http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/518 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org June 10th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/12/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to Debian GSoC Students * Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment * Bits from the DPL * Expiration of debian-multimedia.org * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Welcome to Debian GSoC Students ------------------------------- The Debian project is proud to announce that this year, 16 students have been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program [1] to work on improving Debian. This is the highest number of students accepted since Debian started participating in this program. The list of selected students and the projects they're working on is publicly [1] available [2]. If you are interested in one of these projects, you are encouraged to come and join the #debian-soc IRC channel, or to contact the students and their mentors directly. 1: http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/welcome-gsoc-students-2013.html 2: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/debian Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment -------------------------------------------------------- Mònica Ramírez Arceda announced the result [3] of Debian participation in the Outreach Program for Women [4]. One of the four applicants was accepted, but also received a slot for the Google Summer of Code. As a consequence, this internship was not used. Since the Outreach Program for Women is run twice a year, Mònica has opened the discussion about further Debian participation with a call for more volunteers. Join the #debian-opw IRC channel if you are willing to help with this initiative. 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/06/msg00002.html 4: http://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen Bits from the DPL ----------------- Lucas Nussbaum sent his monthly report of DPL activities for May 2013 [5]. Among other things, Lucas reminded readers that it could still be possible to submit talks for DebConf13, in Vaumarcus, Switzerland [6], and called for the creation of a Debian trademark team, handling the trademark use requests that are being received following the publication of the Debian trademark policy [7]. He also mentioned that discussions which occurred during the last DPL campaign have been summarised by Brian Gupta on a dedicated page of the Debian Wiki [8], and encouraged people to contribute to maintaining this page when ideas are raised on Debian lists. 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00000.html 6: http://debconf13.debconf.org/ 7: http://www.debian.org/trademark#policy 8: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Ideas Expiration of debian-multimedia.org ----------------------------------- debian-multimedia.org was a popular unofficial repository of Debian packages. Last year, this service moved to a new domain, and despite efforts from Debian, the debian-multimedia.org domain recently expired, and has now been registered by someone unknown to Debian. "This is a good example of the importance of the use of cryptography to secure APT repositories", DPL Lucas Nussbaum said [9]. The Debian project would like to emphasise the need to consider possible security issues when using third-party repositories and the importance of not blindly adding keys to the APT keyring. 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00000.html Other news ---------- A Swedish municipal e-service named "Fixa Min Gata [10]" ("fix my street" in English), used for reporting potholes, broken paving stones, graffiti, non-functioning lamp posts, and other problems, has been reported [11] to be powered by Debian servers. 10: http://fixamingata.se/ 11: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/swedish-public-open-source-movement-working-bottom New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 4 applicants have been accepted [12] as Debian Maintainers since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Gianfranco Costamagna, Emmanuel Bourg, Geoffrey Thomas and Prach Pongpanich into our project! 12: http://lists.debian.org//debian-project/2013/06/msg00001.html Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): subversion [13], telepathy-gabble [14], wireshark [15], iceweasel [16], krb5 [17], gnutls26 [18], otrs2 [19] and chromium- browser [20]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 13: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2703 14: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702 15: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2700 16: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699 17: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2701 18: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2697 19: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2696 20: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2695 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [21] (and the separate backports list [22], and stable updates list [23]) for announcements. 21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 612 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [24] are: * choreonoid — integrated robotics GUI environment [25] * clonezilla — bare metal backup and recovery of disk drives [26] * dconf-editor — simple configuration storage system [27] * emscripten — LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler [28] * hoogle — Haskell API Search for Debian system [29] * pybik-bin — 3D Rubik's cube game - binary files [30] * python-pelican — blog aware, static website generator [31] * shaarli — personal, minimalist, super-fast and no-database Delicious clone [32] * systemd-ui — graphical fronted for systemd [33] * xul-ext-deejayd-webui — Deejayd web user interface XUL extension [34] 24: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 25: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/choreonoid 26: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clonezilla 27: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dconf-editor 28: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/emscripten 29: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hoogle 30: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pybik-bin 31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-pelican 32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shaarli 33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/systemd-ui 34: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-deejayd-webui Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [35] 488 packages are orphaned [36] and 142 packages are up for adoption [37]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [38]. 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/06/msg00263.html 36: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 37: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 38: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [39] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 39: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye. </pre> Cédric Boutillier 2013-06-10T20:10:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/517 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org May 27th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/11/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian GNU/Hurd release * DebConf 13: Call for Papers * Debian Edu Wheezy second alpha release * Bits from the piuparts maintainers * Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013 * Other news * Upcoming events * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian GNU/Hurd release ----------------------- The Debian GNU/Hurd team announced the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. [1] This is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. On the Debian Ports [2] archive you can find the installation ISO images to download (netinst, CD or DVD), as well as a pre-installed disk image which makes it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more than 10,000 software packages available. Please make sure to read the configuration information [3], the FAQ [4], and the translator primer [5] to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd. 1: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-news 2: http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/ 3: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install 4: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html 5: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html DebConf 13: Call for Papers --------------------------- Debian invites submissions [6] of proposals for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for its DebConf13 [7] conference which will take place in Le Camp, Vaumarcus, Switzerland, in August. Submissions are not limited to traditional talks: you could propose a performance, art installation, debate, or anything else. Official submissions will be accepted until 1 June 2013, 23:59 UTC. 6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00011.html 7: http://debconf13.debconf.org/ DebConf talks will be broadcast live on the Internet where possible, and videos of the talks will be published on the web along with the presentation slides and papers. Regular sessions will be 45 minutes long, including time for questions, with a 15 minute break between events. Debian Edu Wheezy second alpha release -------------------------------------- Debian Edu [8], also known as Skolelinux, made its second Wheezy based alpha release on 14 May. Aiming to provide an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network, this release features a number of software updates and fixes, which are all documented in the release announcement [9]. 8: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu 9: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html If you'd like to contribute to the project's development, please access the wiki page for new Debian Edu contributors [10]. 10: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Contribute Bits from the piuparts maintainers ---------------------------------- Holger Levsen sent some bits from the piuparts maintainers [11]. piuparts is an automated tool aimed at testing for errors in the installation, upgrading and removal of.deb packages. In his mail, Holger reported that piuparts recently received a few infrastructure upgrades, providing considerably improved speeds for the service. The main improvement made was moving piuparts.debian.org [12] away from the machine piatti.debian.org to the new cluster running at Bytemark [13]. 11: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00013.html 12: http://piuparts.debian.org 13: http://bits.debian.org/2013/04/bytemark-donation.html Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013 ---------------------------------------------- On 1-2 June 2013, the second edition of the Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia (DUCC-IT 2013) will take place in Fermo, Italy. The experience of DUCC-IT 2013, which follows on from the first such event held in Perugia in 2010, is aimed both at members of the two communities and at all Free Software enthusiasts, offering an excellent opportunity to get in touch and learn more about one another. You can read the announcement (in Italian) and the full event schedule on the Italian community website [14]. 14: http://www.ubuntu-it.org/news/2013/05/21/comunicato-stampa-debianubuntu-community-conference-italia-2013 Other news ---------- Ana Guerrero reported that, after the recent discovery of a large number of security issues in the various X client libraries, several security fixes for Squeeze and Wheezy systems are now available [15] thanks to the work of the Debian Security and X.org teams. You can check the full list of updates in the debian-security-announce mailing list archive [16]. 15: http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/security-updates-for-xorg.html 16: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2013/threads.html Hideki Yamane announced that the Debian Developer's Reference [17], the document containing guidelines and information for Debian Developers, is now also available in epub format [18]. 17: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/developers-reference 18: http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com/2013/05/add-epub-support-to-developers-reference.html The DebConf team published the DebConf12 final report [19]. 19: http://media.debconf.org/dc12/documents/DebConf12_FinalReport.pdf Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * May 28-29, Paris, France — Debian booth at Solutions Linux [20] * June 1-2, Palazzo dei Priori, Fermo, Marche, Italy — Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013 [21] 20: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0528-solutionslinux 21: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0601-ducc-it You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [22] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [23], Netherlands [24], Hispanic America [25], North America [26]. 22: http://www.debian.org/events 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [27]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [28]. 27: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 28: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): xen [29], mysql-5.5 [30], linux-2.6 [31], linux [32], request-tracker3.8 [33], request-tracker4 [34], kfreebsd-9 [35], libdmx [36], libxv [37], libxvmc [38], libxfixes [39], libxrender [40], mesa [41], xserver-xorg-video-openchrome [42], libxt [43], libxcursor [44], libxext [45], libxi [46], libxrandr [47], libxp [48], libxcb [49], libfs [50], libxres [51], libxtst [52], libxxf86dga [53], libxinerama [54], libxxf86vm [55], libx11 [56] and spip [56]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2666 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2667 31: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2668 32: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2669 33: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2670 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2671 35: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2672 36: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2673 37: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2674 38: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2675 39: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2676 40: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2677 41: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2678 42: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2679 43: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2680 44: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2681 45: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2682 46: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2683 47: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2684 48: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2685 49: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2686 50: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2687 51: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2688 52: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2689 53: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2690 54: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2691 55: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2692 56: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2693 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [57] (and the separate backports list [58], and stable updates list [59]) for announcements. 57: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 58: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 59: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 417 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [60] are: * assword — simple and secure password management and retrieval system [61] * ergo — quantum chemistry program for large-scale calculations [62] * init-system-helpers — helper tools for all init systems [63] * libc++1 — LLVM C++ Standard library [64] * lldb — next generation, high-performance debugger [65] * ostinato — network packet/traffic generator and analyzer [66] * perlrdf — RDF command line utilities [67] * stoken — software token for cryptographic authentication [68] * taopm — sound synthesis software with physical models [69] * wxhexeditor — hexadecimal editor for massive files [70] * zotero-standalone — tool to organize and share your research sources [71] 60: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 61: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/assword 62: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ergo 63: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/init-system-helpers 64: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/libc++1 65: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lldb 66: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ostinato 67: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/perlrdf 68: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/stoken 69: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/taopm 70: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wxhexeditor 71: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zotero-standalone Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [72] 505 packages are orphaned [73] and 140 packages are up for adoption [74]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [75]. 