Gunnar Wolf: Snails flying by
Upload accepted by organisers.
Upload time has been 3h49'29" (my watch says 27", eh!).
That was a good one, really (actually, I can compare to only 3 as it
was my fourth marathon after Paris and Cologne 2009, plus the
unofficial Rambouillet Forest marathon I ran alone 6 weeks after Paris
2009).
For marathoners around, here are the chronometric data. Please note
that GPS watches tend to overestimate the distance, mostly because of
the jerky way one runs in mass events, as well as geometric
considerations related to the imprecision of GPS (imprecision may be
lateral and thus the line recorded by the watch is often less straight
than the real one). For instance, according to my watch, Paris
marathon was 42.63km long, so an overestimate by nearly 500meters. As
a consequence, the recorded speed of 5'23"/km should be corrected to
5'25". So, times below should be increased by 2 seconds.
...you want to run many. Everybody told me so. Which is why I was
warned when I ran my first one year ago in Paris, I knew I would run
other.
So, on Sunday will be my fourth one and my second Paris Marathon.
So, after 4h10mins in Paris (april 2009), 4h12 in Rambouillet Forest
(all alone in full autonomy mode) and 4h00'49" in Cologne, my target
this time is 3h50.
Weather is announced to be perfect, my physical condition is AFAIK
good, the motivation is very high....my only fear is that I registred
in the "4h target" group (because, back in November, I wasn't
expecting the results I got in February/March in half-marathons). As many people overestimate their target, I
expect to be passing hundreds of runners during the first 5
kilometers, which is not the best way to start....but, hey, Paris
streets are wide enough (except Place de la Bastille, my nightmare....I hope
organizers solved the jam problem there).
Of course, I kinda hope seeing fellow Paris DD's waving giant Debian
swirls, including our wanabee-DPL.....but let's stop dreaming. And
running in a sunny day all across Paris and along river Seine, will be
great again even without Zack. I'll also be missing Ralf and No l who
ran it last year: Ralf is unfortunately suffering from knee problems
and No l is preparing for Mainz marathon (target: 3h??).
Anyway, more news on Sunday afternoon....and let's enjoy a full rest tomorrow!
It looks like we have just enough interest for a second run of Debian Tartan. If we get it ordered in the next couple of weeks there will be time for kilts to be made in time be worn at DebConf10.The only issue at present is that it would be rather cheaper if more people were involved. For short runs the cloth costs 26.00 GBP per yard, and one also needs to find 400.00 GBP for the loom setup. Once you get to an order of 80 yards, the weavers will swallow the setup cost, and only charge 24.00 GBP per yard.In other words, if we're making only 46 yards (which seems like the current level) it's going to cost 10 GBP extra per yard, which is frustrating, as that then means that buying the remaining 36 yards to make it up to 80 yards will only cost another 365.00 GBP or a tenner a yard.If I wanted to make a profit out of this, I suppose I could speculate on the spare cloth, and then knock it out for 150% profit, but I have no desire to make money from my fellow developers, so while I'm chivying, and talking to the weavers, I'm not going to be underwriting the order like I did last time.So if you're even slightly tempted to join this cheerful clan then mail me now! Every extra kilt, skirt, tie, or other item ordered not only results in you owning a beautifully crafted item, but it also does your fellows good by making their orders cheaper too.At an order of 60 yards, the prices cross over, at which point there is no point in not making the full 80 yards, which can then be sold to late-comers to recoup costs for the early-birds.Go on -- you know you want one.Update: not sure what happened to the spam unfriendly mail link - use this: phil at hands dot com
A special report on America's economy: Time to rebalance I've been thinking about that for a while too, especially after the dollar's recent weakness, although it has been strengthening some, lately, apparently due to the state of Greece's finances... I think that the computing industry is, in general, well poised to take advantage of that. For instance, what could be easier to export than computing power or "Software as a Service"? All it takes is a few minutes for someone in Europe to sign up to a US-based service with a credit card. For instance, compare Linode's prices and good service with most of their European competitors (gandi.net for instance, who are good people, and you have to love that they put "no bullshit" right on their front page). Not that they don't have good service in Europe, but it's very difficult to compete on price with the dollar being significantly