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In this issue:
+ Qt packages built with OpenGL ES support are now available
+ Debian Trends updated
+ What can you preseed when installing Debian?
+ Building Debian using Clang instead of gcc
+ ML-Policy Update & PyTorch Packaging
Qt packages built with OpenGL ES support are now available
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Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev's work Qt packages now offer two OpenGL flavours,
Desktop and ES. These changes are provided by Qt GUI and Qt Quick libraries.
With the help of the Release Team the necessary packages in the archive have
been rebuilt in order to pick up the changes. Desktop and ES packages are not
co-installable as they provide the same set of shared libraries. So most
packages now have an alternative dependency like
libqt5gui5 (>= 5.x) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.x).
Packages get such a dependency automatically if they are using
${shlibs:Depends}. More details are available in Dmitry's blog post[1].
-- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
[1] https://mitya57.me/weblog/2020/01/qt-opengl-es-packages-available.html
Debian Trends updated
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Debian Trends[2] was updated, with data until February 2020 and three new
graphs (on team maintenance and co-maintenance, on adoption of
Rules-Requires-Root, and on Support for build-arch and build-indep).
-- Lucas Nussbaum
[2] https://trends.debian.net/
What can you preseed when installing Debian?
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Steve McIntyre created[3] a debian-preseed[4] service that extracts all of the
debconf templates in the Debian archive and lists each of the possible preseed
options available along with their descriptions. If you want to repeat the
extractions, you can use Steve's new Perl script or the existing tools on the
preseed wiki page[5].
-- Paul Wise
[3] https://blog.einval.com/2020/02/24#what_can_you_preseed
[4] https://jack.einval.com/debian-preseed/
[5] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
Building Debian using Clang instead of gcc
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The experience to rebuild the Debian archive with Clang instead of gcc
continued. This time with 8.0.1, 9.0.1 & 10rc2. Results are available on
https://clang.debian.net/. A blog post[6] detailing the results has been
published. A maintainer[7] view is also available.
-- Sylvestre Ledru
[6] https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2020/03/22/some-clang-rebuild-results
[7] https://clang.debian.net/maintainers.php
ML-Policy Update & PyTorch Packaging
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Machine/Deep learning technologies recently manifested its power to help
doctors diagnose COVID-19, and many packages related to the recent COVID-19
leveraged such technologies. To make Debian a better platform for the related
works, Debian Deep Learning Team managed to release a new version of
ML-Policy[8], and to finish the PyTorch packaging[9] (currently going through
the NEW queue). Namely, PyTorch will be the first modern deep learning
framework to land onto our archive.
-- Mo Zhou
[8] https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/-/blob/master/ML-Policy.pdf
[9] https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/pytorch
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Best,
Mo
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