The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews It's your duty to share news of your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + CD/DVD images for Lenny + License AGPL v3.0 is suitable for main + Building CD/DVD images made easier + Mono 2.0 transition in progress + SOAP interface to the PTS + Tracking GCC 4.4 related build errors + Mirror of git repositories on Alioth CD/DVD images for Lenny ----------------------- The debian-cd team is discussing some changes to the CD and DVD images to be made available for Lenny, centered around a patch series that makes it possible to select from the boot menu which desktop environment to install. If you're interested, please read the following two mails; the first one has links to a few images available for testing the patches and demonstrate the new option. * http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/12/msg00000.html * http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/12/msg00019.html Discussion on the debian-cd list please! -- Frans Pop License AGPL v3.0 is suitable for main -------------------------------------- Joerg Jaspert announced that ftp-masters resolved that software licensed under GNU AGPL 3.0 public license is suitable for the main Debian archive. This solves a long standing issues discussed in several bug reports (e.g., #495721, #506402). * Read more at: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/11/28/ftpmaster-meeting-in-extremadu.html * The AGPL 3.0 license is available at: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html * Some of the involved bug logs can be read at: * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495721 * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506402 Building CD/DVD images made easier ---------------------------------- The debian-cd package, which is used to build the official Debian CD images, includes a new script named easy-build.sh. This script is intended to significantly simplify building (sets of) custom images. It can be used for derived distributions, but is also very suitable for ad-hoc builds of images for testing purposes. The main feature of the script is that it is very flexible. By passing different arguments or by making only minor changes in the settings in the script it can be used to build images of different types, for different architectures (single and multiple) and Debian releases, using alternative default desktop environments, including custom packages or custom D-I images and components, etc. For further information see the README.easy-build file included with the script or mail the debian-cd list. Of course you do still need a local mirror... -- Frans Pop Mono 2.0 transition in progress ------------------------------- The Debian Mono team is currently transitioning all CLI apps to Mono 2.0. We currently have transitioned the whole stack, and are working on packages. Libraries will come last, so as to reduce any possible breakage. For "real-time" (almost) information on our progresses, visit our wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMonoGroup/Mono20TransitionTODO -- David Paleino SOAP interface to the PTS ------------------------- The PTS now offers a SOAP interface to access the information shown in its web pages from third party programs, using the SOAP protocol. The interface is currently in alpha version: testing, feedback, and bug reports are sought. * a preliminary announcement has been posted at http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/11/PTS_SOAP_interface/ * general information about the SOAP interface are available at: http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts/SoapInterface * the HTML API reference for the SOAP interface is available at: http://people.debian.org/~zack/pts/soap -- Stefano Zacchiroli Tracking GCC 4.4 related build errors ------------------------------------- I built the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 to report build errors and filed about 220 bugs (the majority with patches). There are roughly 30 build failures left that I haven't analyzed yet. There are also about 35 packages that fail because the boost headers don't work with GCC 4.4. I'll try to build them when the boost headers get fixed. I used the ftbfs-gcc-4.4 user tag (with debian-gcc@lists.debian.org as the user) to track these bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.4;users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org If you run into GCC 4.4 related build failures that I missed, please use the same user tag. The majority of GCC 4.4 build errors are trivial. The large majority of failures is because of missing #include statements, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-include There are also about 20 build errors because of improved preprocessor checks, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-preprocessor-errors -- Martin Michlmayr Mirror of git repositories on Alioth ------------------------------------ If you host a (debian related) public Git repository somewhere else than on Alioth, you have the possibility to mirror it on Alioth itself. This brings you the gitweb interface and might simplify access to the repository to some people since Alioth also offers access through the git server. The mirror is currently updated every 30 minutes. If you want us to add a new repository to the mirror, please contact us at admin@alioth.debian.org with the repository URL and its public description. The first user of this service is the DSA team with 3 repositories (dsa-exim[1], dsa-getclamsigs[2], dsa-misc[3]). -- Raphael Hertzog [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-exim.git;a=summary [2] http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-getclamsigs.git;a=summary [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-misc.git;a=summary -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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