Blastwave: Caught up now
WARNING: The geek level of this post is off the scale. lol
I got quite a bit of stuff done for the Blastwave Project this weekend.
I joined this initiative in 2003 and have quite regularly maintained and contributed OpenSource software packages to the community. — Except for the last two or so months where haven’t quite managed to find the motivation to do much. So stuff kept piling up, packages were getting old and bugs remained unfixed.
This is no longer the case. I caught up on quite a few things. I built new packages of Exim and CUPS, as well as a couple of smaller programs like jhead, dcraw and micq. It’ll be a few days till the new packages hit the world, but they are in the process of being released and pushed out to the mirrors.
In addition I managed to track down a supposed bug in CUPS that people had been experiencing. Turns out it wasn’t CUPS at all, it was a shared library (libgcrypt) CUPS is using that caused the problems. That one got updated, too, after I told Torrey about the issue.
The big TODO now is to finally get a new release of libgphoto out. One that supports USB cameras on Solaris 10 and up (works perfectly fine with a private SPARC build at home). The delay for official packages wasn’t entirely my fault, though. Until recently I didn’t have an x86 box with Solaris 10 to build on.
Sure feels good to get some stuff done and receive positive feedback from people out there who are grateful that an annoying bug has been fixed.
