Ubuntu Backports Weekly News, Issue #4

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Ubuntu Backports Weekly News, Issue #4
01/12/2005

Project Description:
The Ubuntu Backports project's goal is to provide a stable AND up-to-date Ubuntu Linux system by backporting desktop applications from Ubuntu's Development branches and Debian Sid to the latest stable release.

This week's recap:
A new "Promotion Discussion" model of determinining promotions was started this week. Let's see if that works out. We hit the 250 package mark this week, and also the 200MB barrier. This is turning out to be a big effort, but one well worth it.


Stable Branch Promotions:
The packages listed here have been introduced in the warty-backports-staging testing area for at least the past week. They've been tested by me to work, plus they have no outstanding bugs against them. Therefore, they've been promoted to the stable tree.


mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind_1.0-0ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
mozilla-thunderbird-offline_1.0-0ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
mozilla-thunderbird-inspector_1.0-0ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
mozilla-thunderbird-dev_1.0-0ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
mozilla-thunderbird_1.0-0ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libgimp2.0-doc_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_all.deb
libgimp2.0-dev_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libgimp2.0_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gthumb_2.6.1-3-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gimp-svg_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gimp-python_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gimp-helpbrowser_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gimp-data_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_all.deb
gimp_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gimp1.2_2.2.0+rel-2ubuntu1-4.10ubp1_all.deb
chkrootkit_0.44-2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
wine-dev_0.0.20050111-1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
wine_0.0.20050111-1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
udftools_1.0.0b3-8-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
smb4k_0.4.1a-1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libwine-dev_0.0.20050111-1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libwine_0.0.20050111-1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
kino-timfx_0.2.2-2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
kinoplus_0.3.3-3-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
kino_0.75-2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
gtkpod_0.85.0-0.1-4.10ubp1_i386.deb


Held Back:
The following packages are held back from promotion.

xnetcardconfig_0.1.1-6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
sun-j2sdk1.5debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
sun-j2sdk1.4debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
sun-j2sdk1.3debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
sun-j2re1.5debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
sun-j2re1.4debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
sun-j2re1.3debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
multisync_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-syncml_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-palm_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-opie_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-irmc_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-evolution_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-backup_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_i386.deb
libmultisync-plugin-all_0.82-3.2ubuntu2-4.10ubp1_all.deb
java-package_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
blackdown-j2sdk1.4debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
blackdown-j2sdk1.3debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
blackdown-j2re1.4debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
blackdown-j2re1.3debian_0.17.6-4.10ubp1_all.deb
smart_0.28-0-4.10ubp1_i386.deb



Into the future:

Well, no word from SF yet on their new FRS thing, so continue to stay tuned.
I have lots of schoolwork and exams to deal with, plus standardized testing and such. January will be a slow month.


-The Ubuntu Backports Team