Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week50

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 50/2007

Most important happenings

• 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

• EPEL for IA64

• 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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