Debian Project News - April 12th, 2010
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April 12th, 2010 http://debian.org/News/project/2010/01/
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Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:
* Debian Project Leader Election
* Bits from the Release Team
* Estimates of the number of Debian users
* ... and much more.
Upcoming elections for the Debian Project Leader
------------------------------------------------
Four Debian Developers are nominated in the currently running election
for the Debian Project Leader: Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli [1], Wouter
"Yoe" Verhelst [2], Charles Plessy [3] and Margarita "marga" Manterola
[4] - the first woman ever nominated for this position. The voting
period ends on Thursday, April 15th.
1 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/platforms/zack
2 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/platforms/wouter
3 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/platforms/plessy
4 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/platforms/marga
Some of the questions asked and topics discussed in the campaigning
period were:
* Do you plan on taking on a [5]2IC or a team?
* Project Funds, donations and [6] "official" Partners
* How much time do you currently devote to Debian? How will that
amount of time change for the DPL term? [7]
* Financing of development through external sources [8]
* Heated discussions in the Debian project [9]
* "In ten years I'd like Debian..." [10]
* Communication and media [11]
* Release process [12]
* Withdrawing delegations of DD not behaving correctly? [13]
* Care of Core infrastructure [14]
* Disappearing DPLs? [15]
* Race against "None of the above" [16]
* Architecture Support [17]
* Decentralization of power [18]
* License and copyright requirements [19]
* Who would you vote for? [20]
* Personal mentoring [21]
* About membership [22]
* Standardization, large scale changes, innovations [23]
* Enforce Debian Community Guidelines? [24]
5 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00023.html
6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00032.html
7 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00038.html
8 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00041.html
9 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00058.html
10 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00057.html
11 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00059.html
12 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00071.html
13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00085.html
14 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00086.html
15 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00133.html
16 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00149.html
17 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00161.html
18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00181.html
19 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00192.html
20 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00234.html
21 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00278.html
22 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00281.html
23 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00287.html
24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00297.html
Bits from the Release Team
--------------------------
Release manager Adam Barrat sent Bits from the release team [25] which
gave an overview of the state of the upcoming release, Debian 6.0
"Squeeze". Adam admits that the situation is not as good as the release
team hoped, but that it is possible to release "Squeeze" in a few
months. He also gave a list of known transitions and asked people to
inform the release team about missing items. Regarding the timeline, he
asked all involved people to work hard, so a freeze in late May or June
would be possible. He concludes with some hints on how to help. Most
important is to fix release critical bugs or organise face-to-face
meetings to fix these. Andreas Barth laterblogged [26] a more detailed
list on how to help with the release.
25 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00001.html
26 : http://blogs.turmzimmer.net/2010/04/04#squeeze-9
Estimates of the number of Debian users
---------------------------------------
In the discussion about the upcoming elections for the Debian Project
Leader, Antony Towns [27] wondered how many users Debian has. Several
people discussed who is a "Debian user" and if users of Debian
derivatives would count, too. Another topic was how
accuratepopcon.debian.org [28] (a service where Debian users can report
anonymously what packages they have installed) reflects the number of
installations. Mike Hommey analysed [29] the installations reported for
xulrunner [30] (the rendering engine used by the Iceweasel browser) and
compared them to the hits of the page displayed after an upgrade. He
came to the conclusion that for every one of the 13,000 Iceweasel
installations reported to popcon, there are at least 7.7 additional
Iceweasel installations, which do not have have popcon installed or
activated, while Simon Paillard found 1.5 million unique IP addresses
in the access logs of security.debian.org.
27 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00205.html
28 : http://popcon.debian.org/
29 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2010/03/msg00324.html
30 : http://packages.debian.org/xulrunner-1.9.1
Bits from the DPL
-------------
Shortly before the end of his term Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre
sent a "(Final) Bits from (this) DPL" [31]. He announced personnel
changes in several teams and mentioned some press contacts and their
outcome. He also announced the availability of "Debian Certification"
for official Developers: "It seems that more and more companies are
keen to hire Debian folks, so it can be useful to have this kind of
documentation available." Steve also talked about suggestions made in
the last few months for ways to productively spend Debian money,
including funding of needed hardware and a large number of developer
meetings, as well as funding for the Debian Edu subproject, to help
them to continue their developer meetings into the future. He closed by
wishing the candidates of the current election good luck and is looking
forwards to having more time for some hacking.
31 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00000.html
New archive snapshot service available
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A new service called http://snapshot.debian.org/ [32] has just been
announced [33]. snapshot.debian.org is a wayback machine that allows
access to old packages based on dates and version numbers. The ability
to install packages and view source code from any given date can be
very helpful to developers and users alike. It provides a valuable
resource for tracking down when regressions were introduced, or for
providing a specific environment that a particular application may
require to run. The snapshot archive is accessible like any normal apt
repository, allowing it to be easily used by all.
