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Debian NewsUpdates on the Debian Project |
| 31 January 10 |
The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month:
- Jakub Wilk (jwilk)
- Axel Beckert (abe)
- Vagrant Cascadian (vagrant)
- Albert Huang (ash)
- Iustin Pop (iustin)
- Thorvald Natvig (thorvald)
- Marco Silva (marcot)
- Marcelo Vieira (metal)
- Thorsten Glaser (tg)
Congratulations!
| 29 January 10 |
There are 47 new packages in the Debian archive, 1 was uploaded to experimental and 46 were uploaded to unstable:
| 27 January 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: fortunes-ru — Russian data files for fortune
- O: polipo — a small, caching web proxy
- O: ysmv7 — Powerful console ICQ client
- O: multisync — A program to synchronize PIM data
- O: myspell-el-gr — Greek (el_GR) dictionary for myspell
- O: alltray — Dock any program into the system tray
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: google-gadgets — Common files for QT and GTK+ versions of google-gadgets
- RFA: d-shlibs — Debian shared library package building helper scripts
- RFA: podracer — podcast aggregator/downloader
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
- RFH: doc-central — web-based documentation browser
- RFH: openbox — standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: transifex — web-based localization platform
- RFP: haskell-fuse — Haskell bindings for FUSE: Filesystem in USErspace
- RFP: pyodbc — Python ODBC library
- RFP: openpgm — Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol
- RFP: python-aiml — Python interpreter for AIML, the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
- RFP: rawtherapee — powerful yet convenient digital camera RAW image conversion tool
- RFP: libspring-richclient-java — A Java GUI Framework based on Springsource
- RFP: svgmath — MathML to SVG Converter in Python
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 23 January 10 |
- OpenOffice.org 3.2 Release Candidate 3 is available in experimental.
- If you run into problems with Java networking, e. g. if your Java apps suddenly start failing to connect to the database. You might be affected by this bug.
- schroot version 1.4.0 has been released
- The security support for Etch will be discontinued next 15th February, exactly one year after the Lenny release. If you are still using Etch, it is time to update to Lenny that have its point release 5.0.4 planned for the end of this month.
- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan has announced a mini-DebCamp in Khon Kaen, Thailand, during March 13-19, 2010.
| 22 January 10 |
There are 70 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 68 were uploaded to unstable:
| 20 January 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: webcam-server — a tool to share webcam streaming in www-browser
- O: fdutils — Linux floppy utilities
- O: pam-passwdqc — replacement for the pam_cracklib module
- O: kxstitch — cross-stitch pattern creator and editor for KDE
- O: python-contract — Programming by contract for python
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: ssed — The super sed stream editor
- RFA: openslp-dfsg — OpenSLP documentation
- RFA: ipsec-tools — IPsec tools for Linux
- RFA: duma — library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C and C++ programs
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: libnet-gpsd3-perl — Interface to the gpsd server daemon protocol version 3 (JSON)
- RFP: mariadb-server — community developed branch of the MySQL database that uses the Maria engine by default.
- RFP: python-alsa — Official ALSA python binding, including hardware management, mixer and sequencer control
- RFP: mbuni — Open Source MMS Gateway
- RFP: libcucumber-ruby — execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests
- RFP: grossd — mixture of greylisting (postgrey) and policyd-weight
- RFP: gstreamer0.10-espeak — GStreamer Text-To-Speech plugin utilizing the eSpeak software speech synthesizer
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 15 January 10 |
There are 13 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:
| 13 January 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: purity — Automated purity testing software
- O: flashybrid — automates use of a flash disk as the root filesystem
- O: yafray — a modern, xml-speaking raytracing-based rendering system
- O: mathgl – library for scientific graphs
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: libtemplate-plugin-autolink-perl — TT filter plugin to replace URL and e-mail address with hyperlink automatically.
- RFP: libtemplate-plugin-gravatar-perl — configurable TT2-based generation of Gravatar URLs from email addresses.
- RFP: libtemplate-plugin-markdown-perl — plugin for TT, which format your text with Markdown Style.
- RFP: ossp — OSS (Open Sound System) Proxy
- RFP: qjoypad — Converts gamepad input into key presses, mouse clicks or mouse movement, with Qt interface
- RFP: shedskin — Python to C++ compiler
- RFP: Flinks — a text-mode flashing word webbrowser, intended for speed-reading and/or skimming
- RFP: canvas — reads draw commands and executes them
- RFP: opencinematools — tools to create a Digital Cinema Package (DCP)
- RFP: libasdcp — implementation of SMPTE and the MXF Interop “Sound & Picture Track File” format
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 8 January 10 |
There are 94 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 91 were uploaded to unstable:
| 7 January 10 |
- Kenshi Muto has released custom debian-installer images for Lenny with Linux kernel 2.6.32. The images are available only for i386 and amd64.
- The GPG key signing coordination pages are now hosted in the Debian Wiki. Read first the coordination page before register your key signing request.
If you registered to offer keysigning to others, take a moment to check if your data is up-to-date. - If you are a user of debian-ports.org, there is a new archive signing key.
- For Python developers, the latest upload of http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-stdeb 0.5, includes
pypi-installfor installing packages from the Python Package Index . Read more in this email from debian-python. - Upcoming Bug Squashing Parties: Tokyo, New York city and Mönchengladbach (Gemany).
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