Hi all, please CC me on any responses, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel.
Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to
include support for automating the process of submitting to
screenshots.debian.org? It would almost certainly cause a big increase
in the number of submissions.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
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> Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject.
>
> In this issue:
> + Screenshots on packages.d.o
> + BTS version tracking explained
> + Latest features of dpkg-dev
> + Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database
> + Re-evaluate the state of backported packages
>
> Screenshots on packages.d.o
> ---
>
> You may have noticed that packages.d.o now includes screenshots[1]
> with a link to a the Debian screenshots site[2]. Where a screenshot
> isn't available a "No screenshot available" image invites users
> to submit screenshots. Any one can easily contribute[3] and after
> approval your screenshots will be available on the web[4] and on
> packages.d.o[5], synaptic[6], aptitude-gtk[7], software-center[8] and,
> via games-thumbnails[9], goplay[10]. The Debian screenshots site has
> been running for almost 2 years[11] and has accumulated over 2200
> screenshots for 1700 packages[12] but still lacks screenshots for
> many packages[13] so why not upload screenshots today? The screenshot
> meta-data is available via JSON (1[14], 2[15]) and UDD[16]. If you
> would like to work on debshots[17], the software behind the Debian
> screenshots site, please check out the git repository and send Christoph
> Haas some patches. There are improvements to be made[17], especially
> around integration with packages.d.o.
>
> -- Paul Wise
>
> [1] http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/packages-screenshots.html
> [2] http://screenshots.debian.net/
> [3] http://screenshots.debian.net/upload
> [4] http://screenshots.debian.net/packages
> [5] http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/packages-screenshots.html
> [6] http://blog.workaround.org/2008/11/14/screenshotsdebiannet-goes-live/
> [7] http://packages.debian.org/sid/aptitude-gtk
> [8] http://packages.debian.org/sid/software-center
> [9] http://bugs.debian.org/589928
> [10] http://packages.debian.org/sid/goplay
> [11] http://blog.workaround.org/2008/11/10/screenshotsdebiannet-goes-beta/
> [12] http://screenshots.debian.net/packages
> [13] http://screenshots.debian.net/packages/without_screenshots
> [14] http://screenshots.debian.net/json/packages
> [15] http://screenshots.debian.net/json/screenshots
> [16] http://udd.debian.org/schema/udd.html#public.table.screenshots
> [17] http://debshots.workaround.org/trac/
> [18] http://debshots.workaround.org/trac/report/1
>
> BTS version tracking explained
> --
>
> There still seems to be a lot of confusion on how the version tracking in
> the BTS works. I wrote a lengthy blog entry[19] which explains why some
> bugs won't get archived even though they got closed a while ago already.
>
> -- Gerfried Fuchs
>
> [19] http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/on-BTS-usage.html
>
> Latest features of dpkg-dev
> ---
>
> Raphaël Hertzog has been blogging about the latest features of
> dpkg-dev[20]. He also gave a talk at the recent MiniDebConf in Paris,
> France (slides at [21]). His blog posts and talk covered several areas,
> including the new source package formats, source package build options,
> the maintainer scripts helper, vendor differentiation support (patches,
> build rules), symbols files for libraries, build flag customisation and
> more.
>
> -- Paul Wise
>
> [20]
> http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/30/latest-features-of-dpkg-dev-debian-packaging-tools/
> [21] http://raphaelhertzog.com/files/2010/10/latest-dpkg-dev-features.pdf
>
> Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database
> -
>
> There's a new web interface[22] for the Ultimate Debian Database that
> provides a multi-criteria search engine for bugs (including RC bugs).
>
> -- Lucas Nussbaum
>
> [22] http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi
>
> Re-evaluate the state of backported packages
>
>
> I've sent out a call for re-evaluating the state of backported
> packages[23]. If the reason to stick behind the squeeze version for a
> backport isn't valid anymore it might be a good idea to get the packages
> in sync again to make potential security and point release updates
> easier.
>
> -- Gerfried Fuchs
>
> [23] http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2010/11/msg8.html
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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>
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