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Thanks to Giuseppe "denever" Martino, we now have a new, full-fledged Debian weather GNOME applet.

What the applet offers is a GNOME panel applet that interfaces with the Debian weather service, which has been provided since very long time by the EDOS (now Mancoosi) project. In short, the service tells you how many packages are not installable in a given Debian suite, day-by-day. The interest of monitoring that is to avoid attempting package upgrades when a lot of packages are not installable (that would be a bad/stormy day).

We used to have a debian-weather-applet package before, but it was a tad buggy and was not really up to date with respect to GNOME applet current guidelines.

Recently, Giuseppe "denever" Martino has contacted us offering a complete rewrite of the applet, in a few lines of Python code. It works as a dream and it is very nice too, I'm personally using it day-to-day :-)

You can get the applet from the Mancoosi Debian package repository, package name is debian-weather-applet.

If you like it, please join us in thanking Giuseppe for his work!

Due to the relevance of CUDF in the workflow of Mancoosi, we have worked a bit in improving the documentation of CUDF and its visibility on the web. The result is a CUDF homepage which explains in very simple terms what CUDF is about.

Additionally, to help implementors in getting started with CUDF, we have also written a brief CUDF primer that explains the main CUDF concepts with realistic examples.

If you are interested in CUDF and related technologies: have a read!, and let us know how can we improve it.

PS by the way, we also have a nice CUDF logo now :-)