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Debian News Updates on the Debian Project Submit news About this site RSS feed Archives September, 2009 new New packages from the 4th to 10th September 11 September 09 ana There are 53 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 2 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 2nd to 8th September 9 September 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: kcemirror - Windows CE remote control tool like VNC O: rudiments - C++ class library providing base classes O: sun-java6 - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 O: sun-java5 - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 O: wsola - tool to speed up/slow down audio without altering its pitch O: wav2cdr - Converts wav files into CD-ROM audio file format O: uriparser - URI parsing library compliant with RFC 3986 O: turbokid - TurboGears template plugin to use kid templates O: turbogears - Python-based web framework O: sqlrelay - Database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing O: kradio - Comfortable Radio Application for KDE The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: python-tables - hierarchical datasets in python RFA: conquest - a real-time, multi-player space warfare game (curses client) RFA: corewars - the classic corewars game with a gtk-look RFA: amphetamine - jump’n run game with unique visual effects RFA: gnome-chess - chess client for the GNOME desktop environment RFA: gnurobbo - logic game ported from ATARI XE/XL RFA: koules - abstract space action game RFA: mathwar - A flash card game designed to teach simple maths RFA: nettoe - Networked version of Tic Tac Toe (3×3 Grid) for the console RFA: sabre - fighter plane simulator for svgalib RFA: shisen.app - Shisen-sho puzzle game for GNUstep RFA: donkey-bolonkey - Game where you rescue donkeys RFA: droidbattles - A game of programming battle droids RFA: etw - arcade-style soccer game RFA: gmult - figure out which letters are which numbers RFA: stepbill.app - Get rid of those nasty Wingdows viruses RFA: xbattle - Concurrent multi-player battle strategy game RFA: xboing - blockout game for X RFA: xoids - Asteroids game with powerups and color graphics RFA: xtux - arcade game featuring Free Software mascots RFA: grande - vertical shoot’em-up in the spirit of Xevious RFA: mines.app - Minesweeper for GNUstep RFA: openyahtzee - classic dice game of Yahtzee Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: python-clips - Python binding for the CLIPS expert system engine RFP: fetch-crl - tool for automatic fetching and updating of CRLs RFP: quickly - Program that helps you create software programs quickly You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 teams New keyring maintainer added 7 September 09 ana Gunnar Wolf announced he will be joining Jonathan McDowell in the maintenance of the Debian Keyring . Congratulations Gunnar! 0 updates Brief Updates: Debian 5.0.3, Patch Tracker Service and new CUPS 5 September 09 ana Debian 5.0.3 is out . This is the 3rd update of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “lenny”. Sean Finney has announced that the debian patch-tracker is back alive and now hosted as an official debian.org service at http://patch-tracker.debian.org CUPS 1.4.0 has been uploaded to unstable with a huge amount of updates and improvements, check the Debian changelog with all the updates 1 updates Switching to GRUB 2 by default 4 September 09 ana With the latest upload of GRUB 0.97-58 to unstable , the upgrade path is set to GRUB2. If you want to continue using GRUB Legacy, it is now provided in the grub-legacy package that will continue being supported at least until the Squeeze release. You just need to uninstall the grub dummy package and keep upgrading the mentioned grub-legacy package happily. Update: Grub maintainers have sent a Bits from the GRUB maintainers email and there is also a wiki page to track this release goal . 0 new New packages from the 28th August to 3rd September 4 September 09 ana There are 139 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 136 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 ports Discussing the future of the s390 port 3 September 09 ana Bastian Blank emailed about the current status of the s390 port and its future a few days ago. The s390 port has been in Debian since Debian 3.0 «woody» and currently Debian is the only free distribution being released distribution for this system. 