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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/477 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org May 14th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/10/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.5 released * Deadlines reminder for DebConf12 * General Resolution about diversity statement * First alpha release of the installer for Debian Wheezy * "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" freed! * An ever growing mirrors network * Bits from the DPL * 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: 6.0.5 released ------------------------------------- The fifth 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/2012/20120512 Deadlines reminder for DebConf12 -------------------------------- Leandro Gómez noted that the deadline for sponsored registration for DebConf12 is quickly approaching [2]; hurry up and register [3] before Tuesday 15 May! 2 : http://leogg.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/are-you-going-to-debconf12/ 3 : http://debconf12.debconf.org/register.xhtml In related news, Gunnar Wolf sent another call for papers [4] for DebConf12: talk submissions will be accepted until a day before the talk itself, but they must be submitted before Friday 1 June to have guaranteed video coverage and to be announced as part of the conference's official program. 4 : http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf12/gw_dc12_your_greatest_ideas.dc Holger Levsen also reported on his recent visit to Managua, Nicaragua [5]. The report includes a thematically sorted list of impressions and advice you may be really interested in reading if you are considering coming to DebConf12. In short, "it was great, DebConf12 will be great." 5 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/05/msg00026.html General Resolution about diversity statement -------------------------------------------- The Debian Project Secretary, Kurt Roeckx, announced that the process for a General Resolution about the Debian Project's diversity statement [6] has been started. Details are available on the related vote page [7] while the discussion can be followed on the debian-vote mailing list [8]. 6 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/05/msg00002.html 7 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2012/vote_002 8 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2012/05/msg00011.html First alpha release of the installer for Debian Wheezy ------------------------------------------------------ The new Debian Installer [9] supports WPA, uses ext4 as default filesystem, allows Btrfs for the /boot partition, allows a choice of the ISO image to use, and a lot more. It also improves the handling of ZFS file systems, and supports a lot of new hardware. You are welcome to help finding bugs and further improving the installer by trying it out. Installer CDs, other media and everything else [10] you will need are available. 9 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2012/20120513 10 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" freed! --------------------------------------------- Raphaël Hertzog announced the availability of "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" [11]. This manual is the English translation of the French best-seller "Cahier de l'Admin", of which he is co-author with Roland Mas. The book is now released under a DFSG [12] compliant license and it has also been packaged for the main Debian repository, so you can install it on Debian unstable with: apt-get install debian-handbook 11 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/05/10/the-debian-administrators-handbook-is-available/ 12 : http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines An ever growing mirrors network ------------------------------- Raphael Geissert wrote a blog post about the constant growth of Debian's mirrors network [13]. The total number of mirrors is currently 330 for the HTTP protocol and 300 for FTP. The mirrors are distributed across 73 countries, thanks to the Debian sponsors hosting them. 13 : http://rgeissert.blogspot.it/2012/04/ever-growing-mirrors-network.html Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report [14] on DPL activities. During April, Stefano mostly spent time trying to reach consensus on various topics: the proposal for a diversity statement for the Debian Project [15], the revenue sharing agreement [16] with DuckDuckGo, the long running conflict over Python maintenance [17] and the relationship between pkg-multimedia maintainers team and the unofficial debian-multimedia.org repository [18]. In his mail, Stefano also asked for "DPL helpers": volunteers to help the Debian Project Leader in some minor tasks and share his work-load. 14 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/05/msg00001.html 15 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00048.html 16 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/04/msg00101.html 17 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573745 18 : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-April/026063.html Other news ---------- Joerg Jaspert announced the creation of a new archive key for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" [19]. The key will be put to use with the release of "Wheezy" or the expiry of the old key 0x473041FA (2018-03-05), whichever comes first. 19 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/05/msg00000.html Paul Tagliamonte sent another update [20] on his GCC 4.7 patchathon [21]: since 14 April he has already sent 28 patches to fix gcc-4.7 "FTBFS" bugs. Well done, Paul! 20 : http://blog.pault.ag/post/22810143424/gcc-4-7-patchathon-part-v 21 : http://blog.pault.ag/post/21083720029/gcc-4-7-patchathon Cyril Brulebois sent some [22] updates [23] on Debian X server development. 22 : http://blog.mraw.org/2012/05/01/DXN-11/ 23 : http://blog.mraw.org/2012/05/07/DXN-12/ Thanks to an upstream licence change [24], autoconf-doc [25] is now part of Debian main. 24 : https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2012-04/msg00041.html 25 : http://packages.debian.org/sid/autoconf-doc Based on a recent study looking at insecure libraries [26], Thomas Koch suggested that it makes sense to package Java libraries [27] in Debian, thanks to its strict and rigorous security policy. 26 : https://www.aspectsecurity.com/uploads/downloads/2012/03/Aspect-Security-The-Unfortunate-Reality-of-Insecure-Libraries.pdf 27 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2012/05/msg00008.html Andreas B. Mundt presented the "Debian Local Area Network" project (Debian-LAN) [28]: its goal is to make setting up a local network with centralised user and machine management, intranet, etc. as easy as possible in Debian. More information is available on the wiki [29]. 28 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00178.html 29 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/ Upcoming events --------------- There is one upcoming Debian-related event: * May 21, Paris, France — Keysigning party [30] * May 23-26, Berlin, Germany — Debian booth at LinuxTag [31] 30 : http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article53/announce-signing-party-2012-05 31 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0523-linuxtag You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [32] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [33], Netherlands [34], Hispanic America [35], North America [36]. 32 : http://www.debian.org/events 33 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 34 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 35 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 36 : 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 [37]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [38]. 37 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 38 : events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Three applicants have been accepted [39] as Debian Developers, eight applicants have been accepted [40] as Debian Maintainer, and eight people have started to maintain packages [41] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Peter Green, Willi Mann, Clint Byrum, Dmitry Shachnev, Matteo F. Vescovi, Christian Welzel, Koichi Akabe, Julian Taylor, Jeremy Bicha, Frank Habermann, Thomas Pierson, wujiang, Billy Zhe-Wei Lin (林哲瑋), Kefu Chai, xiaowen (辛晓闻), Thomas Kluyver, Russell Sim, Bruno Braga, and Markus Wanner into our project! 39 : https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 40 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/05/msg00010.html 41 : 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 [42], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 930 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 556 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 42 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [43] as well as some hints on how to interpret [44] these numbers. 43 : http://www.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-19 44 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): samba [45], icedove [46], imagemagick [47] (updated announcement), quagga [48] (updated announcement), php5 [49], rails [50], mahara [51], file [52] (updated announcement), libjakarta-poi-java [53], linux-2.6 [54] and wordpress [55]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2463 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2464 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2462 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2459 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2465 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2466 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2467 52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422 53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2468 54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 55 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470 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 [56] (and the separate backports list [57], and stable updates list [58]) for announcements. 56 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 57 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 58 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 243 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [59] are: * debian-handbook — reference book for Debian users and system administrators [60] * environment-modules — modular system for handling environment variables [61] * gnome-boxes — simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems [62] * lightsoff — sight puzzle game [63] * maelstrom — arcade-style game resembling Asteroids [64] * mustang-plug — controller for Fender Mustang amplifiers [65] * swell-foop — colored ball puzzle game [66] * swftools — collection of utilities for SWF file manipulation/creation [67] * termsaver — simple text-based terminal screensaver [68] * unburden-home-dir — remove or move cache files automatically from user's home [69] 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/debian-handbook 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/environment-modules 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-boxes 63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lightsoff 64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/maelstrom 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mustang-plug 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/swell-foop 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/swftools 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/termsaver 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/unburden-home-dir Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [70] 394 packages are orphaned [71] and 169 packages are up for adoption [72]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [73]. 70 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/05/msg00433.html 71 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 72 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 73 : 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 [74] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [75]. 74 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 75 : debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot and Justin B Rye [76]. 76 : debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-05-14T14:30:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/476 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 30th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/09/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" * Debian Tour in Nicaragua * Debian at ESRF * Bits from the DPL * 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? Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" -------------------------------------------- The Debian Project has announced the availability, for its testing distribution, of some packages to create a private cloud [1]: among others, xcp-xapi [2] and nova-xcp-plugins [3]. "Preserving user freedoms in the cloud is a tricky business and one of the major challenges ahead for Free Software. By easing the deployment of Debian-based private clouds we want to help our users in resisting the lure of giving up their freedoms in exchange of some flexibility," said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425 2 : http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xcp-xapi 3 : http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nova-xcp-plugins Debian Tour in Nicaragua ------------------------ The Debian Nicaraguan community is organising the Debian Tour [4]: from April to June, members of the local Debian community will deliver talks in several universities in Nicaragua, helping students to learn about the Debian Project and Free Software in general. The tour started in the city of Masaya, and will touch other cities such as Managua and León. On May 5th, Debian Tour will take place at UCA (the future DebConf12 venue) and special visitors, the Debian Developers and DebConf chairs, Gunnar Wolf and Holger Levsen, will attend this time. 4 : http://linuxtour.org/Debian_tour Debian at ESRF -------------- Jérôme Kieffer noticed that the European Synchrotron in Grenoble [5] is migrating its computing infrastructure to Debian: the computer controlling the particle accelerator has already been migrated, as well as some data analysis servers and part of the computer cluster. The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility [6] ("ESRF") is a joint facility supported and shared by various European countries which operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe. "For data analysis Debian offers both the richest environment including the most used software and libraries in our field of research, and a rock solid distribution with security fixes," added Jérôme in another mail [7]. 5 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2012/04/msg00044.html 6 : http://www.esrf.eu 7 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/04/msg00157.html Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report on DPL activities [8]. During the last month, Stefano informed the project about a proposal for a revenue sharing agreement from DuckDuckGo [9], marked DEP-5 [10] as accepted, and worked with Kenshi Muto to transfer the ownership of the Debian trademark in Japan to SPI. Stefano also gave an interview about Debian and Free Software in general [11] (in Italian) to one of the major newspapers in Italy, La Repubblica. Thanks to Matteo Cortese, who translated it, an English version [12] of the interview is also available. 8 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00006.html 9 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00092.html 10 : http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ 11 : http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2012/03/26/news/intervista_debian-30986031/ 12 : http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/03/intervista_per_la_Repubblica/en/ Interviews ---------- Raphaël Hertzog published a "People behind Debian" interview with Samuel Thibault [13], member of the accessibility and Hurd teams. 13 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/04/19/people-behind-debian-samuel-thibault-working-on-accessibility-and-the-hurd/ Other news ---------- Vincent Bernat wrote a tutorial on how to install XBMC on Debian [14] "Wheezy". XBMC [15] is a media centre supporting a wide range of digital media and remote controls, which — thanks to the hard work of Andres Mejia — has recently been accepted into Debian [16]. 14 : http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2012-xbmc-debian-wheezy.html 15 : http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xbmc 16 : http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/04/10/xbmc-accepted-into-debian/ Loïc Dachary sent a report from the OpenStack summit [17] where he represented the Debian Project. 17 : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/openstack-devel/2012-April/000748.html Ben Hutchings, member of the Debian Kernel Team, announced that he will maintain the Linux kernel version 3.2 as long-term kernel at kernel.org, in place of Greg Kroah-Hartman [18]. Last January, Ben announced that Debian "Wheezy" will use Linux 3.2 [19]. 18 : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1284809/focus%3D1285786 19 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00012.html Paul Wise noticed that two Debian derivatives shut down [20] in the last two months. Thanks to the derivatives census [21], some patches [22] are still available and he provided an analysis of them. 20 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/04/26/when-a-distro-dies/ 21 : http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census 22 : http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/Vanillux/patches/ Ana Guerrero announced that fifteen Debian projects have been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2012 [23], which is six more projects than last year. 23 : http://ekaia.org/blog/2012/04/27/debian-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2012/ Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * April 29-30, Shanghai, China —Debian Bug Squashing Party [24] * May 11-13, York, UK —Debian Bug Squashing Party [25] You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [26] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [27], Netherlands [28], Hispanic America [29], North America [30]. 24 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp 25 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0511-york-bsp 26 : http://www.debian.org/events 27 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 28 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 29 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 30 : 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 [31]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [32]. 31 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 32 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- One applicant has been accepted [33] as Debian Developers and nine people have started to maintain packages [34] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Eduardo Trápani, Norman Messtorff, Frank Neuber, Daniel Pocock, Artur Rona, Yongzhi Pan, Nuno Carvalho, Daniel Martí, Jussi Hakala, and Eric Beuque into our project! 33 : https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint 34 : 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 [35], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 781 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 543 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 35 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [36] these numbers. 36 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): apache2 [37], gajim [38], openssl [39], typo3-src [40], dropbear [41], iceweasel [42], iceape [43], quagga [44], asterisk [45], spip [46] and imagemagick [47]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2452 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2453 39 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2454 40 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2455 41 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2456 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2457 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2458 44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2459 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2460 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2461 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2462 Debian's Backports Team released an advisory for the package: samba [48]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 48 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/04/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 [49] (and the separate backports list [50], and stable updates list [51]) for announcements. 