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Hoffmann is acting as a family spokesperson.
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"She knows that a really bad thing happened to her, and she knows that the people who did the bad things were caught, and she's happy that they were caught for doing the bad thing," Hoffmann said.
The Waukesha Arts group plans to have a booth for making hearts downtown. The Hearts for Healing group also has a post office box listed on its GoFundMe site if people would like to mail in a heart. The group also has a Facebook page.
The GoFundMe site has raised more than $32,000 in less than two days.
"Our family is extremely grateful for the outpouring of support and love from not only the local community but from around the nation and the world. We are especially thankful to everyone who has donated to the Hearts for Healing fund," the statement indicated.
At the Friday Night Live event in downtown Waukesha, there was an opportunity for people to donate to the family, create a purple heart or write a message to the victim to show their support.
"I would just say to the family, stay strong, and you're not alone," Waukesha resident Debbie Giese said.
Giese lives two blocks from where the victim crawled out of the woods.
The victim's parents said when asked how she made it out, she said, "I wanted to live."
A fundraiser will be held over the weekend at the Five Diamonds Baseball Complex in Waukesha.


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October 2003 IYHA Meeting Minutes
From the President
Brad DeKanick, President
The Board of the Lake Region Hockey Association meets on the third Tuesday of every month at various locations. If you are interested in attending the next meeting, please call Gayle Goben at 651-638-9756.
Irondale Youth Hockey Association Board Meeting Minutes for Wednesday, September 24, 2003.
Note: these minutes have not been approved by the Irondale Youth Hockey Association Board.
Present: Steve Kracht, Cindy Rundle, Gary Rundle, Jeanne Falconer, Pat O?Connor, Brad DeKanick, Sally Sawyer, Dan Marcouiller, Dan Beeson, Niki Gjere. Absent: Mick Mata.
Guests: Dawn Stimmler, George Mohar, Tom Bye, Tom Welty, Randy Bortot, Jean McCreight, Whitney Johnson.
Meeting called to order by President Brad DeKanick at 7:12 p.m.
Minutes: reviewed and motion to accept (NG) (DB).
Guests: George Mohar:
Expressed strong concerns about the 14U girls situation. Has had several conversations and has tentatively found a place to play for the 14U girls / 16U girls. After much discussion, acceptable options defined:
1. North St. Paul?they are having one team, most likely need girls, would play A. Will ask if grade appropriate will accept. District 2 (same district).
2. Spring Lake Park. (This is District 10, will have to make sure about waiver.) This is preferred because it is closer.
Prefer we have an Irondale team. Additional discussion about the new rules about 14U and 16U. With the age level changes this year for the State of Minnesota, it has made it very difficult for Associations to have a 14U team. Because of the fewer numbers of girls playing hockey, there are fewer options for the girls. We don?t have the numbers in place or the rule for grade appropriate; it is more restrictive than the boys.
Sally will continue to work on the options. A lot of issues stay up in the air until Associations have completed registration and know their numbers.
Registration update: Pat O?Connor
282 players have been registered and transmitted for the registrations. Has been receiving late registrations.
New Business
Vice President: Jeanne Falconer. First two weeks in December?you will have pictures BEFORE Christmas. Will have A and B teams in the tournament. The Tournament wants only 1 B team.
Initiation Coordinator: Steve Kracht. Pony team is going to play District 2. Numbers look really good. Would really appreciate more coaching depth at the Mite level.
Boys Coordinator: Dan Marcouiller. Teams at each level. Squirt ABC, Pee Wees ABC, Bantam AB. Numbers are conservative. If we end up with fewer teams, will forfeit the $20.00 team registration fee. Warm-ups are in progress. Tryouts are beginning in a week and a half.
Girls Coordinator: Sally Sawyer. Everything going well. Ice issue at the 10U level (we have a lot of ice). Will talk with Mick.
Ice Commissioner: Mick Mata. Absent.
Registration: Pat O?Connor. Report given under Old Business.
Treasurer: Cindy Rundle. Distributed Auditor?s report. Auditor could not come tonight, will be available as needed for questions. He completed our taxes. Call Cindy if questions. Treasurer?s report: Question about money spent for interviews of coaches. Approximately $1300.00. Goes to the role of the ACE Coordinator. Will contact Mick about what ice he has. Tournaments: get information to Cindy. Insurance: working on it.
Secretary: Niki Gjere. Deadline is October 1st for newsletter. Suggestion made to link website with Minnesota Hockey and D2 hockey. Will ask Linda DeKanick to do this. Also, Linda is updating the website.
District 2: Dan Beeson. District 2 mandatory meeting?check the website. Repeat coaches can renew their level 3 certification online at the USA hockey website. Jim Partlow supervisor of officials would be willing to come and meet with parents and coaches, etc. Talk with Jim Partlow?willing to meet. Will meet with an Association. Tom Welty continues to be our SKATE coordinator. Will mail the background checks to D2 coordinator. Dodge Drives Minnesota?Jeanne will email her contact information to Mark Jorgenson who is the Executive Director of Minnesota Hockey. Blue pucks?only going to use for 8 and under. Optional for 10U and Squirts this year. Mandatory next year. Minnesota Hockey will have a mandatory President?s meeting (3-4 sessions). IYHA ? St. Anthony merger was approved. D2 rules were approved to state the St. Anthony kids could register without a waiver. St. Anthony girls can register with Roseville without a waiver. Only 3 coaches on a game bench this year. Pat has all the information for deadlines for Registration. Coaches have to provide their CEP registration. If they don?t have it, then will be red-lined out. If red-lined, will have to do a supplemental registration.
Additional information:
Scholarship: the auditor does not see an issue with the scholarship. Will defer to the next meeting.
District 2: Sally is the alternate rep to District 2. Sally resigns from the District 2 representative alternate.
Equipment: Gary Rundle Need the list for people to receive jackets. Jerseys should be done.
Additional New Business
Meeting Adjournment: Motion to adjourn meeting (NG) (SK). Meeting adjourned at 9:10 p.m.
*Many thanks to Steve Kracht for forwarding this article.
I Hope They Didn't Bring Apple Juice By Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun-
There was about two minutes to play in the playoff game and I was anxiously pacing behind the bench, barking out whatever instructions seemed important at that very moment. You watch the game and you watch the clock in those final seconds, sometimes precisely at the very same time. We were up by a goal, poised to advance to the next round of the playoffs, when I felt a tug on my jacket.
"Ah coach," one of my players said on the bench. "Yea," I answered, concentrating more on the game and the clock than on him at that instance. "Is there snacks today?" "Whaaaat?" I barked exasperated. "Did anyone bring snacks today?" "Huh," I looked away. "I hope they didn't bring apple juice." The young boy said. "I don't like apple juice."
The moment froze me in all the playoff excitement, the way all special and meaningful moments should. If somehow, I could have captured that conversation on tape, I would have had one of those special sporting moments for parents everywhere, the kind you need to play for coaches and executive and trainers and managers and all of us who take kids hockey way too seriously. It isn't life or death, as we like to think it is. It isn't do or die as often as we pretend it to be. In one tiny moment in one game minor hockey was reduced to what it really is about. Apple juice.
OK, so it's not apple juice. But what apple juice happens to represent in all of this. The snack. The routine. The ritual. Kids can win and lose and not even give a second's thought about either, but don't forget the post-game drinks. If anything will spoil a good time, that will.
