Well, after some issues it's true, the Python transition is still going on. No flames, after all i'm in the Debian Python Modules Team from the start, and i'm trying to burn the pythonX.Y-foo from quite some time. Hopefully we will see Python 2.4 as default in Etch and maybe 2.5 in too (without a new transition and weird package names), for this we need to squash some more bugs. Join us at irc.d.o / #debian-python.<br /><br />I haven't dedicated the time i should in pkg-ltsp group, but Otavio and others are doing this and i'm for some time just a tester, organized online meetings and all that. I've a branch ready to be carefully tested and merged with our main. There's now stuff coming in for sure and hopefully we will be able to add a 'thin client server' task and deliver it in time for Etch. :-)<br /><br />xchat-gnome (hopefully) is back, just sponsored the upload for Marco Cabizza (from pkg-gnome). The package is of course sitting in NEW.<br /><br />Have you heard about wotomae? We're all waiting wotomae... Go Arnaud!<br /><br /><worldcup>2 hours for the next Brazil game. The country is almost stopped (it really is) waiting and i'm done with mails and builds at the office, writing this blog entry warming up to go home.</worldcup>

Just to scratch an itch, I tried migrating / side-grading to Ubuntu from Debian Etch. I still haven’t quite succeeded as I am still wrestling with aptitude, but I did find something interesting from my Etch migration discussion on ubuntu-devel. Marco Cabizza says that one of the reasons it is quite hard to migrate is due to the Launchpad integration. This sent alarm bells ringing as Launchpad is proprietary and since I might be developing an Ubuntu derivative, I didn’t want to be necessarily locked to the Launchpad suite. The packages with launchpad integration seem to be a bunch of Gnome centric software which thankfully doesn’t worry me. But what if more and more packages are integrated? I don’t think it will happen as it is too hard to easily manage many divergent patched packages. Ubuntu is probably sensibly catching crashes from the Gnome applications so they can make an even slicker desktop.