Debian News

There are 15 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:

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The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:

• O: newpki — PKI based on the OpenSSL low-level API
• O: libqwt — Qt widgets library for technical applications

The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:

• RFA: ent — pseudorandom number sequence test program
• RFA: mimms — mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: miredo — Teredo IPv6 tunneling through NATs
• RFH: debtags — Enables support for package tags
• RFH: apt-xapian-index — maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages

Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:

• RFP: forrest — Website creation tool
• RFP: otf-titillium — Series of sans-serif fonts from Italy
• RFP: libsysactivity — Retrieves statistics of the system’s activity in a thread-safe way
• RFP: danger-from-the-deep — WWII German submarine 3D simulation
• RFP: handbrake — video transcoder
• RFP: ros-pdf — PHP class for creating PDF documents
• RFP: dompdf — CSS2.1 compliant HTML to PDF converter written in PHP
• RFP: ocrfeeder — document layout analysis and OCR system
• RFP: simavr — a simple, lean and mean AVR simulator

You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.

• Python 2.6 is now available in unstable and testing . Also, Python 2.6 is now a supported version (while writing these lines only in unstable). It will take at least a couple of weeks until 2.6 is the default version.
• Python 2.7 alpha 2 is available in experimental. It is not expected to be in squeeze.
• Python 3.1.1 also has been uploaded to unstable and it is co-installable with python 2.6. However, Python 3.1 is not a supported version and the Python Policy for handling 3.1 needs to be updated; this means some modules might not be available. You can try Python 3.1 by installing the package «python3» and running «python3».

• Interesting software updates:
  • SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (unstable)
  • Sylpheed 3.0.0 betas continue being uploaded to experimental, latest is beta7.
• X.Org 7.5 reached testing some days ago.
• KDE 4.3.5 won’t be packaged and KDE 4.4.0 expected next February 9th might take a while.
• René Mayorga has announced a mini-DebConf in Panamá, during March 19-21, 2010.

The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month:

• Jakub Wilk (jwilk)
• Axel Beckert (abe)
• Vagrant Cascadian (vagrant)
• Albert Huang (ash)
• Iustin Pop (iustin)
• Thorvald Natvig (thorvald)
• Marco Silva (marcot)
• Marcelo Vieira (metal)
• Thorsten Glaser (tg)

Congratulations!

There are 47 new packages in the Debian archive, 1 was uploaded to experimental and 46 were uploaded to unstable:

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The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:

• O: fortunes-ru — Russian data files for fortune
• O: polipo — a small, caching web proxy
• O: ysmv7 — Powerful console ICQ client
• O: multisync — A program to synchronize PIM data
• O: myspell-el-gr — Greek (el_GR) dictionary for myspell
• O: alltray — Dock any program into the system tray

The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:

• RFA: google-gadgets — Common files for QT and GTK+ versions of google-gadgets
• RFA: d-shlibs — Debian shared library package building helper scripts
• RFA: podracer — podcast aggregator/downloader

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: doc-central — web-based documentation browser
• RFH: openbox — standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager

Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:

• RFP: transifex — web-based localization platform
• RFP: haskell-fuse — Haskell bindings for FUSE: Filesystem in USErspace
• RFP: pyodbc — Python ODBC library
• RFP: openpgm — Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol
• RFP: python-aiml — Python interpreter for AIML, the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
• RFP: rawtherapee — powerful yet convenient digital camera RAW image conversion tool
• RFP: libspring-richclient-java — A Java GUI Framework based on Springsource
• RFP: svgmath — MathML to SVG Converter in Python

You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.

• OpenOffice.org 3.2 Release Candidate 3 is available in experimental.
• If you run into problems with Java networking, e. g. if your Java apps suddenly start failing to connect to the database. You might be affected by this bug.
• schroot version 1.4.0 has been released
• The security support for Etch will be discontinued next 15th February, exactly one year after the Lenny release. If you are still using Etch, it is time to update to Lenny that have its point release 5.0.4 planned for the end of this month.
• Theppitak Karoonboonyanan has announced a mini-DebCamp in Khon Kaen, Thailand, during March 13-19, 2010.

There are 70 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 68 were uploaded to unstable:

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The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:

• O: webcam-server — a tool to share webcam streaming in www-browser
• O: fdutils — Linux floppy utilities
• O: pam-passwdqc — replacement for the pam_cracklib module
• O: kxstitch — cross-stitch pattern creator and editor for KDE
• O: python-contract — Programming by contract for python

The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:

• RFA: ssed — The super sed stream editor
• RFA: openslp-dfsg — OpenSLP documentation
• RFA: ipsec-tools — IPsec tools for Linux
• RFA: duma — library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C and C++ programs

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: cron: process scheduling daemon
• RFH: fbcat — framebuffer grabber

Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:

• RFP: libnet-gpsd3-perl — Interface to the gpsd server daemon protocol version 3 (JSON)
• RFP: mariadb-server — community developed branch of the MySQL database that uses the Maria engine by default.
• RFP: python-alsa — Official ALSA python binding, including hardware management, mixer and sequencer control
• RFP: mbuni — Open Source MMS Gateway
• RFP: libcucumber-ruby — execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests
• RFP: grossd — mixture of greylisting (postgrey) and policyd-weight
• RFP: gstreamer0.10-espeak — GStreamer Text-To-Speech plugin utilizing the eSpeak software speech synthesizer

You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.