Debian News

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

• O: gplanarity — simple puzzle game involving untangling planar graphs
• O: genext2fs — ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems
• O: pympd — Frontend for mpd in the style of rhythmbox and itunes
• O: kiki — tool for python regular expression testing
• O: pype — python programmers editor
• O: gob2 — GTK+ Object Builder

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

• RFA: acct — The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting
• RFA: ethos — GObject library for application plugins
• RFA: opendchub — hub clone for DC (Direct Connect P2P network)
• RFA: siege — Http regression testing and benchmarking utility
• RFA: fuzzyocr — spamassassin plugin to check image attachments
• RFA: sms-pl — Send SMs via Polish GSM operators
• RFA: pywavelets — Python extension implementing of wavelet transformations
• RFA: pudge — documentation generator for Python projects

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

• RFP: tschack — Another implementation for the JACK api written in C. Supports SMP
• RFP: libpam-python — a PAM Module that runs the Python interpreter to w$
• RFP: libraw — library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras
• RFP: fusible — graphical user interface (GUI) for all FUSE mount points
• RFP: mytourbook — GPS visualizer and analyzer
• RFP: xqproxy — proxy that supports XDMCP tunneled over SSH
• RFP: pybindgen — Python bindings generator
• RFP: guice — lightweight dependency injection framework for Java
• RFP: rt-extension-commandbymail — Change metadata of ticket via email

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

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

• O: libapache2-mod-geoip — GeoIP support for apache2
• O: linux-patch-tuxonice — TuxOnIce (aka suspend2) kernel patch

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

• RFP: sikuli — visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces
• RFP: pencil — Pencil – Traditional animation software
• RFP: moblock — IP blocking software, similar to PeerGuardian
• RFP: ggaoed — a high-performance AoE (ATA over Ethernet) target implementation
• RFP: jreality — visualization and sonification library and viewer
• RFP: turpial — Alternative client for Twitter
• RFP: clonezilla — allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery
• RFP: FriBID — FriBID is a free software implementation of the Swedish bank ID system Bank-ID

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

• Christian Perrier have reported about the localization status in the debian-installer, 26 languages are in danger of being deactivated. if you are a native speaker of one of them, you can join and help!
• The old (and no longer updated) archive snapshot http://snapshot.debian.net has been revamped as an official Debian service at http://snapshot.debian.org/.
  More information in the press release.
• You are still on time of submitting your event proposal for DebConf 10. Deadline is May 1st, 2010, 23h59 UTC
  Daniel Kahn Gillmor have blogged about the changes introduced this year.
• If you are a long time Debian contributor who never have attended to DebConf and you are interested, you no longer have an excuse, read about the special funding for DebConf Newbies.
  Joey Hess and Stefano Zacchiroli have blogged about this.
• Guido Günther wrote a summary about the 3rd Debian Groupware Meeting.

• Debian got 9 students accepted for this edition of the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to the project!
  Read a brief summary about their projects.

• And finally, a bit late, but still important, congratulations Stefano!

There are 63 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 60 were uploaded to unstable:

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

• O: magnus — Computational group theory software with GUI
• O: libreadline-java — GNU readline and BSD editline wrappers for Java
• O: python-pgsql — A Python DB-API 2.0 interface to PostgreSQL v7.x

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

• RFP: php-arc — Flexible RDF system for semantic web and PHP practitioners
• RFP: openvpn-as — OpenVPN Access Server is a full featured SSL VPN software solution
• RFP: imaxima — graphical Emacs interface to Maxima
• RFP: xvst — xVideoServiceThief (xVST) is a tool for downloading and converting your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites
• RFP: ditaa — transforms ASCII art into graphical diagrams
• RFP: scapytain — web application to store, organise and run test campaigns
• RFP: libparse-dia-sql — Parse::Dia::SQL – Convert Dia class diagrams into SQL.
• RFP: affiliatefox-fsfe — iceweasel plugin for fsfe

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

There are 50 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 48 were uploaded to unstable:

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• Surely, you already found out ftp-master is back.
• Andreas Barth wrote a good post about how to help the Debian release team.
• Bernd Zeimetz introduced the deb.li – the Debian ShortURL Service, still in beta phase!
• Sylvestre Ledru blogged about an important update of the linear algebra libraries, BLAS and LAPACK, in Debian:
  • a refactoring of the ATLAS libraries (a BLAS implementation) with an upgrade to the version 3.8.3 fixing many issues
  • the switch between the different BLAS/LAPACK implementations is now way easier:
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/LinearAlgebraLibraries
• Some important deadlines are approaching:
  • April 9th, GSOC: student application deadline.
  • April 15th, Debian Project Leader Elections 2010 voting.
  • April 15th, DebConf: Early registration deadline if you want to be eligible for free food and accommodation and/or travel sponsorship
  • May 1st, DebConf: Event submission deadline. See also, DebConf important dates

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

• O: squidtaild — Squid log monitoring program
• O: modemu — Telnet services for communication programs
• O: scanerrlog — Generate summaries from Apache error logs
• O: unhtml — Remove the markup tags from an HTML file
• O: admesh — a tool for processing triangulated solid meshes
• O: squidguard — filter, redirector and access controller plug for Squid
• O: perl-byacc — The Berkeley LALR parser generator, Perl version
• O: libapache-asp-perl — perl Apache::ASP – Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl
• O: greed — curses-based clone of the DOS freeware game Greed

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: flite — A small run-time speech synthesis engine

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

• RFP: klee — KLEE is a symbolic virtual machine built on top of the LLVM compiler infrastructure
• RFP: python-easyzone — Easy Zone – DNS Zone abstraction module
• RFP: histwi — desktop program for Twitter account management
• RFP: dxx-rebirth — Port of the classic game Descent
• RFP: archie — A prospero client for the archie service
• RFP: dynamag — A screen magnifier for Unix/Linux
• RFP: termit — terminal using lua as configuration language
• RFP: pykickstart — python module for parsing and writing kickstart configs
• RFP: theano — Python library to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays
• RFP: brain-party — free puzzle game for all the family that’s made up of 36 minigames
• RFP: colortest — utilities to test color capabilities of terminal

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

• Steve McIntyre has sent a final report closing his 2 years as DPL. Steve, we are grateful for all the work you did during the past two years!
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2010: After 3 intense weeks of electoral campaigning, the voting period started today. You can read the questions and answers from the DPL candidates in the archives of the debian-vote mailing list. The new DPL term will start on April 17th, 2010.
• ries.debian.org, the host behind ftp-master.debian.org, has suffered some grave hardware problems and it has been down for one week now. If you were wondering why there were no new packages in your upgrades, this is the reason.
  This problem is actively being worked on, but until it is fixed, uploading new packages to the archive is not possible.
• The release team has sent a detailed update about the status of the transitions and release goals for Squeeze.
  A freeze in late May/June might be possible, if people work hard on getting these transitions done. Read the email to see how you can help!
• There were no new Debian Developers in March.
• Some developers participated in the traditional April Fools’ Day jokes, see: the Canonical vs. SPI lawsuit in planet: initial post by Adrian von Bidder, followed by this post by Alexander Reichle-Schmehl; and the Intend to package (ITP) bugs:
  ITP: jidanni — a natural intelligence to find many bugs
  ITP: cpan — All possible perl modules you could ever need