Archive: October, 2009
At last, my body clock will be correct again
Published by Jon on October 25th, 2009 in Debian | Comments Off
Note to self: because daylight saving time just ended and all the dak machines work in GMT, everything will happen at the advertised time again – not an hour later. Most significantly, the important dinstall run of the day is back at 00:52, and britney runs at 16:40 again. No more remembering to add an [...]
ftpmasters are rocking lately
Published by Jon on October 24th, 2009 in Debian | Comments Off
My upload to NEW of pyquery the other day went through in an amazing time: Thu 13:36 RFP from Paul Wise Thu 19:08 I checked out the upstream source and started packaging Fri 10:59 Taniguchi Takaki sponsored it to NEW Fri 16:44 Barry deFreeze accepted it into unstable (all times GMT, because they cross zones [...]
No, bash, I don’t have any mail
Published by Jon on October 21st, 2009 in Debian | Comments Off
Since some time earlier in the Summer, I’ve noticed this appearing a lot in a shells: You have mail in /var/mail/… You have mail in /home/…/Mail/… You have mail in /home/…/Mail/…/… and so on, yet when there really is new mail, the message is correct. I’ve filed it as bug #551487, but I can’t help [...]