As there’re several, more or less well working howtos about creating udev rules to allow access to the USB debug devices of Android phones out there in the wild, I decided to write my own one. The udev rules file I provide here works at least for the HTC Dream models (aka T-Mobile G1 and Google Devphone) and the ZTE Blade (aka Orange San Francisco), probably for other phones, too. »
Most people (at least those who hear me shouting on irc) probably know that I’m not a fan of cdbs. While working on geoclue, which builds a lot of binary packages I realized, that cdbs wastes an insane amount of time by calling dh_* for every single package. One of the reasons geoclue uses cdbs is that the maintainer likes the short debian/rules file. We’ll, compare yourself: cdbs: #!/usr/bin/make -f # -*- makefile -*- # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode. »
Somehow I managed to forget to blog about this for some time - version 2.1-1 of gimp-plugin-registry is available in testing since several days. For detailed changes please have a look in the changelog, for the impatient - here is the summary: New plugins: btn4ws, sprocket-hole, cmyk-tiff-2-pdf, dustcleaner (back again, was removed for stable as it was not mature enough) New upstream versions of the following plugins: lqr, DBP, diana-holga2, focusblur, GREYCstoration, LayerEffects (now using Python), normalmap, save-for-web, seperate+, wavelet-denoise Removed plugins: exposure-blend As usual let me know if there’s a nice plugin you’d like to see in the package. »
Within the next days I plan to update the gimp-plugin-registry package, including the latest versions of all plugins. So if you’d like to see a new fance plugin in the package, or you have any other wish, please add a comment here, or even better, file a wishlist bug report against the package. Patches are welcome, git repository informations are listed below. gitweb git://git.recluse.de/debian/pkg-gimp-plugin-registry.git http://git.recluse.de/repos/debian/pkg-gimp-plugin-registry.git Extra points if you find new/forked versions of plugins which are/were listed on registry. »
While working on the Debian packages of navit I stumbled upon gypsy, as the libgypsy is used by navit to listen to notifications about location changes via D-Bus. As maintainer of the gpsd package I started to wonder what the opinion of the gpsd developers about gypsy is - especially after reading that “Gypsy was designed to fix the numerous design flaws found in GPSD”. Well, here is their answer, which I support fully. »