Petter Reinholdtsen

New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils)
22nd February 2014

Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and innetgr tools, because I needed them in Skolelinux. I called the project ng-utils, and it has served me well. I placed the project under the Hungry Programmer umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS repository. But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost, not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a proper home since then.

Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in a proper source control system. I applied for a project on Alioth, but did not have time to follow up on it. Until today. :)

After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the history of the project. I published all release tarballs and imported them into the git repository. As the project is really stable and not expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new release and call it 1.0. Visit the new project home on https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/ if you want to check it out. The new version is also uploaded into Debian Unstable.

Tags: debian, english.

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