Bad support of ZIP archives with extra fields
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember
For sharing multiple files, it is often convenient to pack them into an archive, and the most widely supported format to do so is probably ZIP. Under *nix, you can archive a directory with Info-ZIP:
% zip -r something.zip something/
(When you have several files, it is recommended to archive them in a directory, to avoid cluttering the directory where people will extract them.)
Using Wine with sound under Debian testing (Jessie)
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, To remember
If you are using Wine under Debian testing with PulseAudio, you probably noticed that you cannot get sound playback any more. This is because:
- Wine uses ALSA, which uses a plugin to play through PulseAudio;
- Wine being in 32 bits, all that has to be installed in i386 versions;
- recent versions of libasound2-plugins depend on libavcodec54 which depends on libopus0 which is not multiarch-capable and thus cannot be installed in both i386 and amd64 versions;
- libopus0:amd64 cannot be reasonably removed to install only libopus0:i386 because many multimedia software depend on it (in other words: try that and you will end removing VLC and everything similar too).
No need to despair though, as there are several ways to work around that problem until the maintainer of libasound2-plugins has converted it to multiarch.
Read more Using Wine with sound under Debian testing (Jessie)
apt-get install mini-debconf goodies-debian
Vous avez peut-être entendu parler de la mini-DebConf à venir. Une mini-DebConf, c'est un rassemblement de debianistes avec des conférences et des ateliers. Et donc, il va y en avoir une à Paris, le week-end des 24 et 25 novembre.
Debian buttons for Firefox/Iceweasel
As a Debian administrator, power user or contributor, one often goes to look for information about a package, a bug, a developer or a message from the mailing lists. If you are in this case, you may be interested in the Firefox/Iceweasel extension “Debian buttons”, written by Damyan Ivanov and packaged by myself.
Concerning the good use of ITP
When someone wants to package a piece of software for Debian, he has to file an Intent to Package, by filing a special bug report against the pseudo-package “wnpp” (work-needing and prospective packages) with a title of “ITP: software name”. This way, we can synchronize our efforts, for instance if someone else wants to package the same piece of software. I have seen two recent examples of a misunderstanding of the correct use of such reports, so perhaps this reminder may be of some help for newcomers.