Debian News

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

• O: ptop — PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool akin to top
• O: gtml — An HTML pre-processor
• O: ora2pg — Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter
• O: translatoid — translation widget for KDE Plasma
• O: i8kutils — utilities for Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops

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

• RFA: mlocate — quickly find files on the filesystem based on their name
• RFA: amule — client for the eD2k and Kad networks, like eMule
• RFA: webdeveloper — web developer extension for the Iceweasel web browser
• RFA: firefoxnotify — integrate Iceweasel download messages with desktop notifications
• RFA: guessnet — Guess which LAN a network device is connected to

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

• RFP: asciiportal — ascii puzzle platformer inspired by Valve’s Portal
• RFP: php-qt — Object-oriented interface to the Qt4 Framework.
• RFP: libpostfix-parse-mailq-perl — Perl module to parse the postfix mailq
• RFP: skrooge — personal finance manager for KDE4, aiming at being simple and intuitive
• RFP: libhttp-server-brick-perl — Simple pure perl http server for prototyping “in the style of” Ruby’s WEBrick
• RFP: openproj — Project management solution
• RFP: adit — preparing, editing and checking structure data
• RFP: python-paver — Paver is a Python-based software project scripting tool along the lines of Make or Rake

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

• Most of the kernel team has gathered at Linux Plumbers Conference. They have not uploaded 2.6.31 yet but they uploaded a big update of 2.6.30.
• mini-debconf 2009 in Taiwan was held this week. See group photo.
• Nagios 3.2.0 finally uploaded to unstable.
• Squid updates: squid 2.7 STABLE 7 and Squid3 3.0 STABLE19 have been updated in unstable. Squid3 3.1.0.x has been updated in experimental.

There are 35 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:

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GNOME 2.28 is out and it is already being uploaded to unstable. Some parts are being held by third party packages and will take a bit more.

You can check the status here.

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

• O: wavesurfer — Sound Manipulation Program
• O: stk — sound synthesis toolkit development files
• O: libroxen-asis — ASIS module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-123session — Connection identifier module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-tex — LaTeX/TeX syntax module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libpar2 — Headers for the libpar2-0 library
• O: fldiff — A graphical diff program
• O: libroxen-simplenews — Simple news module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-sqlextras — Extra SQL tags for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-stripper — Whitespace stripping module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-swarm — Swarming stars module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-sqlcounter — Access counter module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-roxpoll — User poll module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-secureinsert — Secure file insertion tag for the Roxen Webserver
• O: libroxen-popdrop — POP3 module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-presentit — Slideshow module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-photoalbum — Photo album module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-pretoggle — Prestate and configs toggling module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: ladcca — LADCCA shared library files
• O: rezound — Audio file editor
• O: seq24 — Real time MIDI sequencer
• O: qjackctl — User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
• O: puredata — realtime computer music and graphics system
• O: libjackasyn — Development files for libjackasyn
• O: lash — Linux Audio Session Handler (LASH) shared library files
• O: swami — SoundFont editor
• O: libroxen-expires — Page expiration module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-form — FORM tag module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-adbanner — Banner rotation module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 — Extra fonts for roxen
• O: libroxen-columnify — Text column module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-mailit — Mail sending module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-floatingcode — FLOAT tag module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-hubbethrottle — Bandwidth throttle module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-calculator — Calculator tag for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-ics — Internet Conferencing System module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-switch — Switch module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: gjots2 — A simple jotter (outline processor) for X11/gtk-gnome
• O: libroxen-flash2 — Flash2 module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-guestbook — A simple generic guestbook for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-path — Clickable Path module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-disclaimer — Disclaimer module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-jsredirect — Javascript pulldown menu module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-footnote — Footnote module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-group — Group container module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-meta — Metafiles module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-cloakingdevice — Mailto mutilation module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-ecms — Simple content management module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-linkif — Conditional URL link module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: snd — Sound file editor
• O: libroxen-finder — Select box module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-diary — Diary module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-errormessage — Error message generator module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-explaindir — Directory listing module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-graphicalcounter — Access counter module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-deepleap — Deepleap database registry module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-discussit — Discussion module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-mailcloak — Mail cloak module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-dirlist — Directory listing module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-layout — Layout module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-imho — Web-based e-mail module for Roxen (using IMAP)
• O: libroxen-mail — Mail presentation module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-ntuserauth — WinNT/SMB user authentication module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-outline — Outline mode module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-telnetproxy — Telnet proxy module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-calendar — A calendar module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-trimpath — trimpath tag module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-sexybody — tag replacement module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: radiusclient — /bin/login replacement which uses the RADIUS protocol for authentication
• O: libroxen-webmail — Webmail module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-xmlrpc — Common programs for the XML RPC Roxen/Caudium module
• O: roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 — Extra fonts for roxen
• O: midentd — An ident replacement with masquerading support.
• O: libroxen-zopegw — Zope relay module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: libroxen-templatefs — Template adding filesystem module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: tcpquota — A dialout/masquerading monitoring package
• O: php-idn — PHP API for the IDNA library
• O: roxen4 — Roxen WebServer – binaries
• O: libroxen-watchdog — Watchdog module for the Roxen Challenger web server
• O: pd-flext — Flext C++ external layer for pd
• O: pointerize — Internationalization utilities, based on gettext
• O: untex — Remove LaTeX commands from input
• O: archmbox — a simple email archiver written in perl
• O: ne — Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor
• O: wipl — A daemon to maintain statistics on network usage
• O: mailleds — Blink the keyboard-LEDs for incoming mail
• O: timeoutd — Flexible user timeout daemon with X11 support
• O: vorbisgain — add Replay Gain volume tags to Ogg Vorbis files
• O: libnss-mysql — NSS module for MySQL
• O: libtext-querysql-perl — Text-Query-SQL provides query builders for SQL databases
• O: libtext-query-perl — Text::Query – Query processing framework
• O: ipgrab — Tcpdump-like utility that prints detailed header information
• O: tsclient — front-end for viewing of remote desktops in GNOME
• O: luxrender — rendering system for physically correct 3D image synthesis
• O: epstool — edit preview images and fix bounding boxes in EPS files
• O: pgtcl — Tcl client library binding for PostgreSQL
• O: tpb — program to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys

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

• RFA: apt-move — Maintain Debian packages in a package pool

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: geomview — interactive geometry viewing program
• RFH: stfl — structured terminal forms language/library

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

• RFP: jpedal — JPedal Open Source PDF viewer
• RFP: larceny-scheme — efficient implementation of the Scheme language
• RFP: scmxlate — configuration tool for software packages written in Scheme
• RFP: ekee — Ekee: LaTeX equation editor
• RFP: daisy — A soil plant atmosphere system model
• RFP: tintii — tool which turns photos into black and white with color highlights
• RFP: python-xklavier — Python bindings for libxklavier
• RFP: valide — IDE for Vala
• RFP: audiveris — Optical Music Recognition module
• RFP: philesight — a tool to browse your filesystem and see where the diskspace is being used at a glance

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

There are 68 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 66 were uploaded to unstable:

Continue reading…

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

• O: libvformat — Library to read and write vcard files
• O: libx86 — x86 real-mode library
• O: wvdial — PPP dialer with built-in intelligence
• O: delo — The DECstation boot loader
• O: webfs — lightweight http server for static content

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

• RFA: ifile-gnus-el — a news and mail classifier for the Gnus newsreader
• RFA: ifile — a text/e-mail/spam filter capable of learning

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

• RFP: elim (and garak) — Emacs libpurple integration (C daemon and elisp client)
• RFP: PosteRazor — Cuts a image into pieces which can be printed out and assembled to a poster
• RFP: poptray-minus — tray pop3 information tool
• RFP: simpleticket — A highly scalable multiuser trouble ticket system
• RFP: jboss-seam-framework-java — development platform for building rich Internet applications
• RFP: jaxodraw — A Java program for drawing Feynman diagrams
• RFP: latex-translator — modular LaTeX string localization system
• RFP: skype-package — utility to automatically build a Debian package of Skype
• RFP: fsarchiver — flexible filesystem archiver for linux
• RFP: mozilla-stylish — User style management addon for Iceweasel.
• RFP: libical-parser-html-perl — library to generate day/week/month calendars from ical files
• RFP: brexx — A lightweight rexx interpreter

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

In the last days, a new version of Xserver has migrated to testing, Brice Goglin blogged about the upcoming migration with some details a few days ago.

This is the first update of Xserver in testing since May 2008, and it is a major upgrade from the previous version. You are encouraged to read /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz (read online here) to avoid problems and before reporting bugs.

• With sun-java5 being removed from the archive and sun-java6 orphaned, it seems like a good moment to follow Kees Cook’s advice and switch to OpenJDK.
• The libraries and core packages of KDE 4.3.1 have migrated to testing.
• Samba 4 alpha 8 has been uploaded to unstable. (upload changelog)
• Iceweasel 3.5 continues being worked on in experimental and Iceweasel 3.5.3 was uploaded together xulrunner 1.9.1.3.

Ben Hutchings blogged about the status of the DebConf 9 videos a few days ago. As he announced more videos are now available. (hint: check the low directory).

Joey Hess has pointed to his debhelper talk as a starting point for those who want to learn more about the new debhelper.

Update:Ben Hutchings has blogged again about the progress of the video and when the high-bandwidth versions will be available.