49 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 50 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 51 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 180 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [52] are: 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * devede — simple application to create video DVDs [53] * dfc — display file system usage using graph and colors [54] * freetuxtv — Internet television and radio player [55] * gif2apng — tool for converting animated GIF images to APNG format [56] * git-ftp — Git powered FTP client written as shell script [57] * gnac — audio converter for GNOME [58] * nqp — Not Quite Perl compiler [59] * packagekit-tools — PackageKit command-line tools [60] * parallel — build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel [61] * postfixadmin — virtual mail hosting interface for Postfix [62] 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/devede 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dfc 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freetuxtv 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gif2apng 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/git-ftp 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnac 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nqp 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/packagekit-tools 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/parallel 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/postfixadmin Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [63] 408 packages are orphaned [64] and 166 packages are up for adoption [65]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [66]. 63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00634.html 64 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 65 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 66 : 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 [67] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [68]. 67 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 68 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Norman García, David Prévot and Justin B Rye [69]. 69 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-04-30T12:40:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/475 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" press&lt; at &gt;debian.org April 25th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" The Debian Project produces an entirely Free operating system that empowers its users to be in control of the software running their computers. These days, more and more computing is being moved away from user computers to the so-called "cloud" – a vague term often used to refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) [1] offerings. We are concerned that, without the needed care, this trend might put in jeopardy most of the freedoms that users enjoy when running (on their computers) software that is Free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines [2]. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service 2: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines We encourage Debian users to prefer cloud offerings where the SaaS infrastructure is entirely made of Free Software and can be run under their control. We encourage Debian users to deploy their own clouds, as the ultimate way to retain all the freedoms that Debian stands for. To help our users with these tasks, we are proud to announce the availability of several new technologies that would ease the deployment of Debian-based clouds. Starting with the forthcoming release of Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", users will find ready-to-use packages for OpenStack® and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). OpenStack®, the open source cloud OS, has been created to drive industry standards and end cloud lock-in. OpenStack® is a common, open platform for both public and private clouds with the support of more than 2,600 global project participant and over 150 industry leading companies. The open source cloud operating system enables businesses to manage computers, storage, and networking resources via a self-service portal and APIs on standard hardware at massive scale. To find out more about OpenStack®, you can visit the official website [3]. 3: http://www.openstack.org/ The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is a Free Software project that is hosted by xen.org [4] that delivers an enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud computing platform. XCP integrates with the following cloud orchestration stacks: CloudStack, OpenNebula and OpenStack®. To find out more about XCP, you can visit the website of the project. 4: http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html The work to finalize Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" is still ongoing, but packages of the above technologies are already available as part of our "testing" release [5]. We encourage interested users to test them. In particular: * You can set up a minimal but fully functional OpenStack® cluster using two computers by following the HOWTO on the Debian wiki [6] * You can test XCP installation and deployment by installing the xcp-xapi [7] package and following the instructions in its README.Debian file * You can test OpenStack® using XCP by installing nova-xcp-plugins [8] in your XCP server, and following the instructions in its README.xcp_and_OpenStack file 5: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ 6: http://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto 7: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xcp-xapi 8: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nova-xcp-plugins "Preserving user freedoms in the cloud is a tricky business and one of the major challenges ahead for Free Software. By easing the deployment of Debian-based private clouds we want to help our users in resisting the lure of giving up their freedoms in exchange of some flexibility," said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader. For Lars Kurth, Community Manager at Xen.org, "Debian and Xen have a long uninterrupted history: thus, I am really pleased that Debian is the first Linux distribution to contain XCP packages. Until now, it was only possible to use XCP in Linux appliances within a tightly controlled environment. In Debian "Wheezy" we changed how users interact with XCP, providing much more flexibility and enabling anybody to use Debian as a XCP Dom0 kernel. This enables Debian users to build cloud services based on the leading Free Software virtualization platform that is powering some of the largest clouds in production today." "Having OpenStack packages included in Debian confirms the great job done by the OpenStack community to deliver high-quality free/libre software. It's exciting to collaborate with the Debian developers to enable building clouds based entirely on Free Software," added Stefano Maffulli, OpenStack® Technical Community Manager. Please let us know if you encounter any problem, using the Debian bug tracking system [9]. 9: http://bugs.debian.org/ 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 2012-04-25T17:41:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/474 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 16th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/08/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's eight issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian project leader elected * Registration open for DebConf12 * Personal BSP initiatives * The state of Debian s390x * 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? Debian project leader elected ----------------------------- The Debian project has just reelected Stefano Zacchiroli for a third year as Debian Project Leader [1]. More than 80% of voters put him as their first choice (or equal first) on their ballot papers. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120415 Stefano's large majority over his opponents shows how satisfied the Debian project is with his work so far, and its wish for him to represent the project during one last term — Stefano has already announced he won't be seeking reelection again next year. Wouter Verhelst and Gergely Nagy also gained a lot of support from Debian project members, both coming hundreds of votes ahead of the "None of the above" ballot choice. Registration open for DebConf12 ------------------------------- The Debian project is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the DebConf12 [2] conference, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, from Sunday 8 July to Saturday 14 July 2012. The conference will be preceded as usual by a week-long DebCamp, from Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July. It will only be possible to apply for food and accommodation grants and/or travel grants until 15 May. 2 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120412 Debian also invites submissions of proposals [3] for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for DebConf12 until 1 June 2012. 3 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00002.html Personal BSP initiatives ------------------------ We usually give information about BSPs where a group of people meet over a weekend, but today we'd like to mention two personal initiatives. Gregor Herrmann has reported every [4] week [5] over [6] ten [7] Release-Critical bugs squashed. Gerfried Fuchs also regularly reports on stable Release-Critical bugs squashed, and has managed to squash over [8] thirty [9] bugs [10] each month. We would like to thank Gregor Herrmann, Gerfried Fuchs and all other RC bug addicts who are constantly helping to make our distribution better. 4 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-08T21_24_42.txt 5 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-01T17_50_17.txt 6 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/03/#e2012-03-25T20_46_42.txt 7 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/03/#e2012-03-18T14_31_19.txt 8 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/04/02#squeeze-RCs-2012-3 9 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/02/08#squeeze-RCs-2012-2 10 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/01/19#squeeze-RCs-2012-1 The state of Debian s390x ------------------------- Philipp Kern posted an update on the current state of the Debian s390x port [11]. Work started on this port last summer, during DebConf11 [12], and in less than a month it already had almost 65% of packages built. Unfortunately, a new GLib release created some problems on this architecture; but recently a new major release of GLib [13] fixed all the issues. The next steps for this port will be to fix open bugs [14] and to make Iceweasel build successfully. 11 : http://debblog.philkern.de/2012/04/state-of-debian-s390x.html 12 : http://blog.aurel32.net/59 13 : http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/glib2.0/news/20120330T073522Z.html 14 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=s390x;users=debian-s390&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org Interviews ---------- Raphaël Hertzog published a "People behind Debian" interview with Francesca Ciceri [15], a member of the Debian press and publicity teams, while Petter Reinholdtsen interviewed Wolfgang Schweer [16], Justin B Rye [17] and Andreas Mundt [18] for his "Debian Edu interviews" series. 15 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/04/06/people-behind-debian-francesca-ciceri-member-of-debian-press-publicity-teams/ 16 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html 17 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html 18 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html Other news ---------- Guido Günther sent out some bits from the fifth Debian Groupware Meeting [19], which was held at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany. During the weekend the group fixed various issues and was able to push new versions of icedove [20] and d-push [21] to "unstable" while iceowl [22] (dead upstream) remains in "experimental". Some work was also done on OpenChange, Zarafa ZCP and SOGo, and several evolution bugs [23] were worked on. 19 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00000.html 20 : http://packages.debian.org/icedove 21 : http://packages.debian.org/d-push 22 : http://packages.debian.org/iceowl 23 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=evolution;dist=unstable Michael Larabel did some benchmarks to compare Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD/PC-BSD 9.0 [24] on a dual AMD Opteron 2384 system with 4 GB of RAM and a 160 GB Western Digital SATA drive. It appears that Linux is generally faster than kFreeBSD for now, but kFreeBSD won on a few tests. For more details, you can consult the complete results page [25]. 24 : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA4NTY 25 : http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1202215-BY-FREEBSD9683 Sebastian Harl called for help with handling the Debian booth [26] at the Grazer Linuxtage. If you are interested in helping out, please add yourself to the wiki page [27]. 26 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/04/msg00000.html 27 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2012/GLT Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote a useful tutorial for new Debian Developers [28] where she explained the useful configuration changes people may want to apply just after they become DDs. 28 : http://dunetna.probeta.net/doku.php/debian:non-dd_to_dd_steps Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * April 19-20, San Francisco, USA — Debian table atOpenStack Conference [29] * April 28, Graz, Austria — Debian booth at Grazer Linuxtage [30] * April 29-30, Shanghai, China — Debian Bug Squashing Party [31] You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [32] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [33], Netherlands [34], Hispanic America [35], North America [36]. 29 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0419-openstack 30 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0428-GLT12 31 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp 32 : http://www.debian.org/events 33 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 34 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 35 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 36 : 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 [37]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [38]. 37 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 38 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Five people have started to maintain packages [39] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Mike Miller, Elena Grandi, Pierre Chambart, Prach Pongpanich and Corentin Labbe into our project! 39 : 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 [40], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 726 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 517 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 40 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [41] these numbers. 41 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): libpng [42], tiff [43], inspircd [44], sqlalchemy [45], samba [46] and puppet [47]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2446 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2447 44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2448 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2449 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2450 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 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 --------------------------- 282 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [51] are: 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * 0ad — real-time strategy game of ancient warfare [52] * dh-ada-library — Debian helper for Ada libraries [53] * dwb — lightweight WebKit browser [54] * fonts-dosis — very simple, rounded, sans serif font family [55] * legit — Git extension to assist in manipulating branches [56] * openimageio-tools — library for reading and writing images - command line tools [57] * shellinabox — publish command line shell through Ajax interface [58] * sound-theme-freedesktop — freedesktop.org sound theme [59] * xbmc — media center [60] * xbrlapi — access software for a blind person using a braille display [61] * xul-ext-automatic-save-folder — download helper which automates the sorting and saving of files [62] 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/0ad 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dh-ada-library 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dwb 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-dosis 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/legit 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openimageio-tools 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shellinabox 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sound-theme-freedesktop 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xbmc 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xbrlapi 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-automatic-save-folder Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [63] 406 packages are orphaned [64] and 160 packages are up for adoption [65]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [66]. 63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00252.html 64 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 65 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 66 : 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 [67] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [68]. 67 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 68 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot and Justin B Rye [69]. 69 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-04-16T12:08:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/473 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Registration open for DebConf12 press&lt; at &gt;debian.org April 12th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120412 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Registration open for DebConf12 The Debian Project is pleased to announce that registration is now open for DebConf12, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, from Sunday 8 July to Saturday 14 July 2012. The conference will be preceded as usual by one week of DebCamp, from Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July. As previous years, three different registration options will be available: "Sponsored", "Professional" and "Corporate". Through the "Sponsored" category, the Debian Project intend to help some people attend who would not be able to pay for their own travel to DebConf. The "Corporate" category, with a USD 1300 (EUR 1000) registration fee, is intended for those attending DebConf as representatives of companies. The "Professional" category, with a USD 650 (EUR 500) registration fee, is intended for any individual or company who wants to help the conference by paying the direct costs of their attendence. It will only be possible to apply for food and accommodation grants and/or travel grants until 15 May. For more detailed information about how to register, please see the separate announcement from the DebConf team [1]. 