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=== Fancy graphs on lintian.d.o ===

Lintian.d.o now displays graphs over tag historical data collected for
each tag
([[http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends.html|like]]
[[http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-but-no-misc-depends.html|these]]).
Full credits goes to Jordà Polo for writing the data collection, graph
generation and even updating the templates to show the graphs inline!

Besides the graphs, we are also pleased to annouce two other great
changes! First off, it is now possible to mechanically request the
report for a given source package (without knowing its maintainer) by
requesting:

  `http://lintian.debian.org/source/<src>[/<src-version>]`

Secondly, we have extended Lintian's work schedule to include i386
experimental! Thus, you may now see multiple reports for the same
source package on your lintian page.

-- Niels Thykier

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Today, amd64 is the architecture with the greatest number of popcon submissions by a narrow margin. When restricted to submissions from squeeze users, amd64 has 51% of all submissions and i386 47%.

Register your media types to the IANA

Please consider registering media types to the IANA before requiring their inclusion in the mime-support package. Simplified registration procedures for vendor and personal trees are being implemented with the update of RFC 4288, that states: it should rarely, if ever, be necessary to use unregistered types. Therefore, use of types in the "x." tree is strongly discouraged. Charles Plessy has confirmed that the process is fairly quick and painless by registering text/vnd.debian.copyright for machine-readable Debian copyright files.

-- CharlesPlessy

First release of dput-ng in Unstable

As seen on debian-devel, dput-ng has been uploaded to unstable. Please feel free to test it, and provide early feedback on it. dput-ng is a from-scratch rewrite of dput that provides an identical interface for dput, and a slightly modified one for dcut (since most of us had to look up the manpage anyway). It supports the new DM permissions, and allows for more complex hooks to be written to be run before or after an upload.

-- PaulTagliamonte

Recent changes on the Debian QA front

The PTS gained knowledge of the new system for DM access controls and of upstream URLs that are failing, via the Debian Url ChecKer. The PTS had various watch-file related improvements, please check your PTS pages before uploading so you can include new/updated watch files. The PTS now reports when direct dependencies need a new maintainer. The PTS gained semantic information using RDF files.

The Debian QA infrastructure always needs more folks working on it, so if you have some spare time, please check out the code and come join us on the debian-qa mailing list and IRC channel.

-- Paul Wise

Fancy graphs on lintian.d.o

Lintian.d.o now displays graphs over tag historical data collected for each tag (like these). Full credits goes to Jordà Polo for writing the data collection, graph generation and even updating the templates to show the graphs inline!

Besides the graphs, we are also pleased to annouce two other great changes! First off, it is now possible to mechanically request the report for a given source package (without knowing its maintainer) by requesting:

  • http://lintian.debian.org/source/<src>[/<src-version>]

Secondly, we have extended Lintian's work schedule to include i386 experimental! Thus, you may now see multiple reports for the same source package on your lintian page.

-- Niels Thykier

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