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19 Sep 2001 (updated 19 Sep 2001 at 21:36 UTC) »

Spent most of the day for university and related stuff. Gave back a book which was I wanted to keep but which loan period I could not extend because somebody subscribed it already. Kind of silly since there were about 30 more copies available so I got it back from there. But I have to pay 6,10 DM because they sent me a reminder already. Morons! Guess I have to rewrite their online booking software.

Accordingly I did not have much time for free software. At least I managed to upload a new gnofin package which fixes the build failure on some architectures.

Did not even read the mailing lists or slashdot. Perhaps tomorrow. At least I managed to run a dist-upgrade and that way uninstalled parts of my kde. Left the fixing for tomorrow.

18 Sep 2001 (updated 18 Sep 2001 at 16:08 UTC) »

Today I spent my time looking at more of the bug reports of the Ghostscript packages I maintain for Debian.

I decided I should improve my contact with the upstream developers and subscribed to some mailing lists. I have to work out what is going on on the PA-RISC port regarding Ghostscript. Somehow the ps2pdf tool is failing on the doxygen documentation. I confirmed that the problem persists with my preview package of the 6.51 upstream version.

The idea that the Postscript file generated on PA-RISC is wrong was disproved by copying the .ps file to my local i386 machine and converting it with ps2pdf which went without a problem. So the Ghostscript interpreter seems to be defect on PA-RISC.

Hmpf, seems like the python-gtk packages does not install anymore in Debian unstable. Looks like the interface of the compileall script in python-base was changed. Do not have the time now to check, this will have to wait for tomorrow.

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