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UbuntuDiff updates http://blog.dogguy.org/index.php/2010/06/04/ubuntudiff-updates/
New lilo upstream, perhaps lilo will continue?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00117.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00137.html
# status of circulars dependencies in unstable
# http://lists.debian.org/20100606132103.GJ11095@yellowpig
# -> started in others
# ISC DHCP 4.1 package progress report
# http://blog.andrew.net.au/2010/06/08#dhcp_4.1_progress_report2
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# Debian Installer string freeze and translation update round (already there,
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Debian Community Poll
http://twerner.blogspot.com/2010/06/debian-community-poll.html
New script to check license usage
http://lists.debian.org/87d3w012ah.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
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http://lists.debian.org/1276121151.32039.6.camel@PC-Lorenzo
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<p>Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#1">Automatic installation of hardware specific packages</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">Desktop artwork and themes for Debian <q>Squeeze</q></a></li>
<li><a href="#3">D-I string freeze coming up</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">Provisional list of talks for DebConf10</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">... and much more</a>.</li>
</ul>
<a name="1"></a>
<h2>Automatic installation of hardware specific packages</h2>
<p>Petter Reinholdtsen introduced a new change into the Debian installation
system allowing the installation of <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/2fly6f0ypze.fsf@login2.uio.no">hardware
specific packages</a> at installation time (or an already installed
system). This is useful for certain RAID controllers, graphic adaptors and
other hardware and done by mapping PCI and USB IDs to the names of Debian
packages. Petter welcomes help maintaining this list.</p>
<p>He also pointed out that for hot swappable devices this approach won't
work, and wonders whether the existing discover package should be adapted
to also support listening to DBus events, or whether <a
href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> could be ported to
Debian.</p>
<a name="2"></a>
<h2>Desktop artwork and themes for Debian <q>Squeeze</q></h2>
<p>Valessio Brito <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2010/06/msg00003.html">started</a>
to collect ideas and proposals for the <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopArtworkSqueeze">desktop artwork
used in Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q></a>. The artwork should be the base for
common themes throughout the system. Yves-Alexis Perez started to <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2010/06/msg00004.html">list
possible usages</a> for that artwork ranging for themes for different
desktop environments over boot splash screens to website banners. He also
asked for more comments about the artwork from other users.</p>
<a name="3"></a>
<h2>Debian Installer string freeze coming up</h2>
<p>Christian Perrier <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20100606071056.GA16165@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org">proposed</a>
a <q>string freeze</q> in order to officially notify translators that they should
consider completing their current work. Christian wrote: <q>During the string
freeze, developers would be required to avoid committing changes that involved
modifications to localizable strings. Each of these would require a prior
discussion in debian-boot and a formal ACK to commit.</q> He proposed Sunday July 4th
as deadline for the string freeze. Time to finish up those translations!
</p>
<a name="4"></a>
<h2>Provisional list of talks for DebConf10</h2>
<p>Ana Guerrero <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20100609025528.GA19122@pryan.ekaia.org">announced</a>
the publication of a <a
href="https://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events.en.html">provisional list
of talks</a>. She also mentionned the opportunities for ad-hoc events to be
scheduled during DebConf, in order to plan a last minute event with others once
at DebConf. Details on the scheduling of these events will be available at the
conference.</p>
<a name="10"></a>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<p>The xxth issue of the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/">miscellaneous news for developers</a>
has been released and covers the following topics:</p>
<ul>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<p>Ana Guerrero <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20100525173727.GA5200@pryan.ekaia.org">announced</a>
that the migration of the <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen">Debian-Women wiki</a> into
Debian's wiki is now complete. There's still a little work to do: if you
want to contribute, take a look at the <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen#migrationTODO">migration TODO
list</a>.</p>
<p>Adrian von Bidder announced that he will now <a
href="http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/84-Order-Your-Debian-Swirl-Umbrella-Now.html">take
orders</a> for <a
href="http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/80-Yay!-Debian-Logo!.html">Debian
Umbrellas</a>.</p>
<p>Bill Allombert announced that <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20100606132103.GJ11095@yellowpig">circular
dependencies in unstable reached an all-time low</a>. Even if some might be too
intrusive to be fixed for <q>Squeeze</q>, Petter Reinholdtsen noticed that some
of them may also cause <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/2flr5kgozc0.fsf@login2.uio.no">upgrade from
<q>Lenny</q> to <q>Squeeze</q> to fail</a>.</p>
<p>Andrew Pollock blogged about his recent <a
href="http://blog.andrew.net.au/2010/06/08#dhcp_4.1_progress_report2" >progress
on the ISC DHCP 4.1 package</a>: packages in experimental appear to work, and
upgrade cleanly from the 3.1 packages, so they will soon reach unstable.</p>
<a name="11"></a>
<h2>New Developers and Maintainers</h2>
