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UnRar

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:30:05 -0600

Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)

New Version: 1:3.9.9

Old Version: 1:3.9.7

Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. If you want to create .rar archives, install package rar.

Changelog:

* New upstream release
* Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
* Bumped Standards Version

Rar

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:30:05 -0600

Archiver for .rar files

New Version: 2:3.9.2

Old Version: 2:3.9.1

This is the RAR archiver from Eugene Roshal. It supports multiple volume archives and damage protection. It can also create SFX-archives. There are versions which run on DOS, Windows (3.1x,95,NT), FreeBSD, BSDI.

This program is shareware and you must register it after 40 days of use.

Changelog:

* New upstream release
* Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
* Bumped Standards Version

GRASS

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:30:03 -0600

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System

New Version: 6.4.0~rc5+41380

Old Version: 6.4.0~rc5+40109

Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/map production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many government agencies and environmental consulting companies.

Changelog:

[ Hamish Bowman ]
* Suggest NetPBM used by NVIZ max. PPM export.

[ Francesco Paolo Lovergine ]
* New upstream snapshot with many localization fixes.
* Fixed typo in past debian/changelog entry.
* Added missing locale/ directory to debian/grass.install.in.
(closes: #563255)
* Policy bumped to 3.8.4, no changes.
* Vcs-* fields now point to trunk.

Geany

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:29:43 -0600

A fast and lightweight IDE

New Version: 0.18.1

Old Version: 0.18

Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.

The basic features of Geany are:
- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
- call tips
- folding
- many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
- symbol lists
- embedded terminal emulation .

Changelog:

* New upstream release

cpio

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:29:39 -0600

GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files

New Version: 2.11

Old Version: 2.10

GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats as well as reading and writing tar files.

Changelog:

* New upstream version.
- Fixes CVE-2010-0624: Heap-based buffer overflow in GNU
Tar and GNU Cpio.
* Tweak mingw build to not fail.
* Update watch file to pick bzip2-compressed tarballs.
* Bump to Standards-Version 3.8.4.
* Switch to 3.0 (quilt) source format.

Banshee

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:29:38 -0600

Media Management and Playback application

New Version: 1.5.5

Old Version: 1.5.4

Banshee is a media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods and other media devices, play and manage video files and burn selections to a CD.

Changelog:

* New upstream release
+ New Features:
- Gapless Playback / Playbin2 (LP: #45518, #377354)
- Grid View
- YouTube Extension
+ Enhancements:
- Improve search responsiveness on large libraries (LP: #474514)
- Add icons for Nexus One and Audiobooks (LP: #532182)
- Play Queue item count, size, duration now ignores old tracks
- Muinshee fixes: disable Auto-DJ, allow reordering, hide previous song
+ Notable bug fixes:
- Fix a very common, SQL-related crash in 1.5.4 (Closes: #572136)
- Fix saving equalizer settings in culture-invariant way
- Jumping to a source's prefs via its context menu works again
- Usage data not submitted more than every 48 hours
- Fix repeatedly resyncing some files to a device b/c transcoded
- Clear the redo stack on shuffle mode change
- Accept feeds with empty title (LP: #468323)
- Uri encode file location queries, making them work properly
* debian/control:
+ Bump gst-plugins-base-dev version for gapless playback
+ Add libgdata-cil-dev for youtube extenesion
* debian/rules:
+ Add --enable-gapless-playback and --enable-gdata

Logstalgia

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:45 -0600

web server access log visualizer

New Version: 1.0.0

Old Version: 0.9.8

Replay or stream a standard apache access log (access.log) as an arcade game-like simulation.

Changelog:

* New Upstream Version

FFmpeg

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:44 -0600

multimedia player, server and encoder

New Version: 5:0.5.1+svn20100310

Old Version: 5:0.5+svn20100208

This package contains the ffplay multimedia player, the ffserver streaming server and the ffmpeg audio and video encoder. They support most existing file formats (AVI, MPEG, OGG, Matroska, ASF...) and encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV...).