cheaper. With the dollar where it is right now, gandi is almost, but not quite, competitive with Linode. If you don't include taxes. If the dollar weakens again, though, things could easily tilt far in Linode's favor. Besides a weak dollar, I think it will be important for companies in a position to do so in the US to focus on "the rest of the world". The US is a big, populous country where it's very easy to forget about far-off lands. Compare my home town of Eugene, Oregon to where I live in Padova. Google Maps says that it takes 7+ hours to drive to Vancouver, Canada (which, to tell the truth, isn't all that foreign in that they speak English with an accent much closer to mine than say, Alabama or Maine). Going south, Google says it's 15+ hours just to San Diego, although I think that's optimistic myself, given traffic in California. From Padova, I can be in France in 5 hours, according to Google, 3 hours to Switzerland, 4 to Innsbruck, in Austria, less than 3 hours to the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, and around 3 hours to Croatia, too. And if you wanted to throw in another country, the Republic of San Marino is also less than 3 hours away, according to Google's driving time estimates. You could probably live your entire life in a place like Eugene and never really deal much with foreigners, whereas here, nearby borders are both a historic and an ever-present fact. The outcome of this is that, to some degree, people in the US have traditionally focused their businesses "inwards" until they got to a certain size. Which is, of course, a natural thing to do when you have such a big, homogenous market to deal with before you even start thinking about foreign languages, different laws, exchange rates and all the hassle those things entail. However, if exchange rates hold steady or favor the US further, and internal spending remains weaker, it appears as if it may be sensible for companies to invest some time and energy to attract clients in "the rest of the world". "Cloud" (anyone got a better term? this one's awfully vague, but I want to encompass both "computing power" like Linode or Amazon's EC2, as well as "software as a service") companies likely will have a much easier time of things: for many services, it's easy to just keep running things in the US for a while, and worry about having physical or legal infrastructure abroad later. Your service might not be quite as snappy as it may be with a local server, but it'll do, if it performs a useful function. Compare that with a more traditional business where you might have to do something like open a factory abroad, or at the very least figure out the details of how to ship physical products abroad and sell them, and do so in a way that you're somewhat insured against the large array of things that could go wrong between sending your products on their merry way, and someone buying them in Oslo, Lisbon or Prague. Since this barrier to entry is lower, it makes more sense to climb over it earlier on. As an example, Linode recently did a deal to provide VPS services from a London data center, to make their service more attractive to European customers. However, they still don't appear have marketing materials translated into various languages, and presumably they don't have support staff capable of speaking languages like Chinese, German or Russian either (well, at least not in an official capacity). This isn't to pick on them; they may have considered those things and found them too much of an expense/distraction/hassle for the time being - they certainly know their business better than I do - and that they simply are content to make do with English. Other businesses, however, may decide that a local touch is important to attracting clients. What do you need to look at to make your service more attractive to people in other countries? In no particular order:
The first production run of TeleMetrum
boards arrived from our assembler today, and overall things are looking good!
Unfortunately, I specified the wrong value for a capacitor associated
with the new and improved 150mA 3.3 volt regulator. The resulting symptom
was interesting to debug... everything seemed to be fine except that the GPS
chip wouldn't talk to us. After some investigation, it became clear that
the 3.3 volt power
supply was taking much longer to stabilize than it should... long enough that
the power-on reset circuit was relaxing before the supply was stable! The
cc1111 apparently handles this just fine, but the GPS chip doesn't. Since
the new cap is optional, just removing it caused everything on the
first test board to
start working! The ultimate solution will probably be to both replace the
new bypass capacitor with one of the correct value, and to swap out the cap
in the reset circuit for a somewhat larger value to ensure we have plenty
of margin in the reset circuit.
