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xscreensaver 5.05-3 out

Today anibal(thanks!) uploaded xscreensaver 5.05-3, this release fixes the XRandR issue that a lot of people reported since the introduce of sanity code in 5.05 for XRandR (that are some quite RCs and important bugs).

5.06 is out now but we couldn't wait more to get this RCs closed, in a week or two this new release will be ready and in the archive.

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New gkrellm 2.3.1-6 with sysfs support for battery

Now gkrellm works with kernels >=2.6.24, since where /proc/acpi has been deprecated in favor of /sys.

The binaries packages for most of the archs debian supports most be available already in the debian archive since anibal upload it the saturday.

Enjoy!

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libtorrent 0.12.2-1 in experimental

Yey! libtorrent 0.12.2-1 is now uploaded to experimental (thanks bureado for the sponsoring! :D), soon I'll get rtorrent 0.8.2-1 uploaded as well.

I've been using it since a while and has been working great!

In a few hours the buildd network should get them built for all arches, BTW, in this version is included the support for ARM-based machines :) Prepare your NSLU2!

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Using git for package maintenaince

Sometimes I just mixed packages, got debdiffs, re-mixed and finish with a not-so-clean working directory with a lot of diffs applied and not knowing which one was what and who did what.

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libtorrent 0.12.2 and rtorrent 0.8.2 available in debs

They're not yet available in the official debian mirror but at least in mine they are. You can download the i386 debs from my repo, my deb-repo (using experimental suite!) for apt-get install or make you own using the apt-get repo with apt-get source.

Another easy way is to do:

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Init issue with gkrellmd...

I have been knocking my head against the wall a while with this bug. It's supposed that this line should create a PID file in /var/run/gkrellmd.pid but there's no PID file created so the daemon cannot be stopped so there's a error while upgrading-removing gkrellmd but is not supposed to be like this the line?:

start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
echo "$NAME."
;;

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Now libtorrent works in NSLU2!

I hope someone will upload it to experimental by the moment and see how works, in the meanwhile you can find it here. Goes to experimental because is the unstable branch of libtorrent/rtorrent.Want the debs? Then do:

$ dget http://debian.ghostbar.ath.cx/libtorrent/0.12.1-1/libtorrent_0.12.1-1.dsc
$ dpkg-source -x libtorrent_0.12.1-1.dsc
$ cd libtorrent-0.12.1; dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

You'll end with two debs, enjoy them :)

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