Etch frozen!

Yesterday the release manager Andreas 'aba' Barth announced: > Etch is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!! [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg00004.html] This means, that "all packages now need to be hand-approved in order to go to testing". So policyd-weight [http://packages.qa.debian.org/…

NEW flushed

Ganneff did a lot work and flushed NEW nearly complete. Now asused, dns-flood-detector, php5-tidy, policyd-weight and ps-watcher got into unstable. php-suhosin, which is co-maintained by me got also in.…

Debian Repository

Today I lost accidentally all my debian packages on our ftp server [ftp://ftp.cyconet.org]. This was a point where I thought, it may be a good idea to setup a working repository. So I backported reprepro [http://packages.debian.org/reprepro] and installed it. Some scripts by side…

Debian Week

Since I was building already a couple packages for bpo [http://backports.org] I was thinking, it may a good idea to start packaging some of my most common tools for Debian GNU/Linux [http://www.debian.org]. You may think its bad timing, but better late than never! So…

php5 (5.1.6-1~bpo.1) with tidy and PDO

Since a long time we need php5 with tidy and PDO. Until last week we was using: > deb http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5.1 sarge But it stalled at 5.1.4 So we did need a solution how to get a recent and maintained php5 package. There…

FuzzyOcr on Debian sarge

This article covers the installation of FuzzyOcr on Debian sarge including update to packages from backports.org [http://backports.org]. For informations how to install packages from bpo see here [http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions]! Update spamassassin: # aptitude -t sarge-backports install spamassassin Keep in mind, that…

Some more packages to bpo

Today nobse [http://www.inittab.de/] did some work on bpo NEW queue [http://www.backports.org/debian/new.html] and accepted 19 packages at once. So some more of my backports available on bpo, which are: * nagios-plugins: 1.4.3.0cvs.20060707-2bpo1 * egroupware: 1.2-104.dfsg-0bpo1 * gallery2: 2.1.…