pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #IBM. #Debian developer. PhD in Computing Science. Amateur historian (Computing Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@sxa I don't, but that sounds like a useful tool.

@db which app? I did a copy edit of a book with acrobat once. It was a little clunky.

@neal @andrew_shadura that said, the most common source layout in debian packaging *with* git is for the source outside ./debian to be unmodified, and a stack of patches in debian/patches. IMHO this is a pain in the arse to work with: it lacks the convenience of "source as it is built", and the separation of "only ./debian is tracked". The worst of both worlds. It looks like Dgit encourages a move away from this.

@neal @andrew_shadura I think I understand better where you are coming from. Interestingly, pre-git it was more common to work with a fully split repo as you describe: with e.g. svn-buildpackage teams (inc. games team) typically kept only ./debian in the VCS.

Most packages moved to "upstream source present" in the debian branch with the move to git, partly because it was much more convenient to work with.

Hi Neal

@neal @Diziet

mangling packaging data into source code. I really wish they'd change how the source packaging model worked to firmly split it.

Would you be prepared to expand on this, please? I don't understand it. Perhaps it's because my historical experience is the inverse of yours (familiar with Deb, not too great with RPM).

From my POV Debian has a firmer split than RPM-style (orig.tar.gz; ./debian sub-dir; etc) so I must be missing something.

I've just used tag2upload for the first time. It was great!

#debian

@lproven @RogerBW @doop that and they didn’t reflect any content besides the root window iirc

@RogerBW @lproven that could literally have been a screenshot of my desktop 25 years ago. Aterm, an elegant terminal from a more civilised age.

The sheer scale of the downloads that Anna‘s archive are offering, the Spotify stuff and other stuff, really blows my mind. I’m struggling to move 70 GB of photos off of my camera!

@mcc Haskell has that problem too

Idle thought: what if hyper-efficiency (e.g. tiled window management, which prompted this thought) results in more efficient procrastination or attention-deficit rather than designed-task efficiency?

mind you the copy playing out on 6music right now sounds muddy as hell

Technically, this isn't a christmas song, right? But those bells make it sound so

c.f. https://jmtd.net/log/christmas_songs_that_are_not/(2012)

https://dizl.de/@JBsWhatsOn6/115734514174311762

@mjg59 I’m sure an independent expert witness testimony and associated costs would not be very welcome

@zhenech @flann my last experience of certbot but was it falling over if you try to put more than 7 or so hosts on a certificate. In other words It’s still clown shoes

First ice skate in weeks. Was fun

First ice skate in weeks. Was fun

Can anyone recommend cheap co2 monitors which can be easily queried without vendor specific apps? TIA!

@rivets worth a look. Ta!

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