Debian News

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

• Giuseppe Iuculano (iuculano)
• Jan Hauke Rahm (jhr)

Congratulations!

DebConf 10 will take place from August 1 to 7, 2010, at Columbia University, in New York City, USA.

The final calendar of the event is:

• July 24, 2010: Setup day (lodging only for people doing initial setup)
• July 25-31, 2010: DebCamp, the yearly developer work sessions.
• August 1-7, 2010: DebConf10
• August 8, 2010: Departure/cleanup day

Debian Open Day (formerly known as DebianDay): Still to be discussed but within these dates

The call for papers and registration will open in January 2010.

More information at the DebConf 10 website.

There are 32 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: cournol — Analyze absolute supply monopolies and polypolies

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

• RFA: ifplugd — configuration daemon for ethernet devices
• RFA: powersave – power management daemon
• RFA: liblazy – convenience functions for D-Bus, HAL and PK

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: lesstif2 — OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
• RFH: fluxbox — Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager

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

• RFP: blueMarin — An open source application for the digital photo workflow
• RFP: eclim — Integration between the eclipse IDE and the VIM text editor
• RFP: eclipse-wtp — Eclipse tools for developing Web and Java EE applications
• RFP: quantum-game — ambient game of space exploration and conquest
• RFP: ttf-anonymous-pro — A fixed-width sans-serif font designed especially for coders
• RFP: selenium-rc — client/server system that allows to control web browsers locally or on other computers to run selenium tests
• RFP: selenium-ide — Firefox add-on to record and playback functional website tests for selenium
• RFP: selenium-grid — runs selenium tests on many servers at the same time
• RFP: python-llvm — Python bindings for LLVM infrastructure
• RFP: hiawatha — A secure and advanced webserver
• RFP: TV-Browser — digital TV guide
• RFP: musca — lightweight, customizable tiling window manager
• RFP: lua-memcached — Memcached library for the Lua language

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

A gang of Debian users and developers are going to organize a mini-DebConf at the FSCONS free society conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. FSCONS is held 13-15 November, which also are the dates the mini-DebConf will be held. During the conference Debian related talks and workshops will be given in the main programe and social events will take place.

Our goal is lay the foundation for something like debian-nordic, which, strange enough, does not exist today. Yet, there are quite a few DDs, and Debian users, in the nordic region.

Come and partake in an excellent Free Software/Free Society conference with a Debian chocolate chipped cookie event on the side!

More information about the mini-DebConf at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianNordic/MiniDebconf2009

• Daniel Burrows has uploaded aptitude 6.0.0 to unstable. This version of aptitude has been developed for more than a year as version 5.x.x in experimental. Check the changelog since the version 5.0.1 to know more about all the changes and improvements.
• Linux kernel 2.6.31 is now in unstable and related packages have been updated as well. If you also have installed linux-modules-extra-2.6, it is being removed.
• The ftp team is meeting this week in Essen, Germany. See agenda.

There are 53 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 51 were uploaded to unstable:

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

• O: acidbase — Basic Analysis and Security Engine

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

• RFA: mapnik — C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications
• RFA: googleearth-package — utility to automatically build a Debian package of Google Earth

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

• RFP: djvusmooth — a graphical editor for DjVu files
• RFP: openoffice.org-svg-import — SVG import extension for OpenOffice.org
• RFP: openvswitch — Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch
• RFP: zdfmediathk — download/subscribe to streams (online in Mediathek) from public german TV stations (ARTE, ARD, ZDF, 3Sat, MDR, SF DRS)
• RFP: cups-bjnp — CUPS backend for Canon printers using the BJNP (USB-over-IP) protocol
• RFP: focal — compiler for the Focal language
• RFP: kumir — IDE and compiler for educational language Kumir

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

• A prerelease of exim 4.70 has been uploaded to experimental (changelog). Andreas Metzler has made a call for testing.
• Unstable switched to (e)glibc 2.10.1 (looong changelog)
• schroot version 1.3.0 has been released and uploaded to experimental (changelog). Roger Leigh mailed about the changes and asked for testing.
• The first release candidate of R 2.10.0 is in unstable (changelog). There is significant user changes in this version (read more).

The first beta of Qt 4.6 has been uploaded to experimental (see changelog). It is reported to work without problems with KDE 4.3.2 and Qt4 applications in the Debian archive.