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Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:
Screenshots at packages.debian.org
As it is often easier to get an impression of an application by looking
at screenshots, instead of just reading a descriptive text, Gerfried
Rhonda
Fuchs has integrated the screenshots.debian.net service
into the package information at packages.debian.org. See for example
the screenshot of the package extremetuxracer.
For packages that do not yet have a screenshot available, a placeholder
image is shown. Users are encouraged to contribute by uploading their own
screenshots for their favourite applications.
Some Bits from ARM porters
Riku Voipio published some unofficial
Bits from the ARM porters
in which he thanked ARM and Canonical for
sponsoring new machines for the project. Besides giving Debian Contributors
a three times faster machine for their devolopment work, it has allowed the buildd
infrastructure of machines automatically building new packages for specific architectures
and suites to be renewed, so that experimental
packages, volatile packages,
non-free packages and packages from backports.org are now automatically
built as well. Finally, he announced some work being done on a Hardfloat
ARM port, which will work better on newer ARM processors with a hardware
floating-point unit.
Join the DebConf Team
Richard Darst started a series of blogs
about the organisation of the annual Debian Conference by
commenting on the recent DebConf & Debian
discussion. He
doesn't see a difference between the two, and invites all interested
people to join the organisation team by subscribing to the DebConf team
mailing list and joining the #debconf-team IRC channel on
irc.debian.org.
Other news
Valessio Brito wondered,
wether a webchat similar to the one used during the last Debian Conference
should be permanently available, to make it easier for users unfamiliar with
irc to join.
Martin Zobel-Helas noted that
now more than 50% of Debian's hosts and public services are reachable over
IPv6.
New Developers and Maintainers
XXX applicants have been
accepted
as Debian Developers and
XXX applicants has been
accepted
as Debian Maintainer since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
X, Y, and Z
into our project!
Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
According to the unofficial
release-citical bug counter, the upcoming release,
Debian 6.0 Squeeze
, is currently affected by
302 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved
or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about
128 release critical bugs remain to be solved for the
release to happen.
There are also more detailed
statistics as well as some hints on how to
interprete these numbers.
Important Debian Security Advisories
Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
squirrelmail,
lxr-cvs,
smarty (update),
ghostscripty, and
Linux 2.6.26.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
subscribe to the security mailing
list for announcements.
New and noteworthy packages
The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (among
others):
- 3depict — visualisation and analysis for single valued point data
- acpi-modules-8.1-1-486-di — ACPI support modules
- acpi-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — ACPI support modules
- bluedevil — The KDE bluetooth stack
- cdrom-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Esoteric CDROM drivers
- cdrom-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Esoteric CDROM drivers
- crypto-dm-modules-8.1-1-486-di — devicemapper crypto module
- crypto-dm-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — devicemapper crypto module
- crypto-modules-8.1-1-486-di — crypto modules
- crypto-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — crypto modules
- eatmydata — library and utilities designed to disable fsync and friends
- ext2-modules-8.1-1-486-di — EXT2 filesystem support
- ext2-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — EXT2 filesystem support
- fat-modules-8.1-1-486-di — FAT filesystem support
- fat-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — FAT filesystem support
- floppy-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Floppy driver
- floppy-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Floppy driver
- font-manager — font management application for the GNOME desktop
- foomatic-filters-ppds — OpenPrinting prebuilt PPD files (dummy package)
- freetts — speech synthesis system
- gitit — Wiki engine backed by a git or darcs filestore
- gnuspool-cupspy — CUPS emulation for GNUspool
- gnuspool-doc — Documentation for GNUspool
- gnuspool — A network-based print spooler
- gnustep-back0.18-art — The GNUstep GUI Backend (art)
- gnustep-back0.18-cairo — The GNUstep GUI Backend (cairo)
