit the archive. It is still in experimental (and will remain there as Squeeze will be released with 3.4.* as finally decided during SambaXP). For lenny users, I also build backported packages. They are not on backports.org as the policy for these "as official as possible" backports is to have the same version than testing. So, they are provided "as is", for i386 and amd64, on the pkg-samba team's unofficial repository. The Release file on that repository is signed by my GPG key. Please note that these backports also need talloc from backports.org so you need to add entries for backports.org in your sources.list files to be able to use them. Since I last blogged about samba packages, the 3.4.8 version was also released. It entered testing without any problem and I also uploaded a backported version to backports.org. Finally, on May 5th, new versions of the 3.2.5 packages of lenny were updated to 2:3.2.5-4lenny11, currently in stable-proposed-updates. So, they will be part of the next point release of lenny. They fix two important bugs (#575951 for interdomain trust with w2k8 servers, and #538819 for memory leaks in some situations).

I didn't write much about running stuff since my update about Paris marathon. The main point was, in general, to gradually resume running activities, after the marathon peak. Which I actually didn't respect at all, as usual..:-)... I already wrote that my "training program" is mostly made of "run as you feel, with no strongly hardcoded program". So, the week-end after the marathon, I ran 11km on Saturday, followed by an half-marathon (alone) on Sunday which I completed in 1h53'31", very close to my 1h51'31" PB for a "half-marathon alone on trails" run. Definitely not what is generally recommended, but, eh, this is how I was feeling... Then, I could continue during the following weeks with my normal program made of 1 or 2 small runs (between 8 and 14km) at lunch time on weekdays, 1 small 10 or 11 km trail run (on this circuit or a longer variant), and a "long" run on Sunday mornings. The long run usually goes from 15km up to 25km. Now, 6 weeks after the marathon, I'll run a 20km trail named Le Trail des Cerfs ("deer trail"), that starts in my neighbourhood and goes through my beloved Rambouillet Forest. I could have chosen the 35K or even 50K race, but preferred being less ambitious with the distance and rather focus and ahieving what will be my first official trail race. I don't expect much differences with the weekly runs, indeed, as most of these are already done in trails, fields and woods with very few paved roads. My goal for this race is 1h45. Later on, I still have the plan to run a full marathon alone, probably on May 31st. This time, contrary to last year where I ran one by going through a very wide loop in Rambouillet Forest, I'll do 4 loops mostly in the city of Maurepas, on flat roads, with possible pit stops at my home (so, no camel back bag, but more focus on good performance). I plan to target 3h55 if the heat is not too high. Further plans are less precise. I'm not sure I'll be able to run the Sur les Traces du Loup trail in La Ville aux Clercs, 2 hours away from our place. That would mean arranging a small week-end there with Elizabeth. Still, that really looks like a great race, with a start at 18:00 to enjoy the end of the day during the longest days of the year. Also, the race and the barbecue that follows appear to be very friendly events in a small French village. On the other hand, the autumn marathon is decided. This will be the Seine et Eure Marathon, a "small (600 runners) marathon very close to our family house in the Seine valley. The race is one of the flatest marathons in France and has the reputation of leading to great times. That will be on October 17th. Target for me: 3h45 (unless I see changes happening util then).

In an amazing but meaningless feat of synchronicity, Toxicore's post led me to check how much distance have I done while excercising I have mainly done this cycling, although some running also comes into play. Turns out I was just about to break the same mark he did. From my Nokia Sportstracker records: Before breaking the 5000 Km mark, yesterday at noon:
After breaking the 5000 Km mark, yesterday at night:
So, following Bubulle's style... If I have done 5000 Km since January 2008, when do you think I should reach 5500? 6000? 7000? Infinity and beyond?

SambaXP day 2 for me. More progress on samba packaging. Today, I completed the backport of samba 3.4.7 to backports.org. We already had that version but it was desynced with the version in testing (2:3.4.7~dfsg-2 in testing while we had -1 in backports.org). As the difference is noticeable (dropping the old smbfs package in favoir of cifs-utils, which I blogged about yesterday), I wanted to resync all this. So a new 2:3.4.7~dfsg-2~bpo50+1 package (what a funky numbering scheme, isn't it?) was just uploaded today in backports.org. The transition between smbfs and cifs-utils should be smooth (as soon as autobuilders complete the entire build which may be quite long, for samba). I also completed a full resync of packages we have in experimental. Here, we do provide the bleeding edge samba version, namely 3.5.2. It's very likely that we don't provide samba 3.5 in squeeze, the option being conservative and keeping up with the 3.4 branch. So, for our users wanting the last samba version, having it in experimental is interesting. Next step is building 3.5.2 backported packages. These will be provided "as is", for i386 and probably very soon amd64, on the pkg-samba team's unofficial repository. I'll be working on this tomorrow^Wtoday.

Readers of these blog posts know how I like to play stupid games with the BTS (bugs are what make software live, right?). Doing that, I just discovered that Ubuntu bug numbers are about to pass Debian bug numbers. At the moment, I write this blog entry, the highest bug in Launchpad, for Ubuntu, is #575161, while Debian's highest bug number is #580219. Roughly speaking, Ubuntu highest bug number should be higher than Debian's in about 2 weeks. Interesting.