Camandro

Since last week I'm responsible for the maintenance of the extended stable kernel 3.5, replacing Herton in this rule. Herton has been responsible for this kernel since the Ubuntu kernel team has decided to provide support for it, as it is the base kernel for the 12.10 release ("Quantal Quetzal").

Thus, this Monday I've released 3.5.7.7, which included 139 patches. The announcement is here.

This kernel is kept in a git repository ( git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git) with a couple of branches:

• master - Tracks upstream linux (from Linus)
• linux-3.5.y - The actual 3.5 stable tree
• linux-3.5.y-review - The 3.5 stable tree with patches that are under review
• linux-3.5.y-queue - The 3.5 stable tree with the patches that are currently queued for next release (after being pulled into linux-3.5.y-review branch for review).

For further details on the 3.5 stable maintenance, please take a look at this link and this link.

Finally I've found some free time to work on the xombrero debian package. I've been the maintainer of the xxxterm for a while, but upstream has decided to rename the software to xombrero a while back.

After some struggle to sort out some copyright issues, I've got my usual sponsor to review and upload the package to debian. Due to freeze, it has been uploaded into experimental. Because of the package rename, it'll be in the NEW queue.

If you're willing to give it a try, you can just:

  dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xombrero/xombrero_1.4.0-1.dsc
  dpkg-source -x *.dsc
  cd xombrero-1.4.0
  dpkg-buildpackage

Enjoy!