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Maemo 5 Fremantle

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:29:31 +0000

As of now, debian.dev-zero.nl also carries a repository for Maemo 5 Fremantle. Maemo is the Debian-based operating system created by Nokia, running on N810 internet tablets and N900 phones. Development of Maemo at Nokia has come somewhat to a halt, since first MeeGo was announced, and later Nokia announced the strategic partnership with Microsoft to switch to Windows Phone 7 devices.

Since I own a N900, and every now and then, I need a package that is not available from Nokia’s, or other community-driven repositories, I decided to host the packages that I build myself on this website. To get the packages, add this to your sources.list:

deb http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian/ fremantle main

At this time, two packages are available here:

~~libncursesw5, copied from repository.maemo.org, because it is only in the SDK repository and it is a dependency of Zsh~~
zsh 4.3.12, ported from Debian unstable, built using the Maemo SDK

If any more packages are added in the future, I will write about it on this blog.

Update 5 Sep 2011:

The package ‘libncursesw5′ was removed from the repository, because it is available in downloads.maemo.nokia.com, one of the repositories that is configured on a Maemo 5 device by default.

Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:40:14 +0000

Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, a.k.a. DCC is an anti-spam content filter, that works by comparing checksums of received mail, to recognize (and possibly block) unsollicited bulk e-mail. At DevZero.nl, over 50% of the SPAM we receive, is found with DCC, and there are very few false positives. DCC has been around for more than 10 years, but unfortunately, its license does not comply with the DFSG and it was removed from Debian in 2008.

Debian.dev-zero.nl has carried a Debian package for DCC since it was founded, but it hasn’t been updated in quite a while. The version that was in the archive (1.3.102) dated from February 2009. The latest version, that was released on November 9, 2010 is 1.3.134, and this version was packaged and uploaded to lenny-custom today.

As usual, both i386 and amd64 packages are available. A small warning: the packages have not been tested extensively, but I run them in production, so any problems that arise, I will fix.

PHP 5.3.3-7

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:30:34 +0000

Last Wednesday, PHP 5.3.3-7 was uploaded to unstable. This version contains about 15 patches for problems that have been fixed in newer versions upstream, including a problem on 32-bit installations with large floating point numbers, that could crash or hang your server.

Enough reason for a new backport, so as of now, this version (5.3.3-7tzz1~bpo50) is available on debian.dev-zero.nl, in lenny-custom. It is i386-only at the moment, amd64 will follow soon.

My own changelog additions are:

php5 (5.3.3-7tzz1) unstable; urgency=low

* Packaged for Lenny
* Added a patch to allow the 5th argument of mail() in safe mode
  (001-safe_mode_mail_arg5_ok.patch)
* Change build-dep on automake from 1.11 to automake (>= 1.10) |
  automake1.11 | automake1.10

-- Martijn Grendelman   Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:35:51 +0100

Exim 4.72

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:09:18 +0000

Earlier this month, a serious security vulnerability was discoverd in Exim. While a security update for Lenny’s version 4.69-9 was released the very same day, different versions remain vulnerable. On December 26th, version 4.72-3 was uploaded to Unstable, containing the fixes for this issue from upstream’s version 4.73 RC1.

I am sure, that this version will enter Lenny-backports when it hits Testing, but until then, a Lenny build is available from debian.dev-zero.nl. As usual, both i386 and amd64 are here.

Please note that this package was built against libdb4.8 from Lenny-backports, so you can not install this package without access to the backports repository.

Update January 7, 2011: exim4 4.72-3~bpo50+1 has entered backports.debian.org yesterday, so the exim4 packages have been removed from debian.dev-zero.nl

Removals

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:55:24 +0000

The following outdated packages have just been removed from the archive:

zaptel-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64
zaptel-modules-2.6.26-1-686
cciss-vol-status
debian-sipo-keyring
apache2 and everything related, they are available on backports.debian.org now
libapr1, libapr1-dbg, libapr1-dev, they are available on backports.debian.org now
libaprutil1 and everything related, they are available on backports.debian.org now

Many other outdated packages (mostly VLC and other multimedia-stuff) will remain in the archive, but will not be updated anymore. Since I have upgraded my workstation to Squeeze, I haven’t got any way to test the packages before I upload them. Other packages may receive updates.

PHP 5.3.3

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:45:25 +0000

It took a while -as a matter of fact, this is the first update to the repository in over 8 months- but today, the latest version of PHP was uploaded to debian.dev-zero.nl. While PHP 5.3.3 was already released in July by the PHP development team, it took until late October for the first release by the Debian maintainer team to reach unstable. After that, four more uploads were done, and with version 5.3.3-6, things seem to have stabalized a little and this version migrated to testing on December 13th.

As usual, the PHP packages are available in lenny-custom, for both amd64 and i386.

PHP 5.3.2

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:19:11 +0000

On March 4th, PHP 5.3.2 was released by the PHP development team and on March 13th, it was uploaded to Unstable. Today, this version (5.3.2-1) was backported to Lenny and uploaded to lenny-custom.

As usual, both amd64 and i386 are available.

Apache updated

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0000

The backport of Apache 2.2 was updated to 2.2.15-2 from Testing. In Testing/Unstable, this package (apache2.2-bin, to be precise) has a dependency on libssl >= 0.9.8m, because of some fixes concerning secure session renegotiation in mod_ssl. However, this version was built against Lenny’s 0.9.8g.

For more information on secure session renegotiation in OpenSSL, see its documentation.

Packages are available for i386 and am64, as usual.

Libapache2-mod-h264-streaming

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53:30 +0000

Last Sunday (Feb. 21st), libapache2-mod-h264-streaming was updated to version 2.2.7 (~tzz1~bp50), which was released in January. I haven’t been tracking the development of the module very closely recently, mostly because the upstream news page doesn’t give much indication that there is any development going on at all. That was a mistake, or so it seems.

Libapache2-mod-h264-streaming was the very first package to get a posting on this blog (July 7th, 2009), from when the software was not officially released yet. This is the first update since. As usual, packages are available for i386 and amd64, both in lenny-custom.

PHP 5.3.1 again

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:47:47 +0000

Shortly after uploading PHP 5.3.1 to lenny-custom, a bug appeared in the Debian BTS, concerning the several SQLite extensions. I went ahead and fixed this bug (in my own way; the Debian maintainers may choose a different path!) and prepared new packages. The situation regarding SQLite is now as follows:

There are three different extensions for SQLite: sqlite, sqlite3 and pdo_sqlite
sqlite is the ‘old’ sqlite extension, which works with SQLite 2
sqlite3 and pdo_sqlite are newer extensions, designed to work with SQLite 3, the current stable branch
All of these extensions are packaged in the php5-sqlite package
php5-sqlite 5.3.1-3~tzz50+3 depends on libsqlite0 (>= 2.8.17) and libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.21)

Please note the emphasis on the version of libsqlite3-0. This dependency cannot be fulfilled in clean Lenny, but SQLite 3.6.21 (or higher) is available from Backports.org. Other packages are needed from Bpo as well:

libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328)
libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.36)

This site is now running on this very version of PHP, so if you notice any weirdness, don’t hesitate to leave a comment

UPDATE OF FEBRUARY 12th

The Debian PHP maintainers did another upload yesterday, containing a fix for the SQLite problem (exactly the same fix as I did, so that’s nice ). However, this upload also contains fixes for some other problems, that made it seem like another backport was justified. Hence, the version of PHP in lenny-custom is now 5.3.1-4~tzz50.