<p>Six applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1OLPhC-0004Dr-AN@merkel.debian.org">accepted</a>
as Debian Developers and two applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1OJ5es-00033L-A1@ries.debian.org">accepted</a>
as Debian Maintainer since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome Dominique Belhachem, Sylvain Beucler, Scott
Kitterman, Giovanni Mascellani, Alessio Treglia, Ulises Vitulli,
Hannes von Haugwitz and Tang Ke into our project!</p>
<a name="12"></a>
<h2>Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</h2>
<p>According to the <a href="http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php">unofficial
RC-bugs count</a>, the upcoming release, Debian 6.0
<q>Squeeze</q>, is currently affected by
424 release critical bugs.
81 of them have already been fixed in Debian's <q>unstable</q> branch. Of the remaining
343 release critical bugs,
46 already have a patch (which might need testing) and
14 are marked as pending.</p>
<p>Ignoring these bugs as well as release critical bugs for packages in contrib or non-free,
211 release critical bugs remain to be solved for the
release to happen.</p>
<a name="13"></a>
<h2>Important Debian Security Advisories</h2>
<p>Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages
(among others):
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2054">bind9</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2055">OpenOffice.org</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2056">zonecheck</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2057">mysql-dfsg-5.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058">glibc</a>,
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
list</a> for announcements.</p>
<a name="14"></a>
<h2>New and noteworthy packages</h2>
<p>The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">among
others</a>):</p>
<ul>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/amispammer">amispammer — Powerful Mail Server checker on blacklists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ants">ants — advanced normalization tools for brain and image analysis</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/arcjobtool">arcjobtool — ARC Job Submission Tool</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/arduino">arduino — AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bucardo">bucardo — asynchronous replication system for PostgreSQL</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bup">bup — highly efficient file backup system based on git</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clamz">clamz — A command-line program to download MP3's from Amazon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cloc">cloc — statistics utility to count lines of code</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/connectagram">connectagram — word unscrambling game</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dbar">dbar — general purpose ASCII graphic percentage meter/progressbar</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/desktopnova">desktopnova — utility that changes the wallpaper automatically</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/emdebian-crush">emdebian-crush — emdebian crossbuilding helpers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/espeakedit">espeakedit — A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer - editor</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/etherboot-qemu">etherboot-qemu — Bootstrapping for various network adapters (qemu)</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eucalyptus-cc">eucalyptus-cc — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Cluster controller</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eucalyptus-cloud">eucalyptus-cloud — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Cloud controller</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eucalyptus-nc">eucalyptus-nc — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Node controller</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eucalyptus-sc">eucalyptus-sc — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Storage controller</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eucalyptus-walrus">eucalyptus-walrus — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Walrus (S3)</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fbterm-ucimf">fbterm-ucimf — ucimf input method interface for fbterm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fcgiwrap">fcgiwrap — simple server to run CGI applications over FastCGI</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fetch-crl">fetch-crl — Downloads Certificate Revocation Lists</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fprint-demo">fprint-demo — simple GTK+ testing libfprint's functions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freespacenotifier">freespacenotifier — free space notification module for KDE</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/frontaccounting">frontaccounting — A web based double-entry accounting and ERP program</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fuse-posixovl">fuse-posixovl — FUSE file system that provides POSIX functionality</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fuss-launcher">fuss-launcher — The Fuss Launcher</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gedit-r-plugin">gedit-r-plugin — Gedit plugin for R statistical computing language</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/glpeces">glpeces — Tangram (puzzle) game clone</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gross">gross — fast and efficient greylist server with DNSBL support</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/grr.app">grr.app — RSS reader for GNUstep</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gst123">gst123 — GStreamer based command line media player</a></li>
<!--?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gtk2hs-buildtools">gtk2hs-buildtools — Tools to build the Gtk2Hs suite of User Interface libraries</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/guayadeque">guayadeque — lightweight music player</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/haskell-debian-utils">haskell-debian-utils — Various helpers to work with Debian packages</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hpanel">hpanel — minimalist panel for X</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/html2markdown">html2markdown — convert HTML page into ascii markdown format</a></li>