You see, it's all part of the culture of hockey. Not who wins, not who scores goals, not which team accomplished what on which night, but about whether Mom and Dad are there, whether their grandparents are in the stands watching, whether their best friend was on their team and they got a shift on the power play, and yes, about what they ate. When you get involved in hockey, when you truly put your heart into the game and into the environment and into everything, it can be when it's at its best, the game is only part of the package. It becomes a social outing for parents. It becomes a social outing for children. It should never be about who is going for extra power skating and who is going straight from minor tyke to the Ottawa Senators but about building that kind of environment, the kind of memories kids and parents and families will have forever.
Sometimes, when I stand around the arenas I can't believe the tone of the conversations I hear. The visions are so shortsighted. The conversations are almost always about today and who won and who lost and who scored. Not enough people use the word fun and not enough sell it that way either. Hard as we try to think like kids, we're not kids. Hard as we try to remember what we were when we were young, our vision is clouded by perspective and logic, something not always evident with children.
Ask any parent whether they would rather win or lose and without a doubt they would say win. But ask most children what they would prefer: playing a regular shift, with power play time and penalty killing time on a losing team rather playing sparingly on a winning team, and the answer has already come out in two different studies. Overwhelmingly, kids would rather play a lot than win and play a little. Like we said, it is about apple juice. It is, after all, about the experience. You can't know what's in a kid's mind.
I was coaching a team a few years ago when I got a call from the goaltender's Father. It was the day before the championship game. The Father told me his son didn't want to play anymore. "Anymore after tomorrow." I asked. "No," the Father said. "He just doesn't want to play anymore." "Did something happen?" I asked. "He won't tell me," the Father said. I hung up the phone and began to wonder how this happened and who would play goal the next day when I decided to call back. "Can I talk to him?" I asked the father. The goalie came on the phone. "I don't want to play anymore." "But you know what tomorrow is, don't you? Are you nervous?" "No." "Then what? You can tell me." "I don't like it anymore." "Don't like playing goal?" "They hurt me," he said. "Who hurts you?" "The guys," he said "What guys?" "Our guys. They jump on me after the game. It hurts me and scares me." "Is that it?" "Yea." "Do you trust me?" "Yea." "What if I told you they won't jump on you and hurt you anymore. Would you play then?" "Are you sure?" "I'm sure." "Then I'll play."
And that was the end of the goalie crisis. The kid was scared and wouldn't tell his parents. The kid loved playing but didn't love being jumped on after winning games. You can't anticipate anything like that as a coach. You can't anticipate what's in their minds. It's their game, we have to remember. Not our game. They don't think like we do or look at the sport like we do. They don't have to adjust to us, we have to adjust to them. We have to make certain we're not spoiling their experience. Our experience is important too, but the game is for the children and not for the adults. We can say that over and over again, but the message seems to get lost every year. Lost in too many coaches who lose perspective and who think nothing of blaming and yelling and bullying. Lost by parents who think their son or daughter is the next this or the next that and they are already spending the millions their little one will be earning by the time they finish hockey in the winter, 3-on-3 in the summer, power skating over winter break, special lessons over March break, pre-tryout camp before the AAA tryouts in May and a couple weeks of hockey school, just to make certain they don't go rusty.
I have asked many NHL players how they grew up in the game. My favorite answer came from Trevor Linden, who has captained more than one team. He said he played hockey until April and then put his skates away. He played baseball all summer until the last week of August. He went to hockey camp for one week then began his season midway through September with tryouts. No Summer hockey. No special schools. No skating 12 months a year. "I didn't even see my skates for about five months a year. I think the kids today are playing way too much hockey and all you have to do is look at the development to see it really isn't producing any better players. "We have to let the kids be kids." When, I asked Gary Roberts recently, did he think he had a future in hockey. "When I got a call from an agent before the OHL draft," he said. "Before that, it was just a game we played."
Do me a favor: Until the agent comes knocking on your teenager's door, let's keep it that way. A game for kids. And one reminder, I don't care what the age: Don't forget the snacks.
(Steve Simmons writes a city column for the Toronto Sun when he isn't coaching his Avenue Road minor atom select team or Vaughan peewee house league team. His syndicated Sunday sports column is the most read sports column in Canada.)
Steve Kracht has agreed to continue his role as the Initiation Program Coordinator. He is going to transition out of that role at the end of this season. Please consider taking on this role. It would be a good opportunity for you to learn the role this year before assuming full responsibility next season. If you are interested, please talk with Steve Kracht or Brad DeKanick.
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KOCHI (India): Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Indian information technology giant Infosys, stares out from a wall-to-wall poster in a modern office building near Kochi, in the southern state of Kerala.
A caption reads: "We started Infosys in a room about this size; it's your turn now."
His message is directed at aspiring entrepreneurs at Startup Village, a state-of-the-art glass and steel edifice tucked in a green corner of the port city, who dream of creating the next billion-dollar tech giant.
But even three decades after Infosys, India's second-largest software service provider, was founded by middle-class engineers, the country has failed to create an enabling environment for first-generation entrepreneurs.
Startup Village wants to break the logjam by helping engineers develop 1,000 Internet and mobile companies in the next 10 years. It provides its members with office space, guidance and a chance to hobnob with the stars of the tech industry, including Gopalakrishnan, the project's chief mentor.
But critics say this may not even be the beginning of a game-changer unless India deals with a host of other impediments — from red tape to a lack of innovation and a dearth of investors — that are blocking entrepreneurship in Asia's third-largest economy.
India ranks 74th out of 79 nations in the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index, making it one of the worst places in the world to start a business.
A World Bank report says it is easier to start a business in violence-afflicted Pakistan or poverty-stricken Nepal than in their giant neighbor, where everything from getting electricity to credit is time-consuming and fraught with paperwork.
"Take Apple or take Google. If exactly the same company had been started in India, its prospects would have been very different," said Erkko Autio, chair in technology venturing and entrepreneurship at Imperial College, London. "Basically, it would have not reached the potential it has as a start-up."
Indian-born entrepreneurs have been enormously successful in the United States, where they have the highest number of tech-start-ups by any immigrant group. But India has not been able to build itself a community like Silicon Valley where there is easy access to equity, a pool of creative talent and first-world infrastructure.
"We were alone. We had no idea how to make a company, how to sell it ... We tried, failed, tried, failed," said Kallidil Kalidasan, a 23-year-old member who started a mobile app venture in Kerala two years ago and could not find a single investor.
He is now one of the entrepreneurs at Startup Village, and is working on a product that could help the government detect illegal abortions in a country plagued by female feticide.
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The seven-month-old Startup Village provides would-be entrepreneurs with workspace at rents about a tenth of anywhere else in Kochi, computers, a high-speed Internet connection, legal and intellectual property services and access to high-profile investors.
The village is still to be completed, but 68 people, would-be entrepreneurs and their teams, have already taken up two buildings at the site.
Spread over 100,000sq ft (9,250sq m) — equivalent to 20 basketball courts — Startup Village will be completed in 2014. India has 120 other incubators, but they are mostly housed in academic institutions and have not drawn a strong network of advisers from the private sector.
Startup Village, the first such institution to be jointly funded by the government and private sector, has Gopalakrishnan as its chief promoter and has collaborations with companies such as BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and IBM.
"One, the goal of this initiative is to create new companies and create jobs. Second, this will create new solutions and products," Gopalakrishnan told Reuters in an e-mail interview.
He is excited about creating an ecosystem for entrepreneurs in his home-state, Kerala, which is famous for its tropical coastline and backwaters. The Village team says it chose Kerala because costs are lower than New Delhi or Mumbai and it has 150 engineering colleges that can provide start-up enthusiasts.
But for some, Startup Village will not work because it does not provide the right environment for a budding tech start-up.
