Search Results: "Christian Perrier"

22 July 2007

Christian Perrier: Debian bug #50000 contest

The bets are now closed. They'll be kept at http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/500000.html (yes, 1995 HTML again). Now let's wait for the bug #500000 to happen.

21 July 2007

Christian Perrier: Apache 2

Today, I finally switched my home web site to Apache 2. Better late than never, right? :-) So, now, I just have to update the content and make it look less 1995 than it currently is..:-). Time to switch to a content management system, maybe?

Christian Perrier: Debian swirl on Buzz chin in Toy Story 2?

Just watching Toy Story 2 this morning (always with great pleasure, all these movies are just plain fun), I noticed that Buzz Lightyear has a...red swirl...on his chin (probably figuring a dimple or so). I should just check if he has one in Toy Story 1 or if this is a hidden easter egg. Update: indeed, the swirl is reverted:

14 July 2007

Christian Perrier: Debian bug #50000 contest

I just realized that tonight is the last minute to place your bet about the day the 500000th Debian bug will be reported. And I didn't even bet myself yet!

13 July 2007

Christian Perrier: Re-launching the DDTP effort for French

The Debian Description Translation Project is a very old project which had many adventures in the past. Indeed, working on packages descriptions translations has been my very first work in Debian l10n back in....long ago. Unfortunately, because of the servers compromise and also because of the lack of support for translated descriptions in the archive and package tools such as APT, the project slowly lost interest from translators. The revival may be dated back in 2005 when Michael Bramer revived the project and even more in 2006 when experimental support was added in APT as well as some support in the archive. While the framework is still quite crude (no offense intended for grisu who did a great job maintaining it) and not very opened to collaborative work and peer review, a few teams did a great job translating the zillions of package descriptions. And we still expect to use Pootle soon. So, as we now have a big enough handicap, it's time for the French team to beat them all in the friendly competitions we all enjoy..:-). For that reason, I began to translate dozens of packages descriptions last week and a few other French translators joined me. I somewhat expect us to slowly put all of our (wo)manpower in this and, therefore, translate as many packages descriptions as possible. The count begins with 1896 active translations, French being ranked 5th after German, Japanese, Czech and Brazilian Portuguese, even with Korean. So, the next target is the Brazilian team. Watch out your back, fellows..:-)

12 July 2007

Christian Perrier: Lazyweb mutt

Dear Lazyweb, Can you explain me why, since the last update of mutt in unstable, I no longer have the display of percentages of the mailbox's number of message being read while Mutt is reading a mailbox when I open it? This is kinda annoying on large mailboxes as mutt now just display the number of examined message headers while one has no way to know how long it will need to read the entirre mailbox. That's probably a weird new setting, but which one? I don't feel like reporting a bug about this but this is a minor annoying regression, indeed..:-)

5 July 2007

Christian Perrier: Sad 4th of July

My mother-in-law just passed last night. During the 25 years I knew her, she became my "other mother" so you'll understand that I just feel like a huge hammer felt on my head. My Debian work will probably continue the same way, as a way to escape from the overall sadness and crying that will come during the next days and the support I'll try to bring to Elizabeth, my wife.

27 June 2007

loldebian - Can I has a RC bug?: Im droin u a 7 of harts

Im droin u a 7 of harts for u to has a nice day Im droin u a 7 of harts for u to has a nice day. Joey using his brand-new notebook. Photo by Christian Perrier.

21 June 2007

Christian Perrier: The Debian bug #500000 contest

There are good chances that the Debian BTS will turn the #500000 mark at some moment during the etch->lenny release cycle. In order to make this more fun, a small contest has been set up. The principle is very simple: please place a bet (one per person) about the day this bug will be reported. The winner(s) will be the person(s) placing her his their bet as close as possible of the real moment bug #500000 is reported. Nothing to win, just fun and maybe a French kiss by the DPL at the next Debconf. To place you bet, just go to the contest wiki page and follow instructions there. Bets can be placed modified removed until July 15th 2007, 00:00 UTC.

18 June 2007

Christian Perrier: And now for something completely different...

... I just learned how to use Mercurial after Daniel converted his darcs repository for aptitude to Mercurial. Being such a VCS wizard when you're told to be the DD with no programming skills is kinda scary...:-)

14 June 2007

Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber: Please test exim4 from experimental

