Re: Perl is strange
Christoph: That’s
because =~ binds more tightly than +. This does what you meant:
$ perl -le 'print "yoo" if (1 + 1) =~ /3/'
perlop(1) has a useful table of precedence.
Don’t use sshkeygen.com to generate keys!
To my horror, I recently saw this online SSH key generator.
I hope nobody reading this needs to be told why this is a bad idea. However, in case you do, here are a few reasons:
- Every SSH implementation I know of - certainly all the major ones - that support public …
Desktop automounting pain
Ubuntu’s live CD installer, Ubiquity, needs to suppress desktop automounting while it’s doing partitioning and generally messing about with mount points, otherwise its temporary mount points end up busy on unmount due to some smart-arse desktop component that decides to open a window for it.
To date, it …
Vim omni completion for Launchpad bugs
I hacked together a little timesaver for developers this morning: omni
completion for Launchpad bugs in Vim’s debchangelog mode. To use it,
install vim 7.1-138+1ubuntu3 once it hits the mirrors, open up a
debian/changelog file, type “LP: #”, and hit Ctrl-X Ctrl-O. It’ll think
for a …
UTF-8 manual pages
See Encodings in man-db for context.
Yesterday, I uploaded man-db 2.5.1-1 to unstable. With this version, not only is it possible to install manual pages in UTF-8 (as with 2.5.0, although with fewer bugs), but it’s also possible to ask man to produce a …
aptitude safe-upgrade
Erich: I do sometimes wonder why we don’t relax the definition of “safe” upgrades to include installing new packages but still not removing old ones. I know that many of my uses of dist-upgrade are just for when something grows a new dependency that I didn’t previously have …
Encodings in man-db
I’ve spent some quality upstream time lately with man-db. Specifically, I’ve been upgrading its locale support. I recently published a pre-release, man-db 2.5.0-pre2 mainly for translators, but other people may be interested in having a look at it as well. I hope to release 2.5 …
Keysigning public service announcement
If your key has so many UIDs and such a combinatorially exploded number of
signatures on it that it takes gpg minutes just to start up in
--edit-key mode, then I probably won’t bother signing it. HTH, HAND.
Moving conffiles between packages, redux
I spent far too much of today cleaning up an upgrade bug to do with conffiles, which I suspect also affects other packages that have attempted to work around dpkg conffile prompts when moving conffiles between packages. If you maintain such a package, please review your code to make sure …
Google Summer of Code project started (Ubuntu)
More on the Google Summer of Code: as well as the project I’m mentoring for Debian, I’m mentoring Evan Dandrea (no blog yet?), writing a migration assistant for Ubiquity.
I haven’t talked much about Ubiquity, mostly because I’ve been far too busy writing it. Ubuntu has …
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