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: + debhelper third-party command option parsing transition + initramfs-tools new Lenny features + bts-link supporting more bugtrackers + Debian Data Export + List of bugs blocking transitions debhelper third-party command option parsing transition ------------------------------------------------------- The next upload of debhelper to unstable is planned soon, and it may break certian third-party debhelper commands that use certian options. Such commands need a small modification to keep the options working. Maintainers of such commands should see the announcement mail[1] for details. -- Joey Hess [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/02/msg00387.html initramfs-tools new Lenny features ---------------------------------- initramfs-tools can walk /sys/ for a smaller initramfs, also in some circumstances you may get an even smaller initramfs. For all the news read the blog post “initramfs-tools new feature list”.[2] -- Maximilian Attems [2] http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/blog/2009/02/05#initramfs-tools-lenny-features bts-link supporting more bugtrackers ------------------------------------ bts-link[3] has been recently added support for the GForge/Fusionforge bugtracker and Sourceforge's V2 tracker. This opens the possibility to add `forwarded-to` attributes to track bugs in upstream projects hosted on such forges, and be notified of bugs state changes. -- Olivier Berger [3] http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/ Debian Data Export ------------------ Debian Data Export[4], a system to make it easy to export Debian information, has been announced[5]. If you want to explore or download the data currently in DDE, you can go to http://dde.debian.net/dde If you maintain some data related to Debian, you are encouraged to have a look: for simple datasets, publishing data is very simple[6], and it makes your data easy to find and easy to access. -- Enrico Zini [4] http://wiki.debian.org/DDE [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/02/msg00247.html [6] http://wiki.debian.org/DDE/StaticData List of bugs blocking transitions --------------------------------- Library transition season is open, and a lot of packages have to be rebuilt. This means that some of them will FTBFS, or exhibit some other problem that will prevent the transition from going forward. A list of bugs that are blocking transitions is now kept in the BTS via usertags (user:debian-release@lists.debian.org, tag:transition-blocker): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org;tag=transition-blocker Or, with a nicer URL: http://snipr.com/transition-blockers The NMU rules for this set of bugs have been relaxed: packages are elegible for 0-day uploads if the bug is more than 3 days old. Just be civil and helpful, and try to honour the wishes of the maintainer. -- Adeodato Simó -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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