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Empty binary packages

Empty binary packages will now be automatically rejected by ftp-master. This can be overridden however. The archive software (dak) uses the lintian empty-binary-package tag to determine which binary packages are empty.

-- Paul Wise

Improving Large File Support (LFS)

Our Large File Support on some 32-bit architectures is a bit poor, and this has been going on for a while now.

Please consider enabling LFS on packages containing programs at any point, and on shared library packages whenever there's a SONAME bump. Even if neither of these are supposed to handle large files, they might still fail if they need to operate on files with large metadata values (like inode numbers). See this mail and the above lintian tag for more details.

-- Guillem Jover

bts-link has recently been improved to add support for Allura trackers that are used on Sourceforge. If Debian bug reports have a Forwarded-To link pointing to URL patterns of the form http://sourceforge.net/p/PROJNAME/TRACKERNAME/123456/, bts-link is now able to analyse the remote bug status to detect changes and notify. Allura support is not limited to sf.net, so adding other Allura trackers may be requested if needed.

-- Olivier Berger

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