EPEL report week 50 2007

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sun Dec 16 12:21:00 UTC 2007


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week50

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 50/2007 

== Most important happenings ==

 * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00052.html Builders now use RHEL 5.1]

 * Lots of new packages (see below) -- most of them afaics thx to the wishlist processing; roozbeh added a bunch of perl-packages (some for example needed for rt3) to the wishlist; Fedora owners got a mail for those as well.

== Mailing list ==

=== Noteworthy discussions ===

 * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00087.html EPEL for IA64]

 * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00096.html Tracker bug and bugs for broken deps in EPEL5]

== Meeting ==

=== Next Meeting ===

20071219 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

=== Last weeks meeting ===

Non scheduled

== Stats ==



=== General ===



Number of EPEL Contributors: 155



We welcome 12 new contributors: abompard garrick grenier jnovy mbarnes mgarski mso nhorman pawsa s4504kr somlo wwoods



=== EPEL 5 ===



Number of source packages: 890



Number of binary packages:  1649 



There are 40 new Packages:



 * aalib | ASCII art library

 * antiword | MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter

 * balsa | Mail Client

 * bogofilter | Fast anti-spam filtering by Bayesian statistical analysis

 * brasero | Gnome CD/DVD burning application

 * bsdiff | Binary diff/patch utility

 * codeblocks | An open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE

 * ddd | GUI for several command-line debuggers

 * dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework

 * dvdisaster | Additional error protection for CD/DVD media

 * enca | Character set analyzer and detector

 * enigma | Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd

 * g2clib | GRIB2 encoder/decoder and search/indexing routines in C

 * gstreamer-python | Python bindings for GStreamer

 * gtranslator | Gettext po file editor for GNOME

 * gxine | GTK frontend for the xine multimedia library

 * inkscape | Vector-based drawing program using SVG

 * iozone | Filesystem benchmarking utility

 * iperf | Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

 * kyum | Graphical User Frontend (GUI) for yum

 * libburn | Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs

 * libesmtp | SMTP client library

 * libkexiv2 | A library to manipulate EXIF/IPTC information

 * libtunepimp | A library for creating MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications

 * netdump-server | Server for network kernel message logging and crash dumps

 * pcapdiff | Compares packet captures, detects forged, dropped or mangled packets

 * perl-Authen-SASL | SASL Authentication framework for Perl

 * perl-GSSAPI | Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library

 * perl-IO-Interface | Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information

 * perl-Parse-Yapp | Perl extension for generating and using LALR parsers

 * perl-XML-XQL | Perl module for querying XML tree structures with XQL

 * phpldapadmin | Web-based tool for managing LDAP servers

 * php-pear-Image-GraphViz | Interface to AT&T's GraphViz tools

 * pygpgme | Python module for working with OpenPGP messages

 * python-fpconst | Python module for handling IEEE 754 floating point special values

 * shorewall | An iptables front end for firewall configuration

 * snake | Smart Network Automated Kickstart Environment

 * SOAPpy | Full-featured SOAP library for Python

 * taglib | Audio Meta-Data Library

 * testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition



=== EPEL 4 ===



Number of source packages: 503



Number of binary packages:  973 



There are 32 new Packages:



 * aalib | An ASCII art library.

 * bsdiff | Binary diff/patch utility

 * dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework

 * dvdisaster | Additional error protection for CD/DVD media

 * enca | Character set analyzer and detector

 * enigma | Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd

 * g2clib | GRIB2 encoder/decoder and search/indexing routines in C

 * gtranslator | Gettext po file editor for GNOME

 * inkscape | Vector-based drawing program using SVG

 * iozone | Filesystem benchmarking utility

 * iperf | Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

 * net6 | A TCP protocol abstraction for library C++

 * obby | A library which provides synced document buffers

 * perl-Authen-SASL | SASL Authentication framework for Perl

 * perl-GSSAPI | Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library

 * perl-IO-Interface | Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information

 * phpldapadmin | Web-based tool for managing LDAP servers

 * plotutils | GNU vector and raster graphics utilities and libraries

 * python-cherrypy | A pythonic, object-oriented web development framework

 * python-decoratortools | Use class and function decorators -- even in Python 2.3

 * python-formencode | HTML form validation, generation, and convertion package

 * python-json | A JSON reader and writer for Python

 * python-nose | A discovery-based unittest extension for Python

 * python-paste-script | A pluggable command-line frontend

 * python-ruledispatch | A generic function package for Python

 * python-sqlobject | SQLObject -Object-Relational Manager, aka database wrapper

 * python-tgfastdata | Automatic user interface generation for TurboGears

 * python-turbojson | Python template plugin that supports json

 * python-turbokid | Python template plugin that supports Kid templates

 * shorewall | An iptables front end for firewall configuration

 * testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition

 * TurboGears | Back-to-front web development in Python



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