The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Debian Member Porfolio Service + Release goals bugs displayed in the PTS + Transitions displayed in the PTS + dh_linktree helper tool + Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status Debian Member Porfolio Service ------------------------------ The Debian Member Portfolio Service (formerly known as Debian Developer Portfolio Service) is now available at http://portfolio.debian.net/. The purpose of this change is to acknowledge that we have non-packaging members now. The service is still developed and hosted by me. I welcome suggestions for improving the service as well as translations to your language. The source code (Python/Pylons) for the service is available in a public git repository[1] under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License. -- Jan Dittberner [1] http://debianstuff.dittberner.info/gitweb.cgi?p=ddportfolioservice.git Release goals bugs displayed in the PTS --------------------------------------- The Package Tracking System will now display a prominent TODO notice whenever you have one (or more) outstanding bug(s) which are part of a release goal. Example: http://packages.qa.debian.org/twinkle -- Raphaël Hertzog Transitions displayed in the PTS -------------------------------- The Package Tracking System will now display a prominent warning when a package is part of an ongoing or a planned testing transition. It invites the maintainer to avoid uploads that might disrupt the transition and gives links to the transition tracker[2], the debian-release archives[3], and the listing of transition bugs[4]. -- Raphaël Hertzog [2] http://release.debian.org/transitions/ [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/ [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=release.debian.org@packages.debian.org;tag=transition dh_linktree helper tool ----------------------- If your package contains embedded copies of PHP/javascript files (or any other file that gets directly shipped as-is), it can be tedious to replace them with symlinks to packaged copies. The new tool dh_linktree (package dh-linktree) might help you in this task. You just have to include the Debian package corresponding to your embedded copies in your build dependencies and create a debian/foo.linktrees files explaining what to do. dh_linktree will create the symlink tree for you and add the corresponding dependency in ${misc:Depends} (if needed). It can operate in several modes: * embed: it will unconditionally integrate the whole directory at the indicated place * replace: it will only replace the files already installed by your package with symlinks to the corresponding file in the official package. * de-duplicate: like replace except that it will only do it if the files are exactly identical. If you want to learn more, install the dh-linktree package and read the manual page dh_linktree(1). -- Raphaël Hertzog Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status -------------------------------------------------------- DEP-3[5] has been promoted to ACCEPTED status. This format standardises a set of headers that you are encouraged to use when documenting patches that you add to Debian packages. -- Raphaël Hertzog [5] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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