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Debian News Updates on the Debian Project Submit news About this site RSS feed Archives October, 2009 updates New tzdata packages to fix Argentina’s non DST 16 October 09 ana Argentina’s government has just announced its decision to not apply DST this year. DST was about to begin on Sunday, Oct 18th. All up-to-date systems include a version of tzdata that says that time changes on Sunday. Thus, these systems need to be updated in the next two days if they are to show the correct time next Sunday. Packages have already been prepared and are being uploaded to unstable, lenny-volatile and etch-volatile. In the meantime, these packages can be used to fix the systems. Etch: tzdata_2009g-0etch1.1_all.deb Lenny: tzdata_2009l-0lenny1.1_all.deb and tzdata-java_2009l-0lenny1.1_all.deb (only needed if tzdata-java was already installed). Squeeze/Sid: tzdata_2009n-1.1_all.deb and tzdata-java_2009n-1.1_all.deb (only needed if tzdata-java was already installed). Sid’s version has also been tested for Ubuntu’s Jaunty and Karmic . 1 new New packages from the 9th to 15th October 16 October 09 ana There are 39 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 7th to 13th October 14 October 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: leafpad - GTK+ based simple text editor O: wmsysmon - WindowMaker dock-app for monitoring your system The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: petsc4py - Python bindings for PETSc libraries RFA: core++ - C/C++ library for robust computation Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: stlfilt - An STL Error Message Decryptor for C++ RFP: vhostmd - virtual host metrics daemon RFP: NaviPOWM - NaviPOWM is planned to be a car navigation system RFP: scicoslab - graphical dynamical system modeler and simulator RFP: fisicalab.app - Educational Physics application for GNUstep RFP: Realtime Kit - Realtime Kit enables realtime scheduling for the PulseAudio daemon. RFP: neartree - function library efficiently solving the Nearest Neighbor Problem RFP: cqrlib - utility library for quaternion arithmetic and rotation math RFP: cvector - ANSI C implementation of dynamic arrays approximating the C++ vector class You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 updates Brief updates: iceweasel, gdb, linux, python and parrot 12 October 09 ana Mike Hommey blogged Iceweasel 3.5.3 and xulrunner 1.9.1 are now in unstable, replacing Iceweasel 3.0.x and 1.9.0.x. New GDB 7.0 has been uploaded to unstable. (changelog) There was some noteworthy updates in experimental: Linux 2.6.31 , Python 3.1.1 , parrot 1.6.0 . 0 new New packages from the 2nd to 8th October 9 October 09 ana There are 51 new packages in the Debian archive, 1 was uploaded to experimental and 50 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 qa PTS gains integration with the security tracker 9 October 09 ana Thanks to a patch by Raphael Geissert, the PTS is now properly integrated with the security tracker . Packages pages will show the number of pending security issues (if any) that should be addressed for a given source package. Apache bugs from the Security Tracker shown in the PTS 0 teams New member in the security team: Giuseppe Iuculano 7 October 09 ana It is our pleasure to announce that Giuseppe Iuculano (iuculano), who recently became a DD, has now been added as an assistant to the Security Team. He has a long history of contributing to the field of security in Debian and we are glad that he has agreed in joining us. Steffen Joeris, on behalf of the Security Team 2 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from 30th sept to 6th October 7 October 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: viewglob - A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt O: feynmf - set of LaTeX macros for creating Feynman diagrams O: jfbterm - multilingual terminal on Linux framebuffer O: libsnowpg-perl - Wrapper class for PostgreSQL providing convenience functions O: cvs2html - create HTML versions of CVS logs O: gearman-server - Gearman distributed job system O: libgearman-client-async-perl - Asynchronous client for gearman distributed job system O: libgearman-client-perl - Client for gearman distributed job system O: tenshi - log monitoring and reporting tool The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: guessnet - Guess which LAN a network device is connected to RFA: docbook-to-man - converter from DocBook SGML into roff man macros The following packages are requesting co-maintainers: Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: ttf-bitstream-vera - The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts RFP: tuna - Tuna is a tool for the configuration of threads in a system RFP: python-ethtool - Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface RFP: python-schedutils - Linux scheduler python bindings RFP: python-linux-procfs - Python classes to extract information from the linux /proc files RFP: Numpty Physics - physic drawing puzzle game RFP: RoarAudio - SoundServer for home and professional use RFP: ttf-gruenewald - free educational fonts for schools (handwriting) You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 updates Brief updates: redmine, python 2.6, amarok and cupt 4 October 09 ana Redmine , a project management web application, is now packaged in Debian. Exactly a pre-release of 0.9.0 has been uploaded to unstable. ( changelog ) Python 2.6 continues being worked in experimental, 2.6.3 has been already uploaded.( changelog ) Amarok 2.2.0 is out and it has been uploaded to unstable. ( changelog ) The first beta of cupt 1.0.0, a partial re-implementation of APT suite, has been uploaded. More information . 0 new New packages from the 25th Aug to 1st Oct 2 October 09 ana There are 42 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 « Previous posts Next posts » Top Categories debian-devel-announce demo deployments events i18n new news.debian.net ports project qa teams updates wnpp Archives February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 Meta Log in Site Feed RSS Based on theme by Jehy .