"What does an entrepreneur need besides money? They need strong support in terms of advice," said Mukund Mohan, who has founded and sold three Silicon Valley start-ups and is CEO-in-residence at the Microsoft Accelerator. The institution helps start-ups in Bangalore, the city most associated with India's software industry that is about 550km (340 miles) north of Kochi.
"There are not that many entrepreneurs in India, and there are hardly any in Kerala who have the expertise to be able to build, scale and sell strong software companies," said Mohan. "If you have not been there and done that before, what advice will you give?"
But Bangalore has not been able to nurture a start-up culture of any significance either. It has many aspiring CEOs and optimistic financiers, but they are also struggling with a maze of regulations and half-hearted government support.
Lack of ingenuity
The newer start-ups in Bangalore or Kerala are eying products not services. Many bring ideas catering to the booming market of domestic online shoppers, like Flipkart, the nation's most heavily financed e-commerce company. But financial backers for such ventures are few and far between.
"We are a fixed-deposit country," said Rajesh Sawhney, founder of GSF Superangels that provides angel and seed funding to start-ups. "Our investors are risk-averse. They don't trust young people with their money."
Fewer than 150 start-ups are promoted by venture capital or angel investors annually in India. There are over 60,000 angel investments, made in the early stages of a start-up, alone per year in the United States, according to an Indian government report.
Experts believe India is handicapped by a lack of ingenuity. It ranks 64th on the Global Innovation Index, much below other BRICS nations. Indian graduates, largely trained in services, have difficulty innovating beyond that approach.
Barely 700 technology product startups are launched every year in India versus over 14,000 in the United States, according to the Microsoft Accelerator database.
For India's risk-averse middle-class, entrepreneurship is the last recourse of the unemployed.
"If you go to a function, and someone asks you where you are working, and if you don't say Infosys or Wipro, they say: 'Oh you did not get placement (for a job)'," said Startup Village member Sreekumar Ravi.
Ravi is working on creating an affordable multi-touch computing surface that could change the way people window shop in malls or place orders in restaurants.
Startup Village aims to pluck innovators from college campuses, and bring them into the fold after evaluating their business ideas. Many of its in-house entrepreneurs are in their mid-twenties.
But critics are skeptical if Startup Village would be able to launch the next Infosys in India — or even be successful in its goal of incubating 1,000 online companies.
"I will be thrilled if they do even a quarter of that number ... But do I think they will do more than 100? No." said Mohan from Microsoft Accelarator. "I mean I hope they succeed. But hope is not a strategy, hope is only a prayer." — Reuters
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's goods deficit narrowed slightly in November but held above its average for the past year, raising the chance that trade activity in the last three months of 2012 dragged on economic growth.
The Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday that the goods trade gap shrank slightly less than expected to 9.164 billion pounds from October's 9.487 billion pounds, as exports rose faster than imports.
The overall trade deficit - including Britain's customary surplus in services - shrank modestly to 3.466 billion pounds.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As many as one in five adult women may suffer from loss of bowel control, according to a new study from Australia.
Bladder problems were also common in women who reported poor bowel control, known as fecal incontinence. Overall, the chance of being incontinent generally increased with age.
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Dr. Emily Lukacz, who studies incontinence at the University of California, San Diego, said that although the estimate that 20 of every 100 women have fecal incontinence is on the high end, it's not outside of a realistic range. But fecal incontinence is not something many people talk about. "Unfortunately, I think a lot of the lack of awareness of this probably comes from embarrassment," Lukacz, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
The findings show that many women with fecal incontinence may be suffering unnecessarily, Davis said. Doctors could make a difference by asking their patients with urinary incontinence if they also have symptoms of fecal incontinence, she said. And women, even if they are embarrassed, shouldn't keep the condition to themselves. In some cases, it may take only a small lifestyle change - such as eating more fiber - to solve the problem, Davis said.
Lukacz agreed. "There are a lot of behavioral things and dietary things and exercises (that) improve fecal incontinence just as well as some of the surgical procedures," she said. The most important message for people with fecal incontinence, she added, is "that they don't have to live with it."
"It is important that if women are bothered by this they should speak to their doctor," Davis said, "because it could be something that's very simple to sort out."
SOURCE: bit.ly/hkaVD3 Menopause, published online February 19, 2011.


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SAN JOSE — I've got to admit that when I first heard of UnGrounded, it struck me as a supremely goofy idea. (Then again, so did eBay (EBAY) the first time I heard of it.)
Stick 130 or so braniacs on a jumbo jet, fly them with no Wi-Fi from San Francisco to London, and while they're up there have them cook up a few ideas to change the world.
But now, three months after the brainstorming barnstorm, and with a reunion of the brainiacs set for San Francisco this week, it's clear that this whole flight idea just might be headed somewhere. What's got me convinced?
Jen Padgett.
Padgett, executive director of Community Technology Alliance in San Jose, was among the airborne Einsteins, including a Silicon Valley delegation, who flew to London in June. She and her three-member team developed a plan to enlist backpackers and others to bring solar-powered digital hubs loaded with educational and other content to the most remote settlements in the world. The project would create local networks that ultimately would grow by connecting with other nearby local networks. And if you must know, Padgett wasn't so sure about this whole brainstorming-in-flight idea either. But she is also a convert.
"I think they were trying to accomplish a big goal, a big dream," Padgett says of British Airways, which sponsored the experiment and provided a 747 for good measure. "And it looks like it worked out."
Besides the Padgett crew's idea, which is called Beacons in a Backpack, a handful of other ideas meant to raise the profile of science, technology, engineering and math (or STEM), took flight before the airliner landed in London. There was a mentoring idea for girls and women interested in STEMs. There was a mobile STEM lab that would roll through neighborhoods the way the Good Humor truck once did. And there were other notions you can find at ungroundedthinking.com.
The truth is that all of the ideas are early in their development.
"All these things are still being explored," Padgett says of the backpack plan's particulars. "I'm just giving you ideas."
But there are plenty of those, some furnished by fellow fliers and others furnished by fellow fliers' connections. Community Technology Alliance, which is now leading the beacons and backpack project, is relying on help from people in England and Ghana and Los Angeles and San Jose. The organization has received the donation of a backpack rigged up with a solar panel that will serve as a prototype for the program.
The idea is to load the pack with a "beacon" that will provide connectivity to a tablet packed with downloaded versions of sites such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy and other educational material. The beacon would also allow communication among wireless devices in a remote community. And while no specific locations have been selected, think Nepal, Mexico or even areas in the Appalachian Mountains or remote Alaska.
"The big idea, what we were charged with doing," Padgett says, "was really finding a way to engage our next generation of inventors and having them participate in the global economy."
The Beacons in a Backpack team figures having a digital network would allow those in remote places to look up and share information about farming and weather, for instance. Natural curiosity would lead adults and children to surf through educational material and spark greater discussions within and among towns and villages — all of which is a worthy goal.
But as interesting as UnGrounded's latest ideas are, I'm still taken by the original idea, the one I initially thought was goofy. In fact, it's one-way innovation happens. Sometimes, you need to look at a problem in a different way. Or from a different place, even if that place is 35,000 feet above the Atlantic.
"On a plane, without wireless and without distractions, there is nowhere else to go," says John McDonald, British Airways' vice president of marketing for the Americas and an UnGrounded architect. "There is nowhere to get off halfway through and say, 'I've got to take a call or I've got to take a meeting.' "
It's a sad commentary that we've come to a place where you need to board a plane to find peace, but McDonald has a point. The plane was packed with doers, like Craig Newmark, the Craig of Craigslist, and Megan Smith of Google (GOOG) X — the kind of people who can walk and write email at the same time. Rarely, McDonald says, do those who can't stop thinking about tomorrow find themselves with the luxury of concentrating for hours on the problem right in front of them.
