Mathias' Blog

Occasional musings and technical posts…

04 Aug 2022

lxd_5.0.0-1_amd64.changes is NEW

LXD has finally been uploaded to the NEW queue! It’s been about nine months since I seriously started looking at g...
22 Jul 2022

Some apt Repo Statistics

I host a small, personal apt repo, primarily for my own use and convenience as I work on preparing packages for inclusio...
13 Jul 2022

James Webb Space Telescope First Photos

Southern Ring Nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (credit to NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) Yesterday we fin...
01 Apr 2022

LXD Packaging Report, 5.0 LTS edition

Progress on getting LXD packaged for Debian continues, although at a bit slower rate the past couple of months due to re...
25 Jan 2022

A new Debian Maintainer

As of today, it’s official – I’m now a Debian Maintainer! The following changes to the debian-maintain...
01 Jan 2022

LXD Packaging Report, New Year's edition

Happy 2022 everyone! This will be the year that LXD finally, properly lands in Debian. The packaging work for LXD is fai...
03 Dec 2021

LXD Packaging Report, 32bit edition

We’ll start today with a PSA: 32bit architectures still exist. Similar to C, golang has an int variable type whose...
02 Dec 2021

OpenRCT2 Accepted into Debian

Today, after 252 days in the NEW queue, OpenRCT2 was finally accepted into Debian! openrct2_0.3.4.1+ds-1_amd64.changes A...
21 Nov 2021

LXD Packaging Report, Wild West edition

Well, I’m calling this the “Wild West” edition of my LXD packaging report, as I have been reminded onc...
11 Nov 2021

LXD Packaging Report, Nov 11

A quick update on my progress of packaging all the dependencies for LXD in Debian. NEW packages pending ftpmaster review...