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00002.html Airline discount ---------------- The DebConf team has arranged an airfare discount for attendees with SkyTeam through their Global Meetings program. The discount is available on most SkyTeam airlines for travel from 26 June until 20 July to and from the Managua, Nicaragua, airport (MGA) for the purpose of attending DebConf12. To see what SkyTeam Global Meetings can offer for your DebConf12 travel needs, go to http://www.skyteam.com/GlobalMeetings and enter Event ID 2254S. Call for papers --------------- Debian invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for its DebConf12 conference. Submissions are not limited to raditional talks: you could propose a performance, art installation, debate, or anything else. Official submissions will be accepted until 1 June 2012, 23:59 UTC. This year, we will continue to organize some talks into thematic tracks. If you have a proposal for a DebConf track, please contact debconf-team&lt; at &gt;lists.debconf.org. Previous examples included "Debian Science", "Debian Infrastructure", and "Community Outreach" tracks. If you would like to be a track coordinator, please volunteer on that list. Detailed information on how to submit an event are available on the mail from the DebConf team [2]. 2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00003.html About DebConf ------------- DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place annually since 2000 in various locations over the world. If you are interested in helping by working as a volunteer during DebConf, please contact debconf-team&lt; at &gt;lists.debconf.org If you or your company are interested in sponsoring DebConf by donating money or lending equipment, please contact the sponsorship team at sponsors&lt; at &gt;debconf.org. More information about DebConf12 can be found on the conference website. 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 2012-04-11T23:27:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/472 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org April 2nd, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's seventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from Debian Med team * Debian joins the OSI * Report from DSA Team sprint * "Fascinating": a Debian based tricorder * So long, and thanks for all the news * 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 Debian Med team ------------------------- Andreas Tille sent some bits from the Debian Med team [1], where he talked about recent initiatives of the team including the [2] "Debian Med Bug Squashing Advent Calendar 2011" and the [3] "Mentoring of the Month" (MoM) project. Andreas also reminded us that in January the Debian Med project reached 10: in ten years, Debian Med has grown from a one man project to a "strong team maintaining a set of over 200 highly specialised packages with a high quality standard", as Andreas said in arelated blogpost [4]. The Debian Med project not only provides and maintains specialised packages for biology and medicine, but is — like other Debian Blends — "a nice entry point for people to join Debian because newcomers can identify themselves with a known topic (the scope of the Blend — in this case medicine and bioinformatics) first and learn Debian rules in a team with common interest", added Andreas in the mail. This idea was confirmed by the results of asurvey focused on why Debian Med team members became Debian Developers [5]. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00009.html 2: http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent/ 3: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM 4: http://debianmed.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-anniversary-of-debian-med-posted-by.html 5: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Developers Debian joins the OSI -------------------- The Debian project announced that it is joining the [6] "Open Source Initiative (OSI)" as an affiliate. The OSI was founded in 1998 with the aim of explaining, advocating, and protecting the term "open source". For many years now, the OSI has helped the "Open Source" trademark gain recognition, particularly in the corporate world. 6: http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120330 Report from DSA Team sprint --------------------------- Luca Filipozzi wrote a report from the Debian System Administrators ([7] "DSA") team's sprint held over the weekend of 16-18 March in Oslo, Norway. During the meeting the team discussed a long-term plan for Debian's infrastructure, reviewing the machines currently administrated, and formulating procedures regarding account and group management. One of the main points discussed at the meeting was the necessity to renew the set of machines — which are now old and long out of warranty — and how to do it. While in the past Debian's hardware requirements were met by donations of new and used hardware from individuals and organizations, this is no longer true. The team elaborated a "Five Year Plan" for a hardware refresh cycle to avoid to having machines more than five years old. "A clear outcome of our work on the Five Year Plan is an understanding that hardware has now become one of the biggest expense categories for Debian", said Luca. Various machines are also needed in order to support the whole set of architectures for which Debian is shipped. For more information on how to donate equipment to the Debian Project, please contact thehardware donations team [8]. The DSA sprint was made possible by donations [9] to Debian and by Varnish Software who hosted it and provided food and drink. Thank you! 7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00032.html 8: mailto:hardware-donations&lt; at &gt;debian.org 9: http://www.debian.org/donations "Fascinating": a Debian based tricorder --------------------------------------- Peter Jansen, a cognitive science researcher, brought to life Spock's tricorder [10] from the popular Star Trek television series. Peter, in fact, developed a handheld device able — thanks to its embedded sensors — to measure various environmental parameters (link temperature, humidity, magnetic fields, etc.). The device runs Debian GNU/Linux on an ARM920T-based Atmel microcontroller: the hardware specifications and schematics, and the software are licensed respectively under TAPR non-commercial and GPL 3 and are available on the project website [11]. 10: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/researcher-publishes-specs-for-real-linux-powered-star-trek-tricorder 11: http://www.tricorderproject.org/ So long, and thanks for all the news ------------------------------------ The year was 2006. The place: Oaxtepec, Mexico. The event: DebConf6. This is how the Publicity team was born [12], during a BoF titled "Representing Debian". And among others there were two Debian contributors (who later became Debian Developers), Alexander Schmehl and Meike Reichle. If you are a regular reader of Debian Project News, or a contributor to the Publicity Team, you'll surely recognize their names: they worked every day for the last six years to bring us news about the Debian world and to announce important changes inside the project. Alexander and Meike have now decided to step down from the Press and Publicity team [13] and start another, different adventure [14]. The Publicity Team would like to thank them for their tireless effort, their creativity and their inspiring work. So long, and thanks for all the news! 12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/06/msg00005.html 13: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00011.html 14: http://blog.alphascorpii.net/english/personal/to-those.html Interviews ---------- Raphaël Hertzog published a "People behind Debian" interview with Jörg Jaspert [15] (FTPmaster, Debian Account Manager, and more), while Petter Reinholdtsen interviewed John Ingleby [16] for his "Debian Edu interviews" series. 15: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/03/23/people-behind-debian-joerg-jaspert/ 16: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html In addition, Chris Woolfrey interviewed Guido Günther [17]. Zlatan Todorić interviewed Joey Hess [18] about his participation at DebConf11, held last August in Banja Luka. 17: http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=547 18: http://ulk.rs.ba/debian/intervju-sa-joey-hessom Other news ---------- Stefan Fritsch posted some bits from the Apache Maintainers [19] announcing some changes — a new set of packaging guidelines, a recent major Apache HTTPD upgrade, and an upcoming package transition. 19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00013.html Axel Beckert recently wrote about the (perhaps temporary) disappearance of aptitude-gtk [20]. The new team is currently focusing on the internal code and the native ncurses user interface, but anyone who wants to contribute to the GUI is welcome to join the Aptitude team [21]. 20: http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Debian/aptitude-gtk%20will%20likely%20vanish.html 21: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel Kurt Roeckx announced that the DPL candidates' rebuttals have been published [22] and are now available as part of their platforms [23], and also sent out the call for votes [24]. Voting closes on Saturday 14 April. 22: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00010.html 23: http://www.debian.org/vote/2012/vote_001/ 24: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00015.html Stefano Zacchiroli announced that the LDAP dnsZoneEntry attribute for *.debian.net domains will be made publicly accessible in two weeks [25]. The intention is to provide an easier way to view the data, which is currently only available via a DNS query. 25: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00008.html Jan Hauke Rahm wrote a report from the Front Desk and DAM sprint [26] that was recently held in Mönchengladbach, Germany. During the meeting, the members of both teams worked on the [27] "New Members" web interface, as well as on long-outstanding cases of NM applicants. The meeting turned out to be a great chance to discuss face-to-face and in person delicate cases and to work on the pending requests. Both teams would like to thank Credativ who hosted the meeting. 26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00014.html 27: https://nm.debian.org/ New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Eleven applicants have been accepted [28] as Debian Developers, six applicants have been [29] accepted [30] as Debian Maintainers, and six people have started to maintain packages [31] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Arno Töll, Mathieu Malaterre, Johann Felix Soden, Roland Dreier, Dmitrijs Ledkovs, Ana Carolina Comandulli, Michael Gilbert, Carl Chenet, Mònica Ramírez Arceda, Michael Stapelberg, Alessandro Ghedini, David Steele, Khalid El Fathi, Rodolfo García Peñas, Dmitry Smirnov, Sven Joachim, Simon Josefsson, Guo Yixuan, Emile Joubert, Jonathan Steinert, Benjamin J. Scott, Melissa Draper and Lennart Weller into our project! 28: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 29: http://lists.debian.org/E1SBckR-0004gS-ES&lt; at &gt;franck.debian.org 30: http://lists.debian.org/E1SCtPt-0006gV-Au&lt; at &gt;franck.debian.org 31: 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 [32], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy" , is currently affected by 742 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 536 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 32: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [33] these numbers. 33: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): libapache2-mod-fcgid [34], nginx [35], gnash [36], icedove [37], raptor [38], libpng [39], libtasn1-3 [40], gnutls26 [41], openarena [42], linux-2.6 [43], tryton-server [44], typo3-src [45] and curl [46] (updated announce). Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2436 35: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2434 36: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2435 37: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2437 38: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2438 39: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2439 40: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2440 41: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2441 42: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2442 43: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2443 44: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2444 45: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2445 46: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2398 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: gnash [47], puppet [48], nginx [49] and freetype [50]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 47: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/03/msg00002.html 48: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/03/msg00003.html 49: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/03/msg00004.html 50: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/03/msg00005.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 [51] (and the separate backports list [52], and stable updates list [53]) for announcements. 51: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 52: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 53: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 207 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [54] are: 54: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * fonts-dancingscript — lively casual script with bouncing letters and size changes [55] * keepnote — cross-platform note-taking and organization application [56] * kvpm — logical volume manager and disk partitioner GUI based on KDE [57] * petitboot — ncurses version of petitboot, a kexec based bootloader [58] * python-geopy — geocoding toolbox for Python [59] * qtscrob — Audioscrobbler submitter for Rockbox-format .scrobbler.log files [60] * shelltestrunner — test command-line programs or arbitrary shell commands [61] * tabble — program launcher with tabs for X [62] * yagf — graphical interface to optical character recognition softwares [63] 55: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-dancingscript 56: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/keepnote 57: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kvpm 58: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/petitboot 59: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-geopy 60: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qtscrob 61: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shelltestrunner 62: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tabble 63: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/yagf Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [64] 432 packages are orphaned [65] and 152 packages are up for adoption [66]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [67]. 64: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/03/msg00875.html 65: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 66: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 67: 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 [68] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [69]. 68: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 69: mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri and David Prévot [70]. 70: mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-04-02T14:11:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/471 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ The Debian Project joins the OSI press&lt; at &gt;debian.org March 30th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120330 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project joins the OSI The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it is joining the Open Source Initiative ("OSI") [1] as an affiliate. The OSI was founded in 1998 by Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens, with the aim of explaining, advocating, and protecting the term "open source". Debian shares the OSI's desire to encourage Free Software. Debian's Social Contract commits it to producing a system which is 100% free [2]. 1: http://opensource.org/ 2: http://www.debian.org/intro/free The OSI's Open Source Definition [3] is closely based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines [4], the document that defines the types of software licenses which the Debian Project accepts. For many years now, the OSI has helped the "Open Source" trademark gain recognition, particularly in the corporate world. The OSI recently decided to pursue this mission by becoming a member-led organisation, and as a first step has invited Free and Open Source Software projects to become affiliate members. 3: http://opensource.org/docs/osd 4: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines By becoming an affiliate of the OSI, the Debian Project recognises the OSI's history of efforts towards goals shared by both organisations. However, the Debian Project will not automatically adopt OSI decisions on the acceptability of particular software licenses and will maintain an independent license review process. "For widespread Free Software adoption we still need to overcome many challenges," said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader. "While Debian is perfectly suited to face technical challenges, other organisations are better suited to face more political ones, like anti-Free Software corporate FUD, or unjust worldwide laws that make it illegal to share pieces of Free Software. I value the work that OSI is doing in those areas. Thanks to their new affiliation scheme, I'm looking forward to Debian taking an active role in OSI." Simon Phipps of the OSI welcomed Debian to the organisation, saying, "It's great to have Debian joining the new affiliate scheme; the project's breadth of experience will be a valuable addition. The Board is keen to make progress and having a diverse and representative Affiliate membership is crucial if we are to make well-founded decisions in each of the challenging changes we anticipate." About the Open Source Initiative -------------------------------- The OSI are the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) [5] and the community-recognised body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant. The OSI is actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software. 5: http://opensource.org/docs/osd 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 2012-03-30T09:11:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/470 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org March 19th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/06/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's sixth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Project Leader Elections 2012: the candidates * First "Squeeze" -based Debian Edu released * Updated Debian 5.0: 5.0.10 released * Reports from recent Bug Squashing Parties * Announcinggobby.debian.org * The Debian Kernel Team rocks! * 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? Debian Project Leader Elections 2012: the candidates ---------------------------------------------------- On 2 March, Kurt Roeckx, current Debian Project Secretary, sent the call for nominations [1] for the 2012 Debian Project Leader elections. Unlike last year, when Stefano Zacchiroli was the only candidate, this year three candidates will be running for DPL: Wouter Verhelst, Gergely Nagy and the current DPL Stefano Zacchiroli. The campaigning period has already started and will end on 31 March: the candidates' platforms [2] are already available. You can follow the campaign on the debian-vote mailing list [3], where the prospective leaders reply to voters' questions. The voting period will start on 1 April and end on 14 April. 1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html 2 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2012/vote_001 3 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/ First "Squeeze" -based Debian Edu released ------------------------------------------ The first "Squeeze" -based version of Debian Edu was released [4] last week. Debian Edu (aka "Skolelinux") is a Debian Pure Blend specifically targeted at schools and other educational institutions, and provides a completely configured school network environment out of the box. Petter Reinholdtsen started a series of blogposts dedicated to Debian Edu / Skolelinux, which will include interviews with Debian Edu users and administrators [5] and explanations of the team's workflows [6]. 4 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311 5 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html 6 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html Updated Debian 5.0: 5.0.10 released ----------------------------------- The Debian project is pleased to announce the tenth and final update of its oldstable distribution, Debian 5.0 (codename [7] "Lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a few adjustments for other serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available. 