New Debian alpha Packages
These alpha packages were installed into the Debian hierarchy in the
last week:
----- MEDIUM Urgency Packages -----------
at - Delayed job execution and batch processing
at 3.1.3-1 -> 3.1.8-2 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/admin
at (3.1.8-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* libc6 version
* (as in -1) Fix date parsing bug with 'next monday' where the current day
* is Mondy
* Fix date parsing bug with February
* Misc. manpage changes
----- Low Urgency Packages --------------
alien - Install Red Hat and Slackware Packages with dpkg.
alien 5.19 -> 5.20 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/admin
alien (5.20) unstable; urgency=low
* added --description= flag, that lets the description of slackware
packages be set.
* Put packages converted to .deb format into a section called "alien".
* s/kite.ml.org/kitenet.net/g
bug - Bug Reporting Tool interfacing with the Bug Tracking System
bug 2.95 -> 3.0.0 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/utils
bug (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Added '-f' option to search whose package a file is, fixes #8632.
Manpage updated.
* Added instructions of how to submit extra information about
the bug, fixes bug #9937.
* If no package name specified, show info about pseudo-packages and
ask the user, fixes bug #10661.
* Fixed a bug when $EDITOR or $VISUAL has a space, fixes #14866, and
should fix #10759.
* Modified `-p' to make bug not invoke the editor,
should fix bug #12222 and #14347.
* Show what it's doing, fixes bug #11097.
* Added --help,-h option; changed previous -h to -H, fixes bug #14741.
* Tries to unlink the temporary file before using it.
cbb - The Check-Book Balancer - a Quicken clone
cbb 0.73-3 -> 0.73-4 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/misc
cbb (0.73-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a bug in balance.tcl (an error would occur when triple-clicking
in the balance window). Fixes bug #14994. Patch forwarded upstream.
debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules
debhelper 0.23 -> 0.24 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/utils
debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
* dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules
debhelper 0.24 -> 0.25 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/utils
debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
* dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
* examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules
debhelper 0.25 -> 0.26 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/utils
debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
* dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
* README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
the dh_* programs (#15497).
* dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
doc-debian - Debian Manual, FAQ and other documents
doc-debian 1.5-0 -> 1.5.0 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/doc
doc-debian (1.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Made self-consistent: local Debian mirror not required anymore.
* Installed /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz
* Removed FAQ/tweaked/* from the source.
* Cleaned up debian/rules.
* Non-maintainer release.
dpkg-repack - attempts to put an unpacked .deb file back together
dpkg-repack 0.9 -> 0.10 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/admin
dpkg-repack (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't include file list file in package. (Removes "ontained list as info
file" error from dpkg when you install dpkg-repacked packages.
info2www - Read Info files with a WWW browser
info2www 1.2.2.9-9 -> 1.2.2.9-10 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/doc
info2www (1.2.2.9-10) unstable; urgency=low
* new Debian maintainer
* new "Debian" style
manpages-it - Contains a collection of italian man pages
manpages-it 0.1b-2 -> 0.2.4-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/doc
italian-manpages (0.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New postinst: updates /etc/manpath.config and creates catman
directories. The reverse in prerm.
* cleaned rules and un-debstd-ized.
* Updated to Standards-Version 2.3.0.1.
* New upstream release, including 240 pages
jadetex - JADE DSSSL TeX backend macros
jadetex 0.53-1 -> 0.53-3 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/tex
jadetex (0.53-3) unstable; urgency=low
* now in main again, because copyright of hyperref is now DFSG compliant
jargon - The definitive compendium of hacker slang.
jargon 4.0.0-2 -> 4.0.0-3 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/doc
jargon (4.0.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed link in jargon.html to actually point to the resources page, and
not the whole jargon file.
* Added jargon lookup script provided by Mark Baker - thanks Mark!
(Bug#10479)
* Compressed changelog.Debian -- Complies with Standards version 2.3.0.1
lftp - Sophisticated command-line FTP client programs
lftp 0.12.1-1 -> 0.13.1-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/net
lftp (0.13.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, with all my changes included by the author.
perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
perl-debug - Allow debugging perl scripts (and perl).
perl-suid - Runs setuid perl scripts.
perl-debug 5.004-1 -> 5.004.02-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/interpreters
perl-suid 5.004-1 -> 5.004.02-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/interpreters
perl 5.004-1 -> 5.004.02-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/interpreters
perl (5.004.02-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream (maintenance) version
* Remove ftp.pl from the distribution since it depends on chat2.pl which
is obsolete and has been removed from the perl dist at the request of
its author.
quake-lib-stub - Use dos quake files with linux quake
quake-lib-stub 1.4 -> 1.5 into hamm/non-free/binary-all/games
quake-lib-stub (1.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Use debhelper.
