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Debian News Updates on the Debian Project Submit news About this site RSS feed Archives March, 2010 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 24th to 30th March 31 March 10 ana The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer: O: audiere - a portable, high-level audio library O: hipo - iPod Management Tool O: medit - A useful programming and around-programming text editor O: ipsec-tools - IPsec tools for Linux O: racoon - IPsec IKE keying daemon O: php-mail-mime - PHP PEAR module for creating MIME messages O: sirc - Scriptable irc client O: libfreebasic - FreeBASIC support library files O: kernel-patch-kdb - Builtin linux kernel debugger The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers: RFA: openslp-dfsg - OpenSLP server RFA: libhttp-browserdetect-perl - Determine the Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string RFA: pconsole - parallel console shell for administering clusters RFA: distmp3 - A Perl client and daemon for distributed audio encoding RFA: mkcue - Generates a CUE sheet from a CD RFA: libapache-gallery-perl - Apache module to create galleries on-the-fly RFA: spinner - Sends small packets over a idle link RFA: pythoncad - Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) program RFA: lfm - simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console RFA: qa-assistant - quality-assurance checklist assistant RFA: foff - X/GTK+ FTP client - Free Open FTP Face RFA: jokosher - simple and easy to use audio multi-tracker RFA: boa-constructor - RAD tool for Python and wxWindows application RFA: drpython - simple and customizable editor for the Python language RFA: dh-kpatches - Debhelper script to help packaging kernel patches Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian: RFP: certviewerplus - certificate viewer enhancements (PEM format view, file export, trust configuration) for Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey RFP: certificatepatrol - Certificate Watcher for Firefox/Seamonkey/Thunderbird/Sunbird/Fennec - This add-on reveals when certificates are updated, so you can ensure it was a legitimate change RFP: svnwcrev - a subversion tool to update keywords in a separate file RFP: libagile-json-java - Automatically serialize java classes to JSON RFP: timer-entropyd - feed the /dev/random device with entropy data read from timer statistics RFP: entropy-broker - distribute entropy data to remote hosts RFP: flashplugin-nonfree-pulse RFP: GTimer - GTK-based tool for timing tasks RFP: libprojectbuilder-perl - Perl module providing multi-OSes (Linux/Solaris/…) Continuous Packaging RFP: lxdm - LXDE display manager RFP: eclipse-git-plugin - EGit is an Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page . 0 new New packages from the 19th to 26th March 27 March 10 ana There are 33 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 30 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 17th to 23rd March 24 March 10 ana 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 . 0 updates Brief updates: release team, eclipse and Debian related events 23 March 10 ana 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. 1 new New packages from the 12th to 18th March 19 March 10 ana There are 60 new packages in the Debian archive, 3 were uploaded to experimental and 57 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 0 project Debian selected for the Google Summer of Code 2010 18 March 10 ana 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 1 wnpp Work-needing and prospective packages from the 10th to 16th March 17 March 10 ana 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 . 0 events DebConf Updates 16 March 10 ana 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. 0 project Debian Project Leader Elections 2010 12 March 10 ana The nomination period for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2010 is over and we have 4 candidates this year: Stefano Zacchiroli [ nomination mail ] Wouter Verhelst [ nomination mail ] Charles Plessy [ nomination mail ] Margarita Manterola [ nomination mail ] For the next 3 weeks, you can ask your questions and follow the debate in the debian-vote mailing list . 4 new New packages from the 26th February to 11th March 12 March 10 ana There are 100 new packages in the Debian archive, 1 were uploaded to experimental and 99 were uploaded to unstable: Continue reading… 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 .