72: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01377.html 73: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 74: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 75: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [76] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 76: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Victor Nițu and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-05-27T12:53:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/516 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project mourns the loss of Ray Dassen press&lt; at &gt;debian.org May 23rd, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130523 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Ray Dassen (jdassen) died on May 18th. Ray was a Debian Developer for an incredible 19 years. He joined the project in 1994, and continued to be an active contributor until recently. He was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, particularly Gnumeric, and was a driving force behind the creation of the Debian Gnome team. The Debian Project honours Ray's great work and his strong dedication to Debian and Free Software. His technical knowledge and his ability to share that knowledge with others will be missed. His contributions will not be forgotten, and the high standards of his work will continue to serve as an inspiration to others. About Debian ------------ The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating systems Debian. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to &lt;press&lt; at &gt;debian.org [1]&gt;. 1: press&lt; at &gt;debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-05-23T18:00:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/515 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org May 13th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/10/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released * What's new in Debian "Wheezy" ? * DebConf11 and 12 videos * Debian beyond the cloud * Debian in Google Compute Engine * Bits from the DPL * "Coding Freedom" : a closer look at Debian contributors * Other news * Upcoming events * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released ---------------------------- 27 months after the release of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", a new stable version of the Debian operating system, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", was released on May 4, 2013 [1]. Among other improvements, this release brings to its users multiarch support [2], various tools to deploy private clouds [3], an improved installer supporting software speech, which makes accessibility one of its strong points, and an expanded set of multimedia codecs. Adam D. Barratt, Release Team manager, has already announced a first point release planned for next month [4] and given advice to maintainers about further uploads to "unstable" : the development of "Jessie" is already starting. Joerg Jaspert, Debian FTP master, gave some insight into the workflow needed by the FTP team to release a new stable version of Debian [5], while Raphael Geissert noted [6] that "in the first 48 hours after its log files were rotated last Sunday, http.debian.net [7] handled almost 2 million requests, for an average of 11 requests per second". Meanwhile, Debian users and enthusiasts from all over the world are organising parties [8] to celebrate the release of "Wheezy" : the Catalan Debian community [9] and some Indian Debian users [10] already seem to have had some fun! If you're going to have a party, share your report and pics with us using the identi.ca hashtag #releaseparty [11]. 1: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 2: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110726b 3: http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425 4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00003.html 5: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2013/05/wheezy-release.html 6: http://rgeissert.blogspot.com/2013/05/almost-one-million-requests-per-day.html 7: http://http.debian.net 8: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyWheezy 9: http://dunetna.probeta.net/doku.php/blog:debian_wheezy_party_barcelona 10: http://fossevangelist.blogspot.in/2013/05/releasepartywheezy-india-india-india.html 11: http://identi.ca/tag/releaseparty What's new in Debian "Wheezy" ? ------------------------------- Michael Prokop launched the #newinwheezy initiative [12] aimed at presenting to users and fellow developers the packages that have been newly introduced in "Wheezy". According to the Debian contributors who joined the initiative, among the most interesting new packages are: various forensic tools [13]; vcsh [14] ("manage config files in $HOME via fake bare git repositories"); Charybdis [15] ("a popular and solid IRC server which is the base of the software behind the Freenode network"); packages from the Grml system [16]; mosh [17] (a "UDP based remote shell terminal which works better than SSH in case of lag"); several lightweight browsers (dillo, netsurf, surf and xxxterm) [18]; libghc-stm-dev, a tool to help with writing non-buggy threaded programs [19]; scratch [20] ("an easy, interactive, collaborative programming environment designed for creation of interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art") and plymouth [21] ("a boot-time I/O multiplexer"). 12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00870.html 13: http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2013/04/29/the-newinwheezy-game-new-forensic-packages-in-debianwheezy/ 14: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/04/29-newinwheezy/ 15: http://anarcat.koumbit.org/2013-05-01-new-debian-release-my-contributions-newinwheezy-game 16: http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2013/05/02/the-newinwheezy-game-grml-packages-in-debianwheezy/ 17: http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Debian/New%2520SSH%2520stuff%2520in%2520Wheezy.html 18: http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Debian/New%2520web%2520browsers%2520in%2520Wheezy.html 19: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_newinwheezy_game:_STM/ 20: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html 21: http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Plymouth_is_not_a_bootsplash/ DebConf11 and 12 videos ----------------------- IRILL, sponsor of Debian for DebConf videos, has published all of the videos from DebConf11 and 12. They are available both in MP4 (H.264) and (recommended) Ogg formats, and easily available through their video player (DebConf11: 56 videos [22]; DebConf12: 72 videos [23]). 22: http://www.irill.org/videos/debconf-11/ 23: http://www.irill.org/videos/debconf-12/ Debian beyond the cloud ----------------------- Keith Chuvala, the manager of Space Operations Computing (SpOC) for NASA, announced this week [24] that the agency will switch to Debian on the International Space Station's laptops. Specifically, the ISS astronauts will be using computers running Debian 6. Chuvala mentioned they "needed an operating system that was stable and reliable", and that they will rely on the Linux Foundation for training their astronauts and IT specialists. 24: http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-7000014958/ Debian in Google Compute Engine ------------------------------- Google recently announced the availability of Debian images on its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Google Compute Engine [25]. At the moment, both 6.x and 7.x versions of Debian are distributed on their infrastructure, in order to provide an easier workload migration. For fast performance and to reduce bandwidth costs, Google is hosting a Debian package mirror for use by Google Compute Engine Debian instances. As Google announced, Debian will be the default image type for Compute Engine from now on. 25: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine Bits from the DPL ----------------- Lucas Nussbaum sent his first monthly report of DPL activities [26]. Besides thanking the other candidates, the voters and the previous project leader, Stefano Zacchiroli, the newly elected Project Leader summarised his first thirteen days of activity. Lucas focused particularly on the ongoing discussion about the Debian logo as a registered trademark [27], planned - with the help of Moray Allan - a survey of the main Debian teams to verify their health status, and started work on improving and documenting paths into the project. 26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00002.html 27: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/04/msg00082.html "Coding Freedom" : a closer look at Debian contributors ------------------------------------------------------- Gabriella Coleman announced the recent publication of her book, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking" [28], which was mostly inspired by Debian's community and active members. The book strives to identify and explain the key factors that have influenced the development of free software projects, while examining the social impact they have had. A good portion was based on Debian, following two years of ethnographic research. There is one chapter dedicated to the project and many others draw on interviews with Debian developers. The book is available under a Creative Commons license and freely available for download [29]. 28: http://codingfreedom.com/ 29: http://codingfreedom.com/buy_download.html Other news ---------- Guido Günther sent a report from the 6th Debian Groupware Meeting [30] held in Essen, Germany. 30: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg00012.html Gunnar Wolf announced that the deadline for sponsored registration for DebConf13 in Switzerland has officially been extended to Sunday May 19 [31]. For more information about how to register, you can check the original announcement about the opening of registration [32]. 31: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00006.html 32: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00001.html Upcoming events --------------- There is one upcoming Debian-related event: * May, 28-29, Paris, France — Debian boot at Solutions Linux [33] 33: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0528-solutionslinux You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [34] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [35], Netherlands [36], Hispanic America [37], North America [38]. 34: http://www.debian.org/events 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 36: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 37: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 38: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [39]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [40]. 39: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 40: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): mysql-5.5 [41], xen [42], stunnel [43] and strongswan [44]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 41: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2667 42: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2666 43: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2664 44: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2665 Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: clamav [45]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 45: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2013/04/msg00000.html Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [46] (and the separate backports list [47], and stable updates list [48]) for announcements. 46: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 47: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 48: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 373 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [49] are: * corekeeper — tool to enable core files and report crashes to the sysadmin [50] * debian-lan-config — FAI config space for the Debian-LAN system [51] * ext4magic — tool to recover deleted files from ext3 or ext4 partitions [52] * gmsl — extra functions to extend functionality of GNU Makefiles [53] * iceowl — standalone calendar application [54] * nsnake — classic snake game with textual interface [55] * python-odf — complete API for OpenDocument in Python [56] * qupzilla — lightweight web browser based on libqtwebkit [57] * sanewall — easy to use but powerful iptables stateful firewall [58] * watchcatd — process monitoring daemon [59] * wfrog — web-based customizable weather station software [60] 49: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 50: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/corekeeper 51: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/debian-lan-config 52: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ext4magic 53: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gmsl 54: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/iceowl 55: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nsnake 56: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-odf 57: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qupzilla 58: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sanewall 59: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/watchcatd 60: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wfrog Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [61] 512 packages are orphaned [62] and 139 packages are up for adoption [63]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [64]. 61: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00536.html 62: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 63: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 64: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [65] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 65: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Sylvestre Ledru, Victor Nițu and Justin B Rye.. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-05-13T11:02:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/512 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 29th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/09/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Release date for Wheezy announced * First Qt 5 packages in experimental * Debian Edu Wheezy alpha release * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Release date for Wheezy announced --------------------------------- Neil McGovern, on behalf of the Release Team, announced that the next stable version of Debian, "Wheezy", will be released during the first weekend of May (4/5 May) [1]. Help with the final touches is welcome: "release notes, installation guides and documentation in general, especially translations can always do with some work. Please see previous mails on these, and help if you can", explained Neil. And to show Debian your love, you can organise a Release Party in your city [2]. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg00006.html 2: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyWheezy First Qt 5 packages in experimental ----------------------------------- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer announced that the first Qt 5 packages have been accepted in the experimental suite [4]. For now they are available only for the 64-bit PC (amd64) architecture, but soon they will be available in the 32-bit PC flavour as well. As for the ARM based ones, it will take a bit more time. These packages have no GLES2 or Wayland support, but non-official packages with GLES2/Wayland enabled will be provided at some point, for testing purposes. As for future plans, Lisandro said that "other parts of Qt 5 are on the way. And remember, these packages would not have been possible if it weren't for the great Debian's pkg-kde team". 4: http://perezmeyer.blogspot.it/2013/04/on-road-to-qt-5-qt-5-base-tools.html Debian Edu Wheezy alpha release ------------------------------- Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, made its first Wheezy based alpha release on 26 April. It aims to provide an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network, featuring: * GOsa² web interface for adding users and machines * PXE-based network booting environment * A complete collection of educational and office software You can read the full release announcement in the Debian Edu list archive [5]. If you'd like to contribute to the project's development, please access the wiki page for new Debian Edu contributors [6]. 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html 6: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Contribute Other news ---------- The 32nd issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [7] has been released and covers the following topics: * Misc news on the QA infrastructure * Shrinking the archive with dedup.debian.net * DEP 12 started * Turtle RDF meta-data for the PTS * An easier way to find work-needing packages of interest 7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg00007.html Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Lintian maintainers [8] presenting some of its new features. Lintian [9] is one of the most important and most used package checkers for Debian packages, primarily checking for Debian Policy violations and violations of various sub-policies. 8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg00008.html 9: http://lintian.debian.org/ Andreas Tille sent an update on the status of the Debian Blends project [10]. In the mail, he explained the challenge that the various Debian Blends are currently facing, as well as asking for contributors to improve the general user experience for Wheezy users of Blends packages. 