I now have 4 of the new boards completed, turned on, and passing initial
tests. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to wrap up the rest of the required
functional testing. I then need to focus my attention on a business trip
all of next week... but if all keeps going well, we're very close to
taking our first orders.
Stay tuned!
It is getting down, even though the current number is
scary. My personal
RC bug count is not so mystical and as low as 205 RC bugs to
go, which is quite encouraging. Without any further ado, here are
this week squashes:
Seeing these church bells in L beck wasn t easy for me. They melted and fell to the ground after an air raid in 1942, and have been left exactly as they fell.
I wasn t alive in 1942, and even my parents hadn t yet been born. My grandfather was relocated by the American government because he refused to fight in the military for religious reasons.
And yet, I still felt a sense of embarrassment, being an American standing there in Germany next to those bells. My country* did things like this. Why? Even if there s a war on, and whatever the other side may be doing, do we really have to bomb all their churches?
Then, we went to the Dom (cathedral). It has a small gallery of photos of the destruction in 1942, and how it took 40 years to restore (though some original works are simply irreplaceable.)
I had just been walking through the beautiful Dom, and then saw pictures like that. It was very sad. I imagined the people in 1942, seeing the smoking remains of so many buildings that had been important to the town for centuries. Places where, no doubt, some of them worshiped, and their parents and grandparents had too. I imagined my sadness if a country bombed one of the churches that my ancestors helped start or build. I felt ashamed of what the democracy in which I live (and its allies) did to the Dom, to Marienkirche, and to the other churches and civilians there.
Then, a few days ago, Wikileaks posted a video from an American helicopter in which our soldiers begged Come on, let us shoot! at people, most or all of which were completely unarmed. They killed a bunch of people. Then a van came to try to get the wounded to the hospital. Then the soldiers in helicopter killed those people, and wounded some children. Even if they thought their lives were in danger, I d expect to hear some quiet sadness at what they thought was a regrettable need to use force. Instead, you d hear them cheering whenever they killed someone, as if they had just won a round on some video game. They killed civilians, and considered it a fun experience and a mission accomplished. There was no sadness for knocking a man to the ground, leaving him writhing. Just jokes. There was no more care for human life here than there was 60 years ago.
It saddens me that every year we celebrate our military on independence day celebrating its ability to kill, not its ability to feed. I wish that we could rather celebrate the times Americans have saved lives, whether in Berlin or in Port-au-Prince, or helped to topple dictatorships. Military power shouldn t be our first choice so often.
L beck wasn t attacked for any strategic purpose; the British did it to destroy the morale of the enemy civil population , as the Americans did in Dresden or the Germans in London. In other words, those bells fell to the ground for no reason other than that they were German. People lost their lives for the same reason in Germany and in London. The British had no reason to believe that those civilians meant them any harm, that they were anything but caught between two strong powers. And the same held true in Iraq.
When we went to Berlin, we walked through the replica of Checkpoint Charlie, with the big sign announcing that you are leaving the American sector. There is little positive to be said about the Cold War, but there is something the British and American military did of which I am not the least ashamed: the Berlin Airlift. Although I didn t see it, I feel a sense of the USA having been a force for good when I read about the Berlin Airlift Monument at Tempelhof, which has the names of the 70 British and American men that lost their lives in the airlift (due to accidents), above the inscription They gave their lives for the freedom of Berlin. That s the spirit I wish we d see more often in the world today: people giving their lives not just for their own security, but for strangers in need on a different continent.
We Americans have been, compared to many countries in Europe, relatively sheltered from the ravages of war in our own midst. I wish that more of us would have the opportunity to gaze at fallen church bells, to wonder through a magnificent old church and then to see photos of it on fire, or to see a monument to our soldiers in a far away land. Perhaps then we could better learn from history, and see firsthand that some of our most positive contributions to the world have come in the form of coal and candy bars instead of incendiary devices.