7 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120310 Reports from recent Bug Squashing Parties ----------------------------------------- Jonathan Wiltshire sent a report from the Bug Squashing Party [8] held over the weekend of 2–4 March in Cambridge. The BSP was a success: eighteen developers and contributors worked on 170 bugs, closing 45 bugs and adding further information for 16 bugs. Manuel Montecelo closed the oldest bug [9], opened in 2005, while Neil Williams, requesting the removal of opensync and associated packages [10], closed 25 bugs by a single action. Paul Wise reported on the Perth Bug Squashing Party [11] held over the weekend of 10–11 March. During the weekend about 10 people worked on 12 bugs, focusing on the release critical bugs highlighted by rc-alert. 8 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/03/msg00004.html 9 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305992 10 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662079 11 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/03/16/perth-bsp-report/ Announcing gobby.debian.org --------------------------- Philipp Kern announced the availability of a [12] "Gobby" server hosted by Debian. Gobby is a realtime collaborative editor which works as a standalone desktop application. To use it, install the gobby-0.5 package [13] and then just connect to the server at gobby.debian.org. 12 : http://debblog.philkern.de/2012/02/gobbydebianorg.html 13 : http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gobby-0.5 The Debian Kernel Team rocks! ----------------------------- In a recent article, Stefano Zacchiroli pointed out how much the Debian Kernel Team is contributing to upstream [14]. Not only can members of the team often be spotted among the most active contributors to specific Linux releases, but they were also publicly thanked by Greg Kroah-Hartman [15], current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, with these words: "I would personally like to thank the Debian kernel developers, specifically Ben Hutchings, Maximilian Attems, Dann Frazier, Bastian Blank, and Moritz Muehlenhoff. They went above and beyond what any "normal" developer would have done, ferreting patches out of the kernel.org releases and the different vendor kernels and bug tracking systems, backporting them to the 2.6.32 kernel, testing, and then forwarding them on to me. Their dedication to their user community is amazing for such a "volunteer" group of developers. I firmly believe that without their help, the 2.6.32 kernel would not have been the success that it was. The users of Red Hat and SuSE products owe them a great debt." 14 : http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/03/debian_contributions_to_the_linux_kernel/ 15 : http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/2.6.32-stable.html Interviews ---------- Raphaël Hertzog published a "People behind Debian" interview with Gregor Herrmann [16] (member of the Perl team). 16 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/03/08/people-behind-debian-gregor-hermann-member-of-the-perl-team/ Other news ---------- Enrico Zini announced the new website for the New Members process [17]. The new site [18] is the result of a major re-design of the backend database carried out at a recent meeting. 17 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00004.html 18 : https://nm.debian.org/ Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report on DPL activities [19]. 19 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00002.html Koshuke Kawaguchi wrote an interesting blogpost about the clash of cultures between Debian and Maven [20]. 20 : http://kohsuke.org/2012/03/16/debian-and-maven-a-crash-of-culture/ The Debian Project will participate, for the seventh consecutive year, in the [21] "Google Summer of Code". Further information can be found on the Debian wiki [22]. 21 : http://ekaia.org/blog/2012/03/17/debian-accepted-for-the-google-summer-of-code-2012-students-wanted/ 22 : http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012 New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Eight people have started to maintain packages [23] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcomeRaúl Benencia, AbdulKarim Memon, Keith Winstein, Medhamsh V, Robin Gareus, Andrea Palazzi, Sergey Slipchenko, and Anton Kokalj into our project! 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 573 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 382 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 24 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [25] these numbers. 25 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): libxml-atom-perl [26], plib [27], gimp [28], imagemagick [29], freetype [30], mysql-5.1 [31], python-pam [32], libdbd-pg-perl [33], libyaml-libyaml-perl [34], and iceweasel [35]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 26 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2424 27 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2425 28 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426 29 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2427 30 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2428 31 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2429 32 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2430 33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2431 34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2432 35 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2433 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: fex [36] and notmuch [37]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 36 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html 37 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: at [38]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2012/03/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 [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 --------------------------- 315 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [42] are: 42 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * fstransform — tool for in-place filesystem conversion [43] * github-backup — backs up data from GitHub [44] * httpcode — explain the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line [45] * httpie — CLI, cURL-like tool for humans [46] * lammps — molecular dynamics simulator [47] * morsegen — convert text file to ASCII morse code [48] * paulstretch — extreme sound time-stretch [49] * pspp — statistical analysis tool [50] * xcrysden — crystalline and molecular structure visualizer [51] 43 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fstransform 44 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/github-backup 45 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/httpcode 46 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/httpie 47 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lammps 48 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/morsegen 49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/paulstretch 50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pspp 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xcrysden Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [52] 440 packages are orphaned [53] and 146 packages are up for adoption [54]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [55]. 52 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/03/msg00448.html 53 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 54 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 55 : 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 [56] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [57]. 56 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 57 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri and Justin B Rye [58]. 58 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-03-20T15:40:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/469 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ First "Squeeze" based Debian Edu version released press&lt; at &gt;debian.org March 11th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 11th, 2012 The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu "Squeeze" 6.0.4+r0! Debian Edu (aka "Skolelinux") is a Debian Pure Blend specifically targeted at schools and educational institutions, and provides a completely configured school network environment out of the box. It covers PXE installation, PXE booting for diskless machines, and setup for a school server, for stationary workstations, and for workstations that can be taken away from the school network. Several educational applications like Celestia, Dr. Geo, GCompris, GeoGebra, Kalzium, KGeography and Solfege are included in the default desktop setup. Besides including everything provided by the fourth update of Debian "Squeeze" (6.0.4), this new release of Debian Edu introduces some interesting improvements, including: replacement of LWAT with GOsa² as the LDAP administration interface; updated artwork and new Debian Edu / Skolelinux logo; a new LXDE desktop option, in addition to KDE (default) and GNOME (LXDE and GNOME are available only with the CD installation method); faster LTSP client boot; improved handing of removable media on thin clients; a new roaming workstation profile for laptops; full Samba NT4 domain support for Windows XP/Vista/7; etc. The Debian Edu Team has also worked intensively on the documentation, improving and extending the manual which is now fully translated to German, French and Italian, while partial translations exist for Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Spanish. The installation process has also been improved, integrating the new version of debian-installer, allowing copying of ISO images to USB sticks and changing partitioning for Standalone installs to have a separate /home and no /usr. When asked about the [1] advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu, Nigel Barker replied: "For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the workstation, or the LTSP. It's all of them, and it's all configured ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is designed to be set up and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with Japan." 1: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html For those who want to give Debian Edu "Squeeze" a try, [2] complete download and installation instructions are available, including detailed instructions in the [3] "Getting Started" chapter of the manual explaining the first steps, such as setting up a network or adding users. 2: http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/en/debian-edu-squeeze-manual.html#Installation 3: http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/en/debian-edu-squeeze-manual.html#GettingStarted Those who are already using rc1-3 can upgrade to this version by using for example "apt-get upgrade" - users upgrading from beta3 must make sure they keep the existing gosa.conf file when dpkg asks how to handle the changed file during upgrade. The sha1sums of the released ISO images: f4184237f0eb2a509c6729b3f8039b71f5f4394a debian-edu-6.0.4+edu+r0-CD.iso 64681588fffa7a20f5d9e67c726f010580e35b9f debian-edu-6.0.4+edu+r0-DVD.iso 087d0c69da17b4a98a2966ff752fcfea8e30ec23 debian-edu-6.0.4+edu+r0-source-DVD.iso Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week? Check out Debian Edu Squeeze! Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world, mostly in Germany (in 2009 the region of Rhineland-Palatinate decided to use it in all its schools) and Norway. About Debian Edu ---------------- The [4] Skolelinux project was founded in Norway in 2001 with the aim of creating a GNU/Linux distribution for schools and other educational institutions. After merging with the French Debian Edu project in 2003, Skolelinux became a [5] Debian Pure Blend. Today the system is in use in several countries around the world, with most installations in Norway, Spain, Germany and France. 4: http://www.skolelinux.org/ 5: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends 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 2012-03-11T16:49:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/468 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org March 5th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/05/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang * Debian Peru revival * DebConf11 final report is out * Debian Utsav * 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? Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang ---------------------------------------- Sylvestre Ledru performed a study that rebuilt the Debian archive using clang [1], a new C/C++/Objective-C compiler. The goal was to evaluate the current capabilities of clang for compilation and C/C++/objective-C support. Results are available on the Debian clang web pages [2]. 1 : http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2012/02/29/rebuild_of_the_debian_archive_with_clang 2 : http://clang.debian.net/ Debian Peru revival ------------------- Rudy Godoy blogged about a revival of the Debian Peru local group [3]. The Debian Peru users group was founded in 2004 and was quite active in spreading the word about Debian and Free Software, but then slowed down its activity. However, in the two last weeks, the group has become active again and they're planning various events and meetings aimed at helping people to contribute to Debian. You can find more information in the group wiki page [4] or on their mailing list [5]. 3 : http://blog.stone-head.org/debianperu/ 4 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPeru 5 : http://listas.apesol.org/listinfo.cgi/debian-apesol.org DebConf11 final report is out ----------------------------- The DebConf organisation team released the final report of the 2011 Debian Conference, which was held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report can be downloaded from the DebConf media website [6]. In related news, the DebConf committee decided that DebConf13 will take place in Switzerland [7], likely in the middle of August. The Swiss bid narrowly won over the bid from Riga, Latvia. 6 : http://media.debconf.org/dc11/report/ 7 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120301 Debian Utsav ------------ Shirish Agarwal reported on the Debian Utsav [8] which took place in Pune last month. "Debian Utsav is celebration of Debian folks — meet at one place, eat, drink and work on Debian!" as Praveen — one of the main organisers — explained in anannouncement message [9]. During the meeting there were some interesting talks and workshops, such as "Debian history", "What goes on in making Debian" and "Introducing to packaging". 8 : https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/debian-utsav-coep-04-02-2012/ 9 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-dug-in/2012/01/msg00003.html Other news ---------- The 29th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [10] has been released and covers the following topics: 10 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html * New Iceweasel add-on to help looking up developer sites * Realtime collaborative text editing services for Debian * DEP9: Availability of reconf-inetd (replacement for update-inetd) * Security tracker improvements * Derivatives census improvements * mentors.d.n software upgrade * Support for copyright format 1.0 (developed as DEP5) Sylvestre Ledru wrote a report from the Parisian bug squashing party [11] at IRILL's offices. 104 bugs were fixed. One of the key achievements of this BSP was that Cyril Brulebois fixed the last few packages that had been still using the Yada packaging tool. 11 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/03/msg00000.html Leandro Gómez sent out a call for volunteers for DebConf12 [12] on his blog. Leandro explained how DebConf brings a lot of benefits to the Debian project: during the conference, Debian contributors can share knowledge and have discussions in order to improve various aspects of Debian, including packages, translations, and the infrastructure. 12 : http://leogg.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/debconf-needs-you/ Jan Wagner sent out a call for volunteers to help at the Debian booth [13] during Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. For more information, you can visit the organisation wiki page [14]. 13 : http://blog.waja.info/2012/02/26/booth-at-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2012-clt14/ 14 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEventsDe/2012/ChemnitzerLinuxTage2012 Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * March 10-11, Perth, Australia —Perth Bug Squashing Party [15] * March 17-18, Chemnitz, Germany —Debian booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage [16] You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [17] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [18], Netherlands [19], Hispanic America [20], North America [21]. 15 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0310-perth-bsp 16 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0317-linuxtage-chemnitz 17 : http://www.debian.org/events 18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 19 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 20 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 21 : 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 [22]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [23]. 22 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 23 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Four applicants have been accepted [24] as Debian Developers, four applicants have been accepted [25] as Debian Maintainers, and six people have started to maintain packages [26] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Thorsten Alteholz, Javi Merino, Liang Guo, Oliver Sallou, Timo Aaltonen, Emile Joubert, Brian Thomason, Barry Warsaw, bojo42, Geoff Levand, Jerome Benoit, Cédric Pineau, Jeroen Keiren, and Samuel Bronson into our project! 24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2012/02/msg00011.html 25 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/02/msg00135.html 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 7.0 "Wheezy", is currently affected by 575 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 385 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 27 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [28] these numbers. 28 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): mumble [29], libvorbis [30], libarchive [31], fex [32], libmodplug [33], notmuch [34], libxml2 [35], postgresql-8.4 [36], puppet [37], openjdk-6 [38], moodle [39], file [40] and movabletype-opensource [41]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 29 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2411 30 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2412 31 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2413 32 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2414 33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2415 34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2416 35 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2417 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2418 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2420 39 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421 40 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422 41 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2423 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 [42] (and the separate backports list [43], and stable updates list [44]) for announcements. 