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Debian News Updates on the Debian Project Submit news About this site RSS feed Archives November, 2009 updates Brief updates: notheworthy sotware updates, FD/DAM meeting and BSPs 29 November 09 ana Interesting software updates: KOffice 2.1 in experimental. munin 1.4.0 beta 1 in experimental. inkscape 0.47 is out. You can find the 4th prerelease (0.47pre4) in unstable. Sandro Tosi blogged about the latest release of reportbug 4.9. The FD and DAM teams have met this weekend ( summary mail in d-d-a ). From now on, the NM advocate emails will be public. Help is wanted with the Debian GPG keysigning coordination pages . Contact the NM FrontDesk if you are interested. The BSP season has started. This weekend some people gathered in Cambridge and Munich to fix bugs (and drink beer). Anyway, you can have your own BSP every week, congratulations to zack for 12 weeks of RCBW! ( RCBW stands for Release critical bugs of the week ). 0 new New packages from the 20th to 26th Nov 27 November 09 ana There are 67 new packages in the Debian archive,4 were uploaded to experimental and 63 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 18th to 24th November 25 November 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: zope-formulator - tool to create and validate web forms in zope O: gcipher - A simple “encryption” tool O: libesmtp - LibESMTP SMTP client library O: libgcgi - library for CGI programs in C O: gift - interface library for giFT and protocol plugins O: gift-openft - giFT plugin for the OpenFT network O: gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox O: python-bzutils - Python module to interact with bugzilla servers O: bug-triage - Bug triaging and forwarding tool O: herrie - Minimalistic audio player built upon Ncurses O: twistedsnmp - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk O: snowdrop - plain text watermarking and watermark recovery O: libspiff - library to read/write XSPF, the XML Shareable Playlist Format O: pam-devperm - PAM module to change device ownership on login O: mozplugger - Plugin allowing external viewers to be launched inside Mozilla O: mtink - Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: python-pylibmc - Python libmemcached wrapper RFP: afsp - utility for read, copy, write, compare, filter and resampling audio files RFP: videoconverter - easily convert videos to several popular video sharing sites RFP: notmuch - tag and search based email with CLI interface and Emacs front end RFP: posix-utils RFP: simplesamlphp - A PHP implementation of SAML 2.0 service provider and identity provider RFP: callweaver - Free PABX RFP: pyclutter-gtk - Open GL based interactive canvas library GTK+ widget - Python bindings RFP: pyclutter-gst - Open GL based interactive canvas library GStreamer elements - Python bindings You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 updates Brief updates: TeX Live 2009, mercurial, lenny-and-a-half and new source formats 22 November 09 ana TeX Live 2009 has been uploaded to experimental due the high amount of internal changes. See texlive-base 2009-1 changelog for more information. The new release of mercurial 1.4 is in unstable. ( changelog ) Also, for those packaging with mercurial, Jens Peter Secher has made a rewrite of hg-buildpackage ( orphaned for some time now) named mercurial-buildpackage . More information about mercurial-buildpackage’s features in this email . lenny-and-a-half was not planned due the initial freeze plans in December. Now that the freeze has been set in March, there is some discussion about reviving it , help is needed! Raphaël Hertzog announced that now the new source package formats has been available for some weeks, it is time to think about making it the default format. There is a release goal about this and about 100 bugs need to be fixed. More information about how to convert your packages to the new source format is available in this wikipage and in the dpkg-source(1) man page (SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS paragraph). 0 new New packages from the 13th to 19th Nov 20 November 09 ana There are 70 new packages in the Debian archive, 2 were uploaded to experimental and 68 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 11th to 17th November 18 November 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: gnats - The GNU problem report management system (client tools) O: gnatsweb - Web interface to GNU GNATS O: libdiscid - Library for creating MusicBrainz DiscIDs O: libmusicbrainz-2.1 - C/C++ client library for the MusicBrainz web service O: lrzsz - tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem file transfer The following packages are requesting co-maintainers: RFH: link-grammar - Carnegie Mellon University’s link grammar parser for English Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: ptouch-driver - CUPS/Foomatic driver for Brother P-touch label printers RFP: gitit - A wiki backed by a git or darcs filestore RFP: xul-ext-weave - Syncronize personal data between Mozilla browsers RFP: python-couchdbkit - python bindings for the Couchdbkit framework RFP: libjna-posix-java - basic POSIX-like functions for Java RFP: Radiusplugin - openvpn plugin for authentication and accounting against a RADIUS server RFP: kcoloredit - a color palette editor and color picker for KDE RFP: colortail - watch logs with coloring You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 new New packages from the 6th to 12th Nov 13 November 09 ana No new packages were accepted in the Debian archive last week. 0 updates Brief updates: AVR32 port, GR proposal, udev 147, Python 2.6, Iceape 2.0 and partners webpage 12 November 09 ana Bradley Smith blogged about the status of the AVR32 Debian port. Bill Allombert has submited a general resolution proposal “AGPL does not meet the DFSG” . Marco d’Itri informed that due to changes in udev 147, squeeze will not support kernels earlier than 2.6.27. Kumar Appaiah sent a summary about the status of the Python 2.6 transition. Iceape is not dead!. Mike Hommey has uploaded the version 2.0 to unstable. ( huge changelog ). Mike also blogged about packages that are only compatible with Iceape 1.x and will stop working. There is a new Debian Financial Partners page available in the Debian website. 0 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 4th to 10th November 11 November 09 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: xchain - A strategy game for 2-4 players O: cdtool - text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands O: googlizer - utility to search Google via your GNOME menu/panel O: xsol - a solitaire game for the X Windows system O: p2c - Pascal to C translator O: wmgtemp - Temperature sensor dockapp for Window Maker O: wmmount - miniature mount utility and free space monitoring tool O: xdemorse - GTK+ Morse Code Decoding Software O: xdx - DX-cluster tcp/ip client for amateur radio O: sitemap - Makes an HTML site map from meta tags from other O: xlog - GTK+ Logging program for Hamradio Operators O: xnec2c - calculate and display radio antenna properties O: xtlf - single user (single node) version of tlf O: xwota - GTK client to the WOTA Database O: yagiuda - software to analyse performance of Yagi-Uda antennas O: specimen - a MIDI controllable audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems O: drbdlinks - Manages symlinks into a shared DRBD partition O: libmng - Multiple-image Network Graphics library The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: eclipse-cdt - C/C++ Development Tools for Eclipse Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: google-glog - application-level logging APIs based on C++-style RFP: dita-ot - transforms DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 new New packages from the 30th Oct to 5th Nov 6 November 09 ana No new packages were accepted in the Debian archive last week. 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