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Posted onMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020Debian

Maintain release info easily in MetaInfo/Appdata files

This article isn’t about anything “new”, like the previous ones on AppStream – it rather exists to shine the spotlight on a feature I feel…

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Posted onMarch 7, 2020March 7, 2020Debian

Introducing the MetaInfo Creator

This year’s FOSDEM conference was a lot of fun – one of the things I always enjoy most about this particular conference (besides having some…

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Posted onJanuary 27, 2020January 27, 2020Debian

A big AppStream status update

It has been a while since the last AppStream-related post (or any post for that matter) on this blog, but of course development didn’t stand…

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Posted onApril 4, 2017September 28, 2017Debian

About Tanglu…

It’s time for a long-overdue blogpost about the status of Tanglu. Tanglu is a Debian derivative, started in early 2013 when the systemd debate at…

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Posted onMay 6, 2016May 17, 2016Debian

Adventures in D programming

I recently wrote a bigger project in the D programming language, the appstream-generator (asgen). Since I rarely leave the C/C++/Python realm, and came to like…

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Posted onDecember 14, 2015December 14, 2015Debian

AppStream/DEP-11 fully supported in Debian now!

Back in 2011, when the AppStream meeting in Nürnberg had just happened, I published the DEP-11 (Debian Extension Project 11) draft together with Michael Vogt…

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Posted onSeptember 11, 2015September 11, 2015Debian

Deploying Limba packages: Ideas & current status

The Limba project does not only have the goal to allow developers to deploy their applications directly on multiple Linux distributions while reducing duplication of…

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Posted onMarch 30, 2015March 30, 2015Debian

Limba Project: Another progress report

And once again, it’s time for another Limba blogpost 🙂 Limba is a solution to install 3rd-party software on Linux, without interfering with the distribution’s…

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Posted onDecember 2, 2014January 5, 2015Debian

How to build a cross-distro package with Limba

Disclaimer: Limba is still in a very early stage of development. Bugs happen, and I give to guarantees on API stability yet. Limba is a…

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Posted onNovember 10, 2014November 10, 2014Debian

Introducing Limba – a software installer experiment

As some of you already know, since the larger restructuring in PackageKit for the 1.0 release, I am rethinking Listaller, the 3rd-party application installer for…

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