42 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 43 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 44 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 105 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [45] are: 45 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * alt-key — tool to help developers improve keyboard accelerators [46] * bookletimposer — PDF imposition toolkit [47] * cde — package everything required to execute a Linux command on another computer [48] * comparepdf — command line tool for comparing two PDF files [49] * dh-lua — helper tools for maintaining Lua-related packages [50] * icc-profiles-free — ICC color profiles for use with color profile aware software [51] * maitreya — software for Vedic and western astrology [52] * transcode — text console video-stream processing tool [53] * vavoom — advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife engine [54] 46 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/alt-key 47 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bookletimposer 48 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cde 49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/comparepdf 50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dh-lua 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/icc-profiles-free 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/maitreya 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/transcode 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vavoom Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 144 packages are orphaned [55] and 442 packages are up for adoption [56]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [57]. 55 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 56 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 57 : 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 [58] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [59]. 58 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 59 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, Sylvestre Ledru, David Prévot and Justin B Rye [60]. 60 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-03-05T19:53:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/467 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Switzerland to host Debian Conference 2013 press&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120301 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 1st, 2012 On February 20, 2012, the DebConf committee decided that DebConf13, the Debian developer conference of 2013, should take place on the shores of the Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, most likely in the middle of August. More details may be found on the [1] organizers' wiki. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Switzerland/Bid In a two hour meeting on Monday evening, the Swiss bid narrowly won over the bid from Riga, Latvia. Teams had been preparing their bids since mid-2011, seeking venues and local sponsors in their respective cities and countries. The two bids both had character and unique identities. On the one hand, the Riga proposal was totally centered on city and university life. On the other hand, the Swiss bid aimed to bring DebConf to a setting that is known for its natural beauty. "Our proposal strongly focuses on the community gathering aspect of DebConf. Accomodation, hacking spaces and talk rooms will be at the same place with a beautiful view over the Lake Neuchatel and to Swiss alps. We'll have the whole holiday camp exclusively for DebConf", said Gaudenz Steinlin, member of the Swiss team. The DebConf organizers congratulate the future organizers of DebConf13, and thank both teams for their efforts. The venue decision for DebConf14 will be made in approximately twelve months. Proposals should be submitted by 31 December 2012 to be eligible for consideration. About DebConf ------------- DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference. In addition to a full schedule of technical, social, and policy talks, DebConf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors, and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely. It has taken place annually since 2000 in locations as varied as Scotland, Argentina, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. More information about DebConf is available from http://debconf.org/. This year, DebConf12 starts on Sunday 8 July, and ends Saturday 14 July 2012. The conference will be held in Managua, Nicaragua. DebConf will be preceded by DebCamp, from Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July 2012. DebCamp is a smaller, less formal event giving an opportunity for group work on Debian projects. On Saturday 7 July 2012, DebConf Open Day will take place at the site. The Open Day is a short conference aimed at Debian users, and others interested in learning more about free software. More information about DebConf12 can be found on the [2] conference website. http://debconf12.debconf.org/ 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 2012-03-01T20:17:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/466 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 20th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/04/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Goodbye Lenny! * Debian GNU/Hurd on the rails * DPL and legal work * Multiarch-ready dpkg * GPL in Debian: a study * 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? Goodbye Lenny! - -------------- One year after the release of Debian 6.0 alias "Squeeze", and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias "Lenny", security support for the old "Lenny" release has been terminated [1]. The Debian project is proud to have been able to support its old distribution for such a long time, even continuing for a full year after the new version was released. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120209 Debian GNU/Hurd on the rails - ---------------------------- Samuel Thibault sent some bits from Debian GNU/Hurd porters [2] reporting recent achievements of the team. Among other news items, Samuel confirmed that Debian GNU/Hurd might be available as a technological preview for the "Wheezy" release: the percentage of packages built for it has passed 70% and the installer is available with a graphical interface. 2 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00002.html Samuel wants to thank Richard Braun who provided a new and faster Debian porter box, immediately accessible to Debian Developers. For more information on Debian GNU/Hurd, you can visit the Debian wiki [3]. 3 : http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd DPL and legal work - ------------------ Stefano Zacchiroli sent some bits from the DPL [4] which, as usual, reported his monthly activities. During the last month, Stefano has mostly worked on patents and legal issues, including helping David Prévot and other webmasters in their effort to relicense the Debian website, writing a draft for a Debian trademark policy (with the help of Benjamin Mako Hill and the SPI lawyers), and writing a patent policy [5] for the Debian archive that has just been published [6]. 4 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00001.html 5 : http://www.debian.org/legal/patent 6 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120219 Multiarch-ready dpkg - -------------------- Cyril Brulebois mentioned on his blog that "thanks to the hard work of dpkg developers and many (generations of) developers", dpkg with multiarch [7] was uploaded to experimental. He invites everyone to try and install packages with a foreign architecture. 7 : http://blog.mraw.org/2012/02/01/dpkg_with_multiarch/ GPL in Debian: a study - ---------------------- Sam Varghese wrote an article analysing John Sullivan's study on the use of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) in the Debian project [8]. John, executive director at the Free Software Foundation, said during his FOSDEM 2012 talk titled "Is copyleft being framed?" that 93% of Debian "Squeeze"'s packages are released under licences in the GPL family (including the GPL, the Affero GPL and LGPL), showing a constant and significant increase from the previous releases. The numbers in the talk were calculated using an existing Debian tool, but Russ Allbery mentioned that it wasn't designed to be used this way [9], so the current figures are only preliminary. 8 : http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/52838-gpl-use-in-debian-on-the-rise-study 9 : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-02/002.html Interviews - ---------- There has also been one further "People behind Debian" interview: with Ana Beatriz Guerrero López [10], member of the Debian KDE team. 10 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/02/10/people-behind-debian-ana-beatriz-guerrero-lopez-member-of-the-debian-kde-team/ Other news - ---------- The Debian Project is calling for contributors to design graphics for the next release of the Universal Operating System [11], called "Wheezy". 11 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120213 Holger Levsen wrote a report from the DebConf Video Team sprint [12] held last November in Paris, France. During the meeting the Video Team was able to work on configurations of software and hardware needed for streaming and recording various important events such as DebConf and FOSDEM. Holger ended his mail with a thankyou to IRILL who hosted the meeting and who provide storage for the hardware when not in use. 12 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/02/msg00023.html Moray Allan announced the newly appointed members of the DebConf Committee [13]: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López, Ana Carolina Comandulli, Bdale Garbee, Christian Perrier and Guido Trotter. 13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00005.html Ton Roosendaal, creator of Blender [14] and the head of the Blender Institute, mentioned in an interview [15] that they use Debian for the render farm nodes. 14 : http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/blender 15 : http://letsfollowthewhiterabbit.blogspot.com/2012/02/interviewing-ton-roosendaal-will-it.html Debian has again been chosen as "Server Distribution of the Year" by theLinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards [16] this year. Debian is also the third desktop distribution [17]. 16 : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-award-winners-928502/ 17 : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011mca.php The hardware behind "ftp.debian.org" has recently been replaced [18], with the help of "Studenten Net Twente (SNT)" and HP. 18 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120218 Christian Perrier noted that Debian bug #660000 [19] was reported by Beatrice Torracca. Beatrice is a long-time Italian translator in Debian (and other Free Software projects such as the Italian Linux Documentation Project and Translation Project) and she's now particularly active in the translation of installation messages for Debian packages (aka debconf templates). Well done Beatrice! 19 : http://bugs.debian.org/660000 Upcoming events - --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * March 2-4, Cambridge, UK —Bug Squashing Party in Cambridge [20] * March 2-4, Mönchengladbach, Germany —Bug Squashing Party in Mönchengladbach [21] * March 10-11, Perth, Australia —Bug Squashing Party in Perth [22] You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [23] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [24], Netherlands [25], Hispanic America [26], North America [27]. 20 : http://www.debian.org/events/0302-cambridge-bsp 21 : http://www.debian.org/events/0302-moenchengladbach-bsp 22 : http://www.debian.org/events/0310-perth-bsp 23 : http://www.debian.org/events 24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 25 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 26 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 27 : 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 [28]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [29]. 28 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 29 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors - ----------------------- Fourteen people have started to maintain packages [30] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Peter Drysdale, Dominique Lasserre, Antono Vasiljev, Bastiaan Franciscus van den Dikkenberg, Tomasz Buchert, Michael van der Kolff, Daniel Hartwig, Nick Moffitt, Carlos Borroto, Yauhen Kharuzhy, Romain Bignon, Peter Michael Green, Carlos Vicente, and Daniel Jared Dominguez into our project! 30 : 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 [31], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", is currently affected by 613 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 410 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 31 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [32] these numbers. 32 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories - ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): apache2 [33], icedove [34], cvs [35], php5 [36], devscripts [37] and libpng [38]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2405 34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2406 35 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2407 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2408 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2409 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2410 Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: eglibc [39]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2012/02/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 [40] (and the separate backports list [41], and stable updates list [42]) for announcements. 40 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 41 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 42 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages - --------------------------- 572 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [43] are: * burp — simple network backup and restore program [44] * fake-hwclock — save and restore system clock on machines without working realtime clock [45] * gnome-shell-extensions — extend functionality of GNOME Shell [46] * ical2html — create an HTML table from icalendar data [47] * pchar — characterize the bandwidth, latency and loss on network links [48] * smartdimmer — change LCD brightness on GeForce cards [49] * weboob — CLI applications to interact with websites [50] 43 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 44 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/burp 45 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fake-hwclock 46 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-shell-extensions 47 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ical2html 48 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pchar 49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/smartdimmer 50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/weboob Work-needing packages - --------------------- Currently [51] 409 packages are orphaned [52] and 142 packages are up for adoption [53]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [54]. 51 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00710.html 52 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 53 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 54 : 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 [55] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org. 55 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot and Justin B Rye. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPQnuwAAoJELgqIXr9/gnyergQAJYxtKlGGsAI00gTIxMAJRbj XFYDqiHEbzQSjQ2rSLi9zv58KTNMCo29UZuQxF54XYeRRg7X359GtxiTDfohPWpb OhiGwA9F7Gbrvo0B9dLip1JJ7ZZY4acJGWUvADfjjBt3ejGWdH2bjUE7Yij/LiWx 9k6hc8gHWGv0VlsEarniuYOPR0Yrn5US9HzjeO3gODUlTM8W+denJC8/xL3wFIxy XuWsIx5HhNetBXLghDSsemuN5HGXsB2gdPNakfFVUUmnM/+VNpdb9MIV/t1hNbYY ZNtQcigAhlF/N+wOGKSB7E+eFI+IqiSd5iKs7c43bic4cZbuAo3TT92lcirihltS ZsAf26O4IGaiUnIhEULKuW83fxjpxumlHCKdwgR3X2V1NF5UrJJHVK64PX2LkKgP ErcFDMcHKjFU9hjXrpshEn+TA14vVEKIyUq6fUbtvzL9nDtmUUjaK+BSgAmvc2bR gk5un+eg8CMk0ZaKhOmbBYJ+3uxAUz26RrD+nKGO8mzyNQmb0g0OIjv1OQr20/VQ lcppqcuLIchJTXtRYw/R0ofSW/SzLW6lg8oNjuCai6I9Mn3Or9Vr3/3DSVpDvgbQ hET8meFbqIaggsnf2Yi8eItaEL/2D01iVrBE8bkx6aNrEREdKKhHlLSx/H1QYS8T kjesuEunlOcLba/aCN+c =RKu1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre> David Prévot 2012-02-20T17:00:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/465 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org February 6th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/03/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released * Bits from the Release Team * Bits from the piuparts maintainers * Report from Debian Med sprint * Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze * Answering Debian users' questions * Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party * GNOME Shell 3.2 in "Wheezy" : a retrospective * 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? Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released ------------------------------------- The fourth update for Debian 6.0 (codenamed [1] "Squeeze" ) has been released. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with some adjustments for serious problems. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120128 Bits from the Release Team -------------------------- Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Release Team [2] where he announced various bits of news: the addition of armhf and s390x to testing (though these architectures may be temporarily out of sync with the others), the acceptance of a new release goal ( "security hardening build flags" ), and the completion of more than fourteen transitions to testing (including GNOME 3, Perl 5.14, Python 2.7, etc.). Niels also issued a reminder that the freeze is due in June, even if an exact freeze date has not been selected. 2 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00009.html In addition, Niels announced that Cyril Brulebois joined the Release Team, becoming Release Assistant: congratulations Cyril! Bits from the piuparts maintainers ---------------------------------- Holger Levsen sent some bits from the piuparts maintainers [3] announcing that piuparts is again maintained by a team and they're receiving various patches and other contributions. piuparts is an important tool for Quality Assurance within Debian as it runs various tests in order to verify that packages can be installed, upgraded and removed without problems. Tests results are publicly available on the piuparts website [4], where they are updated on a daily basis. Holger urged maintainers to regularly check their personal status pages on piuparts in order to fix issues related to their packages. In addition to their regular tests, since December 2011, the piuparts maintainers have been testing the upgrade of individual packages from [5] "Squeeze" to "Wheezy" : 158 packages failed the test (and another 130 failed it due to dependencies) while 33,708 passed it. 3 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00007.html 4 : http://piuparts.debian.org 5 : http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/ Report from Debian Med sprint ----------------------------- Andreas Tille sent a report from the Debian Med sprint [6] held in Southport, UK on 27-29 January. Among other activities, the Debian Med team fixed some bugs, mentored new members and students (consolidating the effort made via the [7] "Mentoring of the Month" initiative) and packaged new software. For more information on Debian Med activity, you can check their real time activity page [8]. 6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/01/msg00452.html 7 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM 8 : http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/ Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze ----------------------------------------------- Petter Reinholdtsen announced on his blog that the next version of Debian Edu/Squeeze will contain a new tool, called sitesummary2ldapdhcp [9], which allows all the computers of a school to be quickly set up with a minimal number of manual steps. Once the central server is installed, this tool collects data from the network to generate system objects in the LDAP database. After a few modifications of the configuration from a GUI, the network of computers is ready to use. A third beta version of Debian Edu based on "Squeeze" and containing this tool has just been released. 9 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html Answering Debian users' questions --------------------------------- Raphaël Hertzog wrote a useful blogpost about how to answer the questions of Debian users [10] and, in general, how to support new users. There are many places for helping users (mailing lists [11], IRC channels [12], questions &amp; answers websites [13], etc.) each with different characteristics, but the golden rule for every support channel is to be respectful and courteous (as stated in the Debian Community Guidelines [14]). 