10: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg00010.html Upcoming events --------------- For a list of Wheezy release parties, follow the constantly expanding wiki page [11], where all the known release events are listed. 11: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyWheezy You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [12] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [13], Netherlands [14], Hispanic America [15], North America [16]. 12: http://www.debian.org/events 13: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 14: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 15: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 16: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [17]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [18]. 17: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 18: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 3 applicants have been accepted [19] as Debian Maintainer since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Simon Chopin, Markus Wanner and Matteo Cypriani into our project! 19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/04/msg00080.html Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [20], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 24 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 19 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 20: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [21] as well as some hints on how to interpret [22] these numbers. 21: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/04/26-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_17/ 22: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): curl [23], xorg-server [24], xen [25] and tinc [26]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 23: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2660 24: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2661 25: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2662 26: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2663 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [27] (and the separate backports list [28], and stable updates list [29]) for announcements. 27: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 28: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 29: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 338 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [30] are: * cardpeek — tool to read the contents of ISO7816 smartcards [31] * editorconfig — coding style indenter for all editors [32] * fatrace — report system wide file access events [33] * fsharp — functional-first programming language [34] * invesalius — 3D medical imaging reconstruction software [35] * kanla — small-scale alerting daemon [36] * neard — Near Field Communication (NFC) management daemon [37] * nocache — tool to bypass/minimize file system caching for a program [38] * seekwatcher — utility to visualize block I/O patterns [39] * shineenc — fixed-point MP3 encoding library [40] 30: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cardpeek 32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/editorconfig 33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fatrace 34: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fsharp 35: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/invesalius 36: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kanla 37: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/neard 38: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nocache 39: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/seekwatcher 40: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shineenc Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [41] 523 packages are orphaned [42] and 145 packages are up for adoption [43]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [44]. 41: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00811.html 42: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 43: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 44: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [45] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 45: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye and Victor Nițu. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-04-29T09:47:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/511 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 15th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/08/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * New DPL elected * Debian accepted for Google Summer of Code * Debian participates in Outreach Program for Women * Other news * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? New DPL elected --------------- Lucas Nussbaum has just been elected with a small majority [1] ahead of his main opponent Moray Allan by the Debian Developers to represent the project. Stefano Zacchiroli, outgoing project leader, welcomes his successor: "I've known Lucas Nussbaum and his passionate Debian involvement for many many years now, and I trust the Project is in good hands with him. Good luck, Lucas!" 1: http://www.debian.org/vote/2013/vote_001 Debian accepted for Google Summer of Code ----------------------------------------- For the eighth year in a row, Debian has been accepted as a mentoring organisation [2] for Google Summer of Code [3] (SoC), proposing a number of stipends for students aged 18 or older to write code for selected free and open source software projects. Eligible students for this program may consult the list of projects [4] proposed by Debian and contact mentors in order to prepare their application. More information is available on the dedicated wiki page [5]. If you are interested in applying to this program, send an email to the SoC coordination mailing list [6], or come and chat in the #debian-soc IRC channel. In order to offer the best mentorship for students, the Debian SoC team is also looking for co-mentors [7] for the proposed projects. 2: http://bits.debian.org/2013/04/call-for-students-gsoc-2013.html 3: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 4: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects 5: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013 6: soc-coordination&lt; at &gt;lists.alioth.debian.org 7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/03/msg00004.html Debian participates in Outreach Program for Women ------------------------------------------------- Mònica Ramírez Arceda announced that Debian will participate in the next round of the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women [8], started in 2006 by the GNOME Foundation, joined by other FOSS organisations. Debian is proposing an internship from June to September [9] to work on any kind of project, including coding, design, marketing, and web development. All women who are not yet Debian Developers or Debian Maintainers are encouraged to apply. There are no age restrictions and applicants don't need to be students. Please consult the dedicated wiki page [10] for details. 8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/04/msg00001.html 9: http://bits.debian.org/2013/04/joining-opw.html 10: http://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen Other news ---------- Bruce Byfield, a Canadian journalist, wrote an article trying to debunk some myths about Debian [11]. 11: http://www.datamation.com/open-source/nine-myths-that-shouldnt-stop-you-from-trying-debian-1.html The DebConf team announced [12] that DebConf14 will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA [13] in August 2014. 12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/04/msg00039.html 13: http://bits.debian.org/2013/04/debconf14-in-portland-usa.html Sylvestre Ledru blogged about the availability of new Twitter and Identi.ca feeds [14] for the latest uploads to the Debian archive, in addition to those already existing for the NEW queue [15], new bugs [16] and removed packages [17]. 14: http://identi.ca/debianupload 15: http://identi.ca/debiannew 16: http://identi.ca/debianbug 17: http://identi.ca/debianremove Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [18], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 39 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 32 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 18: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [19] as well as some hints on how to interpret [20] these numbers. 19: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/04/12-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_15/ 20: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): libapache-mod-security [21], postgresql-9.1 [22] and postgresql-8.4 [23]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 21: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2659 22: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2658 23: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2657 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: postgresql-9.0 [24] and postgresql-9.1 [25]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2013/04/msg00000.html 25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2013/04/msg00001.html Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [26] (and the separate backports list [27], and stable updates list [28]) for announcements. 26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 27: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 28: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 228 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [29] are: * brainparty — 36 puzzle games for all the family [30] * ebook2cw — conversion of ebooks to Morse MP3s/Oggs [31] * flowblade — non-linear video editor [32] * fonts-opendyslexic — font designed to increase readability for readers with dyslexia [33] * isenkram — tool suggesting packages to install when new hardware is inserted [34] * laborejo — music notation workshop [35] * marionnet — virtual network laboratory [36] 29: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 30: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/brainparty 31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ebook2cw 32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/flowblade 33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-opendyslexic 34: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/isenkram 35: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/laborejo 36: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/marionnet Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [37] 513 packages are orphaned [38] and 147 packages are up for adoption [39]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [40]. 37: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00422.html 38: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 39: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 40: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [41] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 41: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, David Prévot and Justin B Rye. </pre> Cédric Boutillier 2013-04-15T17:28:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/510 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure press&lt; at &gt;debian.org April 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130404 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Earlier this week, Debian started deploying machines for its core infrastructure services which will be hosted in a new data centre in York, UK. The hardware, generously donated and hosted by Bytemark Hosting [1], consists of a fully-populated HP BladeSystem (containing 16 server blades) and several HP Modular Storage Arrays (providing a total of 57 TB). 1: http://bytemark.co.uk "Bytemark's servers have relied on Debian since the day we started the company in 2002, and it was always an embarassingly good deal. We've tried to repay it through sponsorship of the annual DebConf gatherings, and through publication of Symbiosis (our own packages to make Debian easier for hosting tasks)," explained Matthew Bloch, co-founder of Bytemark. "While we can't match the unpaid efforts of the project's thousand of volunteers, we're at least happy to be providing such a substantial part of Debian's infrastructure. Debian's success will continue to spur Bytemark's." "This significant hardware and hosting donation will allow the Debian Systems Administration (DSA) team [2] to distribute Debian's core services across a greater number of geographically diverse locations, and improve, in particular, the fault-tolerance and availability of end- user facing services," said Luca Filipozzi (DSA team member). "Additionally, the storage component of this donation will dramatically reduce the storage challenges that Debian currently faces. Our plan is to move several storage-intensive services to Bytemark," he continued. "It is only through donations of time, goods and funds that the 100% volunteer Debian Project is able to operate the critical infrastructure necessary to support its work." Further details of which services will be moved to this new equipment will be provided soon on the debian- infrastructure-announce mailing list [3]. 2: http://dsa.debian.org 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce About Bytemark -------------- Bytemark [4] has been the UK's "nerd hosting outfit of choice" since 2002. It has a history of building its own technology including BigV, a new command-line cloud hosting platform, and Symbiosis, a set of packages to make hosting on Debian even easier. The company powers tens of thousands of domains around the world, and sponsors hosting for hundreds of important free software projects including Debian, LibreOffice and XBMC. 4: http://bytemark.co.uk About Debian ------------ The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to &lt;press&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt;. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-04-04T16:55:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/509 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 1st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's seventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the Release Team * Bits from the DSA team * DebConf13 matching fund * New Maintainer process * Editorial changes to the constitution * Interviews * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Bits from the Release Team -------------------------- Julien Cristau sent an update on Release Team activities [1], announcing the start of the final stage of the freeze. This basically means that from now on, there will be an even stricter policy on the changes that can be uploaded (only fixes for release critical bugs will be accepted) and that the Release Team will start to apply a specific usertag (wheezy-will-remove [2]) to mark packages that will be removed from the upcoming stable release if their RC bugs aren't fixed. In addition, Julien gave a reminder that help is needed to finalise the Release Notes: all users and contributors are invited to check the work in progress [3] and help with the current issues [4]. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/03/msg00009.html 2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=release.debian.org&lt; at &gt;packages.debian.org;tag=wheezy-can-defer;tag=wheezy-will-remove;tag=wheezy-is-blocker;ordering=wheezy-sort 3: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes 4: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=release-notes;tag=wheezy Bits from the DSA team ---------------------- Martin Zobel-Helas sent some bits from the Debian Systems Administration team (DSA) [5] in which he reported on the recent activities of the team. In recent months, they have focused on the virtualisation of a number of physical machines, creating some ganeti clusters to manage the various virtual machines. In addition to that, the team has begun a rewrite of its account management code base using the Django framework. The mail ends with the thanks of the DSA team to all the donors and hosting partners (and especially Eaton [6] and Brainfood [7]) as well as the ganeti package maintainers, Iustin Pop and Guido Trotter. 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/03/msg00010.html 6: http://www.eaton.com 7: http://www.brainfood.com DebConf13 matching fund ----------------------- Didier Raboud announced matching funding for donations to DebConf13 [8]. "As part of the DebConf13 fundraising effort, a generous sponsor, Brandorr Group [9], has proposed to match USD donations to DebConf13 until 30 April" explained Didier. Through this mechanism, for each dollar donated by an individual to DebConf13, Brandorr Group will donate another dollar. Individual donations will be matched only up to 100 USD each; only donations in USD will be matched, and Brandorr Group will match the donated funds up to a maximum total of 5,000 USD. This initiative will continue until Tuesday 30 April; spread the word! For further details, you can check the donations webpage [10]. 8: http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf13/dr_dc13_matching_fund.dc 9: http://www.brandorr.com/ 10: http://debconf13.debconf.org/monetary-support New Maintainer process ---------------------- Enrico Zini blogged about the gender imbalance in the New Maintainer process [11]. Enrico noted that we still have very few women applicants [12], despite previous efforts to encourage them to apply, including by the Debian Women [13] project. He therefore proposed that we adopt an affirmative action approach, and only allow one male candidate to apply for every female one. "Since the goal is to have an equal gender perception in Debian, we can just decide to only approve one obviously-male-named DD for every obviously-female-named one," said Enrico. "That's right: no new obviously-male-named DD unless an obviously-female-named DD has just been approved." 