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SOAP interface to the PTS
The PTS now offers a SOAP interface to access the information shown in its web pages from third party programs, using the SOAP protocol. The interface is currently in alpha version: testing, feedback, and bug reports are sought.
* a preliminary announcement has been posted at http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/11/PTS_SOAP_interface/ * general information about the SOAP interface are available at http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts/SoapInterface * the HTML API reference for the SOAP interface is available at: http://people.debian.org/~zack/pts/soap
-- Stefano Zacchiroli
Tracking GCC 4.4 related build errors
I built the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 to report build errors and filed about 220 bugs (the majority with patches). There are roughly 30 build failures left that I haven't analyzed yet. There are also about 35 packages that fail because the boost headers don't work with GCC 4.4. I'll try to build them when the boost headers get fixed.
I used the ftbfs-gcc-4.4 user tag (with debian-gcc@lists.debian.org as the user) to track these bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.4;users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org If you run into GCC 4.4 related build failures that I missed, please use the same user tag.
The majority of GCC 4.4 build errors are trivial. The large majority of failures is because of missing #include statements, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-include
There are also about 20 build errors because of improved preprocessor checks, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-preprocessor-errors
-- Martin Michlmayr
Mirror of git repositories on Alioth
If you host a (debian related) public Git repository somewhere else than on Alioth, you have the possibility to mirror it on Alioth itself. This brings you the gitweb interface and might simplify access to the repository to some people since Alioth also offers access through the git server.
The mirror is currently updated every 30 minutes. If you want us to add a new repository to the mirror, please contact us at admin@alioth.debian.org with the repository URL and its public description. The first user of this service is the DSA team with 3 repositories ([http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-exim.git;a=summary dsa-exim], [http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-getclamsigs.git;a=summary dsa-getclamsigs], [http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-misc.git;a=summary dsa-misc]).
Previous news
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00003.html Issue 10]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00000.html Issue 9]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00013.html Issue 8]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-8.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00013.html Issue 7]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-7.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00006.html Issue 6]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-6.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00009.html Issue 5]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-5.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/02/msg00000.html Issue 4]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-4.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00011.html Issue 3]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-3.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00007.html Issue 2]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-2.html Japanese version]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg00006.html Issue 1]
[http://www.debian.or.jp/blog/develop/develnews-ja-1.html Japanese version]
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