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amd64 most popular architecture according to popcon
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. I have confirmed that the process is fairly quick and painless by registering text/vnd.debian.copyright for machine-readable Debian copyright files.
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.
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