Archives November, 2009

29 November 09
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27 November 09
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There are 67 new packages in the Debian archive,4 were uploaded to experimental and 63 were uploaded to unstable:


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25 November 09
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The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:

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

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


22 November 09
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  • TeX Live 2009 has been uploaded to experimental due the high amount of internal changes. See texlive-base 2009-1 changelog for more information.
  • The new release of mercurial 1.4 is in unstable. (changelog)
  • Also, for those packaging with mercurial, Jens Peter Secher has made a rewrite of hg-buildpackage (orphaned for some time now) named mercurial-buildpackage. More information about mercurial-buildpackage’s features in this email.
  • lenny-and-a-half was not planned due the initial freeze plans in December. Now that the freeze has been set in March, there is some discussion about reviving it, help is needed!
  • RaphaĆ«l Hertzog announced that now the new source package formats has been available for some weeks, it is time to think about making it the default format. There is a release goal about this and about 100 bugs need to be fixed.
    More information about how to convert your packages to the new source format is available in this wikipage and in the dpkg-source(1) man page (SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS paragraph).

20 November 09
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There are 70 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 68 were uploaded to unstable:


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18 November 09
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The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

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

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


13 November 09
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No new packages were accepted in the Debian archive last week.


12 November 09
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11 November 09
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The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:

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

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

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


6 November 09
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No new packages were accepted in the Debian archive last week. This is not bad news, it was disabled because important changes are coming. You can read more at the Bits from the ftp-team.