The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Updated mentors.debian.net + Removal of debhelper compat 5 and 6 + new Debian world map + Lintian Tags on Salsa + Janitor Merge Proposals Now Include Debdiff / Diffoscope Output + Qt 6 looking for new maintainers Updated mentors.debian.net -------------------------- There has been a heavy update of the codebase of mentors.debian.net, including moving from Python 2 to 3 and changing frameworks from Pylons to Django. A few new features were also introduced. More details are available in the announcement mail[1]. Please consider being available to support our newcomers by reviewing packages, and reporting any bugs you may find while using mentors.debian.net in the salsa project. -- Baptiste BEAUPLAT, Mattia Rizzolo and mentors.d.n team. [1] https://lists.debian.org/5cb7543f-6104-f3d5-e617-04ddb76c709b@cilg.org Removal of debhelper compat 5 and 6 ----------------------------------- As announced, debhelper compat 5 and 6 are now planned for removal[2]. This is expected to happen no later than during the bookworm development cycle (buster + 1). Please review your packages affected by the removal and plan their migration to a supported compat level. Please keep in mind that compat bumps are '''NOT''' accepted during the freeze per the FAQ from the Release Team about unblocks[3]. The differences between compat levels are documented in the debhelper(7) manual page[4]. -- Niels Thykier [2] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/ae4185bc-af05-8c53-91ae-f29c9817aac4@thykier.net [3] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/FAQ.html [4] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html#Supported_compatibility_levels new Debian world map -------------------- There is a new world map of Debian Developers available[5]. Currently it contains data from the keysigning offers[6] list in the wiki. If you spot problems: Development happens at salsa[7], feel free to report issues and send pull requests, especially for additional Debian location data sources[8]. -- Uwe Kleine-König [5] https://map.debian.net/ [6] https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers [7] https://salsa.debian.org/ukleinek/debianmap [8] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLocations Lintian Tags on Salsa --------------------- View your Lintian tags in a nice web page on Salsa! For more information, look at the documentation[9] or contact the Salsa CI team on IRC (#salsaci). -- Felix Lechner and Iñaki Malerba, on behalf of their teams [9] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/blob/master/README.md Janitor Merge Proposals Now Include Debdiff / Diffoscope Output --------------------------------------------------------------- Merge proposals created by the janitor[10] now include the debdiff between a build with and without the changes (showing the impact to the binary packages), in addition to the merge proposal diff (which shows the impact to the source package). New merge proposals also include a link to the diffoscope[11] diff between a vanilla build and the build with changes. Unfortunately, these can be a bit noisy for packages that are not reproducible yet, due to the difference in build environment between the two builds. This is part of the effort to keep the changes from the janitor high-quality. -- Jelmer Vernooij [10] https://janitor.debian.net/ [11] https://www.diffoscope.org/ Qt 6 looking for new maintainers -------------------------------- Dmitry Shachnev and I decided not to maintain Qt 6 whenever it gets published[12] based mostly on time issues. We will do our best to keep Qt 5 in shape for the remainder of its life. We will be happy to review and/or sponsor other people's work or even occasionally do uploads, but we can't promise to do it regularly. So if you would like to have Qt 6 in the archive, you should consider stepping up for the job. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer [12] https://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/2020/08/stepping-down-as-qt-6-maintainers.html -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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