Yesterday was a busy Debian day for me with the release of not one but two packages. procps procps version 3.3.6 was released both as an upstream and a Debian package. While there were many bug fixes in this release, the main new feature for it was the top inspect feature. The top inspect feature…
After reading Jakub’s pet peeve about debhelper build-dependencies I decided to check my own and sponsored packages to see how they fare. find debian/ -type f -name control | xargs grep -h -o ‘debhelper (>= 9[^)]*)’ | sort | uniq -c 2 debhelper (>= 9) 2 debhelper (>= 9.0) 3 debhelper (>= 9.0.0) 1 debhelper…
I did some upgrades of what seemed like a million packages today on my Debian sid computer. I was doing this remotely and when I tried to ssh back in I got kicked out after entering my password, hmmm. OK, so I waited until I could get in front of it and tried to login…
JFFNMS version 0.9.2 was released today both as an upstream tar.gz file and a new Debian package. This version fixes some bugs including making sure it works with PHP5.4. The biggest change in PHP 5.4 is that you can no longer call by reference. Previously you could call a function like myfunc(&blah); which would send…
Sometimes life throws little curves at you to see if you are still awake, today has been one of those days. fglrx is (apparently) fixed I’ve had a long-running problem with fglrx on my laptop. The problem stems from ATI closed-source drivers with one of those laptops that has an ATI and Intel driver. It…
Following up from the upstream release of a new procps, the Debian packages have also been updated. This upload has a significant change in that, I hope, procps is now multi-arch compliant. To make this happen, the libprocps library is now in it’s own package, separate from the binaries. It also means that if you…
It’s funny, in bad way, when certain sorts of bugs come back to bite you. People may remember the fun Debian had with rpath issues around in the late 90s where some binaries wanted to set the path of where their libraries were located. After much contraversy the consensus was at least in Debian (with…
procps-ng version 3.3.2 was released today. This version fixes some bugs introduced in version 3.3.1 as well as a number of enhancements. Below is the most significant set of changes that 3.3.2 brings. NLS The most visible change is that procps-ng is now international. The NLS changes took a long windy path but we got…
Procps-ng, the Debian, Fedora and OpenSuSE fork of procps had another release today. This is a bugfix release that fixes some important bugs that have cropped up in 3.3.0 pgrep crashes, pgrep -u not finding processes and a problem with top forest view have all been fixed. An important addition to this release is that…
Coming soon after the upstream procps 3.3.0 being released, the Debian packages have been uploaded tonight. The Debian packages have had the added benefit of being a day late by having a tiny 2 line patch to stop pgrep from crashing. One regression that is on purpose, watch is currently not 8-bit clean again until…