Debian News

The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month:

• Scott Kitterman (kitterman)
• Dominique Belhachemi (domibel)
• Sylvain Beucler (beuc)
• Alessio Treglia (alessio)
• Giovanni Mascellani (gio)
• Ulises Vitulli (dererk)
• Tommi Vainikainen (tvainika)
• Serafeim Zanikolas (sez)
• Hideki Yamane (henrich)
• Obey Arthur Liu (arthurliu)
• Thierry Soloniaina Randrianiriana (thierry)
• Thomas Weber (tweber)
• Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag)
• Ritesh Sarraf (rrs)
• Kanru Chen (koster)

Congratulations!

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: dvdrtools — DVD writing program
• O: xmame — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
• O: bbdate — Date tool for the blackbox window manager
• O: usermode — Graphical tools for certain user account management tasks
• O: glipper — Clipboard manager for the GNOME panel
• O: fbpanel — A lightweight X11 desktop panel
• O: obmenu — A graphical menu editor for openbox
• O: odyssey — PIC microcontroller programming application
• O: myspell-sv — Swedish (SE) dictionary for myspell

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

• RFA: php-versioncontrol-svn — Wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client
• RFA: fusecompress — transparent filesystem compression using FUSE

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

• RFP: fuse-posixovl — A FUSE filesystem that provides POSIX functionality
• RFP: uif2iso — convert the UIF image files to ISO files
• RFP: pyg3t — a collection of tools for computer assisted translation using GNU gettext
• RFP: hpanel — minimalist panel for X
• RFP: libiniparser — iniparser is a free stand-alone ini file parsing library
• RFP: oboinus — background previewer and setter for X implemented in Python
• RFP: valadoc — documentation generator for generating API documentation from Vala source code
• RFP: eliot — crossword game like Scrabble
• RFP: snews — A simple news server for hosts with one or two users
• RFP: asus-oled-driver — Driver for Asus OLED display present in some Asus laptops.
• RFP: uwsgi — uWSGI is a fast, self-healing, developer-friendly WSGI server
• RFP: pocketsphinx — a small-footprint continuous speech recognition system
• RFP: jedit-plugins — plugins for jEdit

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

There are 32 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 29 were uploaded to unstable:

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

• O: awffull — web server log analysis program
• O: bubblemon — Bubbling Load Monitoring GNOME Applet
• O: dact — Multi-algorithm compression
• O: filerunner — X-Based FTP program & file manager
• O: kamefu — KDE All Machine Emulator Frontend for Unix – binary files
• O: knights — A chess interface for the K Desktop Environment
• O: knights-themepack — theme pack for Knights chess interface
• O: libphp-phplayersmenu — hierarchical menu system class for PHP
• O: libphp-phpsniff — a HTTP_USER_AGENT Client Sniffer for PHP
• O: maildirsync — simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility
• O: php-cache — framework for caching of arbitrary data
• O: tcpreen — Simple TCP re-engineering tool
• O: snake4 — Snake game
• O: scsiadd — add or remove SCSI devices by rescanning the bus
• O: lincity — build & maintain a city/country
• O: libform-validator-ruby – HTML form validation library for Ruby
• O: acx100 — ACX100/ACX111 wireless network drivers source
• O: earcandy — Sound level manager for PulseAudio

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

• RFA: b43-fwcutter — Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
• RFA: linux-libertine — Linux Libertine family of fonts

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

• RFP: cups-pk-helper — PolicyKit helper to configure cups with fine-grained privileges
• RFP: centreon — Centreon is a monitoring software for networks
• RFP: schemescript — Scheme editor plug-in for Eclipse
• RFP: Adminer — A lightweight yet full-featured MySQL management tool
• RFP: froxlor — A server management panel based on the system control panel SysCP
• RFP: polymap3 — multi-user Spatial Data Infrastructure platform
• RFP: geronimo-validation-1.0-spec — Geronimo JSR-303 Bean Validation Spec API
• RFP: universal3d — Libraries to support the Universal 3D (U3D) file format
• RFP: eclipselink — Eclipse Persistence Services Project
• RFP: castor — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB)
• RFP: rcron — a minimal tool for setting up cron jobs redundancy and failover over groups of machines
• RFP: lxpanel-dev — a lightweight desktop panel for X – development files

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: debnest — Nested Build System of Debian Source Package
• O: ebug-http — web front end to a simple, extensible Perl debugger
• O: pgfouine — PostgreSQL log analyzer

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

• RFP: gnocl — Tcl/Gtk Bindings, a Tcl extension to use GTK+ widgets
• RFP: aegisub — Advanced video subtitler
• RFP: jack_capture — capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers
• RFP: Solang — Photo manager for GNOME
• RFP: mp3packer — lossless rearranger of MP3 files to make them smaller
• RFP: perspectives-extension — Iceweasel/Firefox extension to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks

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

There are 74 new packages in the Debian archive, 4 were uploaded to experimental and 70 were uploaded to unstable:

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• Chromium browser is now available from experimental, the package name is chromium-browser. Install chromium-browser-l10n if you want it localized.
• KDE 4.4.3 and Qt 4.6.2 are now available in unstable. More information.
• The Debian GNOME team is working hard on uploading GNOME 2.30 to unstable. It’s almost there, and the delay has mostly been due to the need to coordinate the library transitions. Check out its status here!
• Debconf, the annual Debian developers meeting, is seeking for sponsors and donors to help covering the costs implied by this event. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact us at sponsors (at) debconf.org, or if you want to make a donation please read here.
• Debian gets ported to Ben NanoNote, a copyleft hardware micro notebook developed by Hong Kong startup company Sharism at Work. More info in their announcement and in the how to.

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

• O: gtkmathview — rendering engine for MathML documents

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

• RFA: calendarserver — Apple’s Calendar Server
• RFA: twisted-calendarserver –Twisted components for Apple’s Calendarserver
• RFA: pydirector — pure Python TCP load balancer
• RFA: python-xattr — module for manipulating filesystem extended attributes
• RFA: pykerberos — A GSSAPI interface module for Python
• RFA: nss-updatedb — Cache name service directories in DB format
• RFA: w3-recs — Recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: hadoop — software platform for processing vast amounts of data
• RFH: zookeeper — Information management inside a cluster. Part of the hadoop family.

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

• RFP: sd4l — On-The-Fly Encryption
• RFP: gpick — Advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit
• RFP: ELF STATIFIER — compiles C programs into a single static executable
• RFP: roffit — convert nroff manual pages into HTML
• RFP: libgraph-easy-perl — Convert or render graphs (as ASCII, HTML, SVG or via Graphviz)
• RFP: clementine — Music player and library organizer
• RFP: libmail-deliverystatus-bounceparser-perl — Perl extension to analyze bounce messages
• RFP: AudioScience HPI driver for GNU/Linux — AudioScience device drivers and firmwares
• RFP: openvibe — software platform for the design, test and use of BCI

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

The following developer got his Debian account in the last month:

• Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir)

Congratulations!