10 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/24/answering-questions-of-debian-users-on-various-support-channels/ 11 : http://lists.debian.org/users.html#debian-user 12 : http://wiki.debian.org/IRC 13 : ask.debian.net 14 : http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/ Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party ------------------------------------ Paul Wise announced a Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party [15] to be held on 25 and 26 February and organised by the Games Team [16]. The idea is to create screenshots for as many games in Debian/Ubuntu as possible and upload them to screenshots.debian.net [17] in order to have them available to goplay [18] (a games package browser). For more information, you can visit the related wiki page [19]. 15 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/02/03/debian-ubuntu-games-screenshot-party/ 16 : http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team 17 : http://screenshots.debian.net/ 18 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/goplay 19 : http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties/Screenshots GNOME Shell 3.2 in "Wheezy" : a retrospective ---------------------------------------------- Jordi Mallach wrote an article on the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 in Debian [20] from the Debian GNOME Team point of view. "When you’re dealing with dozens of GNOME source packages at the same time, many of which introduce new libraries, or worse, introduce incompatible APIs that affect many more unrelated packages, things get hairy, and you need a plan" Jordi said. But even with a plan for a smooth transition, they encountered a lot of difficulties, such as failures to build from source on various architectures and incompatibilities with other packages. Finally GNOME Shell 3.2 has transitioned to Debian's testing suite and Jordi thanks not only all Debian GNOME Team members, but also Release Team members Julien Cristau and Cyril Brulebois and FTP assistant Luca Falavigna, who helped in reaching this goal. 20 : http://oskuro.net/blog/freesoftware/gnome-shell-3.2-in-wheezy-2012-01-31-01-23 Interviews ---------- There has been a "People behind Debian" interview withJosselin Mouette [21], founder of the Debian GNOME team. 21 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/27/people-behind-debian-josselin-mouette-founder-of-the-debian-gnome-team/ Other news ---------- The 28th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [22] has been released and covers the following topics: 22 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00005.html * Debian Member Portfolio Service * Release goals bugs displayed in the PTS * Transitions displayed in the PTS * dh_linktree helper tool * Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status The Debian website is now also optimised for handheld devices [23]. 23 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654205 Didier Raboud announced the birth of a new mailing list dedicated to everyone interested in discussing mobile inferfaces in Debian [24]. The debian-mobile mailing list [25] is intended as a place for "discussions around packaging suitable mobile interfaces for Debian" . For more information about running Debian on mobile devices, you can visit themobile [26] and smartphone [27] wiki pages. 24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00076.html 25 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile 26 : http://wiki.debian.org/Mobile 27 : http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone Micheal Gilbert wrote an article on a recent security flaw [28] (CVE-2012-0064 [29]) and how it was handled by distributions. Thanks also to the detailed research by the discoverer of the issue, Debian reacted really fast and the issue was already fixed in Debian unstable less than six hours after the disclosure. 28 : https://lwn.net/Articles/477062/ 29 : http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0064 Andrew Pollock wrote some bits from the ISC DHCP Maintainer [30]: during a meeting with upstream, he gave them an overview of his packages on Debian advocating GNU/Hurd patches. A nice example of good distribution maintainer practices. 30 : http://blog.andrew.net.au/2012/01/21 Ben Hutchings announced that Debian 7.0 [31] "Wheezy" will include Linux 3.2, which is currently in unstable and will soon enter testing. 31 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00012.html Lior Kaplan blogged about the upcoming PHP 5.4.0 [32] release, a pre-release version is already available in the experimental repository. Lior worked in particular on PHP extensions in order to make them compatible with PHP 5.4. 32 : http://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/php-5-4-debian/ Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * February 10-12, Oslo, Norway —Skolelinux/Debian Edu developers meeting [33] * February 10-12, Minsk, Belarus — Debian contributors and enthusiasts will be present at the winter edition ofLinux Vacation / Eastern Europe [34] * February 15, Redwood Shores, CA, USA — [35] "Multiarch and Why You Should Care: Running, Installing and Crossbuilding With Multiple Architectures" by Wookey at Embedded Linux Conference * February 17-19, Paris, France —Debian Bug Squashing Party [36] You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [37] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [38], Netherlands [39], Hispanic America [40], North America [41]. 33 : http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2012-02-10-12-Oslo 34 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/LVEE/2012Winter 35 : https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference/wookey 36 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2012/Paris 37 : http://www.debian.org/events 38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 40 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 41 : 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 [42]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [43]. 42 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 43 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Six applicants have been accepted as Debian Maintainer, and nine people have started to maintain packages [44] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Neutron Soutmun, Boris Pek, Christian M. Amsüss, Alexandre Mestiashvili, Emmanuel "Kasper" Kasprzyk, Aleksey Kravchenko, Dan Stowell, Adam Michal Ziaja, Sebastian Boehm, Cyril Lavier, Phillip Susi, Jose Ernesto Davila Pantoja, Peter Drysdale, Dominique Lasserre and Antono Vasiljev into our project! 44 : 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 [45], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" , is currently affected by 695 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 482 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 45 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [46] as well as some hints on how to interpret [47] these numbers. 46 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-05 47 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): rails [48] (update), cacti [49] (update), openssl [50], bip [51], libxml2 [52], wireshark [53], qemu-kvm [54], icu [55], curl [56], php5 [57], iceweasel [58], tomcat6 [59], iceape [60], php5 [61] and xen-qemu-dm-4.0 [62]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2384 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2392 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2393 52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2394 53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2395 54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2396 55 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2397 56 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2398 57 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2399 58 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2400 59 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2401 60 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2402 61 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2403 62 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2404 Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package clive [63]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2012/02/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 [64] (and the separate backports list [65], and stable updates list [66] or volatile list [67], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 64 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 65 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 66 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 67 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 1008 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [68] are: 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * clinica — simple medical records manager [69] * coinst — computes the co-installability kernel of a deb or RPM repository [70] * espeak-gui — graphical user interface for eSpeak [71] * instead — simple text adventures/visual novels engine [72] * pyformex — program to create 3D geometry from Python scripts [73] * actionaz — emulate human activity through a powerful GUI and JavaScript [74] * apper — KDE package management tool [75] * vagrant — tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments [76] 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clinica 70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/coinst 71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/espeak-gui 72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/instead 73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pyformex 74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/actionaz 75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apper 76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vagrant Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 390 packages are orphaned [77] and 148 packages are up for adoption [78]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [79]. 77 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 78 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 79 : 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 [80] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [81]. 80 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 81 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye and Paul Wise [82]. 82 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-02-06T13:57:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/464 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 23rd, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/02/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian ahead on web servers * Dummy web server in Debian? * Aptitude strikes back * About donations to Debian * Armhf status in Debian * IGMP denial of service in Linux * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bug statistics for the upcoming release * Status of Debian Installer localisation * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian ahead on web servers --------------------------- According to a recent W3Techs survey [1], Debian has just surpassed CentOS to become the most popular GNU/Linux distribution on web servers. The survey is based on the analysis of the top million web sites according to Alexa, in order to select a representative sample of established sites, and focused only on the technologies used for web sites (and not individual web pages or desktop installations). In fact, at the beginning of 2012, Debian was used by 29.4% of all Linux-based sites (and by 9.7% of all web sites), while CentOS was used by 29.1% of all Linux-based sites (and by 9.5% of all web sites). Debian "is also the fastest growing operating system at the moment: every day 54 of the top 1 million sites switch to Debian" , said Matthias Gelbmann in the article. With regard to the geographical distribution of web sites using Debian, the most are in Europe (with 39.7% of all sites in Germany, 36.1% in Poland, 33.6% in France and 26.4% in Russia). 1 : http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_is_now_the_most_popular_linux_distribution_on_web_servers Dummy web server in Debian? --------------------------- Thomas Goirand recently proposed to relax or even remove some dependencies [2] of web applications on a web server package. This would help users wanting to install such web applications in chroots, while the web server is installed only outside the chroot. During the following discussion, several solutions were proposed, such as providing a dummy web server package in Debian. It was pointed out that such dummy packages are actually very easy to create with the equivs [3] package, which deserves to be better known. 2 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00148.html 3 : http://packages.debian.org/equivs Aptitude strikes back --------------------- Christian Perrier blogged about the recent revival of the aptitude package manager [4]. As the main maintainer had less time to dedicate to it, the number of bugs against aptitude was continually growing and reached more than 800. But last November, Daniel Harwig and Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo started working on it, triaging bugs and preparing a possible new version. If you want to help them, join the aptitude-devel [5] mailing list on Alioth. 4 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/14#aptitude-revival 5 : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel About donations to Debian ------------------------- Stefano Zacchiroli blogged about how donations to Debian are used by the project [6]. First of all, Stefano explained how money is used in the Debian Project: to buy hardware and hardware-related services for Debian infrastructure, to sponsor contributor sprints, or to support travel expenses in order to allow Debian Developers to represent Debian at conferences and meetings. Then, Stefano noted that almost all donations to Debian come from private citizens and not from big corporate sponsors: corporates mostly sponsor DebConf (the Debian annual conference). At the end, Stefano pointed out that it's possible to check how Debian spends donated money: by reading the minutes of SPI monthly meetings [7] or the list of sprints [8], visiting the DPL wiki page [9] and consulting the DebConf reports [10]. Stefano also added that over the next month he will be working to further improve the transparency of Debian's budget. 6 : http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/01/debian_donations-fu/ 7 : http://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/minutes/ 8 : http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints 9 : http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL 10 : http://media.debconf.org/ On the subject of Debian's usage of money, Yves-Alexis Perez proposed to advocate hardware sponsoring [11]. Since asking for money for oneself is not always the first reflex, he proposed to turn the offer the other way around: if you believe that a Debian Developer could use some money for hardware purposes, you should raise your voice and propose it yourself, in case the developer was too shy to ask, for example. 11 : http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&amp;post=1541 Armhf status in Debian ---------------------- Steve McIntyre blogged about the status of the armhf port in Debian [12]. Since mid-2011, he has been working on armhf as a new architecture in "debian-ports" ; then in December it was imported into the main Debian archive. The current state of auto-building can be viewed at thearmhf buildd status page [13]. 12 : http://blog.einval.com/2012/01/09 13 : https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=armhf&amp;suite=sid IGMP denial of service in Linux ------------------------------- Ben Hutchings wrote an interesting report on a security issue in Linux [14] found by himself while working on bug #654876 [15]. As his laptop running Linux 3.0 or 3.1 crashed repeatedly, Simon McVittie — the bug submitter — thought it could be a driver bug. But, analysing the log of the crash, Ben noted that "a packet received through the wireless interface was being processed by IGMP, which then divided by zero." IGMP packets are used to support multicast routers: as Ben explained, "every multicast address corresponds to a dynamic set of hosts, called a multicast group" . In order to know which hosts belong to which groups, the router sends packets and the computer replies at intervals. There are three different versions of the IGMP protocol used to define the Maximum Response Time (MRT) of the computer. Ben found that the crash was caused by a division by 0 of packets with an MRT of 0. The patch is included in Linux 3.0.17, 3.1.9, 3.2.1, and the Debian packaged version 3.1.8-2. Well done, Ben! 14 : http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/igmp-denial-of-service-in-linux-cve-2012-0207.html 15 : http://bugs.debian.org/654876 Interviews ---------- There has been one "People behind Debian" interview: withSteve McIntyre [16] (Debian CD maintainer and former Debian Project Leader). 16 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/13/people-behind-debian-steve-mcintyre-debian-cd-maintainer-former-debian-project-leader/ Other news ---------- Gerfried Fuchs wrote an interesting article about a Release Critical bug-squashing effort for Stable [17]. Stable RC bugs are often not noted, as people usually concentrate on Unstable RC bugs, but - as Gerfried noted - "it is one of our supported releases and thus should receive quite some attention, at least by the corresponding package maintainers themself." 17 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/01/19 Enrico Zini announced that the Debtags web site also works for derivative distributions [18]: the site now shows packages from Ubuntu too, and can be extended to all Debian derivatives. 18 : http://www.enricozini.org/2012/debian/debtags-for-derivatives/ Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * February 1, irc.freenode.org, #ubuntu-classroom, — [19] "Working with Debian" , an online workshop by Ian Laine and Stefano Rivera * February 4-5, Brussels, BE — Debian booth and several Debian-related talks atFree and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) [20] * February 17-19, Paris, FR —Debian Bug Squashing Party [21] 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]. 19 : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/Timetable 20 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120120 21 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2012/Paris 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 to on our talks page [27]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [28]. 27 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 28 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Eight applicants have been accepted [29] as Debian Developers, one applicant has been accepted [30] as Debian Maintainer, and fourteen people have started to maintain packages [31] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Intrigeri, Ryan Kavanagh, Daisuke Higuchi, Tanguy Ortolo, Angel Abad, Harshula Jayasuriya, Loong Jin Chow, Iulian Udrea, Mahyuddin Susanto, Jean-Michel Vourgère, Andrei Zavada, Dean Evans, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Kay Hayen, Olivier Aubert, Hendrik Tews, Leonardo Robol, Dmitry Smirnov, J. Félix Ontañón, Benedict Verhegghe, Tobias Frost, Christoph Reiter and Chris Coulson into our project! 29 : https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint 30 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00061.html 31 : http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bug statistics for the upcoming release -------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [32], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" , is currently affected by 736 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 495 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 32 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [33] as well as some hints on how to interpret [34] these numbers. 33 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-03 34 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Status of Debian Installer localisation --------------------------------------- In his last report on Debian Installer localisation [35], Christian Perrier noted that twenty-two languages are currently up to date for D-I's core files; ten (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian and Slovak) are 100% complete for the moment. 