11: http://www.enricozini.org/2013/debian/on-gender-imbalance/ 12: https://nm.debian.org/public/processes 13: http://www.debian.org/women/ Editorial changes to the constitution ------------------------------------- Francesca Ciceri proposed a constitutional amendment about changing our election system [14]. She pointed out the large amount of time wasted in election discussions each year, and the problems in tricking other project members into running. The proposed amendment would cancel the current election process, and instead make Stefano Zacchiroli DPL for life. "Democratic processes are one of Debian distinguishing traits, but over the years we have learned not to abuse them, in particular when they risk getting in the way of decision efficiency," commented Stefano Zacchiroli, current Debian Project Leader. "I'm flattered of being proposed as "DPL for life" and, if the resolution will pass, I'll do my best to always listen to suggestions from Debian project members in spite of the lack of elections." 14: http://blog.zouish.org/posts/gr Interviews ---------- The newly launched official Debian blog [15] has interviewed the three candidates for this year's DPL election: Moray Allan [16], Gergely Nagy [17] and Lucas Nussbaum [18]. 15: http://bits.debian.org 16: http://bits.debian.org/2013/03/dpl-interview-2013-moray.html 17: http://bits.debian.org/2013/03/dpl-interview-2013-algernon.html 18: http://bits.debian.org/2013/03/dpl-interview-2013-lucas.html Other news ---------- Stefano Zacchiroli published his monthly report of DPL activities [19]. 19: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2013/03/bits_from_the_DPL_for_February_2013_and_a_half/ Jan Wagner published a detailed report on the Debian presence at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2013 [20]. 20: http://blog.waja.info/2013/03/20/chemnitzer-linux-tage-2013/ Following the recent announcement encouraging use of Debian's trademarks [21], some of the first new merchandising products featuring Debian branding have been announced. These range from a new version of the famous Debian umbrellas designed for pets and plush toys of your favourite Debian developers to Debian-branded bug squashing spray (fully approved for use with organic crops) and Debian Flame-Away™ calming drugs. 21: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130301 Masayuki Hatta wrote some tips on how to package Haskell software [22]. 22: http://www.mhatta.org/blog/2013/03/21/recipe-for-debian-haskell-packaging/ Rhonda announced the integration of the backport services into the main archive [23]. 23: http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/backports-integrated-into-the-main-archive.html New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 9 applicants have been accepted [24] as Debian Developers, and 2 people have started to maintain packages [25] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Dmitry Smirnov, Jérémy Lal, Matthias Klumpp, Stephen Kitt, Ivo De Decker, Mike Gabriel, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, Andrew Shadura, Florian Schlichting, Vamsee Kanakala, and Sebastian Geiger into our project! 24: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 25: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [26], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 50 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 24 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 26: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [27] as well as some hints on how to interpret [28] these numbers. 27: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/03/29-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_13/ 28: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): smokeping [29], libxml2 [30], icinga [31], rails [32] and bind9 [33]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2651 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652 31: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2653 32: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2655 33: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2656 Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: clamav [34]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2013/03/msg00000.html Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [35] (and the separate backports list [36], and stable updates list [37]) for announcements. 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 36: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 37: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 129 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [38] are: * gnome-shell-extension-weather — weather extension for GNOME Shell [39] * i18nspector — checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files [40] * license-reconcile — tool to reconcile copyright file and source [41] * silan — commandline tool to detect silence in audio-files [42] * ultracopier — advanced graphical file copy system [43] 38: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 39: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-shell-extension-weather 40: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/i18nspector 41: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/license-reconcile 42: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/silan 43: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ultracopier Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [44] 491 packages are orphaned [45] and 145 packages are up for adoption [46]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [47]. 44: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/03/msg00516.html 45: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 46: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 47: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [48] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 48: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Victor Nițu, Rhonda, Justin B Rye and Thomas Vincent. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-04-01T13:23:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/508 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Eaton donates hardware to Debian press&lt; at &gt;debian.org March 21st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130321 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eaton [1], a global technology leader in electrical products and long time Debian partner, has donated several large-capacity uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and intelligent power distribution units (PDUs) for Debian's core infrastructure located in Darmstadt, Germany and Vienna, Austria. 1: http://www.eaton.com "Not only do we, at Eaton, strongly back the principle of freely available open source software, we are also finding that our customers increasingly prefer to work with open source packages, especially with Linux and related systems," said Arnaud Quette, Eaton Opensource Solutions Lead and Debian Developer. "Most Debian porter machines and Debian auto-builder machines are not equipped with out of band management access or remote power control. Eaton's donation gives us this capability, significantly improving our ability to operate our infrastructure efficiently and effectively, without having to disturb the staff of our hosting partners. We are very appreciative of this generous donation," said Martin Zobel-Helas, member of the Debian System Administration team. About Eaton ----------- Eaton is a diversified power management company providing energy- efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power. Eaton has approximately 103,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com [2]. 2: http://www.eaton.com About Debian ------------ The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce a completely free operating system known as Debian. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to &lt;press&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt;. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-21T13:34:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/507 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org March 18th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/06/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's sixth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Edu Squeeze updated * DPL election campaign * A deeper look inside the freeze * Kali Linux: a new Debian derivative for penetration tests * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Edu Squeeze updated -------------------------- Holger Levsen announced the first update of Debian Edu Squeeze since its initial release [1]. "This update contains all the changes between Debian 6.0.4 and 6.0.7, as well as Debian Edu specific bugfixes and enhancements", explained Holger. The updated installer images [2] are available for downloading. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2013/03/msg00000.html 2: http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/ DPL election campaign --------------------- This year's DPL election campaign has now officially started. Three candidates are running for DPL this year: Moray Allan [3], Gergely Nagy [4] and Lucas Nussbaum [5]. There is already quite an active debate on the debian-vote mailing list [6], where people can ask the candidates questions about their platforms. So far, the main topics discussed have been: questions about recruitment of new contributors [7] and mentoring [8]; the use of Debian's money [9] and the possibility of fundraising campaigns [10] to renew Debian's core hardware infrastructure; and possible changes to the constitutional role of the DPL, including the creation of a DPL board [11] or changing the length of the term of office [11]. The campaign will end on 30 March, and will be followed by a two-week voting period. "These early days of the 2013 DPL campaign have been very intense; as a mere voter I'm struggling to keep up with the debian-vote backlog. Still, it's incredibly refreshing to see such a democratic battle between volunteers eager to offer their free time as DPL. Volunteerism in free software is in very good health, it seems", said Stefano Zacchiroli, who has been DPL for the last three years. 3: http://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/moray 4: http://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/algernon 5: http://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/lucas 6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote 7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00008.html 8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00038.html 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00053.html 10: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00044.html 11: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00045.html A deeper look inside the freeze ------------------------------- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer blogged about his experience with the Debian freeze [12] as a Debian Developer. Lisandro, who is a member of the Qt/KDE team, intensified his activity during the freeze, reviewing patches, applying them and testing the fixes. With help from the other members of the team, Lisandro has done eleven uploads of Qt to get it ready for the new release. He explains that during the freeze, communication within and between teams is crucial, as the energies of all Debian Developers are focused on releasing, and that requires a great deal of coordination. And the team that is put under the greatest amount of stress during the freeze is the Release Team. "From the outside, communicating with the RT was a kind of "special art", and not an easy one", explained Lisandro, who then lists some useful hints for communicating with the Release Team in an effective way. 12: http://perezmeyer.blogspot.it/2013/03/my-debian-freeze-experience-so-far.html Kali Linux: a new Debian derivative for penetration tests --------------------------------------------------------- Raphaël Hertzog blogged [13] about the birth of Kali Linux 1.0 [14], a new Debian derivative developed by Offensive Security to be an advanced and stable penetration testing distribution. Mati Aharoni, lead Kali developer, explained that "Debian provides a reliable base to build a new distribution and yet can easily be customized to add bleeding edge features, thanks to the unstable and experimental distributions". Raphaël, who helped the Kali team in setting up their technical infrastructure as a Debian derivative, also added that not only will most Kali applications be integrated into Debian, but Offensive Security is also willing to dedicate a node of their armhf cluster for Debian's own use. 13: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2013/03/13/kali-linux-1-0-a-new-debian-derivative/ 14: http://www.kali.org/ Other news ---------- Lucas Nussbaum published some statistics about changes in Debian packaging and structure since 2005 [15] gathered by mining data from snapshot.debian.org [16]. The majority of the software in Debian is now team-maintained through a VCS repository (mostly Git), and packaged using dh. 15: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=751 16: http://snapshot.debian.org/ Luca Falavigna blogged about his experience in one of Debian's core teams [17], the FTP Team [18]. 17: http://dktrkranz.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/on-participation/ 18: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster According to the Ultimate Debian Database (UDD) [19], the top 10 RC-bug closers during March are: 1. Michael Gilbert 2. LaMont Jones 3. Julien Cristau 4. Ludovico Cavedon 5. Raphaël Hertzog 6. Gregor Herrmann 7. Sebastian Ramacher 8. Abou Al Montacir 9. Arno Töll 10. Sébastien Villemot Well done! More information on this data is available in this email [20]. 19: http://udd.debian.org/ 20: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00024.html Upcoming events --------------- There is one upcoming Debian-related event: * March, 23, Augsburg, Germany, 12th Augsburger Linux-Infotag [21] 21: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0323-luga-lit.html You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [22] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [23], Netherlands [24], Hispanic America [25], North America [26]. 22: http://www.debian.org/events 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [27]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [28]. 27: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 28: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- One applicant has been accepted [29] as a Debian Developer and two applicants have been accepted [30] as Debian Maintainers since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Balint Reczey, Alexander Chernyakhovsky and Alexandre Raymond into our project. 29: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 30: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/03/msg00009.html Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [31], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 115 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 74 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 31: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [32] as well as some hints on how to interpret [33] these numbers. 32: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/03/15-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_11/ 33: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): apache2 [34], openafs [35], php5 [36], zoneminder [37], perl [38], sudo [39], puppet [40], wireshark [41], inetutils [42], typo3-src [43], firebird2.1 [44], firebird2.5 [45], lighttpd [46] and libvirt [47]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2637 35: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2638 36: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2639 37: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2640 38: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2641 39: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2642 40: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2643 41: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2644 42: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2645 43: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2646 44: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2647 45: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2648 46: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2649 47: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2650 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [48] (and the separate backports list [49], and stable updates list [50]) for announcements. 48: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 49: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 50: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 16 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [51] are: * adequate — Debian package quality testing tool [52] * openms — data management and analysis tools for liquid chromatography and mass spectrography [53] * seascope — source code navigation tool [54] 51: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 52: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/adequate 53: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openms 54: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/seascope Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [55] 496 packages are orphaned [56] and 142 packages are up for adoption [57]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [58]. 