The quality time helped build a broad network of thinkers who will gather again Wednesday in San Francisco to catch up and compare notes at the British Consulate. Padgett suspects the meet-up will mean another boost of brain power for the projects, similar to the flight itself.
"It was just like the best of the best ideas," she says, "because you're pulling from a knowledge base from all over the world."
And as the knowledge-pulling continues, so too does the hard work of paying the world back by turning the ideas into reality.
Contact Mike Cassidy at email@example.com or 408-920-5536. Follow him at Twitter.com/mikecassidy.


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If you lost yourself in this post, I advise you to start in catamorphisms, then anamorphisms and then hylomorphisms.
Like I said before (in those posts) when you write an hylomorphism over a particular data type, that means just that the intermediate structure is that data type.
In fact that data will never be stored into that intermediate type or . Because we glue the ana and cata together into a single recursive pattern. and could be some data type your function need. With this post I will try to show you more hylomorphisms over some different data types to show you the power of this field.
Leaf Tree's
The data type that we going to discuss here is the . In Haskell we can represent as:
data LTree a = Leaf a | Fork (LTree a, LTree a)
Is just like a binary tree, but the information is just in the leaf's. Even more: a leaf tree is a tree that only have leaf's, no information on the nodes. This is an example of a leaf tree:
To represent all the hylomorphisms over we draw the following diagram:
The example I'm going to give is making the fibonacci function using a hylomorphism over this data type. If you remember the method I used before, I'm going to start by the anamorphism . Before that I'm going to specify the strategy to define factorial. I'm going to use the diagram's again, remember that type is equivalent to Haskell :
As you can see I'm going to use as my intermediate structure, and I've already define the names of my gen functions to the catamorphism and to the anamorphism. The strategy I prefer, is do all the hard work in the anamorphism, so here the gen for the anamorphism is:
fibd n | n < 2 = i1 () | otherwise = i2 (n-1,n-2)
This function combined with the anamorphism, going to generate leaf tree's with leaf's, being the result of that fib.
Then we just have to write the gen for the catamorphism. This function (combined with the catamorphism) counts the number of leafs that a leaf tree have.
add = either (const 1) plus where plus = uncurry (+)
The final function, the fibonacci function is the hylomorphism of those two defined before:
fib = hyloLTree add fibd
Here is all the auxiliary functions you need to run this example:
inLTree = either Leaf Fork outLTree :: LTree a -> Either a (LTree a,LTree a) outLTree (Leaf a) = i1 a outLTree (Fork (t1,t2)) = i2 (t1,t2) cataLTree a = a . (recLTree (cataLTree a)) . outLTree anaLTree f = inLTree . (recLTree (anaLTree f) ) . f hyloLTree a c = cataLTree a . anaLTree c baseLTree g f = g -|- (f >< f) recLTree f = baseLTree id f
The lists that I'm going to talk here, are the Haskell lists, wired into the compiler, but is a definition exist, it will be:
data [a] = [ ] | a : [a]
So, our diagram to represent the hylomorphism over this data type is:
The function I'm going to define as a hylomorphism is the factorial function. So, we know that our domain and co-domain is , so now we can make a more specific diagram to represent our solution:
As you can see I'm going to use to represent my intermediate data, and I've already define the names of my gen functions to the catamorphism and to the anamorphism. Another time, that I do all the work with the anamorphism, letting the catamorphism with little things to do (just multiply). I'm start to show you the catamorphism first:
mul = either (const 1) mul' where mul' = uncurry (*)
As you can see the only thing it does is multiply all the elements of a list, and multiply by 1 when reach the empty list.
In the other side, the anamorphism is generating a list of all the elements, starting in (the element we want to calculate the factorial) until 1.
nats = (id -|- (split succ id)) . outNat
And finally we combine this together with our hylo, that defines the factorial function:
fac = hylo mul nats
Here is all the code you need to run this example:
inl = either (const []) (uncurry (:)) out [] = i1 () out (a:x) = i2(a,x) cata g = g . rec (cata g) . out ana h = inl . (rec (ana h) ) . h hylo g h = cata g . ana h rec f = id -|- id >< f
Binary Tree's
Here, I'm going to show you the hanoi problem solved with one hylomorphism, first let's take a look at the structure:
data BTree a = Empty | Node(a, (BTree a, BTree a))
So, our generic diagram representing one hylomorphism over is:
There is a well-known inductive solution to the problem given by the pseudocode below. In this solution we make use of the fact that the given problem is symmetrical with respect to all three poles. Thus it is undesirable to name the individual poles. Instead we visualize the poles as being arranged in a circle; the problem is to move the tower of disks from one pole to the next pole in a specified direction around the circle. The code defines to be a sequence of pairs where n is the number of disks, is a disk number and are directions. Disks are numbered from onwards, disk being the smallest. Directions are boolean values, representing a clockwise movement and an anti-clockwise movement. The pair means move the disk numbered from its current position in the direction .
excerpt from R. Backhouse, M. Fokkinga / Information Processing Letters 77 (2001) 71–76
So, here, I will have a diagram like that, type stands for and type for :
I'm going to show all the solution here, because the description of the problem is in this quote, and in the paper:
hanoi = hyloBTree f h f = either (const []) join where join(x,(l,r))=l++[x]++r h(d,0) = Left () h(d,n+1) = Right ((n,d),((not d,n),(not d,n)))
And here it is, all the code you need to run this example:
inBTree :: Either () (b,(BTree b,BTree b)) -> BTree b inBTree = either (const Empty) Node outBTree :: BTree a -> Either () (a,(BTree a,BTree a)) outBTree Empty = Left () outBTree (Node (a,(t1,t2))) = Right(a,(t1,t2)) baseBTree f g = id -|- (f >< g)) cataBTree g = g . (recBTree (cataBTree g)) . outBTree anaBTree g = inBTree . (recBTree (anaBTree g) ) . g hyloBTree h g = cataBTree h . anaBTree g recBTree f = baseBTree id f
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- Introduction to Debian Packaging
- Requirements
- Three central concepts
- The packaging workflow
- Conclusions
- Questions and Answers
- See also
Introduction to Debian Packaging
Debian Women IRC training session held by Lars Wirzenius on the 18th November 2010 with a couple of small, clearly marked additions by Sebastian Tennant (following my crash course in Debian packaging by Daniel Baumann at DebCamp 2011, Banja Luka)
with a couple of small, clearly marked additions by Sebastian Tennant (following my crash course in Debian packaging by Daniel Baumann at DebCamp 2011, Banja Luka)
This is an introductory tutorial for making Debian packages: it doesn't get very deep into the more intricate bits of Debian packaging, but it will show how to make Debian packages for software that is simple to package.
For this purpose, we will use only the dh command from debhelper 7.
In this tutorial it is assumed that:
- you understand installation of binary packages;
you understand general command line use, and editing of text files using an editor of your choice (emacs, vim, gedit, kate, etc.);
Technical requirements:
debhelper version 7
Three central concepts
The three central concepts are
upstream tarball:
Usully, people package software that someone else, called the upstream developer, has written.
The upstream developer will make a release of his software in the "upstream source archive file" or tarball.
A tarball is the .tar.gz or .tgz file upstream makes (tarball is a bit of computer jargon). The tarball is exactly what Debian takes and builds a package out of.
source package:
When you have the upstream tarball, the next step is to make the Debian source package.
binary package:
From this source package you can then build the Debian binary package which is what actually get installed.
