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Debian NewsUpdates on the Debian Project |
| 26 February 10 |
There are 55 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 51 were uploaded to unstable:
| 24 February 10 |
Do you like Debian? Do you like GNOME? Do you want to help Debian and GNOME?
If you have answered yes to all those questions, join this weekend on #debian-gnome on irc.debian.org / irc.oftc.net and participate in the Debian/GNOME bug session! More information at Joss’s blog.
| 24 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: s3switch — Manage the output device on S3 Savage chips
- O: libcdk5 — C-based curses widget library
- O: darcs-buildpackage — Suite to help with Debian packages in Darcs archives
- O: washngo — Web Authoring System for Haskell
- O: serendipity — Weblog manager with extensive theming and plugin support
- O: libramaze-ruby
- O: libsequel-core-ruby
- O: libsequel-ruby
- O: libinnate-ruby
- O: libmetaid-ruby
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: mathml — Fonts for MathML-enabled Mozilla
- RFP: FriCAS – an advanced computer algebra system
- RFP: lessfs — A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux
- RFP: dunnart — constraint-based diagram editor
- RFP: trac-httpauth — Force HTTP authentication from within Trac
- RFP: trac-metrix — show project progress statistics and quality metrics
- RFP: trac-reposearch — search the source code repository from Trac
- RFP: trac-filenamesearch — search file names in the repository from Trac
- RFP: mobius-forensic-toolkit — forensic framework with extension interface
- RFP: gnetworktester — test the quality of a network connection
- RFP: libmbfl — streamable multibyte character code filter and converter library
- RFP: pyrit — challenge WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK security
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 17 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: 6tunnel — TCP proxy for non-IPv6 applications
- O: dnstracer — trace DNS queries to the source
- O: pktstat — top-like utility for network connections usage
- O: corkscrew — tunnel TCP connections through HTTP proxies
- O: php-pager — Pages an array of data, creating links to previous and next pages
- O: php-cache-lite — Fast and lite data cache system
- O: xasteroids — X-based asteroids-style arcade game
- O: courieruserinfo — Retrieve courier user account information
- O: courierpasswd — Authenticate courier passwords with checkpassword interface
- O: courierpassd — Change courier user passwords using poppassd interface
- O: wmfire — very cool fiery way of showing your CPU usage
- O: php-simpletest — Unit testing and web testing framework for PHP
- O: libclass-container-perl — Glues object frameworks together transparently
- O: link-monitor-applet — GNOME Panel Applet with bar graph of round-trip times to hosts
- O: pmtools — Perl module tools
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: glabels — label, business card and media cover creation program for GNOME
- RFA: hotwire — Extensible graphical command execution shell
- RFA: regexxer — A visual search and replace tool
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: davmail — POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDav/LDAP Exchange Gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client
- RFP: sparql-query — Command line SPARQL query tool
- RFP: libdancer-perl — micro-framewrok for writing web applications with Perl
- RFP: twitim — small desktop Twitter client written in Perl GTK
- RFP: biblatex-biber — A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, with full Unicode support, written in Perl.
- RFP: dotclear — Dotclear is an open-source web publishing software.
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 15 February 10 |
- A year ago yesterday, Lenny was lovely released. With the current stable release becoming 1 year old, the security support for oldstable (Etch) is ending.
- Following the release of the fourth update of Lenny 5.0.4., the stable release team has sent an email asking for help and clarifying a few aspects of point releases and stable updates.
- The release team has also sent an important update about the status of Squeeze. Freezing in March is highly unlikely due to the high number of release critical bugs. Consider helping if you want to release soon.
- Kudos to the debian-edu team for the release of Debian Edu 5.0.4+edu0 (Skolelinux 5.0) based in the Debian Lenny.
- And finally, but not less important, the registration for Debconf10 is now open! Register before April 15th if you want to apply for sponsorship.
| 12 February 10 |
There are 43 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 41 were uploaded to unstable:
| 10 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: magyarispell — The Hungarian dictionary for myspell
- O: chktex — Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
- O: gbdfed — X11 font editor
- O: ivritex — Hebrew Package for the babel system and LaTeX2e
- O: template-new — A template system
- O: ketchup — update utility for linux-kernel sources
- O: websec — Web Secretary – Web page monitoring software with highlighting
- O: pstack — Display stack trace of a running process
- O: wiggle — a program for applying patches with conflicting changes
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: php5-symfony1.0 — Open-Source PHP Web Framework
- RFA: smokeping — latency logging and graphing system
- RFA: speedy-cgi-perl — speed up perl scripts by making them persistent
- RFA: systemtap — instrumentation system for Linux 2.6
- RFA: tetradraw — ANSI drawing and viewing utility
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: can-utils — CAN (Controller Area Network) utilities based on Socket-CAN
- RFP: libapp-daemon-perl — helps running an application as a daemon
- RFP: xf86-video-msm — x drivers for msm/qsd arm chipset
- RFP: searchload — SearchLoad Options adds a menu for tweaking the searchbar’s default behavior
- RFP: didjvu — encoding into DjVu with layers separation
- RFP: python-scikits-umfpack — wrappers of UMFPACK sparse direct solver to SciPy
- RFP: darktable — a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 5 February 10 |
There are 15 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable:
| 3 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: newpki — PKI based on the OpenSSL low-level API
- O: libqwt — Qt widgets library for technical applications
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: ent — pseudorandom number sequence test program
- RFA: mimms — mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
- RFH: miredo — Teredo IPv6 tunneling through NATs
- RFH: debtags — Enables support for package tags
- RFH: apt-xapian-index — maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: forrest — Website creation tool
- RFP: otf-titillium — Series of sans-serif fonts from Italy
- RFP: libsysactivity — Retrieves statistics of the system’s activity in a thread-safe way
- RFP: danger-from-the-deep — WWII German submarine 3D simulation
- RFP: handbrake — video transcoder
- RFP: ros-pdf — PHP class for creating PDF documents
- RFP: dompdf — CSS2.1 compliant HTML to PDF converter written in PHP
- RFP: ocrfeeder — document layout analysis and OCR system
- RFP: simavr — a simple, lean and mean AVR simulator
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 1 February 10 |
- Python 2.6 is now available in unstable and testing . Also, Python 2.6 is now a supported version (while writing these lines only in unstable). It will take at least a couple of weeks until 2.6 is the default version.
- Python 2.7 alpha 2 is available in experimental. It is not expected to be in squeeze.
- Python 3.1.1 also has been uploaded to unstable and it is co-installable with python 2.6. However, Python 3.1 is not a supported version and the Python Policy for handling 3.1 needs to be updated; this means some modules might not be available. You can try Python 3.1 by installing the package «python3» and running «python3».
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