55: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/03/msg00261.html 56: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 57: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 58: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [59] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 59: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-18T09:51:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/506 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org March 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/05/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.7 released * Call for projects and mentors for Debian GSoC 2013 * Wheezy release progress * Debian at Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring * arm64 image available * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.7 released ------------------------------------- The seventh update for Debian 6.0 (codenamed "Squeeze") [1] has been released. This update mainly adds corrections of security problems to the stable release, along with some adjustments for serious problems. 1: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130223 Call for projects and mentors for Debian GSoC 2013 -------------------------------------------------- Paul Tagliamonte, newly appointed administrator for Debian participation in the Google Summer of Code program 2013 [2], asked all Debian contributors for projects and mentors [3] to help Debian participate in the initiative this year. "Everyone (member of the Debian project or not, student or not) is welcome to submit their ideas, and to try and find people willing to mentor the projects", explained Paul in his mail. Information on how to submit proposals is available in the relevant wiki page [4]. You can also contact Paul and the other GSoC administrators for Debian on their mailing list [5] or on their IRC channel, #debian- soc on irc.debian.org. 2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/02/msg00006.html 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/02/msg00007.html 4: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013 5: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination Wheezy release progress ----------------------- Niels Thykier, release team member, noticed that the current pace of RC bug fixes is slowing down [6], with only 1.1 RC bugs fixed a day since his last report [7]. About 200 RC bugs are left to be fixed, and if the pace of RC bug fixes does not pick up, the release team may need to remove packages along with their reverse dependencies. 6: http://nthykier.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/wheezy-release-progress-february/ 7: http://nthykier.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/wheezy-release-progress-january/ Debian at Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring -------------------------------------------------- Hideki Yamane reported about Debian participation at Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring [8] at Meisei University, in Tokyo, Japan. Debian was present with a booth where Hideki and other contributors talked with users and enthusiasts. Takahide Nojima delivered a talk titled "Debian Update" focused on the latest Debian achievements. 8: http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com/2013/02/open-source-conference-2013-tokyospring.html arm64 image available --------------------- Wookey announced the availability of the arm64 image [9]. This is the culmination of a three year long effort to make Debian bootstrappable, which has been used for the first time on the port to the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture. Whilst it should be considered alpha-grade for now, it represents a great achievement: "all these packages were cross-built on raring, untangling cyclic dependencies with build profiles making this the first (non x86) self-bootstrapped Debian port ever", explained Wookey. "Getting this port working has been "interesting" because it's attempting four new things all at once: multiarch (file layouts and dependencies), crossbuilding (tools and packaging support in a distro that historically was always natively built), arm64 (aarch64) support in packages that need it, and build-profiles to linearise the build-order", he added. The current status of the bootstrap [10] is online, whilst more information on the port (and how to build images) is available on the wiki page of the project [11]. 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/02/msg00413.html 10: http://people.linaro.org/~wookey/buildd/raring-arm64/status-bootstrap.html 11: http://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port Other news ---------- Paul Wise blogged about a QA tool [12] for finding packages' inadequacies (broken symlinks, missing copyright files, obsolete conffiles, etc.) called adequate [13] and developed by Jakub Wilk. People interested in software quality are invited to participate in Debian's QA initiatives [14]. 12: http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/ 13: http://jwilk.net/software/adequate 14: http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org Kurt Roeckx, Debian Project Secretary, announced the timetable for the DPL election [15]. 15: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/02/msg00084.html Hideki Yamane blogged about the series of articles about Debian [16] he is writing for the Japanese magazine "Software Design". 16: http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com/2013/02/debian-hot-topics.html Olivier Sallou sent a report from the Debian Med sprint [17] held during the last weekend of February in Schönberg, Germany. The team worked mainly on packaging new software as well as updating existing packages. 17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/02/msg00082.html Upcoming events --------------- There is one upcoming Debian-related event: * March, 16-17, Chemnitz, Germany — Debian booth at the 15th Chemnitzer Linux-Tage [18] 18: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0316-linuxtage-chemnitz You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [19] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [20], Netherlands [21], Hispanic America [22], North America [23]. 19: http://www.debian.org/events 20: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [24]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [25]. 24: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 25: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Three people have started to maintain packages [26] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Alexandre Dreyer, Sebastiaan Mathot and Erik Sjolund into our project! 26: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [27], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 174 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 69 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 27: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [28] as well as some hints on how to interpret [29] these numbers. 28: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/03/01-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_09/ 29: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): nss-pam-ldapd [30], openjpeg [31], postgresql-8.4 [32], squid3 [33], linux-2.6 [34], fusionforge [35], python-django [36], cfingerd [37] and xen [38]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2628 31: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2629 32: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2630 33: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2631 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2632 35: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2633 36: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2634 37: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2635 38: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2636 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [39] (and the separate backports list [40], and stable updates list [41]) for announcements. 39: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 40: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 41: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 102 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [42] are: * epubcheck — ePub book format validator [43] * firewalld — dynamically managed firewall with support for network zones [44] * kbtin — tintin++ style text-based MUD client [45] * miceamaze — video game with mice in a maze [46] * opensesame — graphical experiment builder for the social sciences [47] * powerdebug — tool to display regulator, sensor and clock information [48] * python-gsw — Python implementation of the Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater [49] 42: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 43: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/epubcheck 44: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/firewalld 45: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kbtin 46: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/miceamaze 47: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/opensesame 48: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/powerdebug 49: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-gsw Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [50] 495 packages are orphaned [51] and 143 packages are up for adoption [52]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [53]. 50: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/03/msg00000.html 51: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 52: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 53: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [54] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 54: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-04T10:22:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/505 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Discover Debian's hassle-free trademarks, use them to promote Debian press&lt; at &gt;debian.org March 1st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130301 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project is pleased to announce that, according to the terms of the new trademark policy [1], Debian logos and marks may now be used freely [2] for both non-commercial and commercial purposes. The Debian Project encourages wide use of its marks in all ways that promote Debian and free software. 1: http://www.debian.org/trademark#policy 2: http://www.debian.org/intro/free Stefano Zacchiroli, current Debian Project Leader and one of the main promoters of the new trademark policy, said "Software freedoms and trademarks are a difficult match. We all want to see well-known project names used to promote free software, but we cannot risk they will be abused to trick users into downloading proprietary spyware. With the help of SPI [3] and SFLC [4], we have struck a good balance in our new trademark policy. Among other positive things, it allows all sorts of commercial use; we only recommend clearly informing customers about how much of the sale price will be donated to Debian." 3: http://www.spi-inc.org/ 4: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ As the arrival of the new stable release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", approaches, vendors are encouraged to create Wheezy-themed merchandise (t-shirts, stickers, mugs, etc.), using the upcoming release's artwork [5]. 5: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy We further invite you to check out the current list of Debian merchandise vendors [6], and see the information at the bottom of the page if you would like to be added to it. 6: http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise About Debian ------------ The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to &lt;press&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt;. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-03-01T17:09:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/504 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Installer 7.0 Release Candidate1 published press&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 19th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130219 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". This new version of the installer ships several changes, including better speech synthesis support, various improvements for GNU/kFreeBSD and fixes for the grub2 package, as well as the addition of many Linux kernel drivers to the installer. More details are available in the Debian Installer team's announcement [1] to the Debian community. 1 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2013/20130217 There are some known issues [2] with the installer that do not need to be reported, but the Debian Installer team do need your help to find more bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need are available at the web site [3]. 2 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 3 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer About Debian ------------ The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ [4] or send mail to &lt;press&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt;. 4 : http://www.debian.org/ </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-02-19T19:04:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/503 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 18th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Installer 7.0 RC1 released * 700,000th bug reported * Bits from the DPL * Reports from FOSDEM * Update on Clang and Debian * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Installer 7.0 RC1 released --------------------------------- The first release candidate of the installer for Debian Wheezy was released on 17 February [1]. Many fixes are included in this release of the installer, along with new improvements, including better speech synthesis support, various improvements for GNU/kFreeBSD, fixes for the grub2 package, new supported hardware, etc. 1: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2013/20130217 A full list of known issues with details is collected on the errata [2] page. Everyone is encouraged to test the installer and report bugs; media and further information are available on the Debian Installer pages [3]. 2: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 3: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer This release was delayed a few weeks because of a technical disagreement [4] about one package. Thanks to prompt action [5] in response to the problem, a solution has now been implemented. 4: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699382#69 5: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699808 700,000th bug reported ---------------------- Christian Perrier won the 700,000th bug contest [6], by betting more than two years ago on the date of bug #700000 [7], which was recently reported by Cédric Boutillier. He now invites everyone to participate [8] in contests to predict the dates when Debian's 800,000th and 1,000,000th bug reports will be filed [9]. 6: http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2013/02/09#bug-700000-now 7: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700000 8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/02/msg00002.html 9: http://wiki.debian.org/800000thBugContest Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for January 2013 [10]. Stefano reminded readers that the election process for the next DPL term will start in early March, so there are only a few days left to convince Debian developers to run. He confirmed that he will not run again for another term. Meanwhile he is also looking for help in organising Debian activities in the Google Summer of Code program, and in maintaining an authoritative list of DFSG-free licenses [11]. Among other things, Stefano also mentioned an updated policy draft for Debian marks [12]. 10: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/02/msg00003.html 11: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00023.html 12: http://www.debian.org/trademark Reports from FOSDEM ------------------- During the first weekend of February, the Debian Project participated at FOSDEM 2013 [13] in Brussels, Belgium. In addition to the official Debian booth, several project members delivered talks about different topics: among others, Andreas Tille presented the Debian Med project [14] (video [15]), Tollef Fog Heen and Michael Biebl gave an overview of systemd in Debian [16] (video [17]), Samuel Thibault reported on the GNU/Hurd architecture in Debian [18], and Ian Campbell spoke about the future of paravirtualisation under Xen [19]. Most of the FOSDEM talks are available as video recordings [20]. 13: https://fosdem.org/2013/ 14: http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/201302_fosdem_distro/index_en.html 15: http://video.fosdem.org/2013/crossdistro/Debian_Med___a_Debian_Pure_Blends_for_medical_care_and_microbiological_research.webm 16: https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/debian_systemd/ 17: http://video.fosdem.org/2013/crossdistro/systemd_in_Debian.webm 18: http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/2013-02-02-fosdem.pdf 19: http://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/talks/2013-02-fosdem-evolving-xen-paravirt.pdf 20: http://video.fosdem.org/2013/ Update on Clang and Debian -------------------------- Sylvestre Ledru posted an article on his blog about the results of rebuilding the archive using Clang 3.2 [21]. To make the results more visible, Paul Wise has integrated them into the Package Tracking System [22]. In the meantime, Hideki Yamane has written a patch to make it easier to use Clang instead of gcc when building with pbuilder [23]. You can find more information about current efforts related to building Debian with Clang and other alternative compilers in Sylvestre's FOSDEM talk [24]. 