Bazaar gedit integration
Javier Derderian is working on , the GNOME standard text editor, so that you can very easily record changes, push them to a server, and so on. Bazaar's model that a branch is just a directory with extra metadata fits pretty well here. He just made another exciting release (or should that be "excited"? :-)
posted Thu 8 May 2008 in /software/vc/bzr | link
Economist article titles, or indy playlist?
- Suicide in Japan
- Too soon to relax
- A lot to be angry about
- Fearful asymmetry
- Death be not proud
- Unsteady as she goes
- Speedy decline
- The Montana Meth Project
- Prove who you are
- Cristina in the land of make-believe
- Unfraternal
- Right back
- Hopes of healing
- Oceans apart
- Rank injustice
- Look behind you
Now I want to hear what A lot to be angry about sounds like.
posted Wed 7 May 2008 in /random | link
Avoiding "not permitted to upload" errors from PPAs
Morten asked today on irc about an error I have hit before myself: you go to upload your new package to a PPA, and get an odd message of Not permitted to upload to the RELEASE pocket in a series in the 'CURRENT' state.
What this means is that your upload was trying to go into the Ubuntu distribution, rather than into a PPA, and you're not authorized to put it there. The underlying reason is that the command line for dput, the tool for uploading source packages, is
dput [options] [host] package.changes ...
It's easy to forget the optional host parameter and if it's omitted it uploads into the Ubuntu archive.
There is a pretty easy (if crude) way to disable this behaviour, by adding these lines to your ~/.dput.cf:
[DEFAULT]
default_host_main = notspecified
[notspecified]
fqdn = SPECIFY.A.PPA.NAME
posted Wed 7 May 2008 in /software/launchpad | link
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