A small post script
Many historic buildings or locations we saw in Germany had plaques on their exterior with a brief history, often in German and in English. I was interested to note that some (though not all) of these plaques had language such as destroyed by fire in 1942 , with no mention that the cause of the fire was a bombing. I was even more interested to note that same sort of description at several sites in Prague Castle, mentioning that the original building was lost in the fire of 1142. It was only on the third or fourth building in the Castle that we learned that the fire of 1142 was caused by a military siege of Prague Castle.
* I know it was the British at L beck, but the Americans did similar things elsewhere.
I also acknowledge that, at a macro level at least, the Berlin Airlift wasn t purely an altruistic act, as there were geopolitical factors in play. But I am speaking of the actions of the airmen here, who took on considerable risk to help others.
Tesco Car Insurance (and most
likely their other financial products) operate a commercial email system which
is populated by anyone who submits their address to them as part of searching
for a car insurance quote.
That's not particularly unusual. Each mail that Tesco sends includes
unsubscribe instructions - standard industry practise. However Tesco's
instructions do not work. I have followed them at least three times since
January this year to no avail. Despite this I have continued to receive
unsolicitied commercial email (spam) from Tesco.
Tesco do not answer mail to their postmaster or abuse addresses, and do not
accept mail for those local parts at many of their domains (they use more than
one domain for their business: tescofinance.com, tesco.com, tescocompare.com,
contact.tescocompare.com, tescoinsurance.com).
I would advise that nobody ever submit their details to a Tesco-affiliated
company for these reasons. I have given up and blacklisted them on the mail
servers which I control.
Based on the unrelated experiences of a friend of mine, I would have strong
reservations regarding the quality of the services they offer, too - in
particular their home insurance products.
Yep, the new major release, Miro 3.0, of the cross-platform Internet RSS audio/video aggregator and player has been released.
Please check the release notes and the feature list for details. Overall more than 139 issues have been fixed since the last 2.x series release. The most notable changes are probably the dropping of xine support upstream (gstreamer is used now for all video/audio on Linux) and the introduction of subtitle support.
I have uploaded a new Miro 3.0 Debian package to unstable recently (which have been a delayed a bit due to Debian server issues), by now it should be available from most mirrors. Let me know if there are any issues...
Don t expect to get a glass of tap water at a restaurant or caf ; it s an unusual request that probably won t be understood or honoured. Lonely Planet GermanyNow, before I go on, I want to clarify that this post is NOT a complaint of what I saw in Germany and Prague; it s just a description of how it was surprising to these American eyes, and perhaps also a description of how the American approach such a mundane topic might be surprising to people from elsewhere. (Update: I want to clarify that I only visited 3 cities in Germany plus Prague. I don t want anybody to assume that I m making generalizations about the entire continent here, despite my title; I think the comments reflected that I didn t make this point clear enough. I lack data to draw much of any generalization at all; this is more of reporting on my experiences than anything else.) Utilitarian Water I noticed that the vast majority of toilets I saw in Germany and Prague are of the extremely water-saving variety, with an option for a small or a large flush. These toilets exist in the USA, but are still rather uncommon here. I was glad to see this attitude of conserving water. I was a bit surprised when I took a shower at our hotel in Berlin. Although that hotel was extremely environmentally-conscious in every other way including the toilets, light switches with RFID sensors and timers, etc the shower head was the most wasteful of water I had seen in quite a few years. I felt rather guilty of using so much water for a shower. But our hotel in Prague took shower heads to the next level. The shower head there was this huge square monstrosity, about a foot long on each side. I have never seen a shower head that big. It had a voracious appetite for water, too. Although it could be pointed in any direction, doing so was useless because, even at full blast, it was clearly getting not nearly enough water to propel the spray forward. It seems that this shower head needed special water-guzzling plumbing. But even without it, I felt even more guilty for showering in Prague. I suspect that I used more water for the two showers I took there than I would have over an entire week at home. I also very much suspect that this shower head would be illegal in the USA due to its water consumption. (I should note as an aside that the shower heads I saw in private homes were no different than American ones.) One thing I didn t