Pape - Debian Packages - sid/lenny

The reasons why the unofficial Debian packages were not included into the official Debian archive do no longer apply since D. J. Bernstein put the software packages into the public domain.

There's been progress in officially including the packages into the Debian archive since. As of Sun, 29 Jun 2008, the following packages are officially available for Debian/sid and Debian/lenny:

daemontools (including daemontools-run and daemontools-doc)
ucspi-tcp (including ucspi-tcp-doc)
djbdns (including djbdns-doc)

The var-qmail packages did not yet make it into the official Debian archive.

There's been a netqmail-1.06 package (binary packages qmail, qmail-uids-gids), a qmail-run package, and a qmail-tools package, which should be extended to enable upgrades from previous versions of qmail binary packages, uploaded to Debian on Mon, Apr 28, 2008.

New packages usually are included into the official Debian archive after review by the ftpmasters within one or two weeks, the reasons why this does not happen with the qmail packages I don't know. Asking unfortunately doesn't help, there's no reply.

Update: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008, I received this email.

Precompiled binary Debian packages for i386 and powerpc, and the uploaded source packages, as well as packages for ezmlm-idx and tinydyndns, are available here. Download the packages, or add

 deb http://dbn.smarden.org/ sid/
 deb-src http://dbn.smarden.org/ sid/

to /etc/apt/sources.list, and run

 # apt-get update

Then install the packages as usual with apt-get, dpkg or dselect.

If you use the packages regularly, please contribute to the project.

There is a mailing list you should join when installing these packages. To subscribe send an empty email to <debian-packages-subscribe@list.smarden.org>. The mailing list will most probably be closed, once the packages are available officially through the Debian archive.

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>