32 : http://snapshot.debian.org/
33 : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100412
The archive currently holds almost all packages from the main and
security archives since March 2005, as well as selected additional
archives like debian-volatile [34], debian-ports [35] and backports.org
[36]. This new service currently holds about 6.5 terabytes of data and
will grow constantly.
34 : http://www.debian.org/volatile/
35 : http://www.debian-ports.org/
36 : http://www.backports.org
MiniDebConf held in Panama
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More than 50 people participated recently in a MiniDebConf in Panama.
Starting March 20th and lasting two full days, the MiniDebConf touched
on a variety of subjects involving Debian with the participants sharing
their experiences with both Debian and Free Software. As Alejandro Rios
said [37]: "All this is possible thanks to several sponsors from Panama
and SPI, and the hard work from many people, specially Anto Recio,
Mauro Rosero, Carolina Flores, Gunnar Wolf and the local team." SPI is
Software in the Public Interest [38], a non-profit organisation which
was founded to help organisations develop and distribute open hardware
and software.
37 : http://alerios-en.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html
38 : http://www.spi-inc.org/
The MiniDebConf got quite technical, some of the subjects they covered
were: Packaging, Debian's Bug Tracking System, the Linux Kernel,
pbuilder and quilt. There was also time for some socialising as there
was a visit to the Panama Canal as well as a group photo and apparently
some people even gathered to drink beer. Sounds to me like a successful
MiniDebConf. More info on Alejandro's blog. [39]
39 : http://alerios-en.blogspot.com/
First German Debian Mini Conference
-----------------------------------
The Debian Project announced the first German Debian Mini Conference
[40] to be held on the 10th and 11th of June in Berlin. Embedded into
LinuxTag [41], one of the most important Open Source events in Europe,
it will feature two days of talks, workshops and panel discussions for
Debian Developers and Maintainers to contributors, users and otherwise
interested persons. In parallel to the conference, in a neighbouring
hacking area a Bug Squashing Party will be held. Details are available
in the DebConf Wiki [42].
40 : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100408
41 : http://www.linuxtag.org/
42 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-LT-Berlin/2010
Graphical Installer for ARM-Based netbooks
------------------------------------------
Frans Pop blogged [43] about his work on porting Debian and the
debian-installer to ARM-based netbooks from ChiTech. After solving some
problems due to the limitations of the bootloader, he even managed to
get the X11 based graphical installer running on that device.
43 : http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp/log/posts/Debianizing_an_ARM-based_netbook.html
QEMU image for SH4 port available
---------------------------------
To make debugging of problems with the (unofficial) port to the SH4
architecture [44] easier, Aurelien Jarno provides [45] SH4 images to be
used with qemu [46]. The images have some limitations as they can only
use 64MB and need the current development version of qemu [47].
44 : http://wiki.debian.org/SH4
45 : http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=55
46 : http://packages.debian.org/qemu
47 : http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git
The role of the Debian ftpmasters
---------------------------------
lwn.net [49] published a lengthy article about the role of the Debian
ftpmasters [50] (article will be freely available from 15th April) and
their kind of unique position compared to other distributions. Based
upon explanations and a recent call for volunteers [51] from ftp-master
Jörg Jaspert, the article explains the duties and problems the ftp-team
is facing.
49 : http://lwn.net/
50 : https://lwn.net/Articles/381667/
51 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00003.html
Other news
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The Atlantic Canada Open Source Showcase published an interview with
Ben Armstrong [52] about his work on the Debian Eee PC project [53].
52 : http://acoss.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/interview-with-ben-armstrong-debian-eee-pc-project-leader/
53 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
DSA Martin Zobel-Helas announced [54], that the Debian Project got four
powerful MIPS machines donated by Movidis [55]. Two or three will be
used as build daemon, the remaining one is accessible for all
Developers as porter machine.
54 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00004.html
55 : http://www.movidis.com/
Christine Spang asked [56] Debian Developers listed on the keysigning
offers list [57] to check their data regularly. She also added that it
is possible to subscribe to changes in the list of people requesting
keysigning [58].
56 : http://blog.spang.cc/posts/is_your_keysigning_offer_up_to_date__63__/
57 : http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers
58 : http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Need
Sune Vuorela reported [59] about the "Eckhart slope": quite a drop
of the number of KDE related bugs.
59 : http://pusling.com/blog/?p=158
Sylvestre Ledru gave an update [60] about linear algebra libraries
(e.g. blas [61] and lapack [62]) in Debian, which are used by various
numerical programs in Debian (e.g. OpenOffice.org Calc [63]). He
emphasised how the packages deal with optimisation for different CPUs
(like SSE in different versions).