see was lawn sprinklers. This may have been because there is less open grass in the places we visited, or perhaps because spring hadn t yet really hit. In any case, I wonder if our American habit of pumping water from deep beneath the ground, only to shoot it up in the air and spray it back on the ground again might appear a bit odd to others. Drinking Water In Restaurants We did a lot of walking in Europe, and sometimes we d have walked awhile to get to a restaurant. I really prefer water when I m thirsty, and ordered water with my meal at restaurants a few times. I stopped doing that, though. The presentation varied, but usually it went along these lines: they brought a glass bottle to the table, it cost EUR2 EUR5, and generally contained almost as much glass as water. The most impressive display of water was at a Berlin restaurant. I wanted some water, and so did Terah. So the waitress suggested we could share an EUR 4.90 bottle (0.75L). Sounds good, I guess although it s less water than you d get in a typical American bottle for one person, it seemed a lot by typical German restaurant standards. A few minutes later, our water arrived. It required the waitress to use a full tray to deliver our water and its, well, water accessories. First she carefully placed a frosted plastic water holder, precisely centered on the table between the two of us. Into this, she carefully placed the water bottle. It was, of course, made of glass, and also tall taller than most wine bottles, though containing less actual liquid. I am not yet sure of the purpose of the holder; it certainly wasn t to keep the water cold, as it was served warm. Perhaps they feared the bottle s impressive height acting as a sail and getting knocked over by a gentle breeze. In any case, next came our water glasses, which appeared to be exactly like wine glasses, but bore the logo of the company that bottled the water etched in the glass. After that, she picked the water bottle back up out of the holder, carefully opened it (it was just a regular twist-off lid), and then poured water into each of our glasses. She was careful not to have even a drop run down the side of the bottle, and filled each glass precisely 2/3 full. The glasses were, of course, positioned carefully on the table, and the bottle of water returned to its place of honor within the water bottle holder. This process consumed most of the small quantity of actual water in the bottle. I do believe that is the most elaborate presentation of a small amount of good ole H2O I have ever witnessed. It was made with the kind of care I would expect to be shown to someone that had just bought a $100 bottle of wine, not a EUR5 bottle of water. We had walked a mile (1.6 km) to get to that restaurant, and I was indeed a bit thirsty. I wasn t sure I wanted to drink all of my tiny quantity of water presented so elaborately all at once, so I had a sip of the beer I had the good sense to order along with the water. The beer, incidentally, cost roughly the same per liter as the water and was simply plonked down on the table with a complete lack of fanfare. Sadly, beer is not really very good for quenching thirst, due to its diuretic effects over time. Another surprise came at a restaurant in Prague. It appeared to have the typical prices for water, so I ordered a local Czech orange soda to drink. It, like the water, was served in a smallish glass bottle. In any case, I ordered a traditional Czech goulash to be served in a bread bowl, while Terah ordered some ribs. The waiter took our orders and menus, and returned a minute later bearing a bowl full of water and a lemon slice. This he put next to me, and announced, wash for you. My reaction was: Hmmm. This is different. (Which is why we went to Europe, after all!) What is this for? Did he think my hands looked dirty and needed to be washed before eating? Or did he think I would get them dirty while eating, and somehow fail to use my napkin? It turned out that the use of it became clear. I ate the goulash using the supplied spoon, but the bread bowl it was served in was of course edible too. It turns out it is pretty much impossible to eat a bread bowl that had contained a stew without getting your hands dirty, and the wash turned out to be quite practical and useful. It was free to wash my hands in, but I m sure would have cost EUR5 had I wanted to drink it. Drinking Water American Restaurants Some of you reading this may never have experienced water in an American restaurant, so allow me to explain. In a typical American restaurant, water is free and comes with unlimited refills. Americans generally think of water as healthy (and our doctors and government medical experts urge us to drink plenty of it), and water in a restaurant is a good way to save money while dining. It would generally be considered questionable service if your glass of water at a restaurant got less than half full, and really quite bad service if it sat empty for more than a minute or two. A waiter at an American restaurant will typically go around with a pitcher of ice water. If your large water glass isn t completely full, the waiter will pick it up and step a few steps back from the table before filling it from the