Basically, the problem with Planet having feeds "break" it is that Planet uses an ultra-liberal feed parser which ignores errors (and thereby breaks the XML spec). Of course, this means Planet's output might not be valid either.
I've had this discussion with Keybuk a few times, he seems to think having planet work this way is a feature and not a bug.
The first pkgconfig release in about 1.5 years is now out. A bunch of bugfixes, some feature enhancements. Please test it and give me feedback.
She said "Yes"! Yay us.
No use trying to fight it, you're an eight-sided die, a d8. A fine example of simple elegance, the d8 is one of the least appreciated types of dice, and is often neglected. You are known to be quiet and shy, outward traits that conceal viscous sarcasm and mean wit. You are very smart, yet wise enough to hide your intelligence the quicker they found out how smart you are, the sooner they'll put you to work, which is something you can do without. People call you dark and pessimistic, or moody and cynical. You find little point in arguing.
By way of Magni
Magni asks the question: "How does one actually find new friends?". I think this is a very interesting question, even though I don't really have any good answer.
I tend to be part of a lot of different environments: Debian, Samfundet, PVV, Ubuntu, IDI, Hardware.no and probably a bunch more. This makes me get in touch with a lot of people. Most will only ever end up as aquitances and "people I know". Some are interesting and end up as friends. I have very different relationships with my friends though. Some are people I talk to more or less every day -- on IRC or in person. Some are people whom I can talk to twice a year, but once we talk, we open up and get up-to-date which usually takes half an hour or a bit more. I enjoy those people a lot and some of them are actually my best friends, it's just that we don't talk too often due to living in different cities.
It's a bit weird how different different relationships are. It's also a mystery how they happen, to me it seems like they suddenly pop into existence and then feels like they've been there forever.
Inspired by Md's efforts to provide numbers showing how many packages have been downloaded off ftp.it.debian.org, I decided to try to get the same numbers for another mirror. The admin of ftp.se volunteered his logs, and I ran a small, ugly shell snippet[1] on the logs to extract the number of downloaded packages:
| Architecture | Downloads | % | % (with all excluded) |
|---|---|---|---|
| i386 | 1204913 | 74.29 | 96.46 |
| all | 372858 | 22.99 | |
| powerpc | 23226 | 1.43 | 1.86 |
| ia64 | 8984 | 0.55 | 0.72 |
| sparc | 4860 | 0.30 | 0.39 |
| hppa | 2326 | 0.14 | 0.19 |
| alpha | 2094 | 0.13 | 0.17 |
| amd64 | 1822 | 0.11 | 0.15 |
| mipsel | 407 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| mips | 248 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| arm | 219 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
| s390 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| m68k | 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
The numbers include some amd64 downloads, but this is such a small number that it won't have skewed the numbers significantly so they are included for completeness.
[1]: bzcat */httpd_2005-02-*.bz2| perl -ne '/_([[:alnum:]]+).deb/ and do {$arches{$1}++}; END {foreach $key (keys %arches) { print $arches{$key}, " $key\n"}}' | sort -rn
Julien, please don't reinvent the wheel. Just use a version control system. Whether you prefer Arch, SVN, CVS or any other is nothing I'm going to tell you to, but you'll save yourself a lot of work by just using a version control system.