60 : http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2010/04/06/update_of_the_linear_algebra_libraries_i
61 : http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=blas
62 : http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=lapack
63 : http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openoffice.org-calc
New Developers and Maintainers
------------------------------
Seven applicants have been [64] accepted [65] as Debian Maintainer in the last
two weeks. Please welcome Joachim Wiedorn, Kai Wasserbaech, Gabriele Giacone,
Ahmed El-Mahmoudy, Niels Thykier, Stephen Leake and Daiki Ueno into our
project!
64 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/04/msg00016.html
65 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/03/msg00063.html
Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
---------------------------------------------------------
According to the unofficial RC-bugs count [66], the upcoming release,
Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", is currently affected by 445 release critical
bugs. 108 of them have already been fixed in Debian's "unstable"
branch. Of the remaining 337 release critical bugs, 53 already have a
patch (which might need testing) and 21 are marked as pending.
66 : http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php
Ignoring these bugs as well as release critical bugs for packages in
contrib or non-free, 196 release critical bugs remain to be solved for
the release to happen.
Important Debian Security Advisories
------------------------------------
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages
(among others): drupal6 [67], php5 [68], ikiwiki [69], spamass-milter
[70], mediawiki [71], curl [72], moin [73], icedove [74], xulrunner
[75] and xpdf [76]. Please read them carefully and take the proper
measures.
67 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2016
68 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2018
69 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2020
70 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2021
71 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2022
72 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2023
73 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2024
74 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2025
75 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2027
76 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2028
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 [77] for announcements.
77 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
New and noteworthy packages
---------------------------
The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (among others [78]):
78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
* aaphoto - Auto Adjust Photo, automatic color correction of photos [79]
* aimage - Create forensic image of devices in an open format [80]
* ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order [81]
* asterisk-espeak - eSpeak module for Asterisk [82]
* asterisk-flite - flite module for Asterisk [83]
* autokey-gtk - desktop automation utility - GTK+ version [84]
* autokey-qt - desktop automation utility - QT version [85]
* banshee-community-extensions - set of community contributed extensions for Banshee [86]
* banshee-extension-awn - AWN integration extension for Banshee [87]
* banshee-extension-lcd - LCD display integration extension for Banshee [88]
* banshee-extension-liveradio - LiveRadio extension for Banshee [89]
* banshee-extension-magnatune - Magnatune for Banshee [90]
* banshee-extension-radiostationfetcher - radio station fetcher extension for Banshee [91]
* banshee-extensions-common - common files for banshee-community-extensions [92]
* banshee-extension-streamrecorder - StreamRecorder extension for Banshee [93]
* banshee-extension-telepathy - Telepathy extension for Banshee [94]
* bzr-rewrite - History rewriting plugin for Bazaar [95]
* cluster-agents - The reusable cluster components for Linux HA [96]
* cluster-glue - The reusable cluster components for Linux HA [97]
* codelite - Powerful and lightweight C/C++ IDE [98]
* codelite-plugins - Powerful and lightweight C/C++ IDE - plugins [99]
* crawl-tiles - Dungeon Crawl, a roguelike game, tiles version [100]
* ddir - display DOS style hierarchical directory tree [101]
* docky - Elegant, powerful, clean dock [102]
* eclipse-plugin-cvs - Eclipse Team Integration (CVS support) [103]
* eekboek-gui - Graphical User Interface for EekBoek [104]
* fusionforge-full - FusionForge collaborative development tool - full metapackage [105]
* fusionforge-minimal - FusionForge collaborative development tool - minimal metapackage [106]
* fusionforge-standard - FusionForge collaborative development tool - standard metapackage [107]
* fusioninventory-agent - Hardware and software inventory tool (client) [108]
* gogoc - Client to connect to IPv6 tunnel brokers [109]
* gpsprune - visualize, edit, convert and prune GPS data [110]
* icedove-3.0 - mail/news client with RSS (transitional package) [111]
* icinga - A host/service/network monitoring and management system [112]
* icinga-phpapi - phpapi for icinga [113]
* imageshack-uploader - a image and video upload utility for the ImageShack hosting service [114]
* ipheth-dkms - USB tethering driver for the iPhone [DKMS driver source] [115]
* ipheth-utils - USB tethering driver for the iPhone [support utilities] [116]
* jabref-plugin-oo - OpenOffice plugin for JabRef [117]
* kobby - Collaborative text editor for KDE [118]
* lazarus-ide-gtk2 - IDE for Free Pascal - IDE build on top of GTK+ backend [119]
* lazarus-ide-qt4 - IDE for Free Pascal - IDE build on top of QT backend [120]
* lcl - Lazarus Components Library - LCL metapackage [121]
* mapnik-viewer - GUI for rendering and viewing maps based on Mapnik mapfiles [122]
* menu-l10n - localized menu entries for Debian menu. [123]
* multiwatch - Forks and watches multiple instances of a program [124]
* muroard - minimalist RoarAudio sound daemon [125]
* nagstamon - Nagios status monitor which takes place in systray or on desktop [126]
* netio230a-gui - GUI to access the Koukaam NETIO-230A [127]
* nfs4-acl-tools - Commandline and GUI ACL utilities for the NFSv4 client [128]
* numptyphysics - crayon based physics puzzle game [129]
* ocamlviz - real-time profiling tools for Objective Caml (clients) [130]
* openrocket - Model Rocket Simulator [131]
* otf-freefont - Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono OpenType fonts [132]
* pdf-presenter-console - multi-monitor presentation tool (ala Keynote) for PDF files [133]
* plymouth - Graphical Boot Animation and Logger [134]
* postgresql-8.4-orafce - Oracle support functions for PostgreSQL [135]
* python-django-auth-ldap - Django LDAP authentication backend [136]
* python-django-picklefield - Pickled object field for Django [137]
* python-docky - Elegant, powerful, clean dock - Python support library [138]
* python-netio230a - Python class to access the Koukaam NETIO-230A [139]
* python-pygccxml - specialized XML reader reads the output from gccxml [140]
