Free Software Linux

Been a while since I did so much Debian work in a fairly short
time.

Today, I finished work on belpic 2.6.0, the support software for the
Belgian electronic ID card. My initial builds wouldn't work since I made
some stupid (no, really, stupid) errors in properly
using that ugly beast, but eventually
I saw the light. Working packages are now in incoming, and will soon be on a
Debian Mirror Near You(TM).

Oh, in case you wonder: the difference between 2.6.0 upstream and
2.5.9 upstream is pretty small, mostly some housekeeping bugfixes;
meaning, if 2.5.9 is working for you, there's probably no need to worry
about getting the update. I've also added some extra changes to the
packaging bits, so that you now no longer have to install the -dev
packages just so you can use the browser plugins. Isn't that nice.

I did some more work on getting emile, the Early Mac Image
LoadEr, to work properly again. Unfortunately, after the initial 0.10-1
upload that I did to Debian, none of my other builds managed to actually
work on my test machine. Since I don't want to break existing machines
that are using emile, I didn't think to upload those non-working
binaries; but now with #451415, I can't ignore that
problem any longer. I think I've nailed it now, though, and once
barok (my IIci) has finished building (which will take a few
hours), the packages should work. Cross your fingers.

Finally, I've also prepared an upstream bugfix update of nbd, the userland support tools
for the Network Block Device in the Linux kernel, and have uploaded a
package from that release into Debian. As if that wasn't enough, and
since I genuinely care about the state of my packages in Debian
derivatives, I've poked some Ubuntu-people to get it synced there,
too.

I guess I'm back in shape now.