pitcher. The waiter will then dump water and ice from the pitcher into it, usually overflowing the top such that some water and ice spills on the floor (so now you see the point of stepping back from the table). The glass will then be returned to your table, wet sides and all. It will be completely full, so you have to be careful not to spill when you take your first sip. The fancier or more expensive American restaurants will offer a version of this, though without the spilling on the floor part. Usually at one of these restaurants, you ll automatically get water set out for you when you arrive. This is free, and if you order another beverage, you ll still keep your water. (Though at any restaurant, it would be quite acceptable to order water along with your other beverage.) Needless to say, this water is coming from a faucet, not some glass bottle, but I m fine with that. A few American restaurants have bottled water on the menu, but I can t recall ever seeing somebody with one in a restaurant. Drinking Fountains Drinking fountains are common in the United States. They provide free tap water to anyone. You can find them near almost any public restroom, whether indoors or outdoors. You can also find them in virtually every park, along some walkways or bicycle routes, in airports and train stations, and even in museums. They re so common that I rarely even think about being able to find water in a city if I m thirsty. Often you ll find them installed in groups of two or three, with one at a lower height so as to be usable by children or adults in wheelchairs, and another at a regular height. Many indoor ones even contain integrated chillers to make the water cold (which, sadly, probably more than negate the environmental benefits of water fountains.) I saw exactly two drinking fountains in Europe, and I can say I got a drink at 100% of the drinking fountains I saw there. One was in the Hamburg airport, but notably it was at the place where you wait to have them check your passport. So you can use a drinking fountain in Hamburg, but apparently you must do so before you have officially entered Germany. The other one was in the Prague airport. It was in an out-of-the-way corner, on the lowest level, by the gates for the people that are flying out on the small planes. Which we were. Above it was a placard bearing a icon indicating that this was, in fact, a drinking fountain and how to use it. I was surprised at the need for the icon at first, but less so after I observed a man walk by, glance at the fountain, and wash his hands in it (rather than do so at a sink in the restroom 5 feet away). As a result, we were sometimes a bit thirsty in Germany. By the time we got to Leipzig, we realized what was going on and bought a Coke bottle which we could refill from the tap water in restrooms as we went along. (This we kept until it was confiscated at a museum in Prague). I didn t see many Germans carrying around bottles of water, but it was still cold, so it s possible they were but were in a coat or bag. I was left with the somewhat unwarranted conclusion that some Germans must be either always slightly dehydrated, carrying around hidden bottles of water, or paying EUR2 for a small plastic bottle of water all the time. In the USA, we do have bottled water. Among people that care about such things, there are certain people that drink only from bottled water as much as possible, and then there are other people that view bottled water as exceptionally expensive and an environmental catastrophe and avoid it as much as possible. I m part of that latter group. I ve noticed that statistics show that Germans consume more bottled water per capita than Americans do, which is not really a surprise given what I observed. Conclusions Part of the reason I wanted to go to Europe was to experience different approaches to things, and we surely did. I didn t expect it to lead to a blog post about something as mundane as water, but here it has. I ve got to say I like the overall attitude of water conservation in Germany, which seems to have gone further than it has in the USA. I also like the system of water fountains we have in the USA, which also helps the environment by reducing demand for plastic water bottles. The wash for me in Prague was just great. One of those moments where I was completely surprised (and in a good way) by something. (I m just glad the waiter spoke a bit of English, because I wouldn t have figured it out at all otherwise.) In the end, part of the fun of traveling is learning about these differences. So next time, we ll just plan on finding a bottle to carry around at the start of our trip, and then thirst won t be a problem. Perhaps I ll even try washing my hands in a drinking fountain.
although zack tries to cheer
me up (thanks!) I'm still not really happy with the declining amount of
RC bugs I manage to look at. but at least I don't forget about them
completely :)
After several other Debian developers convinced me that a ShortURL service,
which is under control of a Debian Developer would be useful for them, I've
spent some time to write the necessary code for it. And if it will be used
regulary, I'll ask DSA if they want to host it on a proper machine.
