Things we wish upstream would know

Hi, some time ago I started to collect hints for upstream developers on a wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/UpstreamHints The page is intended for the audience of upstream developers who care that their software be included in a distribution ...

Message posted on the February 2nd, 2012 - 4:10 AM ET

PARC CEO Keynotes AlwaysOn Venture Summit, Demonstrates Commitment to Accelerating Time to Market for Startups

PARC’s open innovation model provides access to specialized expertise, infrastructure, and networks not otherwise available to entrepreneurs and VCs.

Press published on the December 14th, 2011 - 11:00 AM ET

OCEG Announces the 2013 GRC Achievement Awards and Principled Performance Prize

The Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG) is pleased to announce that it has recognized three organizations with the 2013 GRC Achievement Awards. The recipients of this year’s awards, presented on May 21st at ...

Press published on the May 22nd, 2013 - 6:00 AM ET

Dyn Hosts 1st Annual Thought Leader Council Meeting

Group Gathers to Share Insights on Infrastructure Services and Celebrate Dyn’s Grand Office Opening.

Press published on the August 18th, 2011 - 9:34 AM ET

Comparison of 7 free antispam programs

An effective anti-spam program allows you to filter electronic mails so that real messages are separated from “spam”. Once again, you don’t need to pay to get good spam filtering. In this article, we have evaluated seven free antispam ...

Review published on the July 4th, 2008 - 11:19 AM ET

Bug#548963: libarchive-zip-perl: New upstream release

Package: libarchive-zip-perl Version: 1.18-1 Severity: normal I'm the maintainer of the webgui [1] package for Debian. I'm attempting to upgrade to the latest stable release (7.7.x) but am unable to because it requires a version of Archive::Zip ...

Message posted on the September 29th, 2009 - 5:20 PM ET

Lots of problems with upstream, please help!

Hello, I hope this is the right mailing list. I've been a Debian user for over 10 years, but due to schoolwork and work i haven't been very involved in Debian. Mostly I have submitted patches to upstream or helping upstream debug rather than ...

Message posted on the October 23rd, 2012 - 12:40 AM ET

[gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

As some may know, I'm working on euscan, and currently euscan only use CPV and SRC_URI to find new upstream versions. This works well if upstream url and version scheme is sane or if upstream has an API for that (rubygem, pypi, pecl, pear), but it's ...

Message posted on the February 13th, 2012 - 4:40 AM ET

How to build flavored package if upstream doesn't grok OOT build

Hi, I am trying to package the authoritative PowerDNS server in a way that allows Upstream to use my packaging as well. Additional to the normal dynamically linked builds, they would like to have a statically linked binary package as well, which ...

Message posted on the June 23rd, 2012 - 9:20 AM ET

Patch for #660260 (gnudatalanguage FTBFS) from upstream may come only after the freeze

Hi, I know it's late, but after quite some prodding by me and others, upstream of gnudatalanguage is finally working on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugf0260 Unfortunately so far the first two patch versions I received from ...

Message posted on the June 28th, 2012 - 7:50 AM ET

Bug#693575: Upstream version is not included in package version

Package: iproute Version: 20120521-3 Severity: serious The package version uses a datestamp for the upstream version. As you know, upstream started making formal releases where the version string indicates the latest kernel version for which it is ...

Message posted on the November 17th, 2012 - 9:50 PM ET

Bug#647749: Interim fix proposed in the upstream bug report

lPPO4EExzUICtIGIBrBtZm As it was already mentioned here and also in the upstream bug report, I understand that the ideal solution would be to switch providers. But unfortunately that's something that probably won't happen in the short term. In the ...

Message posted on the November 9th, 2011 - 11:20 AM ET

Bug#561861: debhelper: dh_installchangelogs - add debian/PACKAGE.changelog-upstream for upstream changelog

Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.10 Severity: wishlist The manual page reads SYNOPSIS dh_installchangelogs [debhelper options] [-k] [-Xitem] [upstream] DESCRIPTION ... An upstream changelog file may be specified as an option. If none is ...

Message posted on the December 20th, 2009 - 2:30 PM ET

Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

Hi, I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing. These bugs were already ...

Message posted on the January 31st, 2011 - 9:50 AM ET