21: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2013/02/06/rebuild_of_debian_using_clang_3_2 22: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699936 23: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700290 24: http://mirror.geeksoc.org/fosdem/2013/crossdistro/Make_Debian_compiler_agnostic___Building_Debian_with_LLVM_Clang.webm Other news ---------- Stefano Zacchiroli renewed Kurt Roeckx's appointment as Project Secretary [25]. 25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/02/msg00001.html Julien Danjou wrote an article about Cloud tools for Debian [26], explaining the basics and giving hints about the tools needed to run a cloud platform. 26: http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/cloud-init-utils-debian Francesca Ciceri published instructions on making your own Debian swirl plush keyring [27]. 27: http://blog.zouish.org/posts/swirl_how_to/ Raphael Geissert has continued his A bashism a week [28] series, now containing more than ten articles. 28: http://rgeissert.blogspot.com/search/label/bashisms Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * February 22-24, Calicut, India — India Mini-DebConf 2013, Calicut Edition [29] * February 22-24, Los Angeles, USA — Debian booth at the eleventh annual Southern California Linux Expo [30] 29: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0222-minidebconf-india-calicut 30: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0222-scale11x You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [31] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [32], Netherlands [33], Hispanic America [34], North America [35]. 31: http://www.debian.org/events 32: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 33: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [36]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [37]. 36: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 37: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Three people have started to maintain packages [38] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Paul Belanger, Jakub Safarik and Andrew Bartlett into our project! 38: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [39], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 194 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 66 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 39: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [40] as well as some hints on how to interpret [41] these numbers. 40: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/02/15-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_07/ 41: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): samba [42], ircd-hybrid [43], xen-qemu-dm-4.0 [44], rails [45], openssl [46], polarssl [47], openconnect [48], ffmpeg [49], wireshark [50], lighttpd [51] and nginx [52]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 42: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2617 43: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2618 44: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2619 45: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2620 46: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2621 47: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2622 48: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2623 49: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2624 50: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2625 51: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2626 52: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [53] (and the separate backports list [54], and stable updates list [55]) for announcements. 53: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 54: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 55: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [56] 531 packages are orphaned [57] and 141 packages are up for adoption [58]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [59]. 56: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/02/msg00250.html 57: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 58: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 59: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [60] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 60: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Sylvestre Ledru, David Prévot and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-02-18T12:30:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/502 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/03/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * DebConf13 venue and dates * Automating Debian bootstrapping * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? DebConf13 venue and dates ------------------------- Moray Allan and Didier Raboud gave some updates on the upcoming DebConf13 [1] to be held at Le Camp in Vaumarcus, Switzerland [2]. In the blogpost, they confirmed that the conference will take place from 11 to 18 August. This year, for budget reasons, the DebCamp - during which usually the various Debian teams meet to work on specific issues and projects - will be held during the same week as the conference. Registration will probably open around the start of March. 1: http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf13/ma_dc13_venue_and_dates.dc 2: http://debconf13.debconf.org/map.xhtml In related news, the DebConf team sent a call for bids [3] for DebConf14. If you are interested in putting forward a bid for DebConf14, send a message to their mailing list [4]. You are also invited to think about possible venues for DebConf15. People interested in helping with the organisation of DebConf are welcome to join the team, and find out how they can help by contacting them on their mailing list [4] or on the #debconf-team channel on irc.debian.org. 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/01/msg00006.html 4: debconf-team&lt; at &gt;lists.debconf.org Automating Debian bootstrapping ------------------------------- Johannes Schauer wrote a detailed report of the status of his "Port bootstrap build-ordering tool" [5], which was started as a Debian GSoC project last year and aims to solve cyclic build dependencies, making it possible to automate the bootstrapping of Debian on new architectures. Since November 2012 the project has reached some important milestones such as providing a less "monolithic" toolset, a new dependency graph definition, two new ways to break dependency cycles, and an adjustment of the algorithm to allow a more precise final build order. 5: http://blog.mister-muffin.de/2013/01/25/bootstrappable-debian---new-milestone/ Interviews ---------- There has been an interview [6] with Florian Weimer of the Debian security team about his talk "Trends in Open Source Security" at FOSDEM 2013. 6: https://fosdem.org/2013/interviews/2013-florian-weimer/ Other news ---------- According to W3Techs, Debian is the most popular Linux distribution for webservers [7]. It currently has a market share of 32.9% of all websites that use Linux, and growing. 7: http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux Ben Hutchings published the fourth part [8] of his "What's in the Linux kernel for Debian 7.0 Wheezy" series. Ben also asked for help in testing SAS drivers for the next point release of Debian stable [9]. 8: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/whats-in-the-linux-kernel-for-debian-70-wheezy-part-4.html 9: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/call-for-testing-sas-driver-update-for-debian-60-squeeze.html Neil McGovern sent some bits from the Release team [10] where he reported about the current status of the freeze. Neil also asked for volunteers to help with the Release Notes, and particularly for someone with kFreeBSD experience to create the Release Notes for this port. 10: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/01/msg00005.html On the debian-project mailing list, an interesting discussion is underway about how young people's experience of computers has changed over the years [11] and how this affects Debian, both in terms of contributors and users. 11: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00091.html Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * February 22-24, Calicut, India — India Mini-DebConf 2013, Calicut Edition [12] * February 22-24, Los Angeles, USA — Debian booth at the eleventh annual Southern California Linux Expo [13] 12: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0222-minidebconf-india-calicut 13: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0222-scale11x You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [14] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [15], Netherlands [16], Hispanic America [17], North America [18]. 14: http://www.debian.org/events 15: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 16: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 18: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [19]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [20]. 19: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 20: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Four applicants have been accepted [21] as Debian Developers, two applicants have been accepted [22] as Debian Maintainers and five people have started to maintain packages [23] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Anton Gladky, Andreas Beckmann, Brian Thomason, Laszlo Kajan, Jean-Michel Vourgère, Richard Hartmann, Vincent W. Chen, Willem van den Akker, James Bennet, Casper Gielen and Stein Magnus Jodal into our project! 21: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00086.html 23: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [24], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 224 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 92 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 24: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [25] as well as some hints on how to interpret [26] these numbers. 25: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/02/02-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_05/ 26: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): ganglia [27], movabletype-opensource [28], ircd- ratbox [29], rails [30], libupnp [31], libupnp4 [32], samba [33] and nagios3 [34]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 27: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2610 28: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2611 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2612 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2613 31: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2614 32: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2615 33: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2617 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2616 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [35] (and the separate backports list [36], and stable updates list [37]) for announcements. 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 36: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 37: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 21 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [38] are: * bitcoin-qt — peer-to-peer network based digital currency - graphical interface [39] * cloud-init — configuration and customization of cloud instances [40] 38: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 39: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bitcoin-qt 40: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cloud-init Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [41] 530 packages are orphaned [42] and 141 packages are up for adoption [43]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [44]. 41: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/02/msg00000.html 42: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 43: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 44: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [45] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 45: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Justin B Rye and Paul Wise. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-02-04T14:51:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/501 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 21st, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/02/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from Debian Med * A look into the Linux kernel of Debian "Wheezy" * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Bits from Debian Med -------------------- Andreas Tille sent some bits from the Debian Med team [1], reporting some recent initiatives of the team, such as the Mentoring of the Month [2] efforts. Andreas also announced that in February there will be a real life meeting of Debian Med developers and users [3], in Kiel (Germany); all interested people are invited to join. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/01/msg00004.html 2: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM 3: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Kiel2013 A look into the Linux kernel of Debian "Wheezy" ----------------------------------------------- Ben Hutchings, member of the Debian Kernel team and maintainer of the 3.2.y stable series at kernel.org, wrote a series of three blogposts (part 1 [4], part 2 [5], part 3 [6]) about the additional features (missing from mainline 3.2) that will be included in the Linux kernel to be shipped with the next Debian stable. 4: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/whats-in-the-linux-kernel-for-debian-70-wheezy-part-1.html 5: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/whats-in-the-linux-kernel-for-debian-70-wheezy-part-2.html 6: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/whats-in-the-linux-kernel-for-debian-70-wheezy-part-3.html Other news ---------- Petter Reinholdtsen analysed the Debian archive to compile a list of the 20 most supported MIME types in Debian [7]. 7: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html Bernhard R. Link took a closer look at cryptographic signatures in an informative article [8]. 8: http://blog.brlink.eu/index.html Ian Jackson summarised the ongoing discussion on a trademark policy for Debian [9]. 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00037.html Upcoming events --------------- There is one upcoming Debian-related event: * February, 2-3, Brussels, Belgium — Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) [10] 10: http://www.debian.org/events/2013/0202-fosdem You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [11] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [12], Netherlands [13], Hispanic America [14], North America [15]. 11: http://www.debian.org/events 12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 13: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 14: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 15: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [16]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [17]. 16: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 17: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- One person has started to maintain packages [18] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Alexandre Raymond into our project! 18: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [19], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 249 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 84 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 19: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [20] as well as some hints on how to interpret [21] these numbers. 20: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/01/18-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_03/ 21: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): zendframework [22], emacs23 [23], rails [24], asterisk [25], proftpd-dfsg [26], qemu-kvm [27], qemu [28] and rails [29]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 22: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2602 23: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2603 24: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2604 25: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2605 26: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2606 27: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2607 28: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2608 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2609 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: freetype [30] and icinga [31]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 30: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2013/01/msg00000.html 31: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2013/01/msg00001.html Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [32] (and the separate backports list [33], and stable updates list [34]) for announcements. 