Plex Home Theater 1.3.0 Debian build
I have updated my build of Plex Home Theater to the lastest release 1.3.0. As before, here is a source package, and a binary build for amd64, ready to be used on Debian/jessie or...
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Systemd use cases
Although I am a strong opponent of systemd, I couldn’t resist laughing on that wonderful post/graphic of one of my fellow Debian Developers on the systemd matter, included here, but originally posted here: Good...
Plex Home Theater 1.2.3 Debian build
I have updated my build of Plex Home Theater to the lastest release 1.2.3. This post is outdated, please see Plex tag for the most recent release! As before, here is a source package,...
Debian/TeX Live for jessie 2014.20141024-1
The freeze day for the next stable release of Debian, jessie, is approaching, and so I did a last pull from tlnet. Together with the recently (build from current svn sources), this will (probably)...
Trigger warnings, Debian’s CoC, and all that
Several times I have written about recent developments within the Debian community. Today, in light of the recent months of repeated discussions, bans, proposals, I am reminded of the apparent spread of “trigger warning”...
Debian package for Plex Home Theater PHT 1.2.2 (source/binary)
I have finally found the energy to determine the list of build dependencies and made a proper Debian source package for Plex Home Theater. Here is now a source package, and a binary build...
CafeOBJ in Debian
After close to a month of waiting, our CafeOBJ packages have finally entered Debian! Not having all the build architectures at hand for testing, there have been a lot of build-failures, especially due to...
TeX Live/Debian – complete update (binaries and packages) 9/2014
After a long business trip to Europe, here a big round of updates for all of TeX Live/Debian. Besides updating the usual bunch of packages from CTAN, this upload also brings a new set...
Plex Home Theater for Debian/sid
I am long time user of Plex, on my laptop, on my TV via RasPlex, on my iPhone. It is a great product. Recently even ChromeCast works with it, so it is the perfect...
TeX Live/Debian – new binaries in experimental
TeX Live has a yearly release schedule, and while normal packages are updated on a daily basis, updates to binaries are not done during one year. But development continues in our TeX Live svn...
Sony VAIO and UEFI – what a lie
Sony seems to believe they can ignore the UEFI standards. As I have written in the on booting, Sony messes up the EFI boot setting on every boot. I did a hard core test,...
Debian/TeX Live 2014.20140821-1
After my well earned summer break, here another round of updates to the TeX Live packages, with lots of new and updated packages. Packages are on the way to the servers and should arrive...
Debian/TeX Live 2014.20140717-1
About a month has passed and there is a new upload of Debian/TeX Live, the second upload after the . Most important is a fix to thumbpdf which wasn’t working anymore due to a...
TeX/Debian updates: texlive-bin (2014.20140528.34243-3) and biber (1.9-1)
In the last days I have also updated both texlive-bin source package (which ships texlive-binaries and some other packages), as well as biber, the indexing program related to biblatex. The relevant changes are as...
Debian/TeX Live 2014.20140626-1
The first upload after the . About a month has passed since the last packages have been uploaded, and the backlog of the freeze period has slowly decreased, meaning loads of updates! I cannot...
(Debian) pristine-tar and how to *not* do packaging
Pristine-tar is a nice tool when packaging for Debian in a git repository. The basic idea is that when checking in a new upstream tarball into the upstream branch, some hash information and binary...