Changelog:

* New svn release (22426).
* Add a conflicts for ffprobe, now this binary is in the ffmpeg package.

AllTray

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:41 -0600

Dock any program into the system tray

New Version: 0.71a

Old Version: 0.70

With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the "close" button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*. (*) No drag 'n drop support. Enable with "-nm" option. .

Changelog:

* New upstream version:
- Fixes Alltray trayicons use their owntooltip theme bug. (Closes: #524683)
- Fixes FTBFS when building against binutils-gold. (Closes: #553650)
* New maintainer. (Closes: #566880)
* debian/control:
- Bumped Standards-Version to 3.8.4.
- Updated Maintainer field.
- Added the Vcs-Browser address.
- Added Build-Depends on bash-completion.
* debian/rule:
- Added "--with bash_completion" to include installation of the
bash-completion file.
* debian/copyright:
- Updated copyright format, as it contained boilerplate from older
versions of dh_make.
- Mentioned the copyright of the debian/ folder
* debian/patches:
- 01_minor_type.diff: corrects typo errors in source files.
* debian/alltray.menu:
- Added menu file. (Closes: #449598)
* debian/alltray.symbols:
- Added symbols file.
* debian/alltray.bash-completion:
- This file adds the possibility for bash to complete the alltray command
with the list of all available applications.

SWAT

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:37 -0600

Samba Web Administration Tool

New Version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg

Old Version: 2:3.4.6~dfsg

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.

This package allows you to administer a Samba server via a web browser.

SWAT is no longer actively maintained, and its default configuration is not secure for use over an untrusted network. SWAT will also rewrite smb.conf, rearranging the entries and deleting all comments as well as include= and copy= options, so is not suitable for use in conjunction with hand-edited smb.conf files or the default package-managed configuration.

Changelog:

[ Steve Langasek ]
* Add a PAM profile for pam_winbind. Closes: #566890, LP: #282751.
* Add the correct versioned build dependency on libtalloc-dev as
we need 2.0.1 to build samba. Closes: #572603
* Add avr32 to arches with a build dependency on ctdb. Closes: #572126

[ Christian Perrier ]
* New upstream release. Security fix: all smbd processes inherited
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capabilities, allowing all file system access to be
allowed even when permissions should have denied access.

smbfs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:34 -0600

Samba file system utilities

New Version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg

Old Version: 2:3.4.6~dfsg

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.

This package provides utilities for mounting and unmounting cifs network file systems. Other command-line utilities such as smbclient, smbtar and smbspool are in the package smbclient.

Changelog:

smbclient

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:31 -0600

command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix

New Version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg

Old Version: 2:3.4.6~dfsg

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.

This package contains command-line utilities for accessing Microsoft Windows and Samba servers, including smbclient, smbtar, and smbspool. Utilities for mounting shares locally are found in the package smbfs.

Changelog:

QLiss3D

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:14 -0600

demonstration tool for Lissajous figures

New Version: 1.3.2.1

Old Version: 1.3.2

Qliss3d is a tool that generates various Lissajous figures. It is possible to rotate the figures and zoom into them. Also changing the frequency and replay of the sinus sounds by the same frequency rate are implemented.

In mathematics, a Lissajous curve (Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve) is the graph of the system of parametric equations which describes complex harmonic motion. This family of curves was investigated by Nathaniel Bowditch in 1815, and later in more detail by Jules Antoine Lissajous. Lissajous curves can be traced mechanically by means of a harmonograph.

Changelog:

* New upstream version
- remove the 10-locale patch - integrated upstream
- regenerate the 12-destdir and 14-libm patches
- refresh the 13-warnings patch
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 with no changes.
* Append a ~ to the debhelper dependency's version to ease backporting.
* Bump the copyright year on the debian/ files.
* All the patches were forwarded upstream.