The source package consists, in its simplest form, of three files:
- The upstream tarball, renamed to follow a systematic pattern.
A patch file, with any changes made to upstream source, plus all the files created for the Debian package. This has a .diff.gz ending.
A description file (with .dsc ending), which lists the other two files.
This sounds a bit more complicated than is necessary, at first sight: it would be simpler to just have everything in one file.
- However, it turns out that it saves a lot of disk space and bandwidth to keep the upstream tarball separate from any Debian specific changes.
- It's also easier to keep track of what has been necessary to change for Debian.
The packaging workflow
The packaging workflow is usually like this:
Step 1: rename the upstream tarball
Step 2: unpack the upstream tarball
Step 3: add the Debian packaging files
Step 4 : build the package
Step 5 : install the package
Then you can test your package on your computer.
The source and binary packages can be uploaded to Debian.
For this tutorial Lars has used this tarball.
Step 1: rename the upstream tarball
The Debian packaging tools assume the upstream tarball has a very specific name. It must follow a specific naming pattern.
The name consists of the source package name, an underscore, the upstream version number, followed by .orig.tar.gz. The source package name should be all in lower case, and can contain letters, digits, and dashes. Some other characters are also allowed.
If the upstream developer uses a name that looks like a good Debian source package name, then you should use that. Otherwise, change the upstream name as little as possible to make it fit for Debian. In this case, upstream has wisely picked a suitable name, "hithere", so there's no need to worry about it.
We should end up with a file called hithere_1.0.orig.tar.gz.
Note that there is an underscore (_), not a dash (-), in the name. This is important, because the packaging tools are picky.
# mv hithere-1.0.tar.gz hithere_1.0.orig.tar.gz
Step 2: unpack the upstream tarball
In general, the sources should go into a directory named after the source package name and upstream version (with a hyphen, not an underscore, in between) so ideally the upstream tarball will unpack into a directory called "hithere-1.0".
This is again because the packaging tools are picky.
In this case, upstream has again been wise and made the tarball unpack into the right subdirectory.
# tar xf hithere_1.0.orig.tar.gz
Step 3: add the Debian packaging files
All of these files go into the debian/ subdirectory inside the source tree.
# cd hithere-1.0
# mkdir debian
There are a bunch of files we need to provide. Let's look at them in order.
First file is debian/changelog. This is the log of changes to the Debian package.
It does not need to list everything that has changed in upstream code, though it can be helpful to users to summarize those changes, too. Since we are now making the first version, there is nothing to log. However, we still need to make a changelog entry, because the packaging tools read certain information from the changelog. Most importantly, they read the version of the package.
debian/changelog has a very particular format. The easiest way to create it is to use the dch tool.
# dch --create -v 1.0-1 --package hithere
This will result in a file like this:
hithere (1.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Initial release. (Closes: #XXXXXX) -- Lars Wirzenius <email@example.com> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:25:32 +0000
A couple of notes:
The hithere part MUST be the same as the source package name. 1.0-1 is the version. The 1.0 part is the upstream version. The -1 part is the Debian version: the first version of the Debian package of upstream version 1.0. If the Debian package has a bug, and it gets fixed, but the upstream version remains the same, then the next version of the package will be called 1.0-2. Then 1.0-3, and so on.
UNRELEASED is called the upload target. It tells the upload tool where the binary package should be uploaded. UNRELEASED means the package is not yet ready to be uploaded. It's a good idea to keep the UNRELEASED there so you don't upload by mistake.
Ignore urgency=low for now. Just keep it there.
The (Closes: #XXXXXX) bit is for closing bugs when the package is uploaded. This is the usual way in which bugs are closed in Debian: when the package that fixes the bug is uploaded, the bug tracker notices this and marks the bug as closed. We can just remove the (Closes...) bit. Or not. It doesn't matter right now.
- The final line in the changelog tells who made this version of the package, and when. The dch tool tries to guess the name and e-mail address, but you can configure it with the right details. See the dch(1) manual page for details.
This file should contain the number 7. This is a magic number. Do not put any other number in there.
debian/compat specifies the "compatibility level" for the debhelper tool. We don't need to go into what that means, right now.
The control file describes the source and binary package, and gives some information about them, such as their names, who the package maintainer is, and so on. Below an example of what it might look like.
Source: hithere Maintainer: Lars Wirzenius <firstname.lastname@example.com> Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.9.0 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.3.8) Package: hithere Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: greet user hithere greets the user, or the world.
There are several required fields, but you can just treat them as magic, for now. So, in debian/control, there are two paragraphs.
The first one describes the source package:
- "Source:"
- field gives the source package name.
- "Maintainer:"
- gives the name and e-mail address of the person responsible for the package.
- "Priority:"
- gives the priority of the package (one of 'required', 'important', 'standard', 'optional' or 'extra'). In general a package is 'optional' unless it's 'essential' for a standard functioning system, i.e., booting or networking functionality. A package should be 'extra' rather than 'optional' if it conflicts with another 'optional' package, or if it's not intended to be used on a standard desktop installation. Notable example of 'extra' packages are debugging packages. (Added by Sebastian Tennant).
- "Build-Depends:"
- lists the packages that need to be installed to build the package. They might or might not be needed to actually use the package.
The second paragraph describes the binary package built from this source. Actually, there can be many binary packages built from the same source.
- "Package:"
- is the binary package name. The name might be different from the source package name.
- "Architecture:"
- tells which computer architectures the binary package is expected to work on: i386 for 32-bit Intel CPUs, amd64 for 64-bit, armel for ARM processors, and so on. Debian works on about a dozen computer architectures in total, so this architecture support is crucial. The "Architecture:" field can contain names of particular architectures, but usually it contains one of two special values.
- "any"
- (which we see in the example) means that the package can be built for any architecture. In other words, the code has been written portably, so it does not make too many assumptions about the hardware. However, the binary package will still need to be built for each architecture separately.
- "all"
- means that the same binary package will work on all architectures, without having to be built separately for each. For example, a package consisting only of shell scripts would be "all". Shell scripts work the same everywhere and not need to be compiled.
- "Depends:"
field lists the packages that must be installed for the program in the binary package to work. Listing such dependencies manually is tedious, error-prone work. To make this work, the ${shlibs:Depends} magic bit needs to be in there. The other magic stuff is there for debhelper. The {misc:Depends} bit. The shlibs magic is for shared library dependencies, the misc magic is for some stuff debhelper does. For other dependencies, you need to add them manually to Depends or Build-Depends and the ${...} magic bits only work in Depends
- "Description:"
- is the package description. It is meant to be helpful to users.
It is quite an important file, but for now we will be happy enough with an empty file.
For Debian, this file is used to keep track of the legal, copyright-related information about a package. However, it is not important from a technical point of view. For now, we'll concentrate on the technical aspects. We can get back to debian/copyright later, if there's interest.
It should look like this:
#!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@
Note: The last line should be indented by one TAB character, not by spaces. The file is a makefile, and TAB is what the make command wants
debian/rules can actually be quite a complicated file. However, the dh command in debhelper version 7 has made it possible to keep it this simple in many cases.
The final file we need is debian/source/format, and it should contain the version number "1.0".
This is the version number for the format of the source package, and even though it happens to be the same as the upstream version, that is just a co-incidence.
Step 4 : build the package
First try
Now we can build the package.
There are many commands we could use for this, but this is the one we'll use. If you run the command, you'll get output similar to this:
# debuild -us -uc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0'
install hithere /home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0/debian/hithere/usr/local/bin
install: cannot create regular file `/home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0/debian/hithere/usr/local/bin': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0'
dh_auto_install: make -j1 install DESTDIR=/home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0/debian/hithere returned exit code 2
make: *** [binary] Error 29
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1325:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
Something went wrong. This is what usually happens. You do your best creating debian/* files, but there's always something that you don't get right.
