Hi Package Maintainers (DD's and non-DD's), Now that Etch is released to stable, many package maintainers have already updated their packages to the newest upstream releases. That is of course very good. However, some packages have no working debian/watch file, and then it is not always easily seen whether there are newer upstream releases available for these packages. I suggest to add/update debian/watch with your next updates of your packages. Non-DD's are welcome to ask help for that on debian-mentors@lists.debian.org . Hint: test the debian/watch file with "uscan --report-status". Another approach for identifying packages to be updated in Debian to newer upstream releases is by comparing Debian with Ubuntu. Here is a list of packages that are newer in Ubuntu than in Debian, grouped by maintainer: http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/outdated.html I call these package maintainers to update these packages in Debian soon. The corresponding package in Ubuntu might help you to solve tricky new things, and this might be an opportunity to join efforts with the Ubuntu maintainer to reduce duplicate effort. Non-DD's are welcome to request a sponsor on debian-mentors@lists.debian.org . Sponsors might want to watch these pages to select packages to sponsor: http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/needssponsor.html http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist More information on the Utnubu subproject can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/Utnubu Regards, Bart Martens
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