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| 16 October 09 |
Argentina’s government has just announced its decision to not apply DST this year. DST was about to begin on Sunday, Oct 18th.
All up-to-date systems include a version of tzdata that says that time changes on Sunday. Thus, these systems need to be updated in the next two days if they are to show the correct time next Sunday.
Packages have already been prepared and are being uploaded to unstable, lenny-volatile and etch-volatile. In the meantime, these packages can be used to fix the systems.
- Etch: tzdata_2009g-0etch1.1_all.deb
- Lenny: tzdata_2009l-0lenny1.1_all.deb and tzdata-java_2009l-0lenny1.1_all.deb (only needed if tzdata-java was already installed).
- Squeeze/Sid: tzdata_2009n-1.1_all.deb and tzdata-java_2009n-1.1_all.deb (only needed if tzdata-java was already installed).
Sid’s version has also been tested for Ubuntu’s Jaunty and Karmic.
| 16 October 09 |
There are 39 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:
| 14 October 09 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: leafpad — GTK+ based simple text editor
- O: wmsysmon — WindowMaker dock-app for monitoring your system
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: petsc4py — Python bindings for PETSc libraries
- RFA: core++ — C/C++ library for robust computation
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: stlfilt — An STL Error Message Decryptor for C++
- RFP: vhostmd — virtual host metrics daemon
- RFP: NaviPOWM — NaviPOWM is planned to be a car navigation system
- RFP: scicoslab — graphical dynamical system modeler and simulator
- RFP: fisicalab.app — Educational Physics application for GNUstep
- RFP: Realtime Kit — Realtime Kit enables realtime scheduling for the PulseAudio daemon.
- RFP: neartree — function library efficiently solving the Nearest Neighbor Problem
- RFP: cqrlib — utility library for quaternion arithmetic and rotation math
- RFP: cvector — ANSI C implementation of dynamic arrays approximating the C++ vector class
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 12 October 09 |
- Mike Hommey blogged Iceweasel 3.5.3 and xulrunner 1.9.1 are now in unstable, replacing Iceweasel 3.0.x and 1.9.0.x.
- New GDB 7.0 has been uploaded to unstable.(changelog)
- There was some noteworthy updates in experimental: Linux 2.6.31, Python 3.1.1, parrot 1.6.0.
| 9 October 09 |
There are 51 new packages in the Debian archive, 1 was uploaded to experimental and 50 were uploaded to unstable:
| 9 October 09 |
Thanks to a patch by Raphael Geissert, the PTS is now properly integrated with the security tracker. Packages pages will show the number of pending security issues (if any) that should be addressed for a given source package.
Apache bugs from the Security Tracker shown in the PTS
| 7 October 09 |
It is our pleasure to announce that Giuseppe Iuculano (iuculano), who recently became a DD, has now been added as an assistant to the Security Team. He has a long history of contributing to the field of security in Debian and we are glad that he has agreed in joining us.
Steffen Joeris, on behalf of the Security Team
| 7 October 09 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: viewglob — A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt
- O: feynmf — set of LaTeX macros for creating Feynman diagrams
- O: jfbterm — multilingual terminal on Linux framebuffer
- O: libsnowpg-perl — Wrapper class for PostgreSQL providing convenience functions
- O: cvs2html — create HTML versions of CVS logs
- O: gearman-server — Gearman distributed job system
- O: libgearman-client-async-perl — Asynchronous client for gearman distributed job system
- O: libgearman-client-perl — Client for gearman distributed job system
- O: tenshi — log monitoring and reporting tool
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: guessnet — Guess which LAN a network device is connected to
- RFA: docbook-to-man — converter from DocBook SGML into roff man macros
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: ttf-bitstream-vera — The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts
- RFP: tuna — Tuna is a tool for the configuration of threads in a system
- RFP: python-ethtool — Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface
- RFP: python-schedutils — Linux scheduler python bindings
- RFP: python-linux-procfs — Python classes to extract information from the linux /proc files
- RFP: Numpty Physics – physic drawing puzzle game
- RFP: RoarAudio — SoundServer for home and professional use
- RFP: ttf-gruenewald — free educational fonts for schools (handwriting)
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 4 October 09 |
- Redmine, a project management web application, is now packaged in Debian. Exactly a pre-release of 0.9.0 has been uploaded to unstable. (changelog)
- Python 2.6 continues being worked in experimental, 2.6.3 has been already uploaded.(changelog)
- Amarok 2.2.0 is out and it has been uploaded to unstable. (changelog)
- The first beta of cupt 1.0.0, a partial re-implementation of APT suite, has been uploaded. More information.
| 2 October 09 |
There are 42 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:
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