So, the thing that went wrong is this bit:
install hithere /home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0/debian/hithere/usr/local/bin
The upstream Makefile is trying to install the compiled program into the wrong location.
There's a couple of things going on here: first is a bit about how Debian packaging works.
When the program has been built, and is "installed", it does not get installed into /usr or /usr/local, as usual, but somewhere under the debian/ subdirectory.
We create a subset of the whole filesystem under debian/hithere, and then we put that into the binary package. So the .../debian/hithere/usr/local/bin bit is fine, except that it should not be installing it under usr/local, but directly under usr.
We need to do something to make it install into the right location (debian/hithere/usr/bin).
The right way to fix this is to change debian/rules so that it tells the Makefile where to install things.
#!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ override_dh_auto_install: $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$$(pwd)/debian/hithere prefix=/usr install
It's again a bit of magic, and to understand it you'll need to know how Makefiles work, and the various stages of a debhelper run.
For now, I'll summarize by saying that there's a command debhelper runs that takes care of installing the upstream files, and this stage is called dh_auto_install.
We need to override this stage, and we do that with a rule in debian/rules called override_dh_auto_install.
The final line in the new debian/rules is a bit of 1970s technology to invoke the upstream Makefile from debian/rules with the right arguments.
Let's try again
# debuild -us -uc
It still fails!
- This time, this is the failing command:
install hithere /home/liw/debian-packaging-tutorial/x/hithere-1.0/debian/hithere/usr/bin
We are now trying to install into the right place, but it does not exist. To fix this, we need to tell the packaging tools to create the directory first.
Ideally, the upstream Makefile would create the directory itself, but in this case the upstream developer was too lazy to do so.
another correction
The packaging tools (specifically, debhelper) provide a way to do that.
Create a file called debian/hithere.dirs, and make it look like this:
usr/bin usr/share/man/man1
The second line creates the directory for the manual page. We will need it later.
Let's try once more
# debuild -us -uc
Now the build succeeds, but there's still some small problems.
debuild runs the lintian tool, which checks the package that has been built for some common errors. It reports several for this new package:
Now running lintian...
W: hithere source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.0 (current is 3.9.1)
W: hithere: copyright-without-copyright-notice
W: hithere: new-package-should-close-itp-bug
W: hithere: wrong-bug-number-in-closes l3:#XXXXXX
Finished running lintian.
These should eventually be fixed, but none of them look like they'll be a problem for trying the package. So let's ignore them for now.
Look in the parent directory to find the package that was built.
# ls ..
hithere-1.0 hithere_1.0-1_amd64.deb hithere_1.0.orig.tar.gz
hithere_1.0-1_amd64.build hithere_1.0-1.diff.gz
hithere_1.0-1_amd64.changes hithere_1.0-1.dsc
Step 5 : install the package
The following command will install the package that you've just built.
Do NOT run it on a computer unless you don't mind breaking it.
- In general, it is best to do package development on a computer that is well backed up, and that you don't mind re-installing if everything goes really badly wrong.
Virtual machines are a good place to do development.
# sudo dpkg -i ../hithere_1.0-1_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for liw:
Selecting previously deselected package hithere.
(Reading database ... 154793 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hithere (from ../hithere_1.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up hithere (1.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
How do we test the package? We can run the command.
# hithere
It works!
But, it's not perfect. Remember, lintian had things to say, and debian/copyright is empty, etc.
We have a package that works, but it isn't yet of the high quality that is expected of a Debian package.
Once you've built your own packages, you'll eventually want to learn how to set up your apt repository, so your package is easy to install. The best tool for that I know of is reprepro.
For more testing of your package, you may want to look at the tool called piuparts. (I wrote it originally so it is perfect and never has any bugs. er...)
And, finally, if you start making changes to the upstream source, you'll want to learn about the quilt tool.
Other things you might want to read are listed on the http://www.debian.org/devel/ web page.
Questions and Answers
QUESTION: Can I generate a multi-arch package?
ANSWER: I don't think Debian supports multi-arch packages, yet, but I'll cover "Architecture: all" packages later
QUESTION: Please clarify about packaging those packages that are already in binary form, i.e. nvidia blob or likewise
ANSWER: For binary blob packages, you treat the tarball with the bloBs as the source package, and just avoid compiling them from source; I've never had to do this, though.
QUESTION: is there anything like ppa in ubuntu?
ANSWER: Debian does not run a PPA service like Ubuntu, but all the tools to make apt repositories yourself are there, it's just a lot to configure oneself
QUESTION: do we need to repack the original tarball if it doesn't contains a properly named foo-1.0 folder?
ANSWER: I think that these days, you don't need to repack it. It used to be necessary, many many years ago, but now the "dpkg-source -x" command will name the directory the right way, if necessary.
QUESTION: I can see "official" DEB packages in /var/cache/apt/archives without changelog and compat files. Why?
ANSWER: the .deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives are binary packages; the changelog is included in them (under a different name), the compat file is only in the source package
QUESTION: Liw said the the compat file should contain the magic number 7, I assume this just means as single char files as produced by 'echo 7 >debian/compat' ?
ANSWER: yes, a single character 7 is enough to have in debian/compat
QUESTION: I've heard of non-maintainer specific format for debian revision numbers
ANSWER: I think you mean either the "native package" format (in which the version number would be just 1.0, not 1.0-1); or the "non-maintainer upload" format, in which case that's too much detail for this session to get it right in all cases, but "1.0-1.1" would be an example
QUESTION: When is "dpkg-source -x" run? Is it done manually?
ANSWER: "dpkg-source -x" is the command to unpack a Debian source package after it has already been built (usually by someone else); it is not usually run when creating the package
QUESTION: how can one determine the needed packages to be used by Build-Depends?
ANSWER: I usually do that by a) trial and error and b) reading the source of the program. Both are usually necessary
QUESTION: can I build package for armel from my i386, and can i do it easy?
ANSWER: that would be cross-compilation, and I don't think there is an easy way to do it; there are tools for it, but I am not familiar with them, sorry.
QUESTION: what's the difference between Depends and Build Depends, in what case I have to use only Depends instead of Build-Depends?
ANSWER: Build-Depends are needed only during package build, while it is being compiled, and its test suite is being run. Depends is needed only when the package is actually being used, after being installed. Some things might be both build and runtime dependencies, and in that case you need to put them into both Build-Depends and Depends.
As an example, if a package contains a PHP script, but it does not get run while the package is built, then PHP would go into Depends only, not Build-Depends.
However, if the PHP script is only used to run a test, and does not get inclued in the binary package, it would only be in Build-Depends and not in Depends
QUESTION: may I have a Build-Depends that does not have a corresponding Depends? I'm thinking to statical linked libraries
ANSWER: Build-Depends and Depends are pretty much entirely separate, and it is perfectly ok (from a packaging tool point of view) to have dependencies only in one and not the other, or in both
QUESTION: If I want to do a NMU, should I write my name in the Uploader field, the Maintainer field, none ?
ANSWER: (by dapal) none, but the first line of the changelog should be "Non-maintainer upload"
QUESTION: When I build a package with "Architecture: all" field, some of the resulting file (b.build, .changes) still have the build architecture in the name. Is a right behaviour?
ANSWER: yep, that is the right behavior, no need to worry about it
QUESTION: Is there another package for source package or its the same of binary package? I will generate and mantain two packages (binary and source)?
