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 …
I’ve started the transition of parted 2.2 to unstable. This is a major update needed for sensible support of newer hard disks with alignment requirements different from the archaic cylinder alignment tradition. I posted to debian-boot with a summary of the partman changes involved.
I don’t know if anyone else has been tracking this recently, but a while back I got curious about the relative proportions of dh(1) and CDBS in the archive, and started running some daily analysis on the Lintian lab. Apologies for my poor graphing abilities, but the graph …
I did a bit of catching up on my Debian backlog over the last week or so. Among the things I got round to:
In case it isn’t obvious, in “Ubuntu 9.10 SP1 coming in spring 2010”, “Ubuman” is blatantly lying in attributing a number of statements to me. None of the text there was written by me, and if you thought any of it was true then you should probably make …
If you’re generating one of these shiny new RSA keys, do please remember to generate an encryption subkey too if you expect people to sign it - at least your more obscure UIDs. I’m not going to mail unencrypted signatures around unless I have some out-of-band knowledge that the …
I recently implemented man -K (full-text search over all manual pages) in
man-db. This was inspired by a similar feature
in Federico Lucifredi’s man
package (formerly maintained by Andries Brouwer). I think I did a much
better job of it, though. The man package just forks grep for every …
Enrico writes about
creating pipelines with Python’s subprocess module, and notes that you
need to take care to close stdout in non-final subprocesses so that
subprocesses get SIGPIPE correctly. This is correct as far as it goes
(and true in any language, although there’s a Python bug report …
Joey Hess posted a draft of a code_swarm video for d-i a couple of weeks ago, which reminded me that I’ve been meaning to do something similar for Ubuntu for a while now as it’s just about our archive’s fifth birthday. I have a more or less …