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IMAPFilter 2.6.11-1 backport for Debian Jessie AMD64 available

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:59:22 +0000

One of the perks you get as a Debian Developer is a @debian.org email address. And because Debian is old and the Internet used to be a friendly place this email address is plastered all over the Internet. So you get email spam, a lot of spam.

I'm using a combination of server and client site filtering to keep spam at bay. Unfortunately the IMAPFilter version in Debian Jessie doesn't even support "dry run" (-n) which is not so cool when developing complex filter rules. So I backported the latest (sid) version and agreed with Sylvestre Ledru, one of its maintainers, to share it here and see whether making an official backport is worth it. It's a straight recompile so no magic and no source code or packaging changes required.

Get it while its hot:

imapfilter_2.6.11-1~bpo8+1_amd64.deb (IMAPFilter Jessie backport)
SHA1: bedb9c39e576a58acaf41395e667c84a1b400776

Clever LUA snippets for ~/.imapfilter/config.lua appreciated.

Netatalk 3.1.9 .debs for Debian Jessie available (Apple Timemachine backup to Linux servers)

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 12:30:00 +0000

Netatalk 3.1.9 has been released with two interesting fixes / amendments:

FIX: afpd: fix "admin group" option
NEW: afpd: new options "force user" and "force group"

Here are the full release notes for 3.1.9 for your reading pleasure.

Due to upstream now differentiating between SysVinit and systemd packages I've followed that for simplicity's sake and built libgcrypt-only builds. If you need the openssl-based tools continue to use the 3.1.8 openssl build until you have finished your migration to a safer password storage.

Be sure to read the original blog post if you are new to Netatalk3 on Debian Jessie!
You'll get nowhere if you install the .debs below and don't know about the upgrade path. So RTFA.

Now with that out of the way:

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Netatalk 3.1.8 .debs for Debian Jessie available (Apple Timemachine backup to Linux servers)

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:37:00 +0000

The Debian Netatalk3 saga continues at bug #685878. In season 4 of the epic the main issue still seems to be unclear license indications of a (very) few source files. And the usual "you go fix it", "no! you go fix it!". May be the fact that Firefox will be Firefox again in Debian [yeah!] could serve as an inspiration to the Netatalk maintainers?

Ah, well, until we have the eureka moment for Netatalk3 (4?) ...
<pragmatism style="priority-on-users:yes"> ... I'll post my .debs of the new 3.1.8 version of Netatalk as well.

Be sure to read the original blog post if you are new to Netatalk3 on Debian Jessie!
You'll get nowhere if you install the .debs below and don't know about the upgrade path. So RTFA.

The release notes for 3.1.8 don't list anything that makes the update look mandatory but there is a nice compatibility fix for shares also exported via Samba (compatible xattrs handling). And it's faster.

The update instructions (assuming you have installed 3.1.7 before) are:

# install new debs
dpkg -i libatalk17_3.1.8-1_amd64.deb netatalk_3.1.8-1_amd64.deb
# reboot the box (restart of netatalk may not be sufficient)
reboot
# After reboot: remove the obsolete libatalk16 (3.1.8 uses libatalk17)
dpkg -r libatalk16

And here are the files:

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Apple Timemachine backups on Debian 8 (Jessie)

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Mon, 18 May 2015 18:00:00 +0000

Upgrading Debian 7 (Wheezy) servers to Debian 8 (Jessie) proves (unexpectedly) quite rough around the edges.

That's what you get for using a version x.0, we should have known better .

And - of course - the release notes follow the common practice of not even mentioning any of the issues we encountered so far.

Ah, well, let's go through the first one:

In Debian 7 (Wheezy) there was netatalk 2.2.2 (packages link). Now during upgrades that package may or may not get removed. There is no netatalk in Debian 8 (Jessie) anymore. Duh. There is in sid (aka Debian unstable) (packages link) so we may see a backport some time. Or not. In any case this is still 2.2.5 at the time of writing and as Adrian Knoth put it in the three year old bug asking for a upgrade to Netatalk 3:

Let's not ship another release without netatalk3, it's embarrassing.

Yes. It is. Removing a working version and not even mentioning it in the release notes is even worse though. So no cookies there.

Luckily the absolutely awesome Debian and greater FLOSS community have sorted 90% of the problem out for us already:

A quick Google search turns up an excellent article on netatalk's wiki that details installing Netatalk 3.1.7 on Debian 8 Jessie. There are two shortcomings to this: First it doesn't compile to .debs but installs besides apt and friends. And second it compiles with Spotlight search, courtesy of Gnome tracker, which doesn't really work well on servers yet. Hence we're lucky that Adrian Knoth's debified install has not yet added the tracker dependencies. It does compile for systemd use (the default for Debian 8 Jessie). If you want to continue using SysVInit, you need to modify debian/rules.

Compiling to .debs becomes as easy as:

# get build dependencies and a few helpers
apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper cdbs autotools-dev dh-buildinfo libdb-dev libwrap0-dev libpam0g-dev libcups2-dev libkrb5-dev libltdl3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libcrack2-dev libavahi-client-dev libldap2-dev libacl1-dev libevent-dev d-shlibs dh-systemd
# in case you want to try the tracker support (you need to ammend the debian/ build config as well)
# apt-get install tracker libtracker-sparql-1.0-dev libtracker-miner-1.0-dev
git clone https://github.com/adiknoth/netatalk-debian
cd netatalk-debian
debuild -b -uc -us

This should leave you with (at the time of writing this):

File	Function	md5	sha1
libatalk-dev_3.1.7-1_amd64.deb	Development files for the libatalk library (dev only)	e5a465e39a8560c919d8db85c8e5a83b	0b924cf75f22ab42406289c6f18ae0243d6396a3
libatalk16_3.1.7-1_amd64.deb	libatalk library (needed)	17a3d677ed0b3df1c2f4c1a8ab9045fd	7345ed3edd442716c99c2fe979140703204c0826
netatalk_3.1.7-1_amd64.deb	netatalk daemons (needed)	c694abca7f3cdc0070b2b3e7d528324a	932d1e3d5899958f29e79a7ba40e858d4ac272e8

Obviously you can download the files above if you run the AMD64 architecture and trust me enough to compile them for you.

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