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Debian News Updates on the Debian Project Submit news About this site RSS feed Archives August, 2009 events First mini-DebConf in Taiwan during ICOS 2009 31 August 09 ana The “Software Liberty Association of Taiwan” (SLAT) is featuring a mini-DebConf during ICOS 2009 (International Conference on Open Source in Taipei), in September 2009. It is the first mini-DebConf in Taiwan, and it would possibly become the second Asia mini-DebConf after the first mini-Debconf held in Beijing on 2005, if DDs from China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong join as well. Participants may get accommodation and food sponsorship. Remember to add your name to this wiki page if you are joining us. You also can find all the information about the event in that wiki page. Join us in Taipei on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of September 2009! 0 project New Debian Developers (August 2009) 31 August 09 ana The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (thep) Brian Pellin (bpellin) Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (iwamatsu) Danai Sae-Han (danai) Mehdi Dogguy (mehdi) Stephane Glondu (glondu) Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) 0 updates http://start.debian.net launches 28 August 09 ana Adnan Hodzic has created http://start.debian.net/ , for those who want a nice Debian start page. More information at his blog post 2 new New packages from the 21st to 27th August 28 August 09 ana There are 57 new packages in the Debian archive, all of them uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 2 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 19th to 25th August 26 August 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: pymad - Python wrapper to the MPEG Audio Decoder library O: glut - development libraries and headers for GLUT O: filtergen - packet filter generator for various firewall systems O: effectv - real-time video effect processor O: libyada - yet another database abstraction layer O: libglpk-java - Java binding to the GNU Linear Programming Kit O: pspresent - fullscreen PostScript presentation tool O: gq - GTK-based LDAP client O: vcs-load-dirs - Import upstream archives into darcs O: arch2darcs - Convert Arch/tla repositories to Darcs O: osiris - network-wide system integrity monitor control interface O: libannodex - tools for fiddling with annotated and indexed media streams O: pmacct - promiscuous mode traffic accountant O: chaksem - LaTeX class for presentations The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: gnometab - WYSIWYG GNOME2 Program for creating guitar tabs RFA: toshutils - Toshiba laptop utilities RFA: apt-rpm - tools to create an APT RPM repository RFA: kvkbd - Virtual keyboard for KDE RFA: toshset - Access much of the Toshiba laptop hardware interface The following packages are requesting co-maintainers: RFH: kio-locate - kio-slave for the locate command RFH: quilt - Tool to work with series of patches Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: iceweasel-tabmixplus - adds dozens of new capabilities to tabbed browsing RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-or - Oriya hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-te - Telugu hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-bn-in - Bengali(India) hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-as - Assamese hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-ta - Tamil hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: python-pycdio - Python interface to libcdio optical media control library RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-pa - Panjabi hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: rubycas-server - single sign-on server based on JA-SIG’s CAS protocol You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 updates Updates in debian-reference and developers-reference 25 August 09 ana Last weekend both the Debian Reference and the Developers Reference , got minor updates. You can read them online following the links given above or installing the package of the same name (debian-reference, developers-reference ). The Debian Reference is an important document for users and it is currently translated to 9 languages, most of them needing to be updated. Join the i18n efforts in Debian if you want to help translating it ! 0 updates Help to test udev 146 22 August 09 ana udev 146 has been uploaded to experimental. (see changelog) Marco d’Itri has asked for help in testing and fixing bugs. 0 new New packages from the 14th to 20th August 21 August 09 ana There are 132 new packages in the Debian archive, 13 were uploaded to experimental and 119 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 1 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 12th to 18th August 20 August 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: luxman - Pac-Man clone (svgalib based) O: kpreg - A helper application for completing web forms and other programs O: mock - Build rpm packages inside a chroot O: wy60 - Wyse 60 Terminal Emulator O: keysafe - safe, simple storage system for passwords The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: vcdtools - Creates Video CD, VCD, filesystem images RFA: ispell-et - Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell RFA: rus-ispell - Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell RFA: peercast - P2P audio and video streaming servent The following packages are requesting co-maintainers: RFH: koffice - KDE Office Suite Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: Art Of Illusion - 3D modelling and rendering studio RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-gu - Gujarati hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: xfoil - Interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic airfoils RFP: FSArchiver - Save and restore filesystem to/from compressed archive. RFP: genesis-sync - graphical frontend for SyncEvolution RFP: python-jsonrpc - A json-rpc package which implements JSON-RPC over HTTP RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-hi - Hindi hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-ml - Malayalam hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org RFP: strongwind - GUI test automation framework RFP: miniupnpd - UPnP IGD which provide NAT traversal services RFP: openoffice.org-hyphenation-kn - Kannada hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . Note: Next issues will be published on Wednesdays. 0 updates nmap 5.0 uploaded to unstable 17 August 09 ana Finally, the latest major release of nmap 5.0 has been uploaded to unstable . Look at the changelog from the nmap 5.0 page if you want to know more about the improvements. 0 « Previous 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 .