Mathias' Blog

Occasional musings and technical posts…

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...
31 Oct 2021

Marching on to LXD in Debian: First report

Last week I began looking into the status of the long-lived ITP to get LXD properly into Debian. I’d really like i...
19 Sep 2021

B-29 Doc in Albuquerque

This weekend we had a bit of aviation history here in Albuquerque: the B-29 “Doc” was down at the Sunport. I...
13 Aug 2021

LXD 4.0 LTS Properly Packaged for Debian bullseye

In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Debian bullseye, I have updated my packaging of the LXD 4.0 LTS release an...