0 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 26th Aug to 1st Sept 2 September 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: quark - music player daemon controlled from the gnome panel or cli O: acct - The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting O: botan1.8 - multiplatform crypto library (debug) O: buildtorrent - command line torrent creation program O: cx-bsdiff - generate/apply a patch between two binary O: dvd+rw-tools - DVD+-RW/R tools O: exactimage - fast image manipulation programs O: gapcmon - APC UPS Power Management (GUI) O: giflib - library for GIF images (debug) O: gqview - simple image viewer using GTK+ O: grsync - GTK+ frontend for rsync O: hsolink - Utility to control the Option 3G HSO device interface O: libgnupdf - PDF support library O: librsync - rsync remote-delta algorithm library O: libvuurmuur - netfilter frontend (library) O: mobile-broadband-provider-info - database of mobile broadband service providers O: ncurses - shared libraries for terminal handling O: netdiscover - active/passive network address scanner using arp requests O: pth - The GNU Portable Threads O: sdd - File duplication and conversion tool, similar to ‘dd’ O: sfind - improved version of the find utility O: tack - terminfo action checker O: vuurmuur-conf - netfilter frontend (ncurses GUI) O: vuurmuur - netfilter frontend (utilities) O: unfs3 - User-space NFSv3 Server O: dvdisaster - data loss/scratch/aging protection for CD/DVD media O: dahb-html - Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch O: qpxtool - CD/DVD quality checker O: pyneighborhood - PyGTK2 SAMBA browser O: zbar - scanning and decoding bar codes (utilities) O: doc-iana - Internet protocol parameter registry O: doc-rfc - Standard RFCs O: remotefs - simple user-space network file system for embedded systems (client) O: tripwire - file and directory integrity checker O: broadcom-sta - Common files for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver O: pcsc-omnikey - PC/SC driver for Omnikey Cardman Smartcard readers (binary-only) O: shtool - portable shell tool from the GNU project O: cuneiform - multi-language OCR system O: cdparanoia - audio extraction tool for sampling CDs O: kqemu - Common files for the QEMU Accelerator module O: lwp - Light Weight Processes library (debug) O: netbeans-ide - IDE for Java Development and More, version 6 (IDE) O: rpc2 - Remote Procedure Call implementation 2 O: rvm - Recoverable Virtual Memory (debug) O: opencryptoki - PKCS#11 implementation for Linux (daemon) O: iceowl-l10n - All language packages for Iceowl (meta) O: tpm-tools - Management tools for the TPM hardware (tools) O: icedove-l10n - All language packages for Icedove (meta) O: libengine-tpm-openssl - OpenSSL engine for TPM modules O: pam-pkcs11 - Fully featured PAM module for using PKCS#11 smart cards O: trousers - open-source TCG Software Stack (daemon) O: bsdiff - generate/apply a patch between two binary files O: canto - flexible ncurses Atom/RSS newsreader for the console O: gitmagic - Guide about Git version control system O: gnupg-pkcs11-scd - GnuPG smart-card daemon with PKCS#11 support O: postgrey - greylisting implementation for Postfix O: kphotobymail - PyQt application for uploading photos to flickr O: 9mount - plan9 filesystem (v9fs) user mount utilities O: arch-perl - Perl library for GNU Arch O: archway - GUI for GNU Arch O: axp - command line tool and wrapper for tla O: archzoom - web-based Arch repository browser O: configobj - a simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python O: gengetopt - skeleton main.c generator O: gps - Graphical Process Statistics using GTK+ The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: fusesmb - filesystem client based on the SMB file transfer protocol RFA: libavg - Ain’t Vector Graphics RFA: stlport5.2 - STLport C++ class library RFA: bglibs - BG Libraries Collection RFA: matrixssl - small SSL library optimized for embedded systems RFA: libowfat - A reimplementation of libdjb RFA: secpanel - graphical user interface for SSH and SCP RFA: libdjbdns - DNS client library designed to replace the BIND res_*/dn_* library RFA: enemies-of-carlotta - mailing list manager The following packages are requesting co-maintainers: RFH: dietlibc - diet libc - a libc optimized for small size Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: guitarix - rock guitar amplifier for jack RFP: rtf2xml - Convert Microsoft RTF to XML RFP: Rhythmbox Record Station - With this Rhythmbox Plug-In you can easily rip/record internet radio streams RFP: Linux Unified Kernel You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 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 .