Recent Package Updates
2026-11-15: gnulib-20250303-3 (GNU portability library)
Gnulib, the GNU portability library, is a macro system and C
declarations and definitions for commonly-used API elements and
abstracted system behaviors. It can be used to improve portability and
other functionality in your programs.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
python upgrade2026-11-15: ebook-tools-0.2.2-4 (Accesses/converts various ebook file formats)
Accesses/converts various ebook file formats
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
Misc updates2026-11-15: aria2-1.37.0-1 (Downloader for HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent/Metalink)
aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are
HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink.
It can download one or more files individually or from multiple
sources/protocols at the same time and tries to utilize your maximum
download bandwidth (by using multiple threads and downloading data from
HTTP(S)/FTP, while also uploading to the BitTorrent swarm).
Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks
of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.
There are other alternative applications. But aria2 has 2 distinctive
features: (1) aria2 can download a file from several
URLs(http/ftp/BitTorrent) and (2) If you give aria2 list of URLs, then
aria2 downloads them concurrently. You don't have to wait for the
current download queue to finish one file at a time anymore. aria2 uses
your maximum bandwidth and downloads files quickly.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
Misc updates2026-11-14: dcmtk-3.7.1-1 (Collection of DICOM libs and applications)
DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large
parts the DICOM standard for medical image communication. It includes
software for examining, constructing and converting DICOM image files,
handling offline media, sending and receiving images over a network
connection, as well as demonstration image storage and worklist servers.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
dcmtk: new version2026-11-14: libabw01-dev-0.1.4-1 (Library to import AbiWord files)
Library to import AbiWord files
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libabw: new version2026-11-14: libsigsegv3-shlibs-2.16-1 (Library for handling page faults in user mode)
This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs
when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is currently not
available.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libsigsegv: updates2026-11-14: libsigsegv2-shlibs-2.6-6 (Library for handling page faults in user mode)
This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs
when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is currently not
available.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libsigsegv: updates2026-11-14: hwloc15-shlibs-2.9.3-1 (Portable Hardware Locality)
The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) software package provides a
portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, ...) of
the hierarchical topology of modern architectures, including NUMA
memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous
multithreading.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
hwloc: upgrades2026-11-14: librevenge-0.0.6-1 (Base library for document import filters)
Base library for document import filters
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
librevenge: new version2026-11-14: hwloc-shlibs-1.11.13-5 (Portable Hardware Locality)
The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) software package provides a
portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, ...) of
the hierarchical topology of modern architectures, including NUMA
memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous
multithreading.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
hwloc: upgrades2026-11-14: yaz5-5.38.0-1 (Toolkit for Z39.50 applications)
Toolkit for Z39.50 applications
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-14: xmlstarlet-1.6.1-3 (Command-line XML manipulation tool)
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities which can be used to
transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using
simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text
files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-14: xmlto-0.0.29-2 (Tool to convert xml files to other formats)
The xmlto command is a front-end to an XSL toolchain. It chooses an
appropriate stylesheet for the conversion you want and applies it using
xsltproc. It also performs any necessary post-processing. The package
also includes the xmlif script for conditional parsing.
Supported formats are: dvi, fo, html, html-nochunks, htmlhelp,
javahelp, man, pdf, ps, txt, xhtml, xhtml-nochunks from DocBook; and
dvi, pdf, ps from xsl-fo.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
xmlto: dep cleanup (only uses runtime tools)2026-11-14: jbig2dec-0.20-1 (Decoder for JBIG2 image compression format)
JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel' (1-bit
monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular
scanned paper documents. In this domain it is very efficient, offering
compression ratios on the order of 100:1.
This is a decoder only implementation, and currently is in the alpha
stage, meaning it doesn't completely work yet. However, we are
maintaining parity with available encoders, so it is useful for real
work.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
jbig2dec: new version2026-11-14: ices2-2.0.3-1 (Source client for broadcasting in Ogg Vorbis)
IceS is a source client for a streaming server.
The purpose of this client is to provide an audio stream to a streaming server
such that one or more listeners can access the stream. With this layout, this
source client can be situated remotely from the icecast server.
The primary example of a streaming server used is Icecast 2, although others
could be used if certain conditions are met.
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
ices2: v2.0.32026-11-13: libavcodec62-8.0-shlibs-8.1.3-1 (Audio/video encoders and decoders libraries)
FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting
solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in
real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263,
ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
ffmpeg: v8.1.32026-11-13: netpbm11-shlibs-11.16.03-1 (Graphics manipulation programs and libraries)
Graphics manipulation programs and libraries
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
netpbm: v11.16.03
Remove external libjbig dep since upstream added private functions not present in official dist
Don't test failing tests
Get rid of old system that required installing into temp directory and futzing with install_name_tool to test. We now use the official make incantation to test in-tree built files.2026-11-13: vim-nox-9.2.1342-1 (Improved version of the editor "vi")
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor:
Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection,
graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars,
text selection), and much much more.
commit log from Hisashi T Fujinaka ([email protected]):
Vim: Welcome to Vim-9.2.1342.
