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In this issue:
+ debhelper compat level 12 is open for beta testing
+ Port for RISC-V 64-bit (riscv64) added to debian-ports
+ Debian is now ready to get Rust crates as packages
+ New uscan features
+ FTP Team — call for volunteers

debhelper compat level 12 is open for beta testing --------------------------------------------------

The debhelper compat level 12 is expected to become stable in Debian
buster and open for beta testing as of debhelper (>= 11.4~). If you would
like to help, please consider taking debhelper compat 12 for a spin by:

* Reviewing debhelper(7)[1] for information on the changes to compat
level 12.
* Bumping the Build-Depends on debhelper to debhelper (>= 11.4~) and set
debian/compat to 12.
* Apply necessary changes (if any)
* Building your package and debdiff'ing the binaries with the previous
version/build.

If you run into issues, awkward behaviour or improvements in general,
please contact the debhelper maintainers e.g. by filing a bug against the
debhelper package.

Note: The new-style "debhelper-compat (= 12)" relation '''cannot''' be
used for the beta test; that is reserved for the stable version of compat
12.

-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html#Supported_compatibility_levels

Port for RISC-V 64-bit (riscv64) added to debian-ports ------------------------------------------------------

A new port for RISC-V[2], flavour `riscv64` (64-bits little-endian) is
now available in Debian Ports[3].

More information in a blog post[4] from Planet Debian[5].

-- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org>

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V
[3] https://www.ports.debian.org/
[4] https://people.debian.org/~mafm/posts/2018/20180402_debian-gnulinux-port-for-risc-v-64-bit-riscv64-in-debian-infrastructure-debian-ports/
[5] https://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian

Debian is now ready to get Rust crates as packages --------------------------------------------------

With release of debcargo 2.0.0 to crates.io, now you can create a Debian
package from your favorite Rust crate and upload it to the Debian archive.

Read the official announcement[6] by Ximin Luo to understand the workflow
to follow. Join #debian-rust on irc.oftc.net or write to team mailing
list[7] if you have doubts.

-- Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@debian.org>

[6] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/2018-June/001412.html
[7] mailto:pkg-rust-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

New uscan features
------------------

devscripts 2.18.5 has been released and brings some new uscan features
for developers[8]:

* in git mode, uscan is now able to verify signed tags
* a "searchmode=plain" line option can be used to parse the full content
of a web page instead of searching only <a href*> tags, useful for
JSON contents
* new "auto" value for dversionmangle to replace the common
dversionmangle=~s/[\+~](debian|dfsg|ds|deb)(\.)?(\d+)?$//

'''NB''': While making these changes uscan underwent a huge refactor, so
please file any bug(s) you may find in this new version, and we will fix
them for the next release.

-- Xavier <yadd@debian.org>

[8] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/2467f981-81f1-a4bb-3fc4-49262cf39d7b@debian.org

FTP Team — call for volunteers
------------------------------

Chris Lamb called[9] for more volunteers for the FTP Team and included a
summary of the tasks involved.

-- Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

[9] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1539190319.3739281.1537477880.19A47E1E@webmail.messagingengine.com

--
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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