The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews It's your duty to share news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Security support for new testing (squeeze) delayed + New whohas tool displays other distributions that have your package + Documentation for python-apt + sbuild and wanna-build status update + Kernel pseudo-package removed Security support for new testing (squeeze) delayed -------------------------------------------------- The Testing Security Team announced that security support for squeeze will not begin immediately after the release of lenny. Users who need security support should stay with lenny until the begin of security support for squeeze is announced. http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/2008/12/msg00019.html -- Stefan Fritsch New whohas tool displays other distributions that have your package ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unstable features a new tool, `whohas`, which searches through a list of distributions and displays those that also carry a version of a given package. Currently supported are Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware, Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink and MacPorts. It can be helpful to maintainers to find new packaging ideas or patches. http://packages.debian.org/whohas -- Thijs Kinkhorst Documentation for python-apt ---------------------------- There is now documentation available for python-apt, documenting the complete API. I created it in a half week using Sphinx and reStructuredText. This is a help for everyone who develops with python-apt which has been lacking a lot of documentation previously. The whole documentation is included in version 0.7.9~exp2 of python-apt. http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/ -- Julian Andres Klode sbuild and wanna-build status update ------------------------------------ Over the last three months, a number of large changes have been made, and more are planned both in the near future and for Squeeze. sbuild is now fully usable with contemporary wanna-build and buildd, and has had many improvements made. Most recent work has focussed on wanna-build, with several usability improvements made, as well as bug fixing. Changes made on the buildds, but not previously available in a public SCM, have also been merged, so wanna-build now contains all of the functionality present on the live wanna-build installation. Ongoing work includes modularising wanna-build in order to replace the MLDBM database backend with a more flexible PostgreSQL backend. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/01/msg00061.html -- Roger Leigh Kernel pseudo-package removed ----------------------------- The pseudo-package "kernel" has been removed, since nowadays all kernel images are built from the single source package "linux-2.6". reportbug has already been modified in experimental to report all bugs directed against "kernel" to the linux-2.6 source package. -- Moritz Muehlenhoff -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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