Sebastian Rittau

Category: Software Development

  • Playing with GStreamer

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    I played around with GStreamer today to do what I wanted to do for a long time: encode the music from a music video DVD I bought as Ogg so that I can play it with my regular music player (Rhythmbox) as well as at home (my computer at home doesn’t have a DVD drive – can…

  • Switching to Subversion?

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    There is talk on gnome-hackers to switch from CVS to Subversion as version control system. Some people instead suggested to switch to another, fundamentally different versioning system like arch or monotone. While I’m very much in favor of switching to Subversion, I am very against switching to a more radically different versioning system at this point for several reasons: A switch to Subversion is…

  • New Netatalk Packages

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    Yesterday saw a new Netatalk package (2.0.2-2), since I forgot to include heimdal-dev in the build dependencies. Today another fix is needed (2.0.2-3), since it doesn’t build on amd64. I don’t expect this to be the last build failure. Let’s wait and see … Of course I would prefer to check in the build fixes into upstream CVS,…

  • Sourceforge CVS Broken?

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    Is it just me or is the CVS on Sourceforge really broken? When I tried to update, I got the error message that the host key had changed. So I deleted all known host keys for Sourceforge sites and tried again. After I accepted the new host key, I got the following error message: Cannot access /cvsroot/netatalk/CVSROOT…

  • Maintainer Responsibilities and Arrogance

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    When I was recently combing through new packages in aptitude, I came across a package named svn-workbench. Since I am a fan of Subversion the name got me interested. The package’s short description (“A Workbench for Subversion “) didn’t help much. So I went to the long description, which I will quote here in full: pysvn-workbench…

  • I’m back to Debian

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    So, I finally found time to do Debian work again after a far too long abstinence. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to hand over my Debian stuff gracefully, but fortunately there were people having an eye on them. Jonas Smedegaard had an eye on the Netatalk package and released a security fix for it. The GNOME team, headed…