PiTiVi

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:14 -0600

non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer

New Version: 0.13.3.2

Old Version: 0.13.3

GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins.

PiTiVi allows users to easily edit audio/video projects based on the GStreamer framework. PiTIVi provides several ways of creating and modifying a timeline. Ranging from a simple synopsis view (a-la iMovie) to the full-blown editing view (aka Complex View) which puts you in complete control of your editing.

Changelog:

* New upstream pre-release:
+ debian/control:
- Update dependencies.

MyPaint

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:13 -0600

Paint program to be used with Wacom tablets

New Version: 0.8.2

Old Version: 0.8.0

This is a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet paint program. It comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate real media, but the highly configurable brush engine allows you to experiment with your own brushes and with not-quite-natural painting.

Changelog:

* New upstream version.
* Added watch file.
* Add missing dependency to python-gtk2. (Closes: #571600)
* Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format to avoid repackaging.

Debian New Maintainers' Guide

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:12 -0600

Debian New Maintainers' Guide

New Version: 1.2.15

Old Version: 1.2.14

This package contains the Debian New Maintainers' Guide.

This document tries to describe building of a Debian package to the common Debian user, and wannabe developer. It uses pretty common language, and it's well covered with working examples.

The document contains these chapters:
* 1 Getting started The Right Way
* 2 First steps
* 3 Modifying the source
* 4 Required stuff under debian/
* 5 Other files under debian/
* 6 Building the package
* 7 Checking the package for errors
* 8 Uploading the package
* 9 Updating the package
* 10 Where to ask for help

KVpnc

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:11 -0600

vpn clients frontend for KDE4

New Version: 0.9.6

Old Version: 0.9.5

KVpnc is a KDE4 frontend for various vpn clients.

It supports :
* Cisco-compatible VPN client (vpnc)
* IPSec (freeswan, openswan, strongSwan, racoon)
* Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) client (pptp-linux)
* Virtual Private Network daemon (openvpn)
* L2TP, Vtun & OpenSSH

Changelog:

* New upstream release.

GraphicsMagick ImageMagick Interface

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:09 -0600

image processing tools providing ImageMagick interface

New Version: 1.3.12

Old Version: 1.3.11

GraphicsMagick provides a set of command-line applications to manipulate image files. It is a fork of the ImageMagick project and therefore offers a similar set of features, but puts a larger emphasis on stability.

With this package installed, the GraphicsMagick command line tools can be executed like their ImageMagick counterparts. It allows to migrate scripts from ImageMagick to GraphicsMagick without any code changes.

Changelog:

* New upstream version 1.3.12.
+ Fixes writing to standard output. Closes: #571719
* magick/effect.c: Disable OpenMP threading on Sparc for MedianFilterImage()
and ReduceNoiseImage() as it seems to cause eccessively long runtimes.
Should prevent build failures due to the testsuite timing out on the
Sparc buildds. Advice from upstream.

GraphicsMagick

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:09 -0600

collection of image processing tools

New Version: 1.3.12

Old Version: 1.3.11

GraphicsMagick provides a set of command-line applications to manipulate image files. It is a fork of the ImageMagick project and therefore offers a similar set of features, but puts a larger emphasis on stability.

The tools support a large variety of image formats from the widely used jpeg, tiff, bmp or xpm to special-purpose formats such as fits or image formats found on some photo CDs. They can convert between formats, concatenate several images into one, annotate and distort them, create thumbnails or manipulate the colormap. While all features are available from the command-line, the package also includes an image viewer that allows interactive manipulation.

Note that unlike ImageMagick, the GraphicsMagick tools are accessed through a single executable called 'gm'. Therefore, GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick can be used in parallel. Install package graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat to obtain a set of several executables that is compatible to ImageMagick's interface.

Changelog:

Gnumeric

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:37:06 -0600

spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program

New Version: 1.10.1

Old Version: 1.10.0

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application that interoperates well with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with commonly used spreadsheet file formats.

