Advogato blog for torsten

13 Dec 2001

Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:34:28 GMT

Spent half the night to fix the oustanding bugs of my python-gnome Debian package and uploaded a new release of gs-pdfencrypt as well which did not nearly take as much time. Refreshing to do something practical instead of wasting time with studying computer science.

20 Nov 2001

Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:33:38 GMT

In spite having no time for unimportant stuff like that I am still to curious if the updated toolchain on hppa automagically fixes bug #107437 so I logged into sarti.debian.org and tried to build gs there. libgimpprint-dev is not installed so the build will not be complete but anyway it should suffice to test basic functionality.

Okay, now it does not even build anymore. It is stuck in a tool that tries to detect the characteristics of the build system. 0% cpu usage in a memset loop!? Never mind...

14 Nov 2001

Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:01:55 GMT

Updated the gimp-python package to support python 2.1 closing a serious bug. And rebuilt python-gnome with the next libgtkhtml and libgal (this is getting annoying).

8 Nov 2001

Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:32:26 GMT

Rebuilt python-gnome again to fix the latest libgal dependency breakage :-( and uploaded the result.

6 Nov 2001

Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:04:16 GMT

Matthias Klose did an NMU of python-opengl so I closed bug#118298 to allow installation of python-gnome into testing.

4 Nov 2001

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 23:29:05 GMT

Rebuilt python-gnome with python2.1 and uploaded the result. Had to hack configure to add the include dirs for gdk-pixbuf and gtkhtml - very ugly :-(

A problem remains: python-gtkglarea depends on python-opengl which is not yet built for python2.1. Wrote a bug report to ask the maintainer to do it. Enough for today, tired.

4 Nov 2001

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 01:28:29 GMT

Worked on repackaging python-gnome for the new Python package in Debian. Problem is that I want to build for both python1.5 and python2.1. dh_movefiles does not like to move from different install trees so it seems I have to craft something by hand. Deferred for now. Building works so far but the result needs to get installed into the packages trees.

Had a look at my bug reports:

115308: Looks like I built a new python-gnome against libgal11 but never uploaded it. Silly me!
108039: Found out that the installed shared libraries are only needed for special SWIG wrappers with runtime type information. I am going to split those libraries out. Not sure what to do about versioning though.
112011: Seems like gsfonts in testing is too new for the gs available in the same distribution. I guess we can only wait until the current gs gets into testing.

Checked update_excuses for why gs is not current in testing. Seems like the autobuild failed due to libgimpprint-dev being unavailable on mipsel :-(( Wrote an email to debian-{devel,mips} explaining the situation.

19 Sep 2001

Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:32:30 GMT

Spent most of the day for university and related stuff. Gave back a book which was I wanted to keep but which loan period I could not extend because somebody subscribed it already. Kind of silly since there were about 30 more copies available so I got it back from there. But I have to pay 6,10 DM because they sent me a reminder already. Morons! Guess I have to rewrite their online booking software.

Accordingly I did not have much time for free software. At least I managed to upload a new gnofin package which fixes the build failure on some architectures.

Did not even read the mailing lists or slashdot. Perhaps tomorrow. At least I managed to run a dist-upgrade and that way uninstalled parts of my kde. Left the fixing for tomorrow.

18 Sep 2001

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:37:22 GMT

Today I spent my time looking at more of the bug reports of the Ghostscript packages I maintain for Debian.

I decided I should improve my contact with the upstream developers and subscribed to some mailing lists. I have to work out what is going on on the PA-RISC port regarding Ghostscript. Somehow the ps2pdf tool is failing on the doxygen documentation. I confirmed that the problem persists with my preview package of the 6.51 upstream version.

The idea that the Postscript file generated on PA-RISC is wrong was disproved by copying the .ps file to my local i386 machine and converting it with ps2pdf which went without a problem. So the Ghostscript interpreter seems to be defect on PA-RISC.

Hmpf, seems like the python-gtk packages does not install anymore in Debian unstable. Looks like the interface of the compileall script in python-base was changed. Do not have the time now to check, this will have to wait for tomorrow.