I'm a crap maintainer, as well as being bloody lazy.

I'm relieved I've finally been found out, I can desist with this charade. I mean, it must be true, someone said it on the Internet.

I spent today hacking on bzr-builddeb for the first time in a while. The first order of business was to review and merge all of the proposed merges in launchpad. Thanks especially to Jelmer Vernooij for all his work.

After that I tackled a long-standing annoyance in bzr-builddeb. This limitation …

Hannah is very interested in radio, and is planning to set up her own Internet radio site. I wanted to try out icecast to see whether it would be suitable. I have jotted down a few notes about how to set it up here as I couldn't see any others …

I returned today and I had received the email I had been waiting for.

To: James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net>
From: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:00:09 -0700
Subject: seccure_0.2-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED


Accepted:
seccure_0.2-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main …

We hadn't really realised but some gnutls related packages are Priority: Important, and as such are due to be frozen soon for etch. There has been some upstream activity in the area recently, with several releases. Luckily the timing was really good, and the uploads made it in such that …

The other day I decided I wanted to try out one of the more modern revision control systems. I decided on bzr as it seemed to have some features that I liked the look of. I still intend to try out darcs one day though, as it looks very interesting …

An RFP was filed for seccure, a small program allowing ECC based public-key crypto. I snapped it up and produced a package. The packaging was simple, but I enjoyed playing with the software while I was doing it.

The upstream author, B. Poettering, has been fantastic, very responsive and helpful …

After a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about having a system for unifying the way packages create SSL certificates, a couple of things became apparent. Firstly that the idea was a good one, and secondly that the existing tool that tries to do this (ssl-cert) is not good enough …

Recently apt-listbugs was orphaned, and it was in a bad shape, including an RC bug that makes it virtually useless at the moment, not showing some bugs, and showing ones that were closed long ago.

I then started work on the package, fixing all of the easy bugs while I …