- gnustep-back0.18 — The GNUstep GUI Backend
- i2c-modules-8.1-1-486-di — i2c support modules
- i2c-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — i2c support modules
- ibus-table-compose — ibus-table input method -- Compose
- ibus-table-ipa-x-sampa — ibus-table input method -- IPA-X-SAMPA
- ibus-table-rustrad — ibus-table input method -- Russian Traditional
- ibus-table-translit-ua — ibus-table input method -- Ukrainian Translit
- ibus-table-yawerty — ibus-table input method -- Yawerty
- ibus-xkbc — keyboard layout emulation engine for IBus
- iceowl-dbg — Standalone Calendar Application
- ipv6-modules-8.1-1-486-di — IPv6 driver
- ipv6-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — IPv6 driver
- isofs-modules-8.1-1-486-di — ISOFS filesystem support
- isofs-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — ISOFS filesystem support
- kernel-image-8.1-1-486-di — FreeBSD kernel binary image for the Debian installer
- kernel-image-8.1-1-amd64-di — FreeBSD kernel binary image for the Debian installer
- libantelope-java-doc — graphical user interface for Ant - documentation
- libantelope-java — graphical user interface for Ant
- libaudio-ecasound-perl — Perl binding to the ecasound sampler, recorder, fx-processor
- libbluedevil1 — A Qt wrapper for bluez
- libbluedevil-dev — Development files for libbluedevil
- libcastor-anttasks-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - Ant Tasks
- libcastor-codegen-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - Codegen
- libcastor-core-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - Core
- libcastor-ddlgen-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - DDL generator
- libcastor-java-doc — Documentation for Castor Java databinding framework
- libcastor-jdo-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - JDO
- libcastor-xml-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - XML module
- libcastor-xml-schema-java — Data binding framework for Java (XML, Objects, DB) - XML Schema
- libcmor2 — Climate Model Output Rewriter library
- libcmor-dev — Development files for Climate Model Output Rewriter
- libdevice-usb-perl — Perl module to access USB devices using libusb
- libdigest-jhash-perl — Perl extension for 32 bit Jenkins Hashing Algorithm
- libelixirfm-perl — perl implementation for Functional Arabic Morphology
- libencode-hanextra-perl — perl module providing extra sets of Chinese character encodings
- libencode-jis2k-perl — perl module providing JIS X 0212 (aka JIS 2000) Encodings
- libfile-userconfig-perl — provides configuration directory for applications
- libghc6-gitit-dev — Wiki engine backed by a git or darcs filestore - GHC 6 libraries
- libghc6-gitit-doc — Wiki engine backed by a git or darcs filestore - documentation
- libghc6-magic-prof — File type determination library for Haskell; profiling libraries
- libglobalhotkeys-ruby1.8 — Ruby binding to define global hotkeys
- libglobalhotkeys-ruby — Ruby binding to define global hotkeys
- libgnuspool0 — API development library for GNUspool
- libgnuspool-dev — API development library for GNUspool
- libgnustep-base1.20-dbg — GNUstep Base library - debugging symbols
- libgnustep-base1.20 — GNUstep Base library
- libgnustep-gui0.18-dbg — GNUstep GUI Library - debugging symbols
- libgnustep-gui0.18 — GNUstep GUI Library
- libhash-moreutils-perl — Perl module with additional hash functions not found in Hash --:Util
- libhawtjni-runtime-java — Java library that provide JNI code generation
- libjansi-java — Java library for generating and interpreting ANSI escape sequences
- libjansi-native-java — Java library that allows to use ANSI escape sequences - Native
- liblivetribe-jsr223-java — Implementation of JSR 223 -- Scripting for Java
- liblog-any-adapter-perl — class methods to tell Log --:Any where to send its logs
- libphp-swiftmailer — component-based library for sending e-mails
- libqxmpp-dev — Development files for the QXmpp library
- libqxmpp-doc — Documentation for the QXmpp library
- libterm-sk-perl — Perl extension for displaying a progress indicator on a terminal
- libterm-twiddle-perl — Twiddles a thingy while-u-wait
- libtest-log-dispatch-perl — Log --:Dispatch object to test what is being logged
- loop-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Loopback filesystem support
- loop-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Loopback filesystem support
- luakit — A fast and small web browser extensible by Lua
- md-modules-8.1-1-486-di — RAID and LVM support
- md-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — RAID and LVM support
- meego-packaging-tools — MeeGo packaging tools
- mmc-core-modules-8.1-1-486-di — MMC/SD/SDIO core modules
- mmc-core-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — MMC/SD/SDIO core modules
