Archive for September 2006

What I want in edgy+1

Now that edgy has been frozen for the beta release in a week’s time, and the next developer summit, where the plans for the next release will be discussed, has been announced, I think it’s the perfect time to start thinking about the kinds of features we want to see in that release.
At our recent [...]

Having Left Debian

It’s been over a year now since my last proper upload to Debian, and nine months since I announced my intent to put aside working on Debian for a while.
With Matthew Garrett’s resignation from Debian, several people have compared it to my own “resignation” from Debian. It has got my thinking about whether I [...]

Upstart can now replace sysvinit

Today I reached another milestone in the development of upstart, the packages in universe can now replace the existing sysvinit package.
Before trying this, make sure your installation is up to date as we’ve had to split out some parts of sysvinit into a new sysvutils package. If you’re up to date, and want to [...]