ANSWER: you edit the source package and then run a command (which I will get to in a bit) to build the binary package out of the source package
QUESTION: It's not clear to me if "Architecture" options will make effect over source package (building process) or binary package (install and run).
ANSWER: the "Architecture:" field tells whoever is building the package whether there is any point in building the package on a particular computer architecture so if it says i386 only, then there's no point in building it on amd64
QUESTION: that example debian/rules contains only #!make -f , what to do with ./configure , or cmake or scons or .. anything else part?
ANSWER: dh has a lot of heuristic, so a package with a ./configure script, or one of the other common ways of building packages, will usually build without any additions
QUESTION: heuristics is good, but what if we need to pass --with-something-special to configure or cmake arguments, does heuristics handle those source packages that need ./waf and other tools to build ?
ANSWER: I like dapal's answer: <dapal> lilith: using dh7, if you want to pass something to ./configure, just do something like: override_dh_auto_configure <TAB>dh_auto_configure -- --your-params
dh has a nice extension/override mechanism that allows you to override particular parts; it is pretty easy to use, once you've read the docs
QUESTION: where can we find docs for override stuff of debhelper 7?
ANSWER: dh runs a specific sequence of commands to build a package; each command is called dh_something, and each such command can be overridden by having a debian/rules entry called override_dh_something.
Add the --no-act option to the dh command in debian/rules to see what commands it runs; you then have to read the manual page for that command to see if you can configure it (via a file such as debian/hithere.dirs), or if you need to override it.
QUESTION: from where do you usually run your commands? inside the dir hithere-1.0 or outside? should there be an outer dir called hithere (without number)
ANSWER: I always run the packaging commands in the hithere-1.0 directory, and i usually have a directory above that called hithere but the parent directory is not necessary, it is just neater, so files from different projects don't get mixed up
QUESTION: I have a upstream that needs a qmake (uses Qt) before make. Can I add it to debian/rules? How?
ANSWER: (by gregoa) debhelper supports qmake since 7.4.12 (so no additional things needed). before that you needed a override_dh_auto_configure :\n\tqmake
QUESTION: what is a good workflow to update a package to a new upstream version?
ANSWER: ah, I am not sure what is the best workflow for that, but bascially: unpack the upstream source to a new directory, copy the debian/* directory from the old package, update debian/changelog ("dch -v 1.2.3-4") and try to build, and fix anything that is broken. That's not a really good workflow, but for that you will need to learn quilt, and possibly how to use version management with debian packaging, and that's too big a topic for this session, sorry
QUESTION: I have a made debian-package that depends on several other packages. The only thing my package does is actually configure the other packages in a certain way that it fits certain peoples needs. For this it also makes some system critical changes, like activating network routing in kernel and so on.... is there something like a rule what an official package is allowed to do or not? Can such a package get an official package?
ANSWER: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ is the best written set of rules we have for what an official Debian package is allowed to do, or is required to do.
Debian packages are not allowed to change other package's configs, unless that other package provides a documented interface for it
See also
Packaging is the page that gather everything about packaging on this wiki


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Here's an updated promotional video that gives a good overview of what TDM is all about. Also includes a glimpse of the new vine arrows in action:
Want to play or make a Dark Mod Fan Mission? Start here.
What is The Dark Mod?
The Dark Mod (TDM) is a free, open-source, standalone stealth game.
The Dark Mod was created over a five year period by a group of Thief fans, who wanted to recapture the spirit and gameplay of Thief 1/2 in a more modern engine.
Visit our main webpage for more information, screenshots, etc.
Is it a full game?
Yes. However, when you download the mod, there are only two missions included by default. After that, you choose which maps to install using our built in mission downloader.
As of this posting there are more than 80 fan missions ready for download, including a few small campaigns.
What do I need in order to play?
All you need is to download The Dark Mod. TDM 2.0 is completely standalone. Doom3 is no longer needed.
Is this the same thing as Thief?
The gameplay is very similar, yes. You'll find all your favourite tools (rope arrows, blackjacks, flashbombs), along with familiar gameplay elements like mantling, frobbing and shouldering bodies.
However, The Dark Mod takes place in a different setting. We make no references to any Thief trademarks or Eidos' intellectual property. The Dark Mod is not "Thief"--there is no Garrett, no Keepers, no Mechanists, etc. However, since both Thief and The Dark Mod are based on a steampunk version of our own history, there are plenty of similarities, and fans of the original games will feel right at home.
See here for information on The Dark Mod's setting.
What if I want to make a mission?
Our team has also created a specialized editor--Dark Radiant--to make creating fan missions much, much easier. Visit the main Dark Radiant page here: http://darkradiant.sourceforge.net/
Is there an instruction manual?
We have an extensive wiki with lots of information for players and mappers. You may wish to start with instructions about TDM Gameplay. While many things will be familiar to Thief players, there are also new features, like lockpicking, rope swinging, and object manipulation that work differently.
Where do I get more information?
The Dark Mod has its own dedicated forum. You can also get information from our webpage or wiki.
Last edited by Springheel; 12th Dec 2015 at 08:56.
Here's an updated promotional video that gives a good overview of what TDM is all about. Also includes a glimpse of the new vine arrows in action:
I believe there´s a standalone version available now.
Last edited by nickie; 13th Oct 2013 at 03:03. Reason: Changed wording to make it clearer.
Has there not been a release announcement thread at TTLG for the standalone version? Unless I missed it - seems weird that there wouldn't be one. This is a pretty important release for all those folks who skipped giving it a try based on needing to own Doom 3 previously and whatnot.
Yes, the link in my post above yours is the announcement thread but it was easy to miss so I've changed the wording.
I can't get TDM missions to work, they crash out with a "malloc failure" message. I've tried various adjustments to darkmod.cfg but with no luck. I now want to get rid of TDM, but I can't find any information about what I need to do to uninstall it. Please advise how I do it.
Just delete the entire darkmod folder and you are done.
However, I would suggest to visit the TDM forums to get some help on that.
Either your system has too little memory .... or too much ... or something.
A question: How to install Dark Radiant with the Stand-alone version? The software ask me the path to Doom3 and not TDM...
I really want to create map for TDM later. I know how to use Radiant, but the way I installed it hoping that will work has done that no ressources are detected...
Could you help me? Thank you!
Thank you!
Indeed, that help a lot ^^
Sure would be nice if TDM had direct DL links.
I've been trying all week with various permutations of partial success and ultimate failure to get the mod DL'd and them DL the missions.
First I had the mod installed, but whenever I started up the mission DL function within the game it would DL a few and then freeze. So I closed it, started all over again until I suddenly realized that I was Dling the same missions over and over, that were already listed in my mission list, but relisting in the available missions to DL.
So I dont know whats causing that, but fresh installs often help. After clearing the folder and running the "updater" 20 more times I cant get the 2initial gigs to install now at all without freezing incompleted.
It would be so much easier if there were just a direct link for people having trouble with the updating app so that I could use JDL or F-rapid or something.
It would be nice to also have direct easily selectable links to the missions for this same reason.
They do have direct links, but its buried under a click or two for each one.
Not as convenient as it could be.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I cant even register onto their forums, the captcha doesn't play audio or show.
(Probably my idiot google chrome which is also nothing but argumentative.)
Love the mod,
I'm gonna wait for the next update and try it again.
Last edited by robthom; 6th Jul 2014 at 22:36. Reason: cant see anything
my TDM updater 0.64 is having problems to update it to 2.03, i get this error: could not downlaod from any mirror.
Right-click the Dark Mod folder, select Properties, then make sure Read Only is not checked.
