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Debian NewsUpdates on the Debian Project |
| 10 March 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: tla-buildpackage — Suite to help with Debian packages in Arch archives
- O: prismstumbler — Wireless network sniffer
- O: acorn-fdisk — Partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines
- O: wdm — WINGs Display Manager – an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
- O: mrd6 — IPv6 Multicast Routing Daemon
- O: lavaps — a lava lamp of currently running processes
- O: pam-shield — locks out remote attackers trying password guessing
- O: genpower — Monitor UPS and handle line power failures
- O: signify — Automatic, semi-random “.signature” rotator/generator
- O: squid-prefetch — Simple page-prefetch for Squid web proxy
- O: vux — A rating-based, random ogg and mp3 player
- O: openverse — A graphical chat client/server written in tcl/tk
- O: pnm2ppa — PPM to PPA converter
- O: pgdocs — PostgreSQL documentation in PDF format on US letter paper
- O: mediamate — web-based movie database and tracker
- O: hrd — the puzzle game of HuaRongDao
- O: log2mail — Daemon watching logfiles and mailing lines matching patterns
- O: xpm2wico — An Xpm to Windows .ico converter
- O: gourmet — A gtk-based recipe organizer and shopping list generator
- O: perlipq
- O: gift-gnutella — giFT plugin for the Gnutella network
- O: palo — Linux boot loader for parisc/hppa
- O: dglog — CGI log analyzer for DansGuardian
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: ps2book — ps2book reads one or serval
- RFP: ladvd — cdp / lldp sender for unix
- RFP: muRoarD — minimalist sound server for RoarAudio protocol
- RFP: RoarAudio PlayList Daemon – Music playing daemon for RoarAudio
- RFP: okai — online multiplayer solution for arcade games
- RFP: usmb — usmb – samba (CIFS) FUSE module
- RFP: maven-scala-plugin — A maven plugin for compiling, testing and running scala code in maven
- RFP: phonon-backend-mplayer — mplayer backend for phonon
- RFP: sfio-dev — Phong Vo’s Safe Fast I/O Library (AT&T Advanced Software Technology)
- RFP: jmemorize — flash card program to aid learning foreign languages
- RFP: plasma-widget-daisy — Plasmoid simple application launcher like Mac OS X dock
- RFP: hivex — Windows Registry “hive” extraction library
- RFP: netcf — library for configuring network interfaces
- RFP: python-nmap — Python class to use nmap from nmap
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 3 March 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: sfftobmp — SFF (Structed Fax File) Converter
- O: libcoveb — range finding priority queue using optimized data structure
- O: libcsoap — shared CSOAP library for SOAP client/server in C
- O: libgpgme-ruby — GPGME bindings for the Ruby language
- O: libsvm-ruby — Ruby bindings for LIBSVM library
- O: libqsearch — quartet tree search library for hierarchical clustering
- O: libcomplearn-mod-ppmd — PPMD compression module for CompLearn pattern recognition system
- O: libcomplearn — machine-learning with data compression core library runtime files
- O: libcomplearn-mod-lzmax — LZMA compression module for CompLearn pattern recognition system
- O: israndom — nonclassical randomness test using data compressors
- O: libcomplearn-ruby — Ruby binding to CompLearn library
- O: libcomplearn-mod-ppmdx — external PPMD compression module for CompLearn learning library
- O: complearn-gui — interactive 3d data mining tool and demo for universal machine learning
- O: msrp — meta search and replace tool for both filenames and files
- O: blm — Boolean line manipulator utility program for set operations
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: yagf-ocr — Qt4 GUI for cuneiform OCR
- RFP: xmind — Social brainstorming and mindmapping
- RFP: ttf-induni — Font mostly for Indian languages
- RFP: joomla — content management system (CMS) written in PHP
- RFP: xserver-xorg-video-s3c64xx — xserver xorg accelerated video driver for samsung arm s3c64xx
- RFP: sweethome3d — free interior design application with 3D capabilities
- RFP: gphotoframe — photo frame gadget for the GNOME Desktop
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 1 March 10 |
- Interesting software updates in unstable:
- Linux Kernel 2.6.33 is available in experimental. Special kudos to Ben Hutchings.
- Debian Installer Team has released the first alpha of the Debian Installer 6.0
- It is that time of the year again, the DPL election process begins this week.
- The Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers are already working in KDE 4.4.1. However, for uploading it to unstable Qt 4.6.2 will need to go in first.
- In case you missed the “New Developer of the past month” post, there were no new Developers in February.
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