32: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 33: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 35 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [35] are: * liblingua-en-findnumber-perl — module for locating (written) numbers in English text [36] * libmath-prime-util-perl — utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring [37] * libsgml-dtdparse-perl — Perl modules and scripts for manipulating SGML and XML DTDs [38] * python-secretstorage — Python module for storing secrets - Python 2.x version [39] 35: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 36: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/liblingua-en-findnumber-perl 37: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/libmath-prime-util-perl 38: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/libsgml-dtdparse-perl 39: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-secretstorage Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [40] 521 packages are orphaned [41] and 142 packages are up for adoption [42]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [43]. 40: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/01/msg00427.html 41: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 42: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 43: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [44] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 44: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-01-21T17:09:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/500 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 7th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * wiki.debian.org security breach: global passwords reset * Bits from the DPL * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? wiki.debian.org security breach: global passwords reset ------------------------------------------------------- Steve McIntyre, administrator of the Debian wiki, announced that due to a security breach, all wiki.debian.org account passwords are being reset [1]. In order to regain access to your wiki account, you'll need to follow the password recovery process [2]. In the mail, Steve explained that the Debian Security Team recently found a vulnerability [3] in the moin package which had been succesfully exploited for wiki.debian.org. The wiki has already been moved to another server and an audit of the old server is ongoing. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/01/msg00000.html 2: http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=recoverpass 3: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2593 Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for December 2012 [4]. Stefano reported about progress in the "DPL helpers" experiment, as well as collaborations with external projects such as the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Free Software Foundation (FSF). In addition, Stefano reported that the debian.eu domain is finally under control of the Debian System Administrators. 4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/01/msg00001.html Other news ---------- The thirty-first issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [5] has been released and covers the following topics: * amd64 most popular architecture according to popcon * Register your media types to the IANA * First release of dput-ng in "unstable" * Recent changes on the Debian QA front * Fancy graphs on lintian.debian.org 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/12/msg00002.html Andreas Tille announced that the statistics about selected Debian teams [6] have been updated, and now include all of 2012. 6: http://blends.debian.net/liststats/ New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 1 people have started to maintain packages [7] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome David Smith into our project! 7: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [8], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 171 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 116 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 8: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [9] as well as some hints on how to interpret [10] these numbers. 9: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/01/05-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_01/ 10: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): wireshark [11], mahara [12], elinks [13], moin [14], virtualbox-ose [15], ghostscript [16], mediawiki-extensions [17], rails [18], weechat [19], nss [20], cups [21], gnupg, and gnupg2 [22]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 11: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590 12: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591 13: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2592 14: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2593 15: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2594 16: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2595 17: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2596 18: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2597 19: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2598 20: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2599 21: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2600 22: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2601 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [23] (and the separate backports list [24], and stable updates list [25]) for announcements. 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [26] 519 packages are orphaned [27] and 141 packages are up for adoption [28]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [29]. 26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/01/msg00101.html 27: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 28: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 29: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [30] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 30: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2013-01-07T20:43:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/499 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org December 24th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/25/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twenty-fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the DPL * Wheezy freeze: reviewers needed for unblock requests * Report from Bug Squashing Party in Mechlin * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for November [1]: among other things, he described recent progress in the work of the debian-cloud initiative [2], the budget approval process for DebConf13, and IRC [3] meetings [4] of the "DPL helpers", a group of people who have offered to share the load of DPL duties. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/12/msg00000.html 2: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/24/#aws 3: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-dpl/2012/debian-dpl.2012-11-13-18.01.html 4: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-dpl/2012/debian-dpl.2012-11-27-18.00.html Wheezy freeze: reviewers needed for unblock requests ---------------------------------------------------- Niels Thykier, a member of the release team, blogged about the progress of the release process for Wheezy [5]. Wheezy has now been frozen for almost six months. More than the total number of RC bugs, it is the number of RC bugs fixed in unstable but not in Wheezy that worries Niels. This situation is mainly due to "unblock" requests that none of the members of the release team has had time to respond to. If you want to help with the release, and don't find any RC bugs to fix, you can review some of the unblock requests, and help to decrease the number that remain unanswered. 5: https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/wheezy-release-progress-december/ Report from Bug Squashing Party in Mechlin ------------------------------------------ Wouter Verhelst published a report about the BSP [6] he organized in his company's office in Mechlin, Belgium. A couple of RC bugs were fixed and progress was made on a few more. Although Wouter regrets that he was the only Belgian Debian Developer present, he was happy to welcome local newcomers who had never contributed to Debian before. Because of this and the fun they all had, the event can be considered to have been a success. 6: http://grep.be/blog/en/computer/debian/bsp Other news ---------- Sylvestre Ledru announced [7] the availability of videos [8] and slides [9] for the presentations given during the Mini DebConf held last month in Paris. 7: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2012/12/12/minidebconf_2012 8: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2012/mini-debconf-paris/ 9: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/ Petter Reinholdtsen blogged about Bitcoin support [10] in Debian. 10: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 2 applicants have been accepted [11] as Debian Maintainers and 8 people have started to maintain packages [12] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Rahul Amaram, Markus Frosch, Thiago Franco de Moraes, Markus Tornow, Gert Wollny, Denis Laxade, Gary Kramlich, Richard Ulrich, Michael Franzl and Csillag Tamas into our project! 11: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/12/msg00072.html 12: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [13], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 323 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 133 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 13: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [14] as well as some hints on how to interpret [15] these numbers. 14: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/12/21-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_51/ 15: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): rssh [16], apache2 [17], libxml2 [18], mysql-5.1 [19], xen [20], iceweasel [21], iceape [22], bogofilter [23], perl [24], libcgi-pm-perl [25], icedove [26] and tiff [27]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 16: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2578 17: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2579 18: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2580 19: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2581 20: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 21: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2583 22: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2584 23: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585 24: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2586 25: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2587 26: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2588 27: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2589 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [28] (and the separate backports list [29], and stable updates list [30]) for announcements. 28: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 29: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 30: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 194 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [31] are: * drumkv1 — old-school drum-kit sampler [32] * git-bzr-ng — bi-directional Git to Bazaar bridge [33] * julia — high-performance programming language for technical computing [34] * mailnag — mail notification daemon for GNOME 3 [35] * minidisc-utils — command line utilities for MiniDisc access [36] * php-horde — Horde application framework [37] * pixz — parallel, indexing XZ compressor/decompressor [38] * razorqt — lightweight desktop environment [39] * sonic-visualiser — viewer and analyser of music audio files [40] * undistract-me — program to send notifications when long-running terminal commands complete [41] 31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/drumkv1 33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/git-bzr-ng 34: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/julia 35: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mailnag 36: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/minidisc-utils 37: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/php-horde 38: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pixz 39: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/razorqt 40: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sonic-visualiser 41: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/undistract-me Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [42] 528 packages are orphaned [43] and 138 packages are up for adoption [44]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [45]. 42: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/12/msg00326.html 43: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 44: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 45: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [46] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 46: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye. </pre> Cédric Boutillier 2012-12-24T17:09:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/498 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org December 10th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/24/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twentyfourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Record number of participants for Mini DebConf Paris * Debian on smartphones: a feasibility analysis * Official Debian images on Amazon Web Services * Reports from latest BSPs * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Record number of participants for Mini DebConf Paris ---------------------------------------------------- The second Mini DebConf Paris [1], held over the third weekend of November, registered a record number of participants for a mini DebConf: more than a hundred people, including Debian Developers, contributors and enthusiasts from all over Europe. The great success of the event was also guaranteed by the high number of talks and workshops [2] held during the two days, most of them recorded by the amazing DebConf Video team (and soon available on the video website [3]). Josselin Mouette, one of the founders of the Debian GNOME team, held an interesting talk titled "Large deployment of GNOME from the administrator's perspective [4]", consisting of an overview of existing mechanisms for administrating GNOME systems. Stefano Zacchiroli, current Debian Project Leader, presented the debian-cloud initiative [5] during the "Lightning Talks", while Lucas Nussbaum explained how to get involved in Debian in his five-minute "Get involved - it's not that hard [6]" talk. Ben Hutchings and Maximilian Attems presented the work of the Linux kernel team [7], while Cyril Brulebois explained how the Debian Installer is created and how it works [8]. Some talks were dedicated to the community aspects of Debian, such as Roberto Di Cosmo's "Free software and Debian, 20 years after [9]" and the accurate analysis of social interactions on Debian mailing lists [10] by Alexandre Delanoë and Bernard Conein. 1: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/ 2: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/#schedule 3: http://video.debian.net 4: http://np237.livejournal.com/33449.html 5: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2012/20121125-minidc-cloud.pdf 6: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=741 7: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/talks/mdcp2012-linux-kernel/ 8: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/slides/re-discovering-d-i.pdf 9: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/slides/free-soft-20-years-after.pdf 10: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/slides/socio-meter-for-debian.pdf Debian on smartphones: a feasibility analysis --------------------------------------------- Paul Wise documented how to install Debian on smartphones [11]: while this is technically possible, the process is complicated by the fact that the Linux mainline kernel doesn't run on many mobile devices and the Debian Linux kernel maintainers prefer not to include non-mainline patches. Paul concluded by saying that "the procedures I documented above are not a great way to support mobile devices at all and could break at any moment anyway. So everyone, please become a kernel developer and help merge all of the many many versions of Android Linux into Linux mainline so that you can have your favourite distribution on your devices". The state of the art of support for running Debian on such devices is documented on the Mobile wiki page [12], while people interested in helping can join the discussion on the debian-mobile mailing list [13] or simply join the #debian-mobile channel on irc.debian.org. 11: http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/ 12: http://wiki.debian.org/Mobile 13: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/ Official Debian images on Amazon Web Services --------------------------------------------- James Bromberger announced the availability of official Debian images on Amazon Web Services [14]. Over the last few months, James and others have been working on the creation of official images to be put on the AWS Marketplace. After the first contact between Amazon and DPL Stefano Zacchiroli, "a group of Debian Developers and the wider community formed to generate a set of AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) using Anders Ingemann’s ec2debian-build-ami script", explained James. Those who plan to use it can find the relevant documentation on the Amazon EC2 Image [15] wiki page, while the ongoing task of creating and supporting official images is coordinated via the debian-cloud mailing list [16]. 14: http://blog.james.rcpt.to/2012/12/06/official-debian-images-on-amazon-web-services-ec2/ 15: http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image 16: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud Reports from latest BSPs ------------------------ During the third weekend of November, three simultaneous Debian Bug Squashing Parties were held in different locations across the world: in Tokyo, Japan [17], in Munich, Germany [18] and in Essen, Germany [19]. The next episode of the Bug Squashing Marathon for Wheezy [20] will be on 15-16 December in Mechelen, Belgium [21]. 