My Debian Activities in December 2014
FTP assistant This month at the end of the year has been rather quiet as well. The holiday season is not suited for lots of REJECTs, so all in all I marked 91 packages for accept and rejected only 14...
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FTP assistant This month at the beginning of the year has been rather quiet as well. All in all I marked 50 packages for accept and rejected only 17 packages. Squeeze LTS This was my seventh month that...
View ArticleUSB 3.0 hub and Gigabit LAN adapter
Recently I bought an USB 3.0 Hub with three USB 3.0 ports and one Gigabit LAN port. It is manufactured by Delock and I purchased it from Reichelt (Delock 62440). Under Wheezy the USB part is recognized...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in February 2015
FTP assistant Processing the new queue got off the ground again. This month I marked 154 packages for accept and rejected 20 packages. Some emails I got were rather funny and people are very creative...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in March 2015
FTP assistant Recently the NEW queue grew due to lots of uploads of new KDE software and several smaller node-packages. The KDE-stuff will be processed one after another, but the node-stuff seems to be...
View Articleexim4 and catchall email address
If you search for a way how to configure a catchall email address with exim4, it is highly probable that you will see a router like: system_aliases: debug_print = "R: system_aliases for...
View Articlentpd is rather good in ignoring
Notice to my future self: Recently I wondered why one of the computers doesn’t show the correct time. Among others, there are the following lines in /etc/ntp.conf: interface ignore eth2 interface...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in April 2015
FTP assistant Another month, another statistic. This month I marked 90 packages for accept and rejected 20 of them. Squeeze LTS This was my tenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS...
View Articlealpine and UTF-8 and Debian lists
This is a note for my future self: When writing an email with only “charset=US-ASCII”, alpine creates an email with: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII and everything is fine. In...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in May 2015
FTP assistant This month I marked 235 packages for accept and rejected 44 of them. I know, the NEW-queue is rather large, but the numbers are showing a downward trend again. In the light of recent...
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My Debian Activities in June 2015
FTP assistant This month I marked 539 packages for accept, rejected 61 of them and had to send 24 emails to maintainers. This is a new personal record. Even in the month before the Jessie freeze I...
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My Debian Activities in July 2015
FTP assistant This month I marked 485 packages for accept, rejected 87 of them and had to send 18 emails to maintainers. The NEW-queue is below 100 again, but you hardworking fellows don’t make a...
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My Debian Activities in August 2015
FTP assistant Another month passed and another statistic arrives: This month I marked 408 packages for accept and rejected only 32 of them. Almost like last month I had to send 14 emails to...
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Package of the Day: ansiweather
While looking at NEW I sometimes see a package and think “wow this is great, you have to try this”. One of these packages is ansiweather. It looks at the data at openweathermap and presents them on the...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in September 2015
FTP assistant Another month passed and another statistic arrives: This month I marked 341 packages for accept and rejected only 48 of them. Almost like last month I had to send 14 emails to...
View Articleopenvpn: ping only works between server and client
Notice to my future self: an openvpn connection can be stablished between client and server you can ping the server from the client you can ping the client from the server you added the route in your...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in October 2015
FTP assistant This month I marked 492 packages for accept and rejected 50 of them. I had to send only 11 emails to maintainers. Up to now I accepted about 6000 packages, my first one was pexpect_3.0-1...
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My Debian Activities in November 2015
FTP assistant This month I marked 352 packages for accept and rejected 61 of them. I had to send only 15 emails to maintainers. I also started to work on #796095 and #796784, but my first patch was...
View ArticleLitecoin and IPv6
Notice to my future self: If you start the litecoin client (v0.10.2.2) all peers in peers.dat seem to be IPv4 only. At least, I got no connection to the Litecoin network. After looking at the list of...
View ArticleDebian Med Bug Squashing in Advent 2015
The Debian Med Bug Squashing just ended and the Debian Med Advent Calendar is full to bursting. Like the years before, the Debian Med team performed a bug squashing event from December 1st to 24th. All...
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