The following formats can be imported and exported:
- Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls);
- Microsoft Excel 95 (.xls);
- OASIS XML, OpenOffice.org XML, StarOffice (.sxc);
- Comma/Character Separated Values (.csv);
- Data Interchange Format (.dif);
- Applix version 4 (.as).

Additionally, the following formats can be imported:
- GNU Oleo (.oleo);
- Linear and integer program expression format (.mps);
- Lotus 1-2-3 (.wks, .wk1);
- MS MultiPlan SYLK (.sylk);
- WordPerfect family "Plan Perfect" (.pln);
- Quattro Pro (tm);
- XSpread or SC;
- XBase (.dbf).

Gnumeric can export to LaTeX 2e (.tex), TROFF (.me) and HTML as well.

Gnumeric should be easy to use, in particular for users familiar with Excel.

Gnumeric is a GNOME application. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System.

GDebi

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:36:54 -0600

Simple tool to install deb files

New Version: 0.6.0

Old Version: 0.5.9debian3

gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages.

This package contains the graphical user interface.

XPilot NG

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:43 -0600

Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version)

New Version: 1:4.7.3

Old Version: 1:4.7.3~cvs20091102

XPilot is a multi-player tactical manoeuvring game for X. Each player controls their own fighter equipped with a variety of weapons and power-ups. Players compete as teams or as individuals; the object of the game is to score points by blasting the opposition, stealing their treasure or by racing round a circuit. WARNING: This game is very addictive.

This package is a complete XPilot installation, including the XPilot client, server and utilities.

This package is for the "Next Generation" (NG) fork at http://xpilot.sf.net

Smb4K

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:43 -0600

A Samba (SMB) share advanced browser for KDE

New Version: 0.10.5

Old Version: 0.10.4

Smb4K is a SMB (Windows) share browser for KDE. It uses the Samba software suite to access the SMB shares of the local network neighborhood. Its purpose is to provide a program that's easy to use and has as many features as possible.

Changelog:

* New upstream release.
* Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format.
* Add Portuguese translation. (Closes: #569838)
Thanks to Am�rico Monteiro.
* Update debian/control:
- Bump build dependencies versions
(debhelper, pkg-kde-tools and kdelibs5-dev).
- Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed).
- Remove super dependency. (Closes: #555215)
* Update debian/rules:
- Enable parallel build (pass --parallel option to dh).
- Remove override_dh_compress target - not needed anymore.

QEMU

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:31 -0600

dummy transitional pacakge for qemu-kvm

New Version: 0.12.3+dfsg

Old Version: 0.11.1

This transitional package helps users transition to the kvm-qemu package. Once this package and its dependencies are installed you can safely remove it.

Changelog:

[ Vagrant Cascadian ]
* New upstream version:
- Fix access to block devices on GNU/kFreeBSD. Closes: #558447.
- Correctly update clock when waking up from sleep. Closes: #414165.
- Slirp works with other network interfaces. Closes: #407702.
- Add the possibility to specify a host to bind to with the -redir
option. Closes: #366847.
- Fix cirrus graphics card with windows 98. Closes: #522124.
* Indicate repackaged upstream tarball by adding "+dfsg" to the version.
Closes: #388740.
* Remove second libgnutls-dev from build depends.
* Update debian/watch with current location of tarball releases.
* Drop binutils-gold patch, applied upstream.
* Switch from bochsbios to seabios. Update bios.bin symlink and
recommends/conflicts.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes).
* Update my email address to vagrant@debian.org.

