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Debian NewsUpdates on the Debian Project |
| 11 September 09 |
There are 53 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:
| 9 September 09 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: kcemirror — Windows CE remote control tool like VNC
- O: rudiments — C++ class library providing base classes
- O: sun-java6 — Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
- O: sun-java5 — Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
- O: wsola — tool to speed up/slow down audio without altering its pitch
- O: wav2cdr — Converts wav files into CD-ROM audio file format
- O: uriparser — URI parsing library compliant with RFC 3986
- O: turbokid — TurboGears template plugin to use kid templates
- O: turbogears — Python-based web framework
- O: sqlrelay — Database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing
- O: kradio — Comfortable Radio Application for KDE
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: python-tables – hierarchical datasets in python
- RFA: conquest — a real-time, multi-player space warfare game (curses client)
- RFA: corewars — the classic corewars game with a gtk-look
- RFA: amphetamine — jump’n run game with unique visual effects
- RFA: gnome-chess — chess client for the GNOME desktop environment
- RFA: gnurobbo — logic game ported from ATARI XE/XL
- RFA: koules — abstract space action game
- RFA: mathwar — A flash card game designed to teach simple maths
- RFA: nettoe — Networked version of Tic Tac Toe (3×3 Grid) for the console
- RFA: sabre — fighter plane simulator for svgalib
- RFA: shisen.app — Shisen-sho puzzle game for GNUstep
- RFA: donkey-bolonkey — Game where you rescue donkeys
- RFA: droidbattles — A game of programming battle droids
- RFA: etw — arcade-style soccer game
- RFA: gmult — figure out which letters are which numbers
- RFA: stepbill.app — Get rid of those nasty Wingdows viruses
- RFA: xbattle — Concurrent multi-player battle strategy game
- RFA: xboing — blockout game for X
- RFA: xoids — Asteroids game with powerups and color graphics
- RFA: xtux — arcade game featuring Free Software mascots
- RFA: grande — vertical shoot’em-up in the spirit of Xevious
- RFA: mines.app — Minesweeper for GNUstep
- RFA: openyahtzee — classic dice game of Yahtzee
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: python-clips — Python binding for the CLIPS expert system engine
- RFP: fetch-crl — tool for automatic fetching and updating of CRLs
- RFP: quickly — Program that helps you create software programs quickly
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 7 September 09 |
Gunnar Wolf announced he will be joining Jonathan McDowell in the maintenance of the Debian Keyring.
Congratulations Gunnar!
| 5 September 09 |
- Debian 5.0.3 is out. This is the 3rd update of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “lenny”.
- Sean Finney has announced that the debian patch-tracker is back alive and now hosted as an official debian.org service at http://patch-tracker.debian.org
- CUPS 1.4.0 has been uploaded to unstable with a huge amount of updates and improvements, check the Debian changelog with all the updates
| 4 September 09 |
With the latest upload of GRUB 0.97-58 to unstable, the upgrade path is set to GRUB2.
If you want to continue using GRUB Legacy, it is now provided in the grub-legacy package that will continue being supported at least until the Squeeze release. You just need to uninstall the grub dummy package and keep upgrading the mentioned grub-legacy package happily.
Update: Grub maintainers have sent a Bits from the GRUB maintainers email and there is also a wiki page to track this release goal.
| 4 September 09 |
There are 139 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 136 were uploaded to unstable:
Continue reading…
| 3 September 09 |
Bastian Blank emailed about the current status of the s390 port and its future a few days ago.
The s390 port has been in Debian since Debian 3.0 «woody» and currently Debian is the only free distribution being released distribution for this system.
