Debian News

There are 33 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 30 were uploaded to unstable:

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

• O: wmnetload — an app for monitorin network load
• O: moodle — Course Management System for Online Learning
• O: olive — console RSS reader
• O: gurlchecker — Graphical websites checker
• O: kde-icons-noia — Noia icon theme for KDE 3
• O: kde-icons-crystal — Crystal icon theme for KDE
• O: kwavecontrol — Wireless device monitoring application for KDE
• O: texify — Beautify source code for use with LaTeX
• O: udpcast — multicast file transfer tool

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: monotone — a distributed version (revision) control system; more maintainers needed

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

• RFP: asterisk-espeak — eSpeak module for Asterisk
• RFP: asterisk-flite — flite module for Asterisk
• RFP: liarliar — a computerized voice stress analysis (CVSA) tool
• RFP: libeval-context-perl — evalute perl code in context wrapper
• RFP: libroxml — Light C XML parsing library
• RFP: libnss-myhostname — nss module to resolve the system hostname
• RFP: hbasic — A visual style compiled basic and integrated development environment
• RFP: oftpd — A lightweight anonymous ftpd server daemon

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

• Luk Claes resigned as Release Manager. Thanks Luk for all of your hard work!
  The rest of the release team keeps working in the release of Squeeze and they have sent a small update. A longer update will follow soon.
• Other teams has also sent updates to debian-devel-announce: ftp-master and new maintainer teams.
  If you are interested on them, you should be already subscribed to this list
• Eclipse 3.5.2 is now in Debian unstable. Special kudos to Niels Thykier.
• The Debian Kernel team is working in the kernel for Squeeze and Ben Hutchings has blogged some details about it.
• In the past week, there were two Debian mini-DebCamps in so distant places as Thailand and Panama.
  This week, Debian will have a booth in the OpenExpo 2010 in Bern and the Spanish Debian community will meet in the third edition of the Dudesconf in April 9-11.

There are 60 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 57 were uploaded to unstable:

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Debian has been selected as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2010.

Whether your are a Debian Developer or a Student, this might be a good time to:

• add and review project ideas and personal proposals on the Ideas page
• come join us on IRC (#debian-soc on irc.debian.org) and on our mailing list to talk about your ideas and applications

Remember that the sooner we get project ideas and personal proposals, the longer we can work on them to make them into great summer projects!

You can read more about the Google Summer of Code in their website. Also, if you are interested in participating, it is very important checking the program time line.

Contributed by: Obey Arthur Liu

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

• O: epic4-script-hienoa — A script for ircII-EPIC4
• O: ctrlproxy — IRC proxy with conversation replay support
• O: blackbox — Window manager for X
• O: jamin — Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK
• O: dvbackup — backup tool using MiniDV camcorders
• O: liblrdf — liblrdf0 development files
• O: w3c-markup-validator — W3C Markup Validator
• O: ctrlproxy — IRC proxy with conversation replay support
• O: ccontrol — Compilation controller
• O: curl — Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server

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

• RFA: xpp — X Printing Panel

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: gwibber — microblogging client for GNOME

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

• RFP: logfsprogs — LogFS file system utilities
• RFP: freemodbus — Modbus ASCII/RTU and TCP implementation
• RFP: gfloppy — floppy disk formatting tool
• RFP: libnet-whois-parser-perl — Perl Module for parsing whois information
• RFP: cronometer — A nutrition and biomarker tracking tool
• RFP: nut-nutrition — Record and analyze meals for nutrient composition
• RFP: dmak — Diet Monger Ass Kicker
• RFP: chive — Chive is a next generation web-based MySQL database management tool.
• RFP: ngplant — Open Source plant modeling package
• RFP: xvattr — Command-line tool to set XVideo attributes
• RFP: libdbxml — Berkeley DB XML library
• RFP: squid-deb-proxy — Squid proxy configuration optimized for deb packages
• RFP: perf — perf – Performance analysis tools for Linux

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

Debconf 10

As previously announced, DebConf 10 will take place from August 1st to 7th, 2010, at Columbia University, in New York City, USA.

If you have an interesting proposal for an event, the Call for Contributions is already open. Submit your proposal before May 1st.

Also, if you want to request sponsorship for lodging and/or travel, you must submit your request in pentabarf before April 15th.

Debconf 11

The DebConf Team has decided to hold DebConf11 in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina. DebConf 11 will take place in 2011 in a date to be defined.

The nomination period for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2010 is over and we have 4 candidates this year:

1. Stefano Zacchiroli [nomination mail]
2. Wouter Verhelst [nomination mail]
3. Charles Plessy [nomination mail]
4. Margarita Manterola [nomination mail]

For the next 3 weeks, you can ask your questions and follow the debate in the debian-vote mailing list.

There are 100 new packages in the Debian archive, 1 were uploaded to experimental and 99 were uploaded to unstable:

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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:

• RFA: snacc — ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler
• RFA: asn1c — ASN.1 compiler for C

The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:

• RFH: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging

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.