[ Aurelien Jarno ]
* Create a kvm group in postinst and set the group of /dev/kvm to kvm.
Closes: #570544.
* Add mips and mipsel to the list of supported architectures.
* Add patches/01_redir_doc.patch to fix a mistake in the redirection
documentation.
* Add patches/02_kfreebsd.patch to use the legacy USB stack on
GNU/kFreeBSD.
* Force the depends from qemu on qemu-system, qemu-user and qemu-utils
to (>= {source:Version}).
* Update openbios related conflicts.

phpMyAdmin

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:31 -0600

MySQL web administration tool

New Version: 4:3.3.0

Old Version: 4:3.2.5

This package allows administering of MySQL with a web interface.

It allows administrators to:
- browse through databases and tables;
- create, copy, rename, alter and drop databases;
- create, copy, rename, alter and drop tables;
- perform table maintenance;
- add, edit and drop fields;
- execute any SQL-statement, even multiple queries;
- create, alter and drop indexes;
- load text files into tables;
- create and read dumps of tables or databases;
- export data to SQL, CSV, XML, Word, Excel, PDF and LaTeX formats;
- administer multiple servers;
- manage MySQL users and privileges;
- check server settings and runtime information with configuration hints;
- check referential integrity in MyISAM tables;
- create complex queries using Query-by-example (QBE), automatically
connecting required tables;
- create PDF graphics of database layout;
- search globally in a database or a subset of it;
- transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
functions, such as displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link;
- support InnoDB tables and foreign keys;
- support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension; and is fully internationalized and localized in dozens of languages.

Midori

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:31 -0600

fast, lightweight graphical web browser

New Version: 0.2.4

Old Version: 0.2.2

Midori is a lightweight web browser based on WebKit.

Its features include:

* Full integration with GTK+2.
* Fast rendering with WebKit.
* Tabs, windows and session management.
* Flexibly configurable Web Search.
* User scripts and user styles support.
* Straightforward bookmark management.
* Customizable and extensible interface.
* Support for extensions (written in C).
* Custom context menu actions.

Changelog:

* New Upstream Version
- update d/copyright
- handles files in current dir correctly (Closes: #565329)
* use bundled waf again (Closes: 571709)
* set Standards-Version to 3.8.4

KeePassX

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:29 -0600

Cross Platform Password Manager

New Version: 0.4.3

Old Version: 0.4.1

KeePassX is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the algorithms AES or Twofish.

Changelog:

* New upstream release. (Closes: #572614)
- Fixes FTBFS with binutils-gold. (Closes: #554982)
* Switch to new source format 3.0 (quilt).
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4, no changes needed.

Gourmet Recipe Manager

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:27 -0600

A gtk-based recipe organizer and shopping list generator

New Version: 0.15.4

Old Version: 0.14.5

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a gtk-based recipe organizer and shopping list generator intended for the GNOME desktop environment (though it does not need all the GNOME libraries). Gourmet can import Mealmaster(tm) files and can export recipes in a number of formats, including text, RTF and web pages. Gourmet also can calculate nutritional information for recipes.

Changelog:

* New maintainer (Closes: #572734)
* New upstream release [Closes: #530841)

GCompris

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:23 -0600

Educational games for small children

New Version: 9.2

Old Version: 8.4.12

A large collection of educational games for small children. It is meant to become some sort of unified interface to integrate more educational games.

Language-oriented games now contain vocabulary for too many languages to list them heres. Sounds and voices are also available for a number of languages, check the gcompris-sound packages for your language.

Currently available boards include:
* learning how to use a mouse and keyboard
* learning simple arithmetics
* learning how to read an analog clock
* recognize letters after hearing their names
* reading practice
* small games (memory games, jigsaw puzzles, ...)
* etc.

It is designed so that it is easy to implement new boards to GCompris.

A number of boards are only available if other packages are installed, see the Suggests list for more details.

Feh

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:22 -0600

imlib2 based image viewer

New Version: 1.4

Old Version: 1.3.5

feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints (using TrueType fonts to display file info). Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory hierarchy), and mouse wheel/keyboard control.

Changelog:

* New upstream version
Closes: #394908
* Recommends: libjpeg-progs (according to hint from upstream)