I just found out by chance that Fedora 14 switched from their old man package to man-db. This is great news: it should now be the beginning of the end of the divergence of man implementations that happened way back in the mid-1990s, when two different people took John W …
In my previous post, I described the pipeline library from man-db and asked whether people were interested in a standalone release of it. Several people expressed interest, and so I’ve now released libpipeline version 1.0.0. It’s in the Debian NEW queue, and my PPA contains packages …
When I took over man-db in 2001, one of the
major problems that became evident after maintaining it for a while was the
way it handled subprocesses. The nature of man and friends means that it
spends a lot of time calling sequences of programs such as zsoelim <
input-file | tbl …
If you find that running Windows makes a GRUB 2-based system unbootable (Debian bug, Ubuntu bug), then I’d like to hear from you. This is a bug in which some proprietary Windows-based software overwrites particular sectors in the gap between the master boot record and the first partition, sometimes …
Apropos of my previous post, I see that dh has now overtaken CDBS as the most popular rules helper system of its kind in Debian unstable, and shows no particular sign of slowing its rate of uptake any time soon. The resolution of the graph is such that you can …
… this version, or something not too far away from it, might actually stand a chance of getting into testing.
I’ve just uploaded grub2 1.98+20100702-1. The most significant set of
changes in this release is that it switches /boot/grub/device.map and the
grub-pc/install_devices debconf question …
(This is partly a repost of material I’ve posted to bug reports and to debian-release, put together with some more detail for a wider audience.)
You could be forgiven for looking at the RC bug activity on grub2 over the last couple of days and thinking that it’s …
Various people observed in a long thread on debian-devel that the grub2 package was in a bit of a mess in terms of its release-critical bug count, and Jordi and Stefano both got in touch with me directly to gently point out that I probably ought to be doing something …
For various reasons, I chose to leave Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using OpenSSH 5.3p1. The new features in 5.4p1 such as certificate authentication, the new smartcard handling, netcat mode, and tab-completion in sftp are great, but unfortunately it was available just a little bit too late for me …
Note: I wrote most of this before Neil Williams’ recent comments on the 3.0 family of formats, so despite the timing this isn’t really a reaction to that although I do have a couple of responses. On the whole I think I agree that the Lintian message is …