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. »
One of the things I was missing in my favourite windowmanager awesome was a calendar widget. So I spent some minutes and coded it. Moving the mouse over the time widget will show a naughty popup with the current month, use your mouse buttons (and the shift key) to scroll trough the months. The only annoying thing was to figure out how to change the text of an existing notification: notification. »