zlatan_todoric

You welcome and thanks for taking suggestions into account.

For simple things you probably want to use in future more of checkinstall (to keep it easier for yourself the creation, installation and removal part):

https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall

You really should take more care of servers :)

What does Debian miss that you need for your servers (I am really interested).

Also for quick and dirty you could use checkinstall.

There is also a good tutorial on DigitalOcean about fpm:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

And just maybe me nitpicking too much but the title should be then "How to quickly create deb package for personal needs". Notice that this means you don't get Debian Security support for your own package so that can be a huge breaker for many people running servers :)

Packaging tutorial shouldn't be technical details how deb package works but how you build one (if you want those details you can also find them in Debian documentation but in the end deb package is just an ar file with it's set of make file that satisfies the installation in specific distro - this is the simple explanation). And no, the tutorial is misleading because Debian packaging means doing it for Debian, while creating a deb package for your personal need is different. You also have Ubuntu packaging guides and so on.

Yep, the tutorial name should be how to quickly (low quality) create a deb package from simple source. :)

Also you can use equivs for creating quick (dummy?) packages :D

Although never user nor developer of Mandrake (Debian dude here) I really appreciated their effort and work, they really did some astonishing in those days, I just really think they didn't have the luck to hit it in right time. They were really innovative and really tried to make user experience great even before PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE and others tried that.

While Mageia is there, they seem to have hard time to innovate and keep the pace, but I am still glad they are here.

Being a Debian maintainer, that is a very bad and low quality tutorial. You missed a lot of files in debian directory, even your example of control file is not good enough, you're using practices to build package which would reject your package from even entering Debian. Also lintian is a must be if you work with Debian (and it would really scream with your tutorial).

Better tutorials:

https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging

https://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian

https://people.debian.org/~osamu/maint-guide.html

https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit (because we are all going to git the world).

[DebConf16](http://debconf16.debconf.org/) but that is for Debian geeks and general FLOSS hackers :)

Not all answer need to be pure technical ones - they don't go and search person by person via manpower but they use meta data and algorithms. Simple overflowing their meta data would force them to use other means. Also you forget social impact - if majority of people actually listened to RMS that means majority of people would be very privacy and security minded and would press the government to change the laws (NSA spying is illegal anyway but with majority of folks actually actively pursuing this would made their existence hard or at least not possible to just go and spy and ruing privacy of entire planet).

RMS is an idealist. If people actually made what he proposed (envisioned), world would be much better place.

It is hard to see the entire impact of Free software and even harder to predict how the world would like if people actually stood up to it but I can say that I am sure we would have:

- more secure Internet - more decentralized/distributed Internet - no ISP blocks - much harder if not even impossible NSA spying - no disgusting DRM - no patents and patent trolls -> more inovation - no force updates, no abandoned users - more competition in hardware and software field - things being developed for people and not sheer profit - ... - add your points

> It is far more "green" for many countries to force a one child policy than it is to switch to green energy.

Which doesn't say anything against having green energy but about current sad state of society and humanity in general...

>From the animation on FairPhone site, I counted 17 screws and 6 standoff. How many people, who would not even try to repair their phone will find this easy enough to start repairing their phone?

So we developed into society where 17 screws is such a major problem to deal with it... Also people who wouldn't not even try to repair their phone will not try even if there is no screw.

In my opinion such phone should appeal to what you call geeky crowd and from there it should initiate some social change (probably via media such as Internet) where changing 17 screws will not be difficult task but highly rewarding in terms of being human and hardware/cost wise. After that it should spread to people and with it the hardware becomes industrial standard (parts at least) so the price of changing goes down both in cost and finding them.

I installed on even older MacBook Debian Unstable (with part from experimental), Plasma 5 environment (gnome doesn't work because old Intel card supports only to OpenGL 2.1) without any problems and even full fledged KWin. Installation process was: copy netinstall image to usb, sync it, plug usb into macbook and install Debian. Everything works without any problem.

I LOLed on this story probably a bit too much. Also I am wondering if we are so much entangled in modern vision how we should work that we actually can make scripts for all people that we encounter in our lives. Suddenly people aren't anymore challenge but scripts! :)

Their server are based in Germany and license of their code is GPL licensed. Has anyone tried this app and/or were there any security expert auditing of the code?

your mail server isn't functional.

I second your words. Me, being freelancer for years, on my own and doing also for more then a year work in office showed only that I am way more productive in my own environment, on my own schedule. I don't chase money, but life, and having good life makes me more happy, thus more productive and then again company benefits more from me, so more money and success for them too.

Irresponsible person and/or unhappy worker will be less productive no matter where he works but I do think that remote work is the future if we want to have a sustainable life and don't have a new age slavery that is dominating in today's capitalism.

Very interesting at first sight. Brings back memories of good old games :)

Just one suggestion, I think you should avoid the installation scripts for distros, and leave them to package maintainers (I would for example love to see this properly in Debian). Also the windows zip in demo would probably be patched out (maybe you should make it a separate download on your website).

Keep the good work! All best.

Also the guy just read the story that was previous on HN how that was discovered in Debian https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409 (but it doesn't affect them) and made a post about it. 1000 thumbs down for him.