25 April 2015

[I liked the #newinwheezy effort for the last Debian release, so I tipped Mika off about it again this time] A short post about what is #newinjessie, Debian's new 8.0 Jessie release. See Mika's debian-devel post for more information. For this release cycle, I have uploaded two new packages:

• dtv-scan-tables - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) initial scan files
  • This is a new package which splits out the DVB initial scan files from linux-dvb-apps (see below). This is designed to make updating of the scan files easier.
• git-remote-hg - bidirectional bridge between Git and Mercurial
  • This is a new package which allows a Git client to read and write to Mercurial repositories. Previously provided as an example in the Git package until removed by upstream.

I've also have taken over as (co-)maintainer of some existing packages during this release cycle:

• linuxtv-dvb-apps - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) applications
  • New upstream snapshot, split out DVB initial scan files into dtv-scan-files package (see above), enable hardened buildflags.

I've updated nearly all of my existing packages during this release cycle:

• dhex - ncurses based hex editor with diff mode
  • New upstream release, various packaging fixes.
• lcd4linux - Grabs information and displays it on an external lcd
  • New upstream snapshot, add systemd service file, install dummy config file which resolves issues on certain upgrades.
• libconfig - Parsing and manipulation of structured configuration files
  • New upstream release, various packaging fixes.
• nyancat - nyancat is a program to display an animated poptart cat in your terminal
  • New upstream release; Nyancat now resizes to fix the terminal!
• transmission-remote-cli - ncurses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon
  • New upstream release, support new versions of Transmission, various bug and packaging fixes.
• wavemon - Wireless Device Monitoring Application
  • New upstream release, various bug and packaging fixes, fix FTBFS on arm64.

The following package received no updates during this release cycle due to a combination of no upstream releases and the existing package already being in good shape:

• figlet - Make large character ASCII banners out of ordinary text

I hope you find them useful. Enjoy!