* python-py - Advanced Python testing tool and networking lib [141]
* python-stemmer - Python bindings for libstemmer - snowball stemming algorithms [142]
* raincat - 2D puzzle game featuring a fuzzy little cat [143]
* sabayon - system administration tool to manage GNOME desktop settings [144]
* saga - System for Automatic Geoscientific Analysis [145]
* skipfish - fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool [146]
* trac-datefieldplugin - Add custom date fields to Trac tickets [147]
* trac-wikitablemacro - Table from an arbitrary SQL for Trac [148]
* tryton-modules-calendar-classification - Tryton Application Platform (Calendar Classification Module) [149]
* tryton-modules-dashboard - Tryton Application Platform (Dashboard Module) [150]
* tryton-modules-party-siret - Tryton Application Platform (Party SIRET/SIREN Module) [151]
* ust-bin - LTTng Userspace Tracer (utilities) [152]
* vidcontrol - command-line tool to control the system console on GNU/kFreeBSD [153]
* webgen0.5 - A template based static website generator [154]
* zeromq-bin - Utilities for ZeroMQ [155]
79 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/aaphoto
80 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/aimage
81 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ambdec
82 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/asterisk-espeak
83 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/asterisk-flite
84 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/autokey-gtk
85 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/autokey-qt
86 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-community-extensions
87 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-awn
88 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-lcd
89 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-liveradio
90 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-magnatune
91 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-radiostationfetcher
92 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extensions-common
93 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-streamrecorder
94 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-telepathy
95 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bzr-rewrite
96 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cluster-agents
97 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cluster-glue
98 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/codelite
99 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/codelite-plugins
100 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/crawl-tiles
101 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ddir
102 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/docky
103 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eclipse-plugin-cvs
104 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eekboek-gui
105 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fusionforge-full
106 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fusionforge-minimal
107 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fusionforge-standard
108 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fusioninventory-agent
109 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gogoc
110 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gpsprune
111 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/icedove-3.0
112 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/icinga
113 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/icinga-phpapi
114 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/imageshack-uploader
115 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ipheth-dkms
116 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ipheth-utils
117 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jabref-plugin-oo
118 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kobby
119 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lazarus-ide-gtk2
120 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lazarus-ide-qt4
121 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lcl
122 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mapnik-viewer
123 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/menu-l10n
124 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/multiwatch
125 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/muroard
126 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nagstamon
127 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/netio230a-gui
128 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nfs4-acl-tools
129 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/numptyphysics
130 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ocamlviz
131 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openrocket
132 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/otf-freefont
133 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pdf-presenter-console
134 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth
135 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/postgresql-8.4-orafce
136 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-django-auth-ldap
137 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-django-picklefield
138 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-docky
139 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-netio230a
140 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-pygccxml
141 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-py
142 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-stemmer
143 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/raincat
144 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sabayon
145 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/saga
146 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/skipfish
147 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/trac-datefieldplugin
148 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/trac-wikitablemacro
149 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tryton-modules-calendar-classification
150 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tryton-modules-dashboard
151 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tryton-modules-party-siret
152 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ust-bin
153 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vidcontrol
154 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/webgen0.5
155 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zeromq-bin
Work-needing packages
---------------------
Currently 594 packages are orphaned and 139 packages are up for
adoption. Please take a look at the recent [156] reports [157] to see
if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list
of packages which need your help [158].
156 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00836.html
157 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/04/msg00017.html
158 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested
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