An interesting idea – instead of configuring a custom Debian Package Repository to point to a local mirror, proxy or cache, we can team up with Squid (or similar) to redirect package-ish stuff to the local package cache. This works therefore for transparent proxies, as well as for machines with a local HTTP_PROXY (or equivalent) set.

• Using apt-cacher-ng to handle deb files instead of squid.

Its seems to be the done thing to blog about the latest Debian release. Go check it out Also nice to see a website update – kudos to the web team.

What more can I say? It doesn’t seem to be terribly reliable, especially when being sent by me. Currently there are at least three people asking me about some NM status (I’m sure I remember replying to the first two, sorry guys). A couple of people have asked me questions about things on my website.. Gah.
I realise (now) that some of the emails I’ve sent from my laptop aren’t getting sent (unannounced change of firewall rules on ISP), I hope that that is responsible for most of the problems.

Downgraded #227039 from RC (‘Grave’) to ‘Normal’ – It’s not really a bug in libapache-miniwiki-perl, and I’m of the understanding that libapache-mod-perl runs apacheconfig --force-modules at the appropriate time

Update: It appears libapache-mod-perl doesn’t, in fact call apacheconfig --force-modules. I should add this to the FAQ then.

kov’s post (Via PlanetDebian [link removed]) reminded me of an old entry – does anyone have a clue on how to get an advogato password reset?