The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + debhelper compat level 12 is open for beta testing + Port for RISC-V 64-bit (riscv64) added to debian-ports + Debian is now ready to get Rust crates as packages + New uscan features + FTP Team — call for volunteers debhelper compat level 12 is open for beta testing -------------------------------------------------- The debhelper compat level 12 is expected to become stable in Debian buster and open for beta testing as of debhelper (>= 11.4~). If you would like to help, please consider taking debhelper compat 12 for a spin by: * Reviewing debhelper(7)[1] for information on the changes to compat level 12. * Bumping the Build-Depends on debhelper to debhelper (>= 11.4~) and set debian/compat to 12. * Apply necessary changes (if any) * Building your package and debdiff'ing the binaries with the previous version/build. If you run into issues, awkward behaviour or improvements in general, please contact the debhelper maintainers e.g. by filing a bug against the debhelper package. Note: The new-style "debhelper-compat (= 12)" relation '''cannot''' be used for the beta test; that is reserved for the stable version of compat 12. -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> [1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html#Supported_compatibility_levels Port for RISC-V 64-bit (riscv64) added to debian-ports ------------------------------------------------------ A new port for RISC-V[2], flavour `riscv64` (64-bits little-endian) is now available in Debian Ports[3]. More information in a blog post[4] from Planet Debian[5]. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V [3] https://www.ports.debian.org/ [4] https://people.debian.org/~mafm/posts/2018/20180402_debian-gnulinux-port-for-risc-v-64-bit-riscv64-in-debian-infrastructure-debian-ports/ [5] https://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian Debian is now ready to get Rust crates as packages -------------------------------------------------- With release of debcargo 2.0.0 to crates.io, now you can create a Debian package from your favorite Rust crate and upload it to the Debian archive. Read the official announcement[6] by Ximin Luo to understand the workflow to follow. Join #debian-rust on irc.oftc.net or write to team mailing list[7] if you have doubts. -- Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@debian.org> [6] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/2018-June/001412.html [7] mailto:pkg-rust-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org New uscan features ------------------ devscripts 2.18.5 has been released and brings some new uscan features for developers[8]: * in git mode, uscan is now able to verify signed tags * a "searchmode=plain" line option can be used to parse the full content of a web page instead of searching only <a href*> tags, useful for JSON contents * new "auto" value for dversionmangle to replace the common dversionmangle=~s/[\+~](debian|dfsg|ds|deb)(\.)?(\d+)?$// '''NB''': While making these changes uscan underwent a huge refactor, so please file any bug(s) you may find in this new version, and we will fix them for the next release. -- Xavier <yadd@debian.org> [8] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/2467f981-81f1-a4bb-3fc4-49262cf39d7b@debian.org FTP Team — call for volunteers ------------------------------ Chris Lamb called[9] for more volunteers for the FTP Team and included a summary of the tasks involved. -- Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> [9] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1539190319.3739281.1537477880.19A47E1E@webmail.messagingengine.com -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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