22 Nov 2006 (Wed)

06:59:51 # Life Tokyo Debian Meeting meets Kansai. On 19th Nov, we had a Debian meeting in Osaka. approx. 20 people attended. It was hosted by Osaka Electro-Communication University. Details follow:

• We discussed the homework. The homework was to devise a question. We discussed about Debian in general. We discussed differences between Debian, FreeBSD, and Fedora Core.
• I talked about using sid. There was a mention about apt-listchanges. People didn't know, but it is possible to configure apt-listchanges to show the changelog and ask what the changes are going to be before installation. The default is just to send an e-mail after the fact, and that default isn't too useful, when using sid.
• I talked about using the BTS. The discussion went into gory details behind the scenes, and might have been too deep for the members present.
• Iwamatsu talked about packaging. He took cairo-dock as an example. Naturally, everyone present should now able to make Debian packages.
• Enkai happened in "One's" in Kyobashi. It took 40 minutes by train to go to Kyobashi from the University site, but we didn't get people lost, which is good.