* Some modifications to get rid of /var/lib/games/quake.
quake-lib - shareware episode 1 for Quake.
quake-lib 1.06-3 -> 1.06-4 into hamm/non-free/binary-all/games
quake-lib (1.06-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't set up the symlinks in /var anymore.
* Install a /etc/quake.conf, which helps keep backwards compatabily to
[sx]quake packages that expected to find stuff in /var before.
* Use debhelper.
rxvt - VT100 emulator for the X window system
rxvt 2.20-3 -> 2.20-8 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/x11
rxvt (2.20-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Rebuild with libc6/xlib6g.
spamdb - Fully automated building and maintaining of a Blacklist
spamdb 0.1 -> 0.2 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/mail
spamdb (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove predep on ed.
spamdb - Fully automated building and maintaining of a Blacklist
spamdb 0.2 -> 1.0 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/mail
spamdb (1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* New maintainer
* added an exclusion list feature to exclude (by regexp) from the block lists
* added support for blocking on email address as well as domain name
* added stub for future blocking by IP address (network/netmask)
* added support for Claus Assman's sendmail check_mail hacks
*
* removed dependancy on ed.
*
* removed emphasis on exim (exim is still supported)
*
* removed attempt to reconfigure exim from postinst. IMO that is a
* local sysadmin policy decision. spamdb is just a tool to help build
* up filter lists.
*
* spamdb is now modular and extensible.
* easy to add support for:
* - new sources of spam domain lists
* - new converter scripts (to output spamdb into format for use by mailer)
*
* contributed scripts are more than welcome. i want to support every
* MTA available but can't run them all. comments and suggestions
* are welcome too.
sysvinit - System-V like init.
sysvinit 2.71-2 -> 2.72-3 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/base
sysvinit (2.72-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove perl check from preinst
* Add extra fork() in dowall.c to avoid hanging in rare cases
* Conflict with file-rc (<= 0.4.1)
* The 2.72 series fix the following bugs:
#9819: sysvinit: Typo in `pidof` manual
#9820: sysvinit: Incorrect filenames in `shutdown` manual
#9821: sysvinit: `init` manual gives incorrect information
#9822: sysvinit: `inittab` manual
#10045: sysvinit: error message "no more processes..."
#10276: sysvinit has uncompressed manpages.
#11728: libc6
#11879: sysvinit: file in /tmp security hole
#12172: Sysvinit: Contains powerd manpage but not powerd
#12465: Trivial typos in killall5 man page
#12631: sysvinit: unchecked prompting in postinst
#13290: clock is now hwclock
#13300: patch to init.d/boot for compressed keymaps
#13344: sysvinit: command 'clock' not found
#13789: sysvinit: /etc/init.d/boot calls "clock", should call "hwclock"
#13830: sysvinit: Upgrading to new sysvinit left system unusable
#13838: sysvinit: gratuitous use of perl
tetex-bin - teTeX binary files
tetex-dev - kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX
tetex-bin 0.4pl6-7 -> 0.4pl8-3 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/tex
tetex-dev 0.4pl6-7 -> 0.4pl8-3 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/tex
tetex-bin (0.4pl8-3) unstable; urgency=low
* solved md5sum/debsums problems
----- New Packages ----------------------
delimmatch - Perl Module to match delimited substrings
delimmatch 1.02-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/text
docbook-doc - Documentation for the DocBook DTD.
docbook-doc 30d10-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/text
dosfstools - Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems
dosfstools 1.0-9.1 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/otherosfs
gimp-data-extras - Lots of extra brushes, palettes, and gradients for The GIMP
gimp-data-extras 0.99.14-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/graphics
gimp-data-min - A small set of brushes, palettes, and gradients for The GIMP
gimp-data-min 0.99.14-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/graphics
jadetex - JADE DSSSL TeX backend macros
jadetex 0.53-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/tex
makepasswd - Generate and encrypt passwords
makepasswd 1.06-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/admin
mpg123 - MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player
mpg123 0.59m-2 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/sound
sex - Simple editor for X
sex 0.14 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/editors
spamdb - Fully automated building and maintaining of a Blacklist
spamdb 0.1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/mail
ssmtp - Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
ssmtp 2.21-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/mail
timedate - Time and date functions for perl.
timedate 1.07-1 into hamm/hamm/binary-all/interpreters
xcolorsel - display colors and names in X
xcolorsel 1.1a-5 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/x11
xsnow - brings Christmas to your desktop
xsnow 1.40-3 into hamm/hamm/binary-alpha/games
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