Debian on Dotdeb

Debian 8.0 Jessie has been released, and what it means for Dotdeb

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:06:27 +0000

Good news, guys : Debian 8.0 Jessie has been released on April 25th 2015. Huge kudos to all the Debian developers who made this happen!

Jessie already includes the following components by default :

PHP 5.6.7
MariaDB 1.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42
Nginx 1.6.2

That means that in the next few days/weeks (thanks in advance for your patience), Dotdeb will progressively provide the following packages for Jessie :

Nginx, latest stable release
Redis, latest release
Zabbix LTS
Last but not least, PHP 7 once it’s declared as stable

That also means that Dotdeb won’t provide these packages for Jessie :

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" has been released

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:37:13 +0000

Now that Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” has been released, I’m glad to announce that it’s supported by Dotdeb. Feel free to change your sources.list and to upgrade your boxes.

About Wheezy & Dotdeb

Wheezy is supported as of today and these packages will be maintained :

PHP : 5.4 and 5.5 (as soon as it’s GA)
MySQL : 5.6 or equivalent (Percona Server, MariaDB…)
Nginx
Redis
Zabbix
Percona toolkit

(PHP 5.4, Zabbix and Percona toolkit packages are missing now, they will appear in the next few days)

Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" has been released

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:24:48 +0000

Today is a great day for the Debian community : Debian Squeeze has been released.

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a technology preview.

The website of the Debian project also got a facelift. Please visit it for more information.

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

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:02 +0000

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' the security support for the old distribution (4.0 alias
'etch') is coming to an end next month. The Debian project is proud
to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and
even for one year after a new version has been released.

The Debian project has released Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias 'lenny' on
the 14th of February 2009. Users and Distributors have been given a
one-year timeframe to upgrade their old installations to the current
stable release. Hence, the security support for the old release of
4.0 is going to end in February 2010 as previously announced.

Previously announced security updates for the old release will continue
to be available on security.debian.org.

Then, Dotdeb will follow the Debian project and all the Etch packages will be moved to http://archives.dotdeb.org/ on Feb. 15th.

Dotdeb : Debian 5.0 "Lenny" support in progress...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:46:03 +0000

Dotdeb is now providing Debian packages of PHP5, MySQL 5.1 for your Debian Lenny (and still Debian Etch) LAMP servers

How to package PHP extensions by yourself

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:52:56 +0000

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 ;) Sorry for that.

Then, this article will show you how to build packages from your favorite PECL extensions in a strict Debian way, using the dh-make-php package.

ClamAV removed from Dotdeb

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:50:36 +0000

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 use it instead of Dotdeb for your mail-filtering packages.