<!--driver?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/i965-va-driver">i965-va-driver — Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- i965 VA driver</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ibus-table-zhengma">ibus-table-zhengma — Zhengma input method based on table engine of ibus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jackmeter">jackmeter — a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jkmeter">jkmeter — horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jpegjudge">jpegjudge — determine which of two given jpegs (same size) is the original</a></li>
<!--conf?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kde-config-tablet">kde-config-tablet — implements a KDE configuration GUI for the Wacom drivers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kraft">kraft — small business-management application</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/literki">literki — Keyboard with configurable layout and transparency</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ltpanel">ltpanel — lightweight tasklist panel for minimalist WMs</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ltt-bin">ltt-bin — Tools to control kernel tracing with LTTng</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lunch">lunch — distributed process launcher</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lv2-c++-tools">lv2-c++-tools — tools for LV2 plugins</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lv2vocoder">lv2vocoder — LV2 vocoder plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mango-lassi">mango-lassi — Share mouse and pointer with other computers</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mdbus2">mdbus2 — DBus introspection command line utility</a></li>
<!--examples?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nam-examples">nam-examples — examples of NAM</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nam">nam — the Network Animator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ns2">ns2 — Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openstv">openstv — single transferable vote and instant runoff voting software</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/otcl-shells">otcl-shells — OTcl shells</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pdebuild-cross">pdebuild-cross — cross-building support for pbuilder</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/php-net-dnsbl">php-net-dnsbl — Checks if a given host or URL is listed on a DNSBL or SURBL</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/php-text-wiki">php-text-wiki — transforms Wiki and BBCode markup into XHTML, LaTeX or plain text markup</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/php-xml-rpc">php-xml-rpc — PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plasma-widget-cwp">plasma-widget-cwp — Customizable Weather Plasmoid (CWP)</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plasma-widget-smooth-tasks">plasma-widget-smooth-tasks — alternate task manager plasma widget</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-themes-all">plymouth-themes-all — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (themes metapackage)</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-themes-fade-in">plymouth-themes-fade-in — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (fad-in theme)</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-themes-glow">plymouth-themes-glow — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (glow theme)</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-themes-script">plymouth-themes-script — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (script theme)</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-themes-solar">plymouth-themes-solar — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (solar theme)</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-themes-spinfinity">plymouth-themes-spinfinity — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger (spinfinity theme)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-x11">plymouth-x11 — Graphical Boot Animation and Logger</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python3-sqlalchemy">python3-sqlalchemy — SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper for Python 3</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-desktop-agnostic">python-desktop-agnostic — Python bindings for libdesktop-agnostic</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-drmaa">python-drmaa — interface to DRMAA-compliant distributed resource management systems</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-gi">python-gi — Python GObject Introspection modules</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-easyzone">python-easyzone — DNS Zone abstraction Python module</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-freshen">python-freshen — an acceptance testing framework for Python</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-gi-dbg">python-gi-dbg — Python GObject Introspection modules - debugging symbols</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-gudev">python-gudev — Python bindings for gudev</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-import-relative">python-import-relative — relative import of a module for older versions of Python (i.e. pre 2.6)</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-pybiggles">python-pybiggles — Scientific plotting package for Python</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-pykickstart">python-pykickstart — Python library for manipulating kickstart files</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-radicale">python-radicale — simple calendar server - module</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-restkit">python-restkit — Restkit is an HTTP resource kit for Python</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-setproctitle-dbg">python-setproctitle-dbg — A setproctitle implementation for Python</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-setproctitle">python-setproctitle — A setproctitle implementation for Python</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-sqlalchemy-ext">python-sqlalchemy-ext — SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper for Python - C extension</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-tomoe">python-tomoe — Handwriting recognition engine (python binding)</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-unittest2">python-unittest2 — backport of the enhanced unittest testing framework in Python 2.7</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/quvi">quvi — command line tool for parsing video download links</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/radicale">radicale — simple calendar server - daemon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/radiotray">radiotray — online radio streaming player</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rail">rail — Replace Agent-string Internal Library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rawtherapee">rawtherapee — A free RAW converter and digital photo processing software</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/r-cran-erm">r-cran-erm — GNU R package for 'extended Rasch modelling'</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/r-cran-inline">r-cran-inline — GNU R package to inline C, C++, Fortran functions from R</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/r-cran-raschsampler">r-cran-raschsampler — GNU R package for sampling binary matrices with fixed margins</a></li>
<!--not so new: already a feature of mplayer?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rtmpdump">rtmpdump — A small dumper for media content streamed over the RTMP protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ruby-tomoe">ruby-tomoe — Handwriting recognition engine (ruby binding)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rxp">rxp — A validating XML parser</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sakura">sakura — simple but powerful libvte-based terminal emulator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sentinella">sentinella — System monitor that can react to user chosen conditions</a></li>
<!--dependencies?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sflphone-daemon">sflphone-daemon — SIP and IAX2 compatible VoIP phone - core daemon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sflphone-gnome">sflphone-gnome — SIP and IAX2 compatible VoIP phone - GNOME client</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/silentjack">silentjack — silence detector for the JACK audio system</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vala-desktop-agnostic">vala-desktop-agnostic — Vala bindings for libdesktop-agnostic</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/simplesamlphp">simplesamlphp — Authentication and federation application supporting several protocols</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/smarty3">smarty3 — Template engine for PHP</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/smf-utils">smf-utils — Utilities to support the smf library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/stterm">stterm — an extremely simple terminal for windowed system</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tclcl">tclcl — shared library of TclCL</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/telepathy-sunshine">telepathy-sunshine — Gadu Gadu connection manager for Telepathy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tiled">tiled — generic tile map editor</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tomoyo-tools">tomoyo-tools — Lightweight and easy-use Mandatory Access Control for Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ttf-denemo">ttf-denemo — Music Notation Symbol Fonts for denemo</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ttf-sawarabi-mincho">ttf-sawarabi-mincho — Japanese mincho font - Sawarabi Mincho font</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ttf-takao-gothic">ttf-takao-gothic — Japanese TrueType font set, Takao Gothic Fonts</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ttf-takao-mincho">ttf-takao-mincho — Japanese TrueType font set, Takao Mincho Fonts</a></li>
<!--specific?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ttf-takao">ttf-takao — Japanese TrueType font set, Takao Fonts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/u-boot">u-boot — A boot loader for embedded systems</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ucimf-openvanilla">ucimf-openvanilla — openvanilla input method collection for ucimf</a></li>
<!--dev?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ucimf">ucimf — uicode console input method framework</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ufraw-batch">ufraw-batch — batch importer for raw camera images</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/upnp-router-control">upnp-router-control — simple program that manages UPnP compliant routers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vainfo">vainfo — Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- info program</a></li>
<!--driver?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vdpau-va-driver">vdpau-va-driver — VDPAU-based backend for VA API</a></li>
<!--plugin?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/weborf-daemon">weborf-daemon — init script for weborf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wiki2beamer">wiki2beamer — Tool to create LaTeX beamer presentations in wiki syntax</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xen-tools">xen-tools — Tools to manage Xen virtual servers</a></li>
<!--driver?--><li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xserver-xorg-video-qxl">xserver-xorg-video-qxl — X.Org X server -- QXL display driver</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/yoshimi">yoshimi — A software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zynjacku">zynjacku — JACK based host for LV2 synths and LV2 plugins</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Work-needing packages</h2>
<p>Currently
627 packages are orphaned and
132 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the
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to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of
<a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested">packages which need
your help</a>.</p>
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