So I'm happy to announce the public beta test of deb.li (also available
under go.debian.net)! Please note that neither the content of the pages nor the CSS is finished... 
As this should not become just another random, spammer-attracting ShortURL
service, I will not provide a web based form to add new URLs. Instead new URLs
have to be added via a simple JSON-RPC based interface. Other ways to add new
URLs will be added on request (or by sending patches ;)), at least an
email-gateway similar to db.debian.org is planned.
The small piece of documentation which exists so far is available at
wiki.debian.org/deb.li
And if you want to give it a try now, log into alioth.debian.org and have a look
into /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client- the usage is documented in the README file and should be pretty straight forward. I hope it will be useful - comments, bugreports and patches are welcome!
/etc/aliasee and /etc/mailname ? Why do you need to have to tweak the server-wide accounts and login system to create new mailboxes ? In 99% of the situations now, email accounts do not corresponds to anything on the server, so why keeping all sort of arcane stuff that make the configuration of a mail server so delicate ? On a side note, I would like to share 3 questions. First is this idea of using gmail as a spam filter service. You register your address, say joe@doe.com with your joe.doe@gmail.com and you tell your mail server to redirect all the mail to joe@doe.com to joe.doe@gmail.com. Then in gmail's interface, you ask gmail to redirect all mails to joe@mail.doe.com. Eventually, the mail at mail.joe.com is delivered to the local inbox. This allows to use gmail as a spam filter loop. However, I have no idea if this is something already known and if gmail administrators will like it. Lazy web, what do you think ? Second is the following parameters for postfix:
reject_non_fqdn_recipient and reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname. I wonder if I may loose some mail using them.. Any idea ? Third is that I wanted to configure the old server to relay anything on the new, and filter there. But, as much fuzz there is about open relay, I was not able to configure my postfix as an open relay.. Any idea on how to do it ?
Dear friends of Debian,# patch branches without an explicit dependency depend on the root of the
# patchset tree
# A Root can be given as either a fix commit (seen here), a branch or a tag.
# A fixed commit or tag is useful to maintain a patchset against an older
# upstream version
ROOT: 6a8589de32d490806ab86432a3181370e65953ca
# A tag as a dependency
#ROOT: upstream/0.1.2
# A branch as a dependency
#ROOT: upstream
# A regular patch with it's name and last commit
BRANCH: debian/use-debian-jars-in-build-xml 4bab542c261ff1a1ae87151c3536f19ef02d7937
# two other regular patches
BRANCH: upstream-jira/HDFS-1234 a8e4af13106582ca1bfbbcaeb0537f73faf46d87
BRANCH: upstream-jira/MAP-REDUCE-007 e3426bcbcb2537478f851edcf6eb04b34f6c7106
# This patch depends on the above two patches
# The sha1 below the dependency patches references a merge commit of the two
# dependencies
BRANCH: upstream-jira/HDFS-008 517851aa829d77e09bc5e59985fed1b0aa339cc6
DEPENDENCIES:
upstream-jira/HDFS-1234
upstream-jira/MAP-REDUCE-007
cc294f2e4773c4ff71efb83648a0e16835fca841
# A patch branch that belongs to the patch branch, but won't get exported (yet)
BRANCH: upstream-jira/HDFS-9999 74257905azgsa4689bc5e59985fed1b0aa339cc6
BRANCH-FLAGS: noexport
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