Misc Developer News (#56)

[Paul Wise]

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In this issue:
+ Call for architecture porters for Debian bookworm
+ New Debian mailing list
+ Salsa project for asking autopkgtest questions
+ /sbin/raw dropped from util-linux
+ rsync.net offers storage for Debian Developers

Call for architecture porters for Debian bookworm
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The Debian release team have put out a call for porters[1] for Debian
bookworm. If you are using any CPU architectures other than amd64 (which
has an exemption) such as i386, ARM, POWER or all the less popular
architectures, please consider contributing towards popcon submissions,
testing packages, running testing/unstable systems, fixing toolchain
issues, triaging/fixing bugs, testing/fixing d-i or maintaining/providing
hardware for the architectures you care about. If you are already doing
these activities or intend to do these activities for particular
architectures, please respond to the release team mail with the info
requested by them before January 1st 2022.

For information about the activities involved in porting Debian, see the
documentation linked from the ports[2] page on the wiki and especially
the guide for creating new ports[3].

-- Paul Wise

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/10/msg00007.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Ports
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New

New Debian mailing list
-----------------------

The Debian listmasters have recently created this new mailing list:

* debian-clojure[4]: for discussions of packaging Clojure[5] and
projects implemented in it. Clojure is a dynamic and functional
dialect of the Lisp programming language on the JVM.

-- Paul Wise

[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-clojure/
[5] https://clojure.org/

Salsa project for asking autopkgtest questions
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The Debian CI team would like to encourage and help more maintainers to
add autopkgtest support to their packages. To that effect, there is now
the autopkgtest-help repository on salsa[6], where maintainers can ask
questions related to testing their packages by opening issues.

-- Antonio Terceiro

[6] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest-help/

/sbin/raw dropped from util-linux
---------------------------------

Linux 5.14 dropped the "raw" block/char device driver, and also broke
building the raw(8) utility program. util-linux in bookworm/sid has
dropped this binary. Given the very generic name, it is impossible to
find any users. If you maintain a package using /sbin/raw, please make
the appropriate changes.

-- Chris Hofstaedtler

rsync.net offers storage for Debian Developers
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rsync.net now[7] offers[8] gratis backup storage for all active Debian
Developers. Signing up will currently give a 500 GB free-forever account
with 7 daily snapshots.

This is one of several benefits[9] that are offered to Debian members and
contributors.

-- Paul Wise

[7] https://bits.debian.org/2021/05/donation-from-rsync-net.html
[8] https://www.rsync.net/debian.html
[9] https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits

--
bye,
pabs

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