35 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/19#di-l10n-update-2012-05 Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): cacti [36], pdns [37], openttd [38], simplesamlphp [39], t1lib [40], linux-2.6 [41], openssl [42] and phpmyadmin [43]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2384 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2385 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2386 39 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2387 40 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2388 41 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2389 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2390 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2391 Debian's Backports Team released an advisory for the openswan [44] package. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 44 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/01/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 [45] (and the separate backports list [46], and stable updates list [47] or volatile list [48], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 45 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 46 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 47 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 48 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 587 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [49] are: 49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * dia-shapes — diagram editor [50] * freeciv-client-extras — Civilization turn based strategy game (additional scripts and tools) [51] * kfreebsd-headers-9.0-1-686 — header files for kernel of FreeBSD 9.0 [52] * xul-ext-refcontrol — control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis [53] * advene — annotate DVDs, exchange on the net [54] * clinica — simple medical records manager [55] * gedit-source-code-browser-plugin — source code class and function browser plugin for Gedit [56] * googlefontdirectory-tools — various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files [57] * linux-source-3.2 — Linux kernel source for version 3.2 with Debian patches [58] * mediainfo — command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files [59] * mplayer-gui — movie player for Unix-like systems [60] * sparkleshare — distributed collaboration and sharing tool [61] 50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dia-shapes 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freeciv-client-extras 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kfreebsd-headers-9.0-1-686 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-refcontrol 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/advene 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clinica 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gedit-source-code-browser-plugin 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/googlefontdirectory-tools 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/linux-source-3.2 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mediainfo 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mplayer-gui 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sparkleshare Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 396 packages are orphaned [62] and 149 packages are up for adoption [63]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [64]. 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 debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [66]. 65 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 66 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Francesca Ciceri, Andrei Popescu, David Prévot and Justin B Rye [67]. 67 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-01-23T12:05:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/463 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Meet Debian at FOSDEM 2012 press&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 20th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project is happy to announce that as in previous years it will be represented at this year's Free and Open Source Developer's European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Belgium on the 4th-5th February. Debian will be present with a booth in the K building, ground floor, members of the project will be available for questions and discussion, and various Debian-branded items will be on sale. Two talks in the keynotes track will be given by long-time Debian Developers, Lars Wirzenius and Bdale Garbee, who will talk about how to innovate the development process of distributions and the FreedomBox project, respectively. Other Debian Developers will give talks or hold discussion groups about specific aspects of the project: Saturday, February 4th 11:30 Serafeim Zanikolas How to replace a legacy tool with 100k installations 13:00 Wookey Multiarch — why it's important 13:15 Moritz Muehlnhoff Univention Corporate Server 15:00 Lior Kaplan Debian packaging for beginners 18:15 Enrico Zini I wrote Distromatch, shall we use it? Sunday, February 5th 11:00 Enrico Zini Debtags.debian.net reloaded! 11:30 Kostas Koudaras, Oliver Burger, Laura Czajkowski, Christoph Wickert, Donnie Berkholz, Petteri Räty, Stefano Zacchiroli Working with contributor communities (round table) 12:15 Neil McGovern 29,000 packages in 24 hours — Releasing Debian 13:00 Martin Zobel-Helas, Michael Scherer Distributions' infrastructure system administration (round table/Q&amp;A) 15:00 Steve McIntyre ARM BoF 16:00 Lucas Nussbaum Debian Secrets — what I wish I had known before joining Debian In addition, thanks to the help of the DebConf video team, streaming video for a selected number of rooms will be available. See you in Brussels! About FOSDEM ------------ FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) is a free and non-commercial event for the community and organized by the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet. 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 2012-01-20T20:49:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/462 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 9th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released * Bits from the DPL * Forthcoming new release of the X server * Scientific article on Debian in PNAS * New Debian Infographic * New interface for Debtags website * apt-get purge defoma * Further interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Status of Debian Installer localisation * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released ------------------------------------------ Petter Reinholdtsen announced the release of Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta2 [1]: download and installation instructions [2] are available on the wiki, and in particular a useful[3] "Getting Started" chapter in which you can find explanations of how to log in for the first time. Feedback and installation reports can be sent to the Debian Edu mailing list [4]. 1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2012/01/msg00129.html 2 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/Installation 3 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/GettingStarted 4 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/ Debian Edu is a project aiming to make a Debian Pure Blend for educational purposes, which can be used in schools and other educational institutions. The Debian Edu project develops and maintains Skolelinux [5], a complete and free "out of the box" software solution for schools. For more information about Debian Edu, please visit therelated wiki page [6]. 5 : http://www.skolelinux.org/ 6 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent some bits from the DPL [7] in which he reported about the work done by Martin Michlmayr as Auditor, in order to reconstruct Debian's expenses and budgets. Stefano also sent a call for help for Wheezy artwork organisation, and announced that Gunnar Wolf has volunteered to monitor the discussion regarding the Creative Commons process for revision 4.0 on behalf of Debian. 7 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html Forthcoming new release of the X server --------------------------------------- Cyril Brulebois blogged about the forthcoming X server release 1.12 [8]: one major change is the addition of XI2.2 patches, which are related to multitouch support. Another significant change is the addition of support for Intel's Sandy Bridge New Acceleration in the Debian packages. 8 : http://blog.mraw.org/2012/01/01/XServer_1.12RC1/ Scientific article on Debian in PNAS ------------------------------------ Michael Hanke noted [9] that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science ("PNAS") of the United States of America has apaper on the evolution of software in Debian [10]. 9 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00000.html 10 : http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/14/1115960108.abstract If you know other studies about Debian and its software, you can add it to our related wiki page [11]. 11 : http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryPublication New Debian Infographic ---------------------- Claudio Filho has published a beautiful infographic about Debian [12]. The main motivation was, as Claudio said [13], "to "draw" for final users how Debian can be good for them". Similar efforts have been made by Stéphane Blondon [14] and Chris Lamb [15], who created the Debian Timeline website [16] and the related Debian package [17]. 12 : http://claudiocomputing.wordpress.com/infographic-of-debian/ 13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/12/msg00066.html 14 : http://ascendances.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/timeline_debian_1993_20111.png 15 : http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/03/09/timeline-of-the-debian-project/ 16 : http://timeline.debian.net/ 17 : http://packages.debian.org/sid/debian-timeline New interface for Debtags website --------------------------------- Enrico Zini announced a new interface for the Debtags website [18]. Debtags is a project to classify Debian packages by adding tags to them: "Debtags attaches categories (we call them tags) to packages, creating a new set of useful structured metadata that can be used to implement more advanced ways of presenting, searching, maintaining and navigating the package archive", Enrico saidwhile presenting the project in 2005 [19]. Using the new interface, it is possible to search packages [20], take a look at statistics about Debtags [21] and, obviously, help with the tagging effort [22]. For more information about Debtags, you can visit the related wiki page [23]. 18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html 19 : http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html 20 : http://debtags.debian.net/search/ 21 : http://debtags.debian.net/statistics/ 22 : http://debtags.debian.net/getting-started/ 23 : http://wiki.debian.org/Debtags apt-get purge defoma -------------------- Paul Wise reported that the transition from defoma to fontconfig is finally complete [24]. Defoma is the Debian-specific font manager, long unmaintained, while the replacement (fontconfig) is cross-distribution and also has wide support from upstreams. In the past three years the Debian Fonts Task Force [25] has worked a lot in order to gain this result, thanks especially to the work of Christian Perrier and Paul Wise. Please note that the transition is not completely smooth: "Xorg does not yet support fontconfig so for now programs relying on server-side fonts will only be able to use thexfonts- packages shipping their fonts in the directories known by the X server" and in addition "there are some issues [26] with Ghostscript and CJK", Paul said. 24 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/01/07/apt-get-purge-defoma/ 25 : http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/ 26 : http://wiki.debian.org/gs-undefoma Further interviews ------------------ Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the [27] "This week in Debian" podcast have been published: with Jonathan Nadeau [28], about the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest; and with Raphael Hertzog [29], about the Debian handbook. 27 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian 28 : http://frostbitemedia.org/node/35 29 : http://frostbitemedia.org/node/31 There has also been a "People behind Debian" interview withi Ben Hutchings [30], member of the kernel team. 30 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/12/13/people-behind-debian-ben-hutchings-member-of-the-kernel-team/ In addition the NeuroDebian team [31] was interviewed [32] by the INCF. 31 : http://neuro.debian.net/ 32 : http://incf.org/newsroom/stories/neurodebian-the-value-of-an-integrated-tool-suite Other news ---------- The 27th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [33] has been released and covers the following topics: 33 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/12/msg00001.html * Planet Debian Derivatives * win32-loader.exe now eases access to the GNU/Hurd Debian-Installer * Wiki bugstatus extended to Launchpad bugs * dh-exec entering unstable * derivatives patch generation prototype Uwe Hermann published a useful quick howto on using OpenVPN on Debian GNU/Linux [34]. 34 : http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-using-openvpn-on-debian-gnu-linux Jonas Smedegaard reported that the Indonesian newspaper [35] "Serambi" dedicated an article to his Debian involvement after his presence at a radio talkshow in Aceh, Indonesia. Jonas was travelling Asia in order to deliver a series of talks dedicated to Debian Pure Blends [36]. More information about his trip are available on a related wiki page [37]. 35 : http://aceh.tribunnews.com/2011/12/11/ayo-jadi-hacker 36 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends 37 : http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011 The web team is pleased to announce that all languages have finished their migration to UTF-8 [38], so the Debian website [39] is now available for everyone in UTF-8, thanks to all the translators who worked on this issue. 38 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567781 39 : http://www.debian.org Asheesh Laroia wrote an interesting article about short key IDs with OpenPGP and GNU Privacy Guard [40], arguing that using them is fundamentally insecure as it's easy to generate collisions for short key IDs. 40 : http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html The Debian Project was mentioned in an article by Bruce Byfield on Datamation titled[41] "2011: The Year of Linux Disappointments" . According to the author, in fact, while various Open Source projects saw a decline in 2011, the Debian project"spent much of 2011 reinventing itself. In the past few twelve months, it has -- among other things -- tried to encourage cooperation among its derivatives, revamped its new member process, and experimented with IRC training sessions." 41 : http://www.datamation.com/open-source/2011-the-year-of-linux-disappointments-1.html Martin Zobel-Helas announced that he has applied the main theme of Debian website to db.debian.org, the internal LDAP directory of Debian Developers [42]. In the previous days, thanks to Cristoph Berg, the Debian Quality Assurance website [43] had also switched to the main theme. 42 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00040.html 43 : http://qa.debian.org/ Russ Allbery wrote an interesting blog post [44] about Debian and popularity. 44 : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/004.html Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian related events: * January 18, Ballarat, AU -- Freedom, Out of the Box! [45] by Bdale Garbee * January 18, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL -- workshop onDebian Packaging [46] * January 20-22, Los Angeles, US -- Debian booth at the Tenth Annual Southern California Linux Expo [47] You can find more information about Debian related events and talks on the events section [48] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [49], Netherlands [50], Hispanic America [51], North America [52]. 45 : http://linux.conf.au/schedule/36/view_talk?day=wednesday 46 : http://lug.project073.nl/blog/events/debian-packaging-derde-bijeenkomst/ 47 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0120-scale10x 48 : http://www.debian.org/events 49 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 50 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 51 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 52 : 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 and want to link it on our talks page [53]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [54]. 53 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 54 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Fifteen people have started to maintain packages [55] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Werner Detter, Fredrik Thulin, Eleanor Chen, Sergiusz Pawlowicz, Brian Thomason, Mike Gabriel, Ko van der Sloot, Paul Boddie, Mark Vejvoda, Patrick Ulbrich, Lucia Prado, Jon Ludlam, Kamil Ignacak, Mike McClurg, and Leo Iannacone into our project! 55 : 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 [56], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", is currently affected by 797 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 532 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 56 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [57] as well as some hints on how to interpret [58] these numbers. 57 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-01 58 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Status of Debian Installer localisation --------------------------------------- In his last report on Debian Installer localisation [59], Christian Perrier noted that eighteen languages are currently up to date for D-I's core files; ten (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian and Slovak) are 100% complete for the moment. Christian informed us previously [60] that "A very important and critical fix to partman-zfs broke a string in sublevel 4." That explains why the results are lower than thelast time [61] we relayed the translation status, but translators are quickly working to make the Debian Installer completely available in many languages. 59 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/05#di-l10n-update-2012-03 60 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/02#di-l10n-update-2012-02 61 : http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/14/#di Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): tor [62], xorg [63], dtc [64], mediawiki [65], asterisk [66], lighttpd [67], libsoup2.4 [68], unbound [69], jasper [70], heimdal [71], inetutils [72], openswan [73], krb5, krb5-appl [74], ipmitool [75], cyrus-imapd-2.2 [76], ffmpeg [77], krb5 [78], foomatic-filters [79], squid3 [80], ecryptfs-utils [81] and super [82]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 62 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2363 63 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2364 64 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2365 65 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 66 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2367 67 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2368 68 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369 69 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2370 70 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2371 71 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2372 72 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2373 73 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2374 74 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2375 75 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376 76 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2377 77 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2378 78 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2379 79 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2380 80 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2381 81 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2382 82 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2383 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 [83] (and the separate backports list [84], and stable updates list [85] or volatile list [86], for "Lenny", the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 83 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 84 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 85 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 86 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 367 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [87] are: 87 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * coccinella -- communication tool (XMPP/Jabber) with a built-in whiteboard [88] * colorhug-client -- Tools for the Hughski colorimeter [89] * eclipse-gef -- Eclipse graphical editing framework [90] * exfat-utils -- utilities to create, check, label and dump exFAT filesystem [91] * gnome-documents -- document manager for GNOME [92] * ho22bus -- simple application to memorize words [93] * jgit-cli -- Java implementation of Git version control [94] * xcp-xapi -- Xen Cloud Platform XenAPI server [95] * zanshin -- to-do list manager for KDE [96] 88 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/coccinella 89 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/colorhug-client 90 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eclipse-gef 91 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exfat-utils 92 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-documents 93 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ho22bus 94 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jgit-cli 95 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xcp-xapi 96 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zanshin Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 203 packages are orphaned [97] and 111 packages are up for adoption [98]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [99]. 