After some time and various patches there's a new version of xscreensaver that fixes a lot of issues with 5.05 and XineRama. Thanks to all that submitted patches: Bas Zoetekouw, Vincent Crevot, Lionel Elie Mamane and Daniel Dickinson for the desktop file. The deb files are available here along with the dsc, changes, diff.gz and orig.tar.gz files. If you don't use i386 then do:

dget --build \
http://debian.rivco.info/xscreensaver/5.05-3/xscreensaver_5.05-3.dsc

Sometimes I just mixed packages, got debdiffs, re-mixed and finish with a not-so-clean working directory with a lot of diffs applied and not knowing which one was what and who did what. read more

They're not yet available in the official debian mirror but at least in mine they are. You can download the i386 debs from my repo, my deb-repo (using experimental suite!) for apt-get install or make you own using the apt-get repo with apt-get source. Another easy way is to do:

dget --build http://debian.ghostbar.ath.cx/libtorrent/0.12.2-1/libtorrent_0.12.2-1.dsc
dpkg -i libtorrent*.deb
dget --build http://debian.ghostbar.ath.cx/rtorrent/0.8.2-1/rtorrent_0.8.2-1.dsc
dpkg -i rtorrent*.deb

Enjoy them! :)

I have been knocking my head against the wall a while with this bug. It's supposed that this line should create a PID file in /var/run/gkrellmd.pid but there's no PID file created so the daemon cannot be stopped so there's a error while upgrading-removing gkrellmd but is not supposed to be like this the line?:

start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;

I hope someone will upload it to experimental by the moment and see how works, in the meanwhile you can find it here. Goes to experimental because is the unstable branch of libtorrent/rtorrent.Want the debs? Then do:

$ dget http://debian.ghostbar.ath.cx/libtorrent/0.12.1-1/libtorrent_0.12.1-1.dsc
$ dpkg-source -x libtorrent_0.12.1-1.dsc
$ cd libtorrent-0.12.1; dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

You'll end with two debs, enjoy them :)

The packages is already done, thanks to Bradley Smith for the patch, you can find it here.I'm working right now in the unstable versions but the GCC 4.3 issues remains, in rtorrent there seems the issue isn't solved with the actual patch but libtorrent does, I will ask someone to upload them to experimental as soon as I get something ready.

There are new packages of XScreenSaver from the last upstream release, now with a patch applied for systems with dual-head screens.They're available at my site along with i386 deb binaries.I hope they'll get uploaded to Debian soon. Technorati Tags: xscreensaver debian

Because let me know that I'm doing a good work in xscreensaver at least in numbers, most of the bugs are just wishlists:

And for not lose the tradition!!! There's a new package of xscreensaver! :D This time is a new upstream release with 3 new hacks and fixes of the disaster with kscreensaver due to our last upload. The new hacks are: lcdscrub (in xscreensaver-data-extra), cubicgrid and hypnowheel (these last two in xscreensaver-gl-extra). Thanks to the .desktop files Tormod made with the split (that wasn't just for fun) you can enjoy these hacks as well using gnome-screensaver, just install xscreensaver-data* and/or xscreensaver-gl*. The package was just uploaded to debian (thanks again to damog for being such a good sponsor!) and you can find the deb packages and sources to compile your own deb in the same place as always:
http://debian.ghostbar.ath.cx/xscreensaver/5.05-1

Last night damog uploaded the latest package of xscreensaver to debian, version 5.04-3. This release comes with a lot of work from the new co-maintainer Tormod Volden who got the time to make the xscreensaver hacks compatible with gnome-screensaver trough desktop files, something I was avoiding because of my actual lack of time and other reasons. There're new split into gl-extra, data and data-extra, with GL hacks that consumes too much, default hacks and hacks that don't need graphic acceleration but consumes too much CPU or there's some reason why shouldn't go as default. You can make your deb package with the sources here, just dget the dsc file and build it inside your machine!

