Guillem and I have finally
decided what coordination strategy we want to use for Debian's reborn Catalan
l10n team. The Dutch and French teams have a quite organised
method
that works through e-mail, as we wanted, and provides a way of nicely
tracking the status
of all the translations that Debian translators need to care about. We have a
proposal written which we'll mail to debian-l10n-catalan@l.d.o tomorrow, let's
see if people like it.
Uploaded GTranslator 1.1.4 to
Debian, after applying a patch to remove some GTK 2.3-only (I guess)
stuff.
Yesterday I went to bed at 1:30AM, probably managed to get asleep at around
4:30. Excellent...
After going cycling on Saturday (when I discovered my cold is still alive
and well), I had a looong lunch at house of some of my father's friends. We
got back home at 18:30 or so, with a big headache, due to the critical need
of sleep that I have been accumulating... went to bed for a "short" nap, and
by accident I woke up at 23:30, quite confused... "Is it the morning? Why am
I so hungry?". Since then, I haven't been able to get asleep at decent hours,
and tbm is laughing at
me because I very recently said I never go to bed at 2AM these days... well,
3 days in a row now, and counting.
In one of these long evenings and nights, I decided to upgrade the first of
my servers to Sarge, and
the upgrade went quite ok; only PostgreSQL and PHP4 gave me headaches. In the
first case, the automatic upgrade of the databases failed (in fact, I think I
have never seen it work correctly across minor releases, but that's probably
due to some non-Debianish setup I have in my boxes). After that, the format
change in pg_hba.conf confused me a bit. Got it straight in the
end, thanks to the nice help I got from Isaac. PHP4 was tricky too. Apache
would segfault if the PHP gd module (which gallery needs) was loaded. Got
input from the two local experts. Fabbione said "blame PHP, remove it and it
won't segfault". Well, thanks Fabio ;P When I tried harder on him, he said
php4-gd sucks, and bingo, removing gd.so from php.ini made Apache
happy. Vorlon suggested using php4-gd2, which I didn't even know about. Woops,
unresolved symbols. Upgrading to the version of libgd2-xmp in unstable fixed
it luckily (for those who care, that version of libgd2 is entering testing
today), and all services are ok now. In all, the upgrade went well, having in
mind many bits are missing from Sarge still.
As we feared, testing really insisted in having galeon built for arm before
it would allow meta-gnome2 into testing. I have uploaded version 45 to
unstable and this should hopefully be the final version that makes it in.
Oh, very important, I'd like to use the nice window that the Planets
provide to state that weasel rules, and you should vote for him in the next
Debian elections, just as I will. He has wild ideas for Debian if he gets
elected. For example, he promises he'll get rid of the bureaucratic DPL
elections starting next year, so we can concentrate more on releasing
Sarge (and as a bonus, weasel will be DPL forever: as good as it can get).
I'm a proud member of his campaign coordination team. I hope this will
make him not remove my Debian account as he will do with tbm's.
