Etch security support discontinued by Debian on Feb. 15th…

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

The Debian security team announced that Debian 4.0 "Etch" security support  will be ended on February 15th, 2010 : Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be discontinued on February 15th One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias 'lenny' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' ...

Dotdeb : Debian 5.0 “Lenny” support in progress…

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" has been published on last Valentine's day. Although most of the Dotdeb packages for the previous release, "Etch", are compatible with Lenny, it is now time for Dotdeb to have dedicated packages for this new distribution. I'm actually kind of busy at work, but I managed to ...

How to package PHP extensions by yourself

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

I often receive emails telling me that Dotdeb is a great tool, but that some useful packages are missing, such as some PECL extensions. I wish I could maintain many and many packages, but I don't think it's a good idea for the Dotdeb's overall quality and for my free time ;) ...

ClamAV removed from Dotdeb

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

FYI, ClamAV has been removed from Dotdeb, since it is more actively maintained on Debian Volatile. Volatile is now part of the Debian project and will be activated by default on Debian Lenny. Its goal is to provide up-to-date packages of some specific pieces of software (ClamAV, Spamassassin for example). Please ...