Yet another commit with security implications.2026-11-13: vim-9.2.1342-1 (Improved version of the editor "vi")
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor:
Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection,
graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars,
text selection), and much much more.
commit log from Hisashi T Fujinaka ([email protected]):
Vim: Welcome to Vim-9.2.1342.
Yet another commit with security implications.2026-11-11: autogen-5.18.16-5 (Automated text generation from templates)
AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of
programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is
especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that
must be kept synchronized.
AutoGen includes several modules for specific applications, including
a command line option parser, an FSM generator, a generator for
autoconf macros and others.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5302-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5182-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5341-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5162-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5184-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: emacs26-app-26.3-5 (Flexible real-time text editor)
This is a port of the latest GNU Emacs source to Cocoa.
On the Mac, this port differs from "Carbon" ports of GNU Emacs
in that it makes a more concerted attempt from the ground up to
follow OS X desktop and UI conventions (without, however,
limiting in any way what you can already do with Emacs).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
emacs26-app: clean up .info, sync with changes in emacs26 (NB: FTBFS for me)2026-11-11: xml2-0.5-2 (Convert XML| HTML <-> a line-oriented format)
These tools are used to convert XML, CSV, and HTML to and from a line-oriented
format more amenable to processing by classic Unix pipeline processing tools,
like grep, sed, awk, cut, shell scripts, and so forth.
Documentation is available at http://ofb.net/~egnor/xml2/ref, and there are
illustrative examples at http://ofb.net/~egnor/xml2/examples .
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
xml2: switch from dead upstream to github fork; libxml2 upgrade2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5303-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: daemonic-20010902-15 (Interface to daemon init scripts)
daemonic provides daemon packages with a flexible, system-independent
interface to the init scripts (or whatever the system uses to start
daemons during system startup).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: shared-mime-info-1.10-2 (Shared MIME System)
Shared MIME System
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: xml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-pm5282-0.002-2 (Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node)
Set line number for an XML::LibXML::Node
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
libxml2 upgrades2026-11-11: bash-5.3.20-1 (The GNU Bourne Again Shell)
Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes
commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also
incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE
Posix Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
bash: new version2026-11-10: itstool-2.0.7-2 (Internationalization Tag Set XML/PO convert)
Internationalization Tag Set XML/PO convert
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
itstool: python upgrade2026-11-10: setuptools-tng-py310-68.0.0-2 (EasyInstall and python eggs)
Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python
packages.
This package replaces the distribute and setuptools packages.
See also: pip and virtualenv
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
setuptools-tng-py: +py3152026-11-10: bootstrap-modules-py310-20260715-2 (Bootstrap PEP 517 module builds)
This is a set of Python modules that are needed to do PEP 517 building
and wheel installation. They have to be installed together to enable
bootstrapping, because of circular dependencies.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
bootstrap-modules-py: python-minimal is sufficient2026-11-10: setuptools-tng-py37-68.0.0-2 (EasyInstall and python eggs)
Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python
packages.
This package replaces the distribute and setuptools packages.
See also: pip and virtualenv
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
setuptools-tng-py: +py3152026-11-10: setuptools-tng-py38-68.0.0-2 (EasyInstall and python eggs)
Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python
packages.
This package replaces the distribute and setuptools packages.
See also: pip and virtualenv
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
setuptools-tng-py: +py3152026-11-10: bootstrap-modules-py37-20260715-2 (Bootstrap PEP 517 module builds)
This is a set of Python modules that are needed to do PEP 517 building
and wheel installation. They have to be installed together to enable
bootstrapping, because of circular dependencies.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
bootstrap-modules-py: python-minimal is sufficient2026-11-10: setuptools-tng-py315-68.0.0-2 (EasyInstall and python eggs)
Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python
packages.
This package replaces the distribute and setuptools packages.
See also: pip and virtualenv
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
setuptools-tng-py: +py3152026-11-10: bootstrap-modules-py39-20260715-2 (Bootstrap PEP 517 module builds)
This is a set of Python modules that are needed to do PEP 517 building
and wheel installation. They have to be installed together to enable
bootstrapping, because of circular dependencies.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
bootstrap-modules-py: python-minimal is sufficient2026-11-10: bootstrap-modules-py38-20260715-2 (Bootstrap PEP 517 module builds)
This is a set of Python modules that are needed to do PEP 517 building
and wheel installation. They have to be installed together to enable
bootstrapping, because of circular dependencies.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
bootstrap-modules-py: python-minimal is sufficient2026-11-10: bootstrap-modules-py315-20260715-2 (Bootstrap PEP 517 module builds)
This is a set of Python modules that are needed to do PEP 517 building
and wheel installation. They have to be installed together to enable
bootstrapping, because of circular dependencies.
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
bootstrap-modules-py: python-minimal is sufficient2026-11-10: setuptools-tng-py39-68.0.0-2 (EasyInstall and python eggs)
Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python
packages.
This package replaces the distribute and setuptools packages.
See also: pip and virtualenv
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
setuptools-tng-py: +py315
