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News for Debian developers

This wiki page collects small news that all developers should know but that are not worth a dedicated mail to debian-devel-announce. Follow the template "Example of news" and add your news below it. If there are some other items already, please sort your item in descending order of importance to the Debian development community. See /Help for more information on how to write entries. If you have any questions, please ask the publicity team or the Debian English localisation mailing-list.

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Example of news

This is a sample news. Copy it and edit the title, content and signature... You can use links like this. Put real news below this sample.

-- Your Name

reportbug and ftp.d.o/release.d.o/wnpp pseudo-packages

The reportbug tool now has some features that are useful when filing requests against the pseudo-packages ftp.debian.org, release.debian.org and wnpp.

It now sets the usertag for ftp.debian.org removal requests (override requests already had this). This is so that they are automatically categorised correctly on the bug listing.

It now sets affects and X-Debbugs-CC on bugs against pseudo-packages that are related to a real package in the archive; including ftp.debian.org, release.debian.org and wnpp bugs (wnpp bugs only had affects before). This is so that maintainers, package tracker subscribers and folks viewing the bug lists for packages can see them.

Please consider using reportbug for filing removal or wnpp bugs so that these things are done automatically for you. Some examples of the headers it sets are listed below. If you have bug templates of your own for these issues, please update them to include the correct pseudo-headers.

Please note that reportbug supports sending bugs via your normal mail client using xdg-email (available since bullseye), or via a specific mail client too.

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: foo@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: override
X-Debbugs-Cc: foo@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
X-Debbugs-Cc: foo@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: foo@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:foo

-- Paul Wise

non-free-firmware is now autobuilt

non-free-firmware in unstable and experimental is now being autobuilt by the regular Debian builders. It is subject to the same allowlist and criteria as regular non-free builds.

Allowlisting packages has been staffed with only a single person in the last years. If you are a DD and interested in helping out with license reviews, please contact the same email address.

-- Philipp Kern

reform.debian.net

Owners of a MNT Reform open hardware laptop can now set up their machine using OpenPGP signed packages built for Debian stable (Bookworm) instead of using unsigned packages for unstable from the official MNT repositories. In addition to the apt repository containing the Bookworm kernel with required patches on top, reform.debian.net provides system images which boot directly into a full Desktop as well as Debian installer netboot images patched with the custom kernel required for the Reform. This service is for the MNT Reform what raspi.debian.net is for the Raspberry Pi. Many thanks go to the debian.net team for providing an ARM64 machine that builds the packages and images and hosts the website. Head over to reform.debian.net for more information.

new sparc64 porterbox

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz announced a new porterbox for sparc64; a VM (LDOM) hosted on a SPARC T4-1 with 96 GB RAM and more than 500 GB disk. Thanks to Cononva Communications GmbH for sponsoring the hosting in Salzburg, Austria.

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