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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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