Is there any way in TDM to make lock picking easier for us who have trouble hearing? It seems to rely heavily on sound and all I can do is guess, this takes forever to pick locks in this game. Auto or trainer do nothing that I can see to make it easier.
On the lowest setting (Auto), the lockpicking works just as in Thief.
Simply hold the button and the lockpicking completes on its own after a while.
You don't have to time it. Just lean back and wait.
Just want to point out that all the modetwo.net links in the initial post are dead now. )-:
Oh, look, I'm back on TTLG. Anybody remember me?
Taffing since the 20th century
Welcome back!
I've let Springheel know about the dead links so hopefully they'll get updated soon. Thanks for letting us know.
Next you should follow the simple A to Z guide to make your very first tiny demo FM to get the basics: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php..._Start_Here%21
After that you are good to go to start making your first real FM. To make this easier, it is recommended that you use Startpack. This is is a set of components to start any Dark Mod map with all you need to both start and finish your FM packed ready to share. This leaves you free to focus on the fun part - building: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php...ppers%27_Guide
An editing section: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php...tegory:Editing
A Dark Radiant section: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php...ry:DarkRadiant
Including a Dark Radiant must know intro: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php...ow_Basic_Intro
And a complete guide to all Dark Radiant controls: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php...k_Radiant_Keys
Need help? Go to: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php...editors-guild/
How do i get the dark mod standalone...I have downloaded the updater and ran it in a folder I named as"Dark Mod" in the games folder of my harddrive and it installed a shed load of .pk4 files but no .exe to actually run the thing...this is the first time I have tried to do this on this system..I had used th old doom game before.
What have I done wrong please.
Hah...found out what's wrong, McAfee!....turned off real time scanning, deleted the downloaded contents and re ran the updater and BINGO.
Last edited by Ravenhook; 9th May 2016 at 13:35.
Anyone who can give me a hint to what's wrong?
I have assigned key x to the creep function. But it doesn't work in the game???
I have tried assigning other keys - same result???


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Sausages with sticky onion gravy
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- sugars10g
- fibre3g
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- salt3.24g
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Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 sprig thyme, leaves picked
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 400ml beef stock
- splash Worcestershire sauce
Basic sticky onions
- 50g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 12 medium onion
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 tsp sugar
Honey and syrups made from concentrated fruit juice were the earliest known sweeteners. Today,…
Fry sausages for 15 mins or until browned, then remove from pan and keep warm. Heat onions in same pan, then add flour, stirring for 1 min. Add thyme, then gradually add stock. Bring to boil then simmer for 5 mins until smooth. Add Worcestershire sauce, season and serve with sausages.
For the onions: Makes 600g, which is 3 batches. Prep time 5 mins, cook time 30 mins. Melt the butter in a large, deep frying pan and stir through the onions. Cover with a lid and cook gently for about 10 mins, until softened. Remove lid, add sugar, then cook 15-20 mins, stirring, until all of the liquid has evaporated and onions have turned golden. Divide into 3 batches to make the recipes, right. Will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days, or freeze for up to 1 month.
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Know-howWhen onions are fried gently, they release natural sugars. These sugars caramelise, giving sticky softened onions their characteristic sweet flavour. Adding a teaspoon of sugar speeds up this process. If the onions fry too quickly or over a high heat, they may start to burn; a splash of water can help to prevent this.


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To sort out what you can expect in real estate this year, Money zeroed in on four markets: upscale neighborhoods, new investor favorites, booming growth cities, and once-busy areas that have quieted down. Whether your local real estate market is heating up or cooling off, here's what you need to know about buying, selling or renovating your home.
During the past couple of years investors swooped in to snatch up deals in cities clobbered by the crash, driving up prices. But with that low-hanging fruit gone, these markets are now cooling off. In 2014 they should see less impressive price hikes and far more homes for sale. And if rates rise, these areas could get even flabbier, since last year's price jumps put many homes out of reach for locals.
Related: 10 Fastest Growing Cities
How you'll know: Your first clue is the amount that area home values increased in 2013. Look at Realtor.com's Trends page: Anything over 15% is in the pocket. A big jump in the number of homes for sale is another giveaway. (Think Sacramento, which saw December available listings spike 58% from a year earlier.) Check the page's Total Listings column to see whether your area has had a similar increase.
Take your time. While most of these areas aren't quite a buyer's market, you'll have more choices and power than last year, so don't rush into a place you don't love.
Ask for extras. You may want to build in a clause that says your offer is contingent on your ability to get financing or to sell your current home.
Bid low. When markets start to slow down, sellers get nervous — and pliable, says Los Angeles agent Connor Maclvor. Ask your realtor to send you listings where the price has been cut. Those sellers are the most eager, says Maclvor; set your bid at 8% to 10% under asking.
Court bargain hunters. A year ago Phoenix sellers could price above similar listings and still get 10 bids in the first week, says agent Greg Markov: "Not anymore." Now you want your house to look like a deal, he says.
Check current asking prices for comparable homes, then price your house near the bottom of the range. Two weeks and still no offer? Cut it by 5%.
Max out your listing. Choose an agent that offers pro photos. Homes that have them sell faster and for up to 3% more, according to Redfin. Go beyond Realtor.com, Trulia, and Zillow by posting your house on Craigslist. Make sure that your agent is promoting it on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Creating a video for your listing (or to post on YouTube) is another option; 12% of sellers tried it last year, says NAR. If you go that route, walk the camera through the home, since buyers want to see the layout, says Princeton, N.J., broker Henderson.
First impressions count. With more competition for buyers, the focus on curb appeal and staging is back. Be sure your front yard looks neat, pressure-clean the roof, and repaint your front door. Inside, eliminate all clutter. A professional stager can suggest paint colors and lighting and furniture arrangements that will help your place look its best; a two-hour consultation typically costs $150 to $400, according to contractor referral site Fixr.com.
Don't panic. This isn't another bust: Your home will still appreciate. In fact, CoreLogic predicts that prices in last year's hottest 20 markets will rise at an average annual rate of 3.7% through 2018, vs. 3.1% nationwide. Keep those numbers in mind if you're thinking about remodeling. Smaller projects that bring your home in line with your neighbors' will pay off, but you're unlikely to see big enough gains to justify a massive renovation.


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Sony is selling off nearly 10,000 shares in medical market research firm M3 as part of its business overhaul.
The Japanese firm, suffering from competition on a number of fronts and feeling the effects of the sad economical state of Europe, has been selling off bits and pieces and rejigging others to streamline its business and attempt a return to lucrative profitability.
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The company is expected to launch its PlayStation 4 later today in direct competition with Microsoft's attempts to make the Xbox the ubiquitous living room entertainment system. ®


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And at first, we were pretty psyched, to be honest. Why? Because mountain of skulls motion poster, that's why.
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That's the note you want to see hit. That's either an angry Cimmerian or a Manowar album cover - either way, we're onboard.
But then the first trailer came out and between the forced 3D "gotcha" moments, the leftover "Mummy Returns" effects, and the fact that Rachel Nichols calls him "CO-nin" (as in "O'Brien") rather than "Co-NAN" - well, we were left cold.
But now we have this red band clip that is a ridiculous, over-the-top, bloody, Ron Perlman-caked slice of, well, awesome. Again, we don't expect a "good" Conan movie, per se, we just expect a lot of...this:
A 10 year-old boy slaughtering a band of growling Native Amerizombies? If the movie delivers pretty much that for two hours, we'll leave smiling, by Crom. That's how you sell people on the movie. Forget CGI snakes. We want blood and scrambled eggs.