Yay! I got my new toy two days ago but I wasn't able to install debian on it booting from USB with several versions, when I almost got it there was some issue with the ethernet driver (with sarge) or that didn't loaded the correct driver for detecting my hard drive or worst, with the hd-media, found an iso but didn't work out! Hehehe Anyway, I installed my system trough PXE with my old notebook serving as gateway so I got it! :D It runs smoothly and is the smaller notebook I could ever wish, plus the battery gives me 12h of energy so w00t!! I installed i386 instead of amd64 because of the java-browser plugin that I will use this semester and to get skype and all that. Is not that I will use larger archives and stuff so I will be ok by the moment. Later I will post the spec details, right now I will keep working on a project for my university. BTW, I installed directly sid :D

I was checking my mail and saw a message to debian-mentors@l.d.o with: please get me a sponsor.u can contact me on 00026774674834 or 000256714146928.am daneal aged 19 thx If this is spam then it was designed very well, if not, why any sponsor needs your phone numbers or your age?! Really weird.

Like 7 hours ago I finished the new upstream releases of libtorrent/rtorrent 0.11.9/0.7.9, there're amd64 binaries availables here for libtorrent 0.11.9-1 and here for rtorrent 0.7.9-1, this release fixes some segfaults issues because of GCC-4.2.X and fixes some PEX issues. Right now waiting for libtorrent to be uploaded and then consequently rtorrent.

I recently wrote about the new version of xscreensaver and the new hacks but I just forgot to actually install them so now they're installed and thanks to my new co-maintainer Tormod Volden the packaging of xscreensaver is easier ans smooth, yet no in CDBS but easier at least, so the new release is 5.04-2 and right now I'm just waiting for damog to upload it (he's very fast BTW). I updated gkrellm with the new upstream version 2.3.1 fixing some bugs, I cleaned up all the patches and let only one for the gkrellmd.conf file, besides a made a clean up of the BTS of gkrellm, now there're less bugs remaining, the new release is 3.2.1-1 and is waiting for anibal to review it and upload it. Finally but not less important is pgpdump, a package that since a lot of time ago didn't get me any work, new upstream release 0.26 and the release 0.26-1 is waiting for anibal to review it and upload it. This last two were migrated to CDBS, so it's definitely easier to maintain, at least for me!

I decided that my christmas gift will be a new notebook and as I'm always complaining of the weight of my HP dv6000 then my new notebook will be a ThinkPad x61 with a 8cell battery and extended battery life! :-) That gives up to 12 hours of use!! BTW, this version includes a weird antenna in the right side of the screen, I don't know if it's really useful but seems like if were from some movie and is outside of the borders but anyway, still little and light. Now only rests to wait until it gets to my hand since all the custom houses of Venezuela decided to not admit more packages from outside of the country because they're full, so I will have to wait until january probably because of the inefficiency of my country custom officials. But at least I'm gonna have it :-)!

Yesterday, after a lot of time thinking on it, I uploaded all my perl packages to the pkg-perl's SVN, now I can dedicate a lot more of time to xscreensaver, gkrellm and libtorrent/rtorrent :-). I'm pretty sure that in january I will be able (with enough time) to work in some packages of the pkg-perl group.

There's a new xscreensaver version already in Debian, 5.04-1 is in ftp-master waiting to be mirrored in the rest of the archives, thanks to damog :-). In other things a CVE was fixed and new hacks were added.

Finally, thanks to anibal, I got my pgp signature by a DD, now I can continue my NM process. Besides that, I'm working right now on avoiding gdm as build-depend of xscreensaver, I haven't figure out how yet but I'm pretty sure that soon I will found out, and got pgpdump updated today to 0.26! Just waiting for anibal to upload it.

Answering to Christian Perrier about if Ubuntu is not based anymore on debian and that's why debian didn't get named in all their site avoiding any kind of relation with debian as their base even in the announcement of 7.10: I can see my packages there and I'm not a volunteer of Ubuntu (at least not directly) so they're definetely still based on Debian and just copying a lot of packages from debian to their repos.

I found in my dad's office a Macworld of october 90' and saw this 2 page ad:
This is when you think how that people could live? If you need 2G right now for nice working that would make $138.000!! Thanks tech evolution!