How did I get here?

We were in the process simplifying our package creation and signing pipeline, and as such we moved the signing process for the Ubuntu packages from a dedicated Ubuntu box back to the Jenkins server itself (which had the repositories mounted over NFS). This was possible …

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Today my previously-working printer setup, with an Epson WF-3620, simply stopped working, with no error in the local Cups console other than “Filter failed.” Well…that’s not helpful. Digging in to /var/log/cups/error_log didn’t provide much help initially other than GPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable …

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Over on his blog, Raphael Pinson has a post about creating a package with “minimal dependencies.” In short, make the dependencies of the package the “real” dependencies, not just the latest and greatest version of the package you rely on.

I have been waiting way too long for someone to …

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