I’m the package maintainer for Autokey in Debian. Upstream recently changed from using GTK+ to Qt4, which caused more than one complaint from users of testing.
The GTK+ version of the package is published in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. While upstream is continuing to do regular releases of the GTK version, they are focusing on the KDE [...]
Recently I got a notification on my Jaunty box that unattended-upgrades had crashed, and eventually trased the problem to apt-get: while I could update my sources I was unable to upgrade, apt would segfault while reading the sources list.
While I still have no idea what the cause was, the solution was a simple `sudo rm [...]
For those of you who missed the announcement a few weeks ago, the DC LoCo will be hosting an Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” bug jam at Gallaudet University in the Student Union Building.
The meeting will immediately follow that of the OLPC Learning Club, and we’re expecting some spillover. In addition to packaging mentoring offered by [...]
It’s done: Sugar packages for Ubuntu Jaunty are no longer maintained in Git at Alioth.
Usually we maintain Sugar packages in Debian’s Git services at Alioth. Ideally, every Ubuntu SugarTeam member is also a Debian OLPC maintainer on Alioth, who have the rights to push Debian/Ubuntu-spesific fixes upstream. When we are close to a freeze or [...]
As far as I can tell the latest release of Sun Java, in which they were nice enough to enable plugin support for 64bit at long last, has not been backported as a deb in any of the popular archives.
For those of you who can’t wait for it to land in Medibuntu, here’s the command [...]
I recently unboxed my Dell XPS M1330, and of course replaced the default Vista Ultimate™ with Ubuntu Intrepid.
Everything was working fine, until I attempted to suspend: it failed to wake from its slumber. Hibernate had a similar problem, although in that case the system didn’t even attempt, returning to the gnome-screensaver immediately after switching to [...]