| 2 September 09 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: quark — music player daemon controlled from the gnome panel or cli
- O: acct — The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting
- O: botan1.8 — multiplatform crypto library (debug)
- O: buildtorrent — command line torrent creation program
- O: cx-bsdiff — generate/apply a patch between two binary
- O: dvd+rw-tools — DVD+-RW/R tools
- O: exactimage — fast image manipulation programs
- O: gapcmon — APC UPS Power Management (GUI)
- O: giflib — library for GIF images (debug)
- O: gqview — simple image viewer using GTK+
- O: grsync — GTK+ frontend for rsync
- O: hsolink — Utility to control the Option 3G HSO device interface
- O: libgnupdf — PDF support library
- O: librsync — rsync remote-delta algorithm library
- O: libvuurmuur — netfilter frontend (library)
- O: mobile-broadband-provider-info — database of mobile broadband service providers
- O: ncurses — shared libraries for terminal handling
- O: netdiscover — active/passive network address scanner using arp requests
- O: pth — The GNU Portable Threads
- O: sdd — File duplication and conversion tool, similar to ‘dd’
- O: sfind — improved version of the find utility
- O: tack — terminfo action checker
- O: vuurmuur-conf — netfilter frontend (ncurses GUI)
- O: vuurmuur — netfilter frontend (utilities)
- O: unfs3 — User-space NFSv3 Server
- O: dvdisaster — data loss/scratch/aging protection for CD/DVD media
- O: dahb-html — Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch
- O: qpxtool — CD/DVD quality checker
- O: pyneighborhood — PyGTK2 SAMBA browser
- O: zbar — scanning and decoding bar codes (utilities)
- O: doc-iana — Internet protocol parameter registry
- O: doc-rfc — Standard RFCs
- O: remotefs — simple user-space network file system for embedded systems (client)
- O: tripwire — file and directory integrity checker
- O: broadcom-sta — Common files for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver
- O: pcsc-omnikey — PC/SC driver for Omnikey Cardman Smartcard readers (binary-only)
- O: shtool — portable shell tool from the GNU project
- O: cuneiform — multi-language OCR system
- O: cdparanoia — audio extraction tool for sampling CDs
- O: kqemu — Common files for the QEMU Accelerator module
- O: lwp — Light Weight Processes library (debug)
- O: netbeans-ide — IDE for Java Development and More, version 6 (IDE)
- O: rpc2 — Remote Procedure Call implementation 2
- O: rvm — Recoverable Virtual Memory (debug)
- O: opencryptoki — PKCS#11 implementation for Linux (daemon)
- O: iceowl-l10n — All language packages for Iceowl (meta)
- O: tpm-tools — Management tools for the TPM hardware (tools)
- O: icedove-l10n — All language packages for Icedove (meta)
- O: libengine-tpm-openssl — OpenSSL engine for TPM modules
- O: pam-pkcs11 — Fully featured PAM module for using for using PKCS#11 smart cards
- O: trousers — open-source TCG Software Stack (daemon)
- O: bsdiff — generate/apply a patch between two binary files
- O: canto — flexible ncurses Atom/RSS newsreader for the console
- O: gitmagic — Guide about Git version control system
- O: gnupg-pkcs11-scd — GnuPG smart-card daemon with PKCS#11 support
- O: postgrey — greylisting implementation for Postfix
- O: kphotobymail — PyQt application for uploading photos to flickr
- O: 9mount — plan9 filesystem (v9fs) user mount utilities
- O: arch-perl — Perl library for GNU Arch
- O: archway — GUI for GNU Arch
- O: axp — command line tool and wrapper for tla
- O: archzoom — web-based Arch repository browser
- O: configobj — a simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python
- O: gengetopt — skeleton main.c generator
- O: gps — Graphical Process Statistics using GTK+
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: fusesmb — filesystem client based on the SMB file transfer protocol
- RFA: libavg — Ain’t Vector Graphics
- RFA: stlport5.2 — STLport C++ class library
- RFA: bglibs — BG Libraries Collection
- RFA: matrixssl — small SSL library optimized for embedded systems
- RFA: libowfat — A reimplementation of libdjb
- RFA: secpanel — graphical user interface for SSH and SCP
- RFA: libdjbdns — DNS client library designed to replace the BIND res_*/dn_* library
- RFA: enemies-of-carlotta — mailing list manager
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: guitarix — rock guitar amplifier for jack
- RFP: rtf2xml — Convert Microsoft RTF to XML
- RFP: Rhythmbox Record Station — With this Rhythmbox Plug-In you can easily rip/record internet radio streams
- RFP: Linux Unified Kernel
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
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