- mmc-modules-8.1-1-486-di — MMC/SD card modules
- mmc-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — MMC/SD card modules
- mpris-remote — command-line interface for mpris compatible media players
- mricron-data — data files for MRIcron
- mricron-doc — data files for MRIcron
- mricron — magnetic resonance image conversion, viewing and analysis
- nailgun — client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from CLI
- nfs-modules-8.1-1-486-di — NFS filesystem support
- nfs-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — NFS filesystem support
- nic-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Common NIC drivers
- nic-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Common NIC drivers
- nic-shared-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Shared NIC drivers
- nic-shared-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Shared NIC drivers
- nic-wireless-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Wireless NIC drivers
- nic-wireless-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Wireless NIC drivers
- nls-core-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Core NLS support
- nls-core-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Core NLS support
- ntfs-modules-8.1-1-486-di — NTFS filesystem support
- ntfs-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — NTFS filesystem support
- pacemaker-mgmt-client — Pacemaker Management Tools
- pacemaker-mgmt-dev — Pacemaker Management Tools
- pacemaker-mgmt — Pacemaker Management Tools -- server
- parport-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Parallel port support
- parport-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Parallel port support
- phoneui-apps — SHR applications
- plip-modules-8.1-1-486-di — PLIP drivers
- plip-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — PLIP drivers
- ppp-modules-8.1-1-486-di — PPP drivers
- ppp-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — PPP drivers
- python-cmor — Python interface to CMOR
- python-configglue — Glues together optparse.OptionParser and ConfigParser.ConfigParser
- python-pylibacl-dbg — module for manipulating POSIX.1e ACLs (debug extension)
- python-pyxattr-dbg — module for manipulating filesystem extended attributes (debug extension)
- python-simplegeneric — Simple generic functions for Python
- reiserfs-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Reiser filesystem support
- reiserfs-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Reiser filesystem support
- sata-modules-8.1-1-486-di — SATA drivers
- sata-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — SATA drivers
- scsi-core-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Core SCSI subsystem
- scsi-core-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Core SCSI subsystem
- scsi-extra-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Uncommon SCSI drivers
- scsi-extra-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Uncommon SCSI drivers
- scsi-modules-8.1-1-486-di — SCSI drivers
- scsi-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — SCSI drivers
- serial-modules-8.1-1-486-di — Serial drivers
- serial-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — Serial drivers
- sound-modules-8.1-1-486-di — sound support
- sound-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — sound support
- spectacle — RPM Spec file generator and management tool
- stackapplet — panel applet to track reputation on StackExchange sites
- sugar-irc-activity — Sugar IRC Activity
- sugar-log-activity-0.86 — Sugar Log activity
- sugar-poll-activity — Sugar activity to create a poll, collect votes and analyze community opinions
- sugar-record-activity — Sugar Record Activity
- sugar-terminal-activity — Sugar Terminal activity
- sugar-write-activity-0.86 — Sugar Write Activity
- texworks-scripting-lua — Plugin to bring Lua scripting to TeXworks
- texworks-scripting-python — Plugin to bring Python scripting to TeXworks
- wordpress-shibboleth — Shibboleth plugin for WordPress
- xfs-modules-8.1-1-486-di — XFS filesystem support
- xfs-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — XFS filesystem support
- xul-ext-dispmua — display Mail User Agent extension for Icedove
- xul-ext-imap-acl — Extension to manage ACLs on IMAP folders
- zfs-modules-8.1-1-486-di — ZFS filesystem support
- zfs-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — ZFS filesystem support
- zlib-modules-8.1-1-486-di — zlib modules
- zlib-modules-8.1-1-amd64-di — zlib modules
Work-needing packages
Currently
576 packages are orphaned and
135 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the
recent
reports
to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete
list of packages
which need your help.
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