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Debian Pure Blends

The Debian subsets targeting at specific user groups which were formerly known as Custom Debian Distributions are now called Debian Pure Blends (in short Blends). New Blends featuring metapackages in Wheezy are : none yet

Debian Med

New packages of specific importance

Debian Science

and the other sciences oriented Blends DebianMed and ?DebiChem started maintaining citation information that is displayed in the web sentinel and can be used in a BibTeX file.

FOSS solutions for various fields of science got vastly improved coverage

with new software addressing miscelaneous computing demands

although not an explicit release goal -- many of the above packages enabled exercising of upstream's unittest batteries at build-time -- that greatly improved reliability and guaranteed performance of the scientific software in Debian.

No longer supported in Wheezy

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Notes

DSO Linking Changed

Previously the linker used indirect dependent shared libraries to resolve symbols. That would hide various encapsulation violations. Now the linker does not use indirect shared libraries. See ToolChain/DSOLinking for details.

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