(debian) work and the silence

I've been really busy lately in RL and Debian work took the hit.

Some news:

• on the 1st of November, the compendiums on i18n.debian.net managed to waste a huge chunk of disk space and made other scripts (and itself) on churro fail miserably; now there is only a 7 days backlog of the compendiums
• oolite needs an upload due to the gnustep libs transition; I'll try to prepare tonight the long due 1.65-6 version for unstable
• wormux upstream is preparing for yet another beta which should be really close to the final 0.8 version; I wish I had more time to work on this game
• sadly, no news on the naughtysvn front :-( from me
• I have been coding now and then on svn-buildpackage 0.6.23 and I intent to make yet another drop in the bug count visible on the graph:

hmm, I was here before

I am stumbling again on the problem of not being able to install libgnome-dev and libsvn-dev side by side, namely bug #429025.

For some reason, I was under the impression that the bug was fixed... but apr-util is behind :-(.

libgnome-dev + libsvn-dev = problems

On Debian Etch systems it is impossible to install out of the box both libglade-gnome0-dev and libsvn-dev due to a conflict between depended upon libraries.

In order to install them side by side you will have to modify an existing libdb4.4-dev deb package to add "libdb3-dev" to the Provides: field of the package. You can do this by editing DEBIAN/control after running:

deb-reversion -k /bin/sh libdb4.4-dev_*.deb

When done, exit and install the newly created libdb4.4-dev package:

dpkg -i libdb4.4-dev*LOCAL*.deb


I managed to find this solution thanks to mrvn and other people on IRC. Thanks.

NaughtySVN

After the feedback related to my latest post about NaughtySVN I thought it would be nice to commit my pending changes about update, although they are not enough to make a functional update feature.

I also thought is time to clarify a few things about the project:

• NaughtySVN is a project that tries to be first a sane SVN client for Nautilus in the style of TortoiseSVN available on Windows
• the project is designed in such a way that different frontends and backends can be added[1], so it shouldn't be hard (in theory) to add support for konqueror, gnome-commander on one side or darcs, mercurial or git on another side.
• For now we are working for a Nautilus+SVN client combination and we are in the alpha stage
• different menu items will appear as needed and when they make sense (the update command will appear only if an update is possible, i.e. context menu of a file/directory in a working copy)

[1] see the comment starting from "A word of caution" in this message from Alexander Thomas