I have uploaded exim4 4.67-2 to experimental. Lots of changes and improvements. Quite some changes have gone into the Debconf stuff (for example, the split/unsplit config question is not asked first any more), and into update-exim4.conf (including input sanitazion, transformation of input to lower case, and getting rid of the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF stuff in the configuration). I’d like you to test the experimental package before I upload to unstable (probably on sunday). Please report your findings. 
exim4 (4.67-2) experimental; urgency=low
  - update-exim4.conf:
    - finally get rid of the DEBCONFfooDEBCONF stuff. That information
      is now passed to the configuration by ue4c by directly setting exim
      macros in the configuration. This has caused both the configuration
      and ue4c to be much shorter.
    - run with -e, -C and -u.
    - convert input read from update-exim4.conf.conf to lower case
    - barf if strange characters are found in ue4cc. Closes: #400294
  - Remove superfluous “x$foo” = “xbar” constructs from scripts
  - Add routers to reject mail to accounts with low UID.
    Closes: #400790.
  - Make daily cron job barf if /usr/bin/mail is not found. Have
    exim4-base recommend mailx. Closes: #427960
  - Have all -daemon packages provide exim4-localscanapi-1.0 and
    exim4-localscanapi-1.1 as requested by Magnus Holmgren while fixing
    #426425. Also include exim4-localscan-plugin-config script with
    exim4-dev. Thanks to Magnus for helping with this. Closes: #428274
  - remove /etc/exim4/email-addresses symlink and document this.
    Thanks to Josip Rodin. Closes: #420578
  - introduce conf.d/250_exim4-config_lowuid which optionally allows
    to reject (or alias away) mail to low-uid accounts that are not
    listed in an exception list. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves,
    Marc Sherman and Ross Boylan. Closes: #400790, #307768, #331716
  - remove versioned depends on cron, since the version we need is
    well before sarge.
  - Add cron   fcron dependency. Fcron is going to be removed again
    at the first sign of trouble. Closes: #381806
  - remove move_exim3_spool debconf template. Closes: #391762
  - replace openssl gendh with openssl dhparam. Closes: #413235
  - adapt docs, README and manpages
  - have Hilko fix the lynx-dump postprocessing to repair generating
    README.Debian text version. Thanks!
  - increase README.Debian generation robustness. Thanks to Hilko.
  - debconf:
    - Partly apply Christian Perrier’s patch for reviewed
      templates and control file. Closes: #426980
    - Other minor template changes.
    - get rid of “mails” in debconf templates, use “messages” instead.
      Re-word local_interface debconf template. Other minor changes.
      Thanks to Jens Seidel and Christian Perrrier. Closes: #394976
    - re-work exim4-config.config logic to have split/non-split config
      asked last instead of first. This partly addresses #410756.
    - Add exim4-daemon-heavy.templates, exim4-daemon-light.templates
      and exim4.templates to POTFILES.in
    - Re-Word dc_other_hostnames debconf template.
      Thanks to Hans G. Ehrbar. Closes: #421860
    - translation updates:
      - French
      - Ukrainian. Closes: #427793
      - Bulgarian.
      - Thai.
      - Galician.
      - Swedish.
      - Punjabi.
      - Indonesian.
      - Italian.
      - Khmer.
      - Traditional Chinese. Closes: #428072, #428069.
      - Portuguese.
      - Simplified Chinese. Closes: #428072, #428069.
      - Marathi
 -- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>  Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:00:38 +020
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27 May 2007

Christian Perrier: Reportbug-ng l10n

Bastian, may I suggest "man podebconf-report-po"? Yes, you can use it also for non-debconf translations. Just use "podebconf-report-po --call --podir=." from the po/ directory of your software.

26 May 2007

Christian Perrier: Moon and Saturn

Just enjoy: And if you do not already have, I really suggest you to add Jamie Zawinski's RSS feed of "Astronomy Picture Of the Day" to your feed reader (again: (http://www.jwz.org/cheesegrater/RSS/apod.rss).

23 May 2007

Christian Perrier: There are days...

...like today, where I just want to write somewhere that some people rock....a lot.

22 May 2007

Christian Perrier: Barbecue season

Meike and Alex, please use the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BARBECUE VOUCHER Please grant this voucher's holder(s) a free barbecue at Bubulle Hotel assuming they fill in the following conditions: Bubulle Hotel, http://www.perrier.eu.org, public transportation map on request ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

20 May 2007

Christian Perrier: And now for geneweb...

After the samba hype, it was time for me to take care of my pet package, namely geneweb, the "genealogy software with a Web interface" by Daniel de Rauglaudre. This is the only package which I'm maintainer or co-maintainer of which had no upstream version update between sarge (4.10-8) and etch (4.10-26). Back in February, Daniel finally agreed the only offering CVS snapshots as releases was not the best service he could do to his users (several of which are running proprietary operating systems and not very keen at compiling Ocaml code). And he released 5.00...a bit too late for etch. I quickly built a package for experimental, talked about it in the upstream mailing list...and quickly forgot about it (my genealogy work has been buried under Debian work for 3 years now). Finally, today I woke up and built/uploaded for unstable. I also moved from CVS to SVN on Alioth. Given that the CVS was, a while ago, my first steps with CVS, I just abandoned it and didn't even convert the history. The added value would be very low since I maintain this package alone since I took it over back in 2001.

