Monday 2nd April 2007
Local Packages
Updated dovecot to 1.0.rc29; I've also included a sieve subpackage as per Rawhide and done a few other updates such as enabling inotify and GSSAPI support where possible
Updated perl-Array-Compare to 1.14
Car Update
I got a call last Thursday afternoon from the assessor dealing with my claim for the accident on 20th March, and he told me he has so far been unable to contact the other driver's insurers, but he thought from what I'd told them that it would probably be resolved in a phone call when he did get though to them. However, I still haven't heard any more on this.
I also got a call the same afternoon from the engineer assessing the damage to the car, and as expected it was a total loss. However, the valuation he gave me for the car was, shall we say, very acceptable 
On Saturday we went to the UK Assistance site in Salford where the Micra was to collect our belongings from the car before it got broken up for salvage.
On Sunday we went to RRG Altrincham to look at the Avensis, which was top of our shortlist for a new car. We were offered a used 2006 T3-X 2.0 litre diesel hatchback (the model we were after) with 6,000 miles on the clock for £16,500. I think they're having a laugh.
This evening we ordered a brand new Avensis (same spec) for under £15,800 from drivethedeal.com.
Thursday 5th April 2007
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.24
Local Packages
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.24
Updated sendmail to 8.14.1
Tuesday 10th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated dovecot to 1.0.rc31 and added a dovecot-devel package with the headers and config script needed to build plugins; I note with dismay that the official Fedora dovecot package fails to follow the Packaging/NamingGuidelines regarding pre-release packages - this is not something I'm going to do with my own package
Updated perl-MailTools to 1.76
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MailTools to 1.76 (Rawhide only for now)
Updated imlib in Rawhide and FC-6 to include a patch for CVE-2004-1025 and CVE-2004-1026 (Bug #235416), which are buffer overflows; these are pretty old issues really and it's surprising that fixes went into RHEL but not Fedora Core at the time
Car Update
Sent off documentation for the insurance claim: vehicle registration document, MOT & Insurance certificates plus copies of both of our driving licenses to the insurer, and Section 9 (sale of vehicle to a motor trader) of the vehicle registration document to the DVLA in Swansea. The notes on the vehicle registration document say that the motor trader must by law sign the document but the insurance company wanted me to send it straight to the DVLA. The DVLA's website says that they have a special understanding with the insurance industry so the whole registration document can be sent to the insurer, who can fill in the form, sign it and forward it to the DVLA, bit that's not what the insurer asked me to do. So I eventually got through the queue on the DVLA's customer service helpline and was told that it was OK to send the document to them without the signature, and that's what I ended up doing. It would be nice if there wasn't conflicting information about this procedure (which is very commonly used of course) on the documents and the websites...
The dealer supplying the new car called up today to introduce themselves. It'll have at least 200 miles on the clock at delivery as they're not exactly local to Manchester, but they are, as promised, a main Toyota dealership (listed on the Toyota UK website).
Wednesday 11th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated gotmail to 0.9.0
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.25
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.25
Thursday 12th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated curl to 7.16.2
Car Update
Just called my insurer and was told that the other party's insurer has now admitted liability for the collision last month that wrote off my car. So I get my excess and no claims discount back. Which is good, since I'll be needing the no claims discount when applying for insurance for the new car later this month.
Friday 13th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated dovecot to 1.0.rc32
Monday 16th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated dovecot to 1.0.0
Tuesday 17th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.05
Friday 20th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.26
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.26
Wednesday 25th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated getmail to 4.7.4
Thursday 26th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated libidn to 0.6.12
Monday 30th April 2007
Local Packages
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.27
Updated perl-Module-Build to 0.2808
New package perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS (optional dependency of perl-Module-Build)
Fedora Project
Updated gtkwave to 3.0.27
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