I really have a complicated environment for building my packages that only I understand (and maybe no one should try to understand if wants to maintain mentally stable). So I was building with git-buildpackage that points to a script gbp-builder that builds with pdebuild and which got its debbuildopts with and I was passing more args with a local variable (EXOP) with and guess what. It was -v5.05-3+nmu1 and I got that argument OK on dpkg-genchanges for my source.changes but not to my i386.changes. I had to put in my gbp-builder script debbuildopts with and everything got OK. I frankly don t understand what happened, why the args passed until that point and not to the last dpkg-genchanges but hey! it works now! I hope nobody pass trough this and waste 2 hours finding what was wrong and it only were a pair of . BTW, now I m DD! Second in Venezuela :D

XScreenSaver is of the most widely used screensavers app in Linux systems and works as well as a huge collection of screensavers for another apps like kscreensavers. In Debian is maintained by only 2 persons which has in this moment lack of time. Because of this we re looking for co-maintainers that should accomplish the following main [...]

So between yesterday and today I packaged the new upstream version of libtorrent/rtorrent 0.12.3 and 0.8.3 as beta. I still need to do some testing on the packages and maybe change libtorrent from OpenSSL to TLS. Anyway, in the meantime you can grab the binaries (only 386) and sources from my debian-playground:

http://debian.rivco.info/libtorrent/0.12.3-1~b2.exp/
http://debian.rivco.info/rtorrent/0.8.3-1~b1.exp/

(there may be new beta versions at the time you read this so please check as well the parent directory) Or my repo:

deb http://reprepro.deb.rivco.info/ experimental main

Hopefully they'll be available soon from the Debian Archive, just need to check some stuff before that. Anyway, they're fully working right now.

I think Jari reads my blog haha. There are shiny new packages for libtorrent and rtorrent. The same place as ever: My debian-playground: http://debian.rivco.info/ My private repo: deb ,-src http://reprepro.deb.rivco.info/ experimental main And of course, git (checkout master-experimental and upstream-experimental): http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/libtorrent.git http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/rtorrent.git

It was about time, xscreensaver 5.07-1 is ready and is being uploaded right now to experimental (for sanity check with kde components) and available as well from here (binary packages only for i386 at the link). Fixes to XRandr functions and finally xscreensaver is lintian clean since I adopted it 11 months ago. Soon 0 minors and higher priority bugs.

Today anibal(thanks!) uploaded xscreensaver 5.05-3, this release fixes the XRandR issue that a lot of people reported since the introduce of sanity code in 5.05 for XRandR (that are some quite RCs and important bugs). 5.06 is out now but we couldn't wait more to get this RCs closed, in a week or two this new release will be ready and in the archive.

Now gkrellm works with kernels >=2.6.24, since where /proc/acpi has been deprecated in favor of /sys. The binaries packages for most of the archs debian supports most be available already in the debian archive since anibal upload it the saturday. Enjoy!

Yey! libtorrent 0.12.2-1 is now uploaded to experimental (thanks bureado for the sponsoring! :D), soon I'll get rtorrent 0.8.2-1 uploaded as well. I've been using it since a while and has been working great! In a few hours the buildd network should get them built for all arches, BTW, in this version is included the support for ARM-based machines :) Prepare your NSLU2!

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.