Christian Perrier: Samba week

Last week has been mostly dedicated to samba, again. After last week's hurry dealing with 3 security announcements, the announcements were published by the security team. This was a not-so-simple process as even sarge was affected by the security issues and, to make things less simple, only two of them. I also slightly messed up in uploads to the security upload queues which added more work to Noah Meyerhans to deal with them. Anyway, we still were pretty happy of the result. However, immediately after the packages hit unstable and etch, a few problem arised: Dealing with all these bugs was time consuming but finally convinced me to re-subscribe to a few upstream mailing lists...which is slowly taking samba out of the "maintenance mode" we adopted last years. I hope we'll be able to sustain the load. Anyway, we already succeeded during that week in helping upstream to investigate some issues in their recent release. More samba uploads will soon come, so if you use samba, please update your systems regularly.

14 May 2007

Christian Perrier: Samba week-end

Today is the end of a pretty long week-end of dealing with samba. About 10 days ago, we (the samba packaging team in Debian) were privately notified of security issues found by the Samba Team developers in this quite popular package. This very close to one of their bi-annual releases, namely 3.0.25. No less than three security issues were unveiled. Two of them (CVE-2007-2446 and CVE-2007-2447) affect all currently supported Debian releases, namely sarge, etch and sid. One (CVE-2007-2444) affects both etch and unstable. This was the beginning of long days of rehearsal, helped out by Noah Meyerhans from the security team. Finally, updated versions for sarge and etch were uploaded to oldstable-security and stable-security for the autobuilders to catch up (they still are catching up because I uploaded the updates without the .orig.tar.gz file, which unveiled a bug in the security autobuilders apparently). These updates for sarge and etch should be available as soon as the security team completes the final checks and approval, I guess. And, today, the Samba Team gave us early access to the newly released 3.0.25 version of samba so that we could build and upload that package 2 hours before it was officially announced..:-) Thanks a lot again to the Samba Team for their care and more particularly to Gerald "Jerry" Carter (someone I have deep respect for, along with Jeremy Allison and Andrew Tridgell). Thanks to Steve Langasek for his hard work preparing the 3.0.25 release (tracking down an upstream bug in the Pythin bindings build). And, finally, thanks to the Debian security team and more particularly to Noah Meyerhans for his work on backporting some of the patches. This was a tiring but really motivating week-end. I hope that all Debianers who use Samba will enjoy the result.

7 May 2007

Christian Perrier: There are mornings...

...like this one today, where you feel like just waking up is a bad idea. Reading about the so-called "triumph" of Sarkozy (53.06%), seeing the right-wing and capitalist newspapers "celebrate" it makes me sick and sad. Hearing about the french socialist "elephants" (Strauss-Kahn and the Laurent "just naming him makes me sick" Fabius) trying to place themselves in position to lead the French left makes me even more sick. The worst is probably hearing Sarkozy claim that he will "renovate" the French politics. He is president of the UMP party since 2004, UMP being the party of the former president (Chirac), the former two prime ministers and having the absolute majority in the parliament. He is Nr. 2 of the french government since two years. So, in short, he and his party had all opportunities to "renovate" since they are in power. Since 2002, UMP has the largest majority one has ever seen since 1968 in France. And of course, nothing was "renovated" in French politics and way of government since then. France just slowly turned towards hard-core liberalism and the power of money and stock exchange market. So, noone will make me believe one single second that anything will change. The opportunity to change things was clearly in the hands of Mrs Royal, not in the dirty hands of Sarkozy. This is why I'm sad today.....hopefully, I'll be able to share this with my friends in Free Software. I just hope that the french ones are prepared for very hard days.

Sam Hocevar: Bits from the DPL: blog, talks, FTP-master

blog posts I am going to identify all my DPL-related posts with a dpl tag. All such posts will be accessible through http://sam.zoy.org/blog/?cat=dpl. talks On May 5th I attended an Etch Install Party at the Carrefour du Num rique in the Cit des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, organised by the Parinux LUG. Fellow developers Christian Perrier and Julien Cristau as well as not-yet-but-now-almost-really-soon-to-be developer Yves-Alexis Perez were also present. I did a (rather dull, sorry; I didn't prepare it well enough) talk about the Debian project, its organisation and how people, even beginners, can help Debian and its community. My slides (French) are available, and the Carrefour du Num rique people kindly recorded it and made it available for download. interviews Since the DPL elections I have given several interviews, of which a few have already been published. They may be of interest because I share my thoughts about topics that were not covered in my platform, or not very deeply. You can also check whether I am consistent. And it s important that people know what I may say about Debian to the rest of the world. The interviews are: FTP-master and other teams Zobel is frustrated by things not happening in the FTP team which were apparently going better when AJ was DPL. I don t really know how to understand that blog post. A DPL+FTP-master hat is something that cannot happen this year, so if this is what allowed AJ to be efficient we ll have to find something else. For the record, after my first bits from the DPL on debian-devel-announce and its request for candidacy I have received one offer to help the DSA team and one offer (this morning) to help with the NEW-handling part of FTP-master work.

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