This is the Debian project ftp-master server. Various informational pages are available here.
Archive signing key
Information on the archive signing keys is available here
The ftpmaster team
The members of ftpmaster currently are divided into three groups, FTP Master,FTP Assistants and FTP Trainee.
Members of FTP Master are:
- Joerg Jaspert
- Mark Hymers
The FTP Assistants are:
- Frank Lichtenheld
- Mike O'Connor
- Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
- Chris Lamb
- Barry deFreese
- Torsten Werner
This information (and more like it) is available from Debian's Organizational Structure.
The FTP Master role, unix group debadmin, is responsible for:
- Keep the archive running
- Keep the archive legal
- Support the teams that depend on it (Release, Security, soon backports/volatile)
- Keep the archive uptodate with the requirements of the project
The FTP Assistent role, unix group ftpteam, created in 2005, allows the addition of people to the FTP Team without having to hand out full FTP Master rights. It allows
- to process NEW,
- to handle overrides,
- to remove packages.
The FTP Trainee role, group ftptrainee, was created in 2008 to allow easy training and testing of future team members.
Trainees can look at NEW and do the usual package checks, but they can not actually accept or reject a package. Instead they leave a note, which an Assistant or Master reads and acts on.
'dak'
dak (Debian Archive Kit) is the collection of scripts that have replaced dinstall and friends.
The source is managed in git and is available from: http://ftp-master.debian.org/git/
New Packages
New Packages uploaded to the archive, but not yet accepted, can be seen here. Packages uploaded and accepted, but not yet installed into the pool locations are to be found here, until the daily cron run moves them into the pool.
Deferred Packages
Deferred Packages which were uploaded to a DELAYED queue and have not reached their specified delay can be seen here.
Pending removals
Packages which are scheduled to be removed from Debian are shown here and also on the ftp bugpage.
Removed packages
To find what packages (and why) have been removed you can view the log of removals. This log contains the entries for this year only, to view older removal log entries follow one of the following links.
- log of removals for 2001
- log of removals for 2002
- log of removals for 2003
- log of removals for 2004
- log of removals for 2005
- log of removals for 2006
- log of removals for 2007
- log of removals for 2008
- log of removals for 2009
Additionally we provide a full log of all removals, in case you need to search in more than one year. Be careful, this file is huge (more than 5.5MB at the time of writing this).
If you want you can also follow removals via the RSS feed provided.
Cruft Report
Some packages which needs to be removed manually are found in the cruft-report.
Testing
Squeeze is testing, sid is unstable. For more details please look at the testing pages.
Stable
Packages uploaded to proposed-updated which have not yet been accepted by the stable release managers can be seen here.
Deciphering rejections
If your package has been rejected and you don't understand why, check the explanations of the sometimes cryptic rejection messages.
You may also want to look at the REJECT-FAQ.
Lintian Autorejects
Packages failing a defined set of lintian tags will no longer be accepted into the archive, but get rejected immediately.
Those automated rejects will only be done on sourceful uploads to unstable and experimental.
As there are certain lintian tags that should only appear in very rare cases we have created two categories:
- warning
- Tags listed here *can* be overriden by the maintainer using the normal lintian override mechanism. Of course this should only be done if you have a technically sound reason why your package needs to break in such a way.
- error
- Tags listed here can not be overridden. Those are tags corresponding to packaging errors serious enough to mark a package unfit for the archive and should never happen. In fact, most of the tags listed do not appear in our archive currently, the few packages listed below should be easily fixable with their next upload.
The current list of tags can be found here.