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== Lars Friedrichs ==

Email: <<MailTo(LarsFriedrichs AT SPAMFREE gmx DOT de)>>

IRC: HighNo (irc.freenode.net)

=== welcome ===
Hi guys,

thanks for stopping by to have a look at my page. If you want to know me better you should probably try to find me somewhere and ask me something :-)

=== about me ===
I'm just another linux enthusiast and so called evangelist.

I do linux and security trainings as a freelancer since 2000 and did my UCP (ubuntu certified professional) as well as the ubuntu official instructor test in may '07 (during which I had a great time in Stuttgart, thanks again Billy and Chris).

=== personal stuff ===
Just some personal stuff:
 * I'm 31 years old, married and have one lovely daughter and now even one lovely boy so far.
 * If I am not working on someone's PC (including mine) I most likely will be humming an 80's song - sometimes I combine these two hobbies :-)
 * If you've come to know me in IRC you should know I am the man for (try to be) funny remarks and overlengthy descriptions for things that tend to finally work :-) good example for that is [[https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/8091|here]]

=== my projects at this time ===
These are some of my projects:
 * http://parpwatch.sourceforge.net - PARPwatch is a python arp watch daemon mostly for windows which logs to the eventlog.
 * http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net - BlueProximity is a security tool to detect your presence near your computer via bluetooth for automated locking/unlocking of the screen.
 * trying to understand packaging for Ubuntu and Debian by packaging my BlueProximity package myself.
 * starting to have a look at [[http://mythbuntu.org|Mythbuntu]] as they want to integrate BlueProximity too - and it looks quite nice.
 * actually finishing my BSc degree at the [[http://www.uni-hannover.de|Leibniz University Hannover]].


=== working on right now ===

Thanks to persia I am trying to get rid of gtk1.2 in favour of gtk2 in old packages. Some notes on that:

 * change debian/control
   * change builddeps `libgtk1.2-dev` to `libgtk2.0-dev` (most common change)
   * remove builddeps `libgdk-imlib` (seems integrated now)
   * change builddeps `libgnome-dev` to `libgnomeui-dev` (??? not so sure about this one)
 * change Makefiles
   * `gtk-config --cflags` => `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0`
   * `gtk-config --libs` => `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0`
 * change Source
   * Drop calls to `gtk_tooltips_set_colors`
   * Exchange `GTK_WINDOW_DIALOG` with `GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL`
   * Drop includes of `gdk-imlib.h`
   * Change calls to `gnome_about_new` (old arguments ''title,version,author,desc,pixmap'', new ''title,version,desc,author,NULL,NULL,NULL'')

Good reference (should have found it earlier):
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/

Process of creating the according __debdiff__:
 * `apt-get source package`
 * look for existing patches, take a trailing number XX
 * change debian/control if needed
 * `cdbs-edit-patch ''XX-port-to-gtk2.patch''`
 * edit your stuff
 * `exit`
 * make sure `DEBFULLNAME` and `DEBEMAIL` are set properly
 * `dch -D hardy -v ''new_package_version'' -i`
 * if the previous version didn't end with "ubuntuX" you'll have to run `update-maintainer` (from package ''ubuntu-dev-tools'')
 * `debuild -S`
 * `cd ..`
 * download the source from Hardy again (.dsc and .diff.gz) as you probably have overwritten them
 * `debdiff packagename_oldversion.dsc packagename_newversion.dsc > packagename_newversion.debdiff`
 * check that everything ending up in packagename_newversion.debdiff was changed by you
   * if there are other changes you'll need to filter them out
   * make sure that if a patch (within the debdiff) was created that it changes nothing in debian dir
 * Create bug report ''ported from obsolete GTK1.2 to GTK2''
   * attach debdiff
   * subscribe ''ubuntu-universe-sponsors''
   * set it to "confirmed"

 * Strip all `debian/` stuff from package
 * send patch to debian's BTS via `reportbug-ng`

Where to look for upstream packages changelogs and bugreports:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=e16menuedit

Report patches to upstream according to:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
with tool
`reportbug-ng`
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