17: http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.jp/2012/11/debian-bsp-tokyo.html 18: http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2012/11/de/Munich 19: http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/bsp-essen-nov-2012-report.html 20: http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonWheezy 21: http://www.debian.org/events/2012/1215-mechelen-bsp Other news ---------- The Debian Women project finally completed the migration of women.debian.org to the main Debian website [22]. The new version [23] is already available in Danish and French. In the announcement you can find instructions and hints on translating it to your language. 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2012/11/msg00009.html 23: http://www.debian.org/women/ Inspired by Nicolas Dandrimont's talk about "The state of mentors.debian.net: GSoC and beyond [24]", Lucas Nussbaum noted that half of the package maintainers in Debian are not Debian Developers or Debian Maintainers [25]. 24: http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/slides/debexpo.pdf 25: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=746 Zaki Akhmad released Indonesian subtitles [26] for the video recording of Stefano Zacchiroli's "Bits from the DPL" talk, held in Managua, Nicaragua, during DebConf12. If you want to translate the subtitles to your language, you can fetch the original English subtitles [27] and follow the tutorial on creating video subtitles [28]. 26: https://github.com/za/debconf12 27: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2012/debconf12/subtitles/ 28: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam/Subtitles_for_videos New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 6 people have started to maintain packages [29] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Alberto Fernández Martínez, Dominik George, Mika Pflüger, Wilfried Goesgens, Eric Newberry and Carsten Schoenert into our project! 29: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [30], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 360 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 155 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 30: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [31] as well as some hints on how to interpret [32] these numbers. 31: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/12/07-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_49/ 32: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): iceape [33], iceweasel [34], xen [35], mysql-5.1 [36], libxml2 [37], apache2 [38], rssh [39] and libssh [40]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 33: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2584 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2583 35: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 36: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2581 37: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2580 38: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2579 39: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2578 40: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2577 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [41] (and the separate backports list [42], and stable updates list [43]) for announcements. 41: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 42: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 43: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 5 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [44] are: * dput-ng — next generation Debian package upload tool [45] 44: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 45: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dput-ng Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [46] 502 packages are orphaned [47] and 139 packages are up for adoption [48]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [49]. 46: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/12/msg00128.html 47: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 48: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 49: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [50] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 50: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-12-10T14:24:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/497 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org November 26th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/23/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twentythird issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Help your language reach 100% support in the Debian Installer * Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 released * Debian newcomer experience survey * Interviews * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Help your language reach 100% support in the Debian Installer ------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Perrier recently sent a message to the Debian translators mailing list [1] looking for people interested in translating the Debian installer into the following languages: Lithuanian, Bosnian, Tamil, Lao, Hungarian, Icelandic, Macedonian, Dzongkha, Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Albanian, Amharic, Kurdish, Tagalog, Wolof (which is currently disabled because too many important strings are missing) and Tibetan. These languages are almost complete, but the regular contributors have not responded to the usual calls. Currently 55 out of 70 supported languages have reached 100% completion, the highest number ever. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2012/11/msg00036.html Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 released ----------------------------------- Cyril Brulebois announced the fourth beta release of the installer for Debian 7.0 [2]. This release features, among other things, many updates to the Linux kernel as well as some major improvements in the netcfg package, which is the tool used to configure the network during the installation. As usual, the Debian Installer team asks users to test this new release: installer CDs, other media and everything you might need to install Debian on one of the thirteen architectures supported are available from the web site [3]. 2: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2012/20121122 3: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Debian newcomer experience survey --------------------------------- Kevin Carillo, a PhD student from Wellington, New Zealand, is currently doing research about Free/Open Source Software communities [4]: if you are a Debian contributor who started work in Debian after January 2010, you should consider participating in his online survey [5]. You can find more information about Kevin's research on his website [6]. 4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2012/11/msg00014.html 5: https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&amp;lang=en 6: http://kevincarillo.org/ Interviews ---------- There has been a Debian Edu interview [7] with Angela Fuß [8], who describes, among other things, how she got involved in Debian Edu and her views about it. 7: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju/ 8: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Angela_Fu_.html Other news ---------- David Paleino announced that unofficial packages for the latest revision of wicd from the upstream repository [9] are now available, thanks to an automatic build process powered by Jenkins [10]. 9: http://www.hanskalabs.net/posts/wicd-autobuilt-debs/ 10: http://jenkins-ci.org/ New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Eight applicants have been accepted [11] as Debian Developers, and twelve people have started to maintain packages [12] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Julien Patriarca, Nathan Harrison Handler, Daniel Pocock, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio, Sebastian Ramacher, Alejandro Garrido Mota, Jonathan Nieder, Dima Kogan, Bojana Borkovic, Tom Lee, Barbara Jana Wisniowska, Sebastien Jodogne, Agustin Henze, Nandaja Varma, Ross Glover, Anish A, Nicholas Robinson-Wall, Sébastien Boisvert and Daniel Skinner into our project! 11: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 12: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [13], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 366 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 175 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 13: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [14] as well as some hints on how to interpret [15] these numbers. 14: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/11/24-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_47/ 15: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats These figures were current as of last Saturday. Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): radsecproxy [16], typo3-src [17], tiff [18] and trousers [19]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 16: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2573 17: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2574 18: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2575 19: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2576 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [20] (and the separate backports list [21], and stable updates list [22]) for announcements. 20: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 220 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [23] are: * bambam — keyboard mashing game for babies [24] * cinnamon — innovative and comfortable desktop [25] * dvd-slideshow — set of tools to create DVD slideshows with menus [26] * dvdwizard — fully automated creation of a DVD-structure [27] * garmin-plugin — browser plugin for communication with the Garmin Connect service [28] * grive — Google Drive client [29] * ktouchpadenabler — kded daemon to enable/disable touchpad [30] * nikola — simple yet powerful and flexible static website and blog generator [31] * openclonk — multiplayer game of strategy, action and skill [32] * sweethome3d-furniture — interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional furniture) [33] 23: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 24: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bambam 25: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cinnamon 26: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dvd-slideshow 27: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dvdwizard 28: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/garmin-plugin 29: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/grive 30: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ktouchpadenabler 31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nikola 32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openclonk 33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sweethome3d-furniture Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [34] 487 packages are orphaned [35] and 138 packages are up for adoption [36]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [37]. 34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00639.html 35: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 36: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 37: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [38] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 38: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Francesca Ciceri, Andrei Popescu and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-11-26T17:55:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/496 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org November 12th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/22/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twenty-second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Code search engine for Debian * Bits from the DPL * One step closer to "Wheezy" * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Code search engine for Debian ----------------------------- Michael Stapelberg announced the birth of Debian Code Search [1], a search engine for source code within Debian. "It allows you to search all ≈ 17000 source packages, containing 130 GiB of FLOSS source code (including Debian packaging) with regular expressions", explained Michael. The search engine [2] is already available for use. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/11/msg00001.html 2: http://codesearch.debian.net/ Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for October [3]: among other things, Stefano reported the boost of activity in the recently created debian-cloud mailing list [4]. This new mailing list is dedicated to discussions of the development and use of Debian on public and private clouds, such as for instance the ongoing discussion about the integration of Debian on popular clouds like Windows Azure or the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/11/msg00000.html 4: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/ One step closer to "Wheezy" --------------------------- Neil McGovern sent an update on the state of the "Wheezy" freeze [5], explaining that the Release Team is now particularly focused on managing unblock requests (where these comply with the freeze policy [6]) and removing buggy leaf packages. Meanwhile, the Release Critical bug count is decreasing, thanks also to the great number of Bug Squashing Parties held during recent months. More Debian Bug Squashing Parties [7] are scheduled for the upcoming weeks: you can help Debian to release sooner by participating! 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/11/msg00003.html 6: http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html 7: http://www.debian.org/News/20121110 Other news ---------- The Polish Debian User Group [8] created a nice graph of the number of Release Critical bugs in Debian over the last year [9]. 8: http://dug.net.pl/ 9: http://dug.net.pl/gnuplot/rcbugs/rc_bugs_report_all_en.png Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * November 14, Helsinki, Finland — mini Debian bug squashing party [10] * November 23-25, Essen, Germany — Debian bug squashing party at Linuxhotel [11] * November 23-25, Munich, Germany — Debian bug squashing party at LiMux Office [12] * November 24-25, Paris, France — Paris Mini-DebConf 2012 [13] * November 24, Tokyo, Japan — Debian bug squashing party at Plat'Home Office [14] 10: https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/11/msg00008.html 11: http://www.debian.org/events/2012/1123-essen-bsp 12: http://www.debian.org/events/2012/1123-munich-bsp 13: http://www.debian.org/events/2012/1124-minidebconf-paris 14: http://www.debian.org/events/2012/1124-tokyo-bsp You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [15] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [16], Netherlands [17], Hispanic America [18], North America [19]. 15: http://www.debian.org/events 16: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 18: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page [20]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [21]. 20: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 21: events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Two people have started to maintain packages [22] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Hendrik Jaeger and Steven Chamberlain into our project! 22: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [23], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 425 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 220 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. Richard Hartmann published some more detailed statistics [24]. 23: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi 24: http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/11/09-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_45/ Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): request-tracker3.8 [25], rtfm [26], icedove [27], openoffice.org [28], libproxy [29], and iceape [30]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 25: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2567 26: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2568 27: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2569 28: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2570 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2571 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2570 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [31] (and the separate backports list [32], and stable updates list [33]) for announcements. 31: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 32: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 33: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [34] 486 packages are orphaned [35] and 138 packages are up for adoption [36]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [37]. 34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00196.html 35: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 36: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 37: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [38] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at &lt;debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt;. 38: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot and Justin B Rye. </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-11-12T13:40:59 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.user.news