Subject: Announcement: Debian Pure Blends news
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce
Date: 2008-11-10 09:26:46 GMT (3 years, 27 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours and 15 minutes ago)
Hello, for those who might wander what the term Debian Pure Blends means: the Custom Debian Distributions now are called Debian Pure Blends - see below for further information. Here comes an update what was done since the beginning of this year which might be interesting for several projects. Web-Tools --------- I'm proud to announce a new QA tool for all CDD^W Blends: Overview about all bugs about Dependencies of our metapackages. For the impatient here is a list of these pages: Debian Edu: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/edu/bugs Debian GIS: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/bugs Debian Jr: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/junior/bugs Debian Med: http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs Debian Science: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/bugs You can read more about the estimation of tasks status of the bugs at the Blends/BugPages wiki page[1]. Not that new are the so called tasks pages which are listing the packages in focus of a Blend as well as those projects which are not yet packaged but might be intersting - so called "prospective packages". Here are links to the relevant tasks pages: Debian Edu: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/edu/tasks Debian GIS: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks Debian Jr: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/junior/tasks Debian Med: http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks Debian Science: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks Both overviews are updated twice a day in a cron job. The tasks pages are interesting for users and developers and thus we tried to translate as much as possible by using the work of the DDTP project (we also provide links where translations might be needed). You can expect more tools which deal with sets of packages for a certain working field in the not so far future. Renaming Custom Debian Distributions to Debian Pure Blend --------------------------------------------------------- We realised that the old name Custom Debian Distributions just sended the wrong message to outsiders: The conclusion that CDDs are something else than Debian was to "obvious" if people did not read the relevant documentation. So we finally found a raw consensus for a new name: Debian Pure Blends In the code inside Debian we use 'blend' for factorised code that concerns a single Blend (given as an option or something like that and 'blends' if it is working for all Blends in one context. The Debian and Pure is evidend inside Debian internal code like packages blends-dev (formerly cdd-dev) or blends-common (formerly cdd-common) etc. Configuration for blends will go into /etc/blends (formerly /etc/cdd. You can find more information on the according Wiki page[2] or the detailed paper about Debian Pure Blends[3]. Slides of a talk (in German) I have hold about Debian Pure Blends at Linux-Info-Tag (Dresden) is available as well[4]. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Blends/BugsPages [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends [3] http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/blends [4] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200811_dresden_blends/ -- http://fam-tille.de