blog/data/2014-02-22-ng-utils-1.0.txt

   1 Title: New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils)
   2 Tags: english, debian
   3 Date: 2014-02-22 21:45
   4
   5 <p>Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and
   6 innetgr tools, because I needed them in
   7 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>.  I called the project
   8 ng-utils, and it has served me well.  I placed the project under the
   9 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">Hungry Programmer</a> umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS
  10 repository.  But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost,
  11 not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a
  12 proper home since then.</p>
  13
  14 <p>Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release
  15 fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in
  16 a proper source control system.  I applied for a project on
  17 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a>, but did not have time
  18 to follow up on it.  Until today. :)</p>
  19
  20 <p>After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project
  21 now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the
  22 history of the project.  I published all release tarballs and imported
  23 them into the git repository.  As the project is really stable and not
  24 expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new
  25 release and call it 1.0.  Visit the new project home on
  26 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/">https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/</a>
  27 if you want to check it out.  The new version is also uploaded into
  28 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ng-utils.html">Debian Unstable</a>.</p>