97 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 98 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 99 : 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 [100] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [101]. 100 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 101 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cedric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prevot, Justin B Rye and Paul Wise [102]. 102 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-01-09T21:50:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/462 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org January 9th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released * Bits from the DPL * Forthcoming new release of the X server * Scientific article on Debian in PNAS * New Debian Infographic * New interface for Debtags website * apt-get purge defoma * Further interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Status of Debian Installer localisation * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.3 beta2 released ------------------------------------------ Petter Reinholdtsen announced the release of Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.3 beta2 [1]: download and installation instructions [2] are available on the wiki, and in particular a useful[3] "Getting Started" chapter in which you can find explanations of how to log in for the first time. Feedback and installation reports can be sent to the Debian Edu mailing list [4]. 1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2012/01/msg00129.html 2 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/Installation 3 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/GettingStarted 4 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/ Debian Edu is a project aiming to make a Debian Pure Blend for educational purposes, which can be used in schools and other educational institutions. The Debian Edu project develops and maintains Skolelinux [5], a complete and free "out of the box" software solution for schools. For more information about Debian Edu, please visit therelated wiki page [6]. 5 : http://www.skolelinux.org/ 6 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent some bits from the DPL [7] in which he reported about the work done by Martin Michlmayr as Auditor, in order to reconstruct Debian's expenses and budgets. Stefano also sent a call for help for Wheezy artwork organisation, and announced that Gunnar Wolf has volunteered to monitor the discussion regarding the Creative Commons process for revision 4.0 on behalf of Debian. 7 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html Forthcoming new release of the X server --------------------------------------- Cyril Brulebois blogged about the forthcoming X server release 1.12 [8]: one major change is the addition of XI2.2 patches, which are related to multitouch support. Another significant change is the addition of support for Intel's Sandy Bridge New Acceleration in the Debian packages. 8 : http://blog.mraw.org/2012/01/01/XServer_1.12RC1/ Scientific article on Debian in PNAS ------------------------------------ Michael Hanke noted [9] that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science ("PNAS") of the United States of America has apaper on the evolution of software in Debian [10]. 9 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00000.html 10 : http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/14/1115960108.abstract If you know other studies about Debian and its software, you can add it to our related wiki page [11]. 11 : http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryPublication New Debian Infographic ---------------------- Claudio Filho has published a beautiful infographic about Debian [12]. The main motivation was, as Claudio said [13], "to "draw" for final users how Debian can be good for them". Similar efforts have been made by Stéphane Blondon [14] and Chris Lamb [15], who created the Debian Timeline website [16] and the related Debian package [17]. 12 : http://claudiocomputing.wordpress.com/infographic-of-debian/ 13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/12/msg00066.html 14 : http://ascendances.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/timeline_debian_1993_20111.png 15 : http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/03/09/timeline-of-the-debian-project/ 16 : http://timeline.debian.net/ 17 : http://packages.debian.org/sid/debian-timeline New interface for Debtags website --------------------------------- Enrico Zini announced a new interface for the Debtags website [18]. Debtags is a project to classify Debian packages by adding tags to them: "Debtags attaches categories (we call them tags) to packages, creating a new set of useful structured metadata that can be used to implement more advanced ways of presenting, searching, maintaining and navigating the package archive", Enrico saidwhile presenting the project in 2005 [19]. Using the new interface, it is possible to search packages [20], take a look at statistics about Debtags [21] and, obviously, help with the tagging effort [22]. For more information about Debtags, you can visit the related wiki page [23]. 18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html 19 : http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html 20 : http://debtags.debian.net/search/ 21 : http://debtags.debian.net/statistics/ 22 : http://debtags.debian.net/getting-started/ 23 : http://wiki.debian.org/Debtags apt-get purge defoma -------------------- Paul Wise reported that the transition from defoma to fontconfig is finally complete [24]. Defoma is the Debian-specific font manager, long unmaintained, while the replacement (fontconfig) is cross-distribution and also has wide support from upstreams. In the past three years the Debian Fonts Task Force [25] has worked a lot in order to gain this result, thanks especially to the work of Christian Perrier and Paul Wise. Please note that the transition is not completely smooth: "Xorg does not yet support fontconfig so for now programs relying on server-side fonts will only be able to use thexfonts- packages shipping their fonts in the directories known by the X server" and in addition "there are some issues [26] with Ghostscript and CJK", Paul said. 24 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/01/07/apt-get-purge-defoma/ 25 : http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/ 26 : http://wiki.debian.org/gs-undefoma Further interviews ------------------ Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the [27] "This week in Debian" podcast have been published: with Jonathan Nadeau [28], about the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest; and with Raphael Hertzog [29], about the Debian handbook. 27 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian 28 : http://frostbitemedia.org/node/35 29 : http://frostbitemedia.org/node/31 There has also been a "People behind Debian" interview withi Ben Hutchings [30], member of the kernel team. 30 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/12/13/people-behind-debian-ben-hutchings-member-of-the-kernel-team/ In addition the NeuroDebian team [31] was interviewed [32] by the INCF. 31 : http://neuro.debian.net/ 32 : http://incf.org/newsroom/stories/neurodebian-the-value-of-an-integrated-tool-suite Other news ---------- The 27th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [33] has been released and covers the following topics: 33 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/12/msg00001.html * Planet Debian Derivatives * win32-loader.exe now eases access to the GNU/Hurd Debian-Installer * Wiki bugstatus extended to Launchpad bugs * dh-exec entering unstable * derivatives patch generation prototype Uwe Hermann published a useful quick howto on using OpenVPN on Debian GNU/Linux [34]. 34 : http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-using-openvpn-on-debian-gnu-linux Jonas Smedegaard reported that the Indonesian newspaper [35] "Serambi" dedicated an article to his Debian involvement after his presence at a radio talkshow in Aceh, Indonesia. Jonas was travelling Asia in order to deliver a series of talks dedicated to Debian Pure Blends [36]. More information about his trip are available on a related wiki page [37]. 35 : http://aceh.tribunnews.com/2011/12/11/ayo-jadi-hacker 36 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends 37 : http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011 The web team is pleased to announce that all languages have finished their migration to UTF-8 [38], so the Debian website [39] is now available for everyone in UTF-8, thanks to all the translators who worked on this issue. 38 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567781 39 : http://www.debian.org Asheesh Laroia wrote an interesting article about short key IDs with OpenPGP and GNU Privacy Guard [40], arguing that using them is fundamentally insecure as it's easy to generate collisions for short key IDs. 40 : http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html The Debian Project was mentioned in an article by Bruce Byfield on Datamation titled[41] "2011: The Year of Linux Disappointments" . According to the author, in fact, while various Open Source projects saw a decline in 2011, the Debian project"spent much of 2011 reinventing itself. In the past few twelve months, it has -- among other things -- tried to encourage cooperation among its derivatives, revamped its new member process, and experimented with IRC training sessions." 41 : http://www.datamation.com/open-source/2011-the-year-of-linux-disappointments-1.html Martin Zobel-Helas announced that he has applied the main theme of Debian website to db.debian.org, the internal LDAP directory of Debian Developers [42]. In the previous days, thanks to Cristoph Berg, the Debian Quality Assurance website [43] had also switched to the main theme. 42 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00040.html 43 : http://qa.debian.org/ Russ Allbery wrote an interesting blog post [44] about Debian and popularity. 44 : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/004.html Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian related events: * January 18, Ballarat, AU -- Freedom, Out of the Box! [45] by Bdale Garbee * January 18, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL -- workshop onDebian Packaging [46] * January 20-22, Los Angeles, US -- Debian booth at the Tenth Annual Southern California Linux Expo [47] You can find more information about Debian related events and talks on the events section [48] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [49], Netherlands [50], Hispanic America [51], North America [52]. 45 : http://linux.conf.au/schedule/36/view_talk?day=wednesday 46 : http://lug.project073.nl/blog/events/debian-packaging-derde-bijeenkomst/ 47 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0120-scale10x 48 : http://www.debian.org/events 49 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 50 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 51 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 52 : 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 and want to link it on our talks page [53]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [54]. 53 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 54 : mailto:events&lt; at &gt;debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Fifteen people have started to maintain packages [55] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Werner Detter, Fredrik Thulin, Eleanor Chen, Sergiusz Pawlowicz, Brian Thomason, Mike Gabriel, Ko van der Sloot, Paul Boddie, Mark Vejvoda, Patrick Ulbrich, Lucia Prado, Jon Ludlam, Kamil Ignacak, Mike McClurg, and Leo Iannacone into our project! 55 : 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 [56], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", is currently affected by 797 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 532 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 56 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [57] as well as some hints on how to interpret [58] these numbers. 57 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-01 58 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Status of Debian Installer localisation --------------------------------------- In his last report on Debian Installer localisation [59], Christian Perrier noted that eighteen languages are currently up to date for D-I's core files; ten (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian and Slovak) are 100% complete for the moment. Christian informed us previously [60] that "A very important and critical fix to partman-zfs broke a string in sublevel 4." That explains why the results are lower than thelast time [61] we relayed the translation status, but translators are quickly working to make the Debian Installer completely available in many languages. 59 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/05#di-l10n-update-2012-03 60 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/01/02#di-l10n-update-2012-02 61 : http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/14/#di Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): tor [62], xorg [63], dtc [64], mediawiki [65], asterisk [66], lighttpd [67], libsoup2.4 [68], unbound [69], jasper [70], heimdal [71], inetutils [72], openswan [73], krb5, krb5-appl [74], ipmitool [75], cyrus-imapd-2.2 [76], ffmpeg [77], krb5 [78], foomatic-filters [79], squid3 [80], ecryptfs-utils [81] and super [82]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 62 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2363 63 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2364 64 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2365 65 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 66 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2367 67 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2368 68 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369 69 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2370 70 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2371 71 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2372 72 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2373 73 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2374 74 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2375 75 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376 76 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2377 77 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2378 78 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2379 79 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2380 80 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2381 81 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2382 82 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2383 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 [83] (and the separate backports list [84], and stable updates list [85] or volatile list [86], for "Lenny", the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 83 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 84 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 85 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 86 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 367 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [87] are: 87 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * coccinella -- communication tool (XMPP/Jabber) with a built-in whiteboard [88] * colorhug-client -- Tools for the Hughski colorimeter [89] * eclipse-gef -- Eclipse graphical editing framework [90] * exfat-utils -- utilities to create, check, label and dump exFAT filesystem [91] * gnome-documents -- document manager for GNOME [92] * ho22bus -- simple application to memorize words [93] * jgit-cli -- Java implementation of Git version control [94] * xcp-xapi -- Xen Cloud Platform XenAPI server [95] * zanshin -- to-do list manager for KDE [96] 88 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/coccinella 89 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/colorhug-client 90 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eclipse-gef 91 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exfat-utils 92 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-documents 93 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ho22bus 94 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jgit-cli 95 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xcp-xapi 96 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zanshin Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 203 packages are orphaned [97] and 111 packages are up for adoption [98]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [99]. 97 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 98 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 99 : 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 [100] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [101]. 100 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 101 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cedric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prevot, Justin B Rye and Paul Wise [102]. 102 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2012-01-09T21:50:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/461 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org December 14th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/15/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Volunteers needed for publicity team * Removal of sun-java6 from the archive * Debian SDL packaging team revival * Bits from the DPL * Ubuntu appreciates Debian * India mini-DebConf, Mangalore edition * New mirror in El Salvador * Debexpo maintainers call for contributions * Bug Squashing Party marathon started * Call for talks: FOSDEM 2012 * New s390 buildd at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Further interviews * 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? Volunteers needed for publicity team ------------------------------------ As you may have noticed, it has been quite some time since the last edition of Debian Project News. To improve the frequency of DPN and expand its other activities, the Debian Publicity team is looking for new contributors. Did you ever want to help Debian, but every piece of software you were interested in was already packaged? You don't consider yourself a "technical person"? You have basic skills in written English? Perfect! Have you considered joining the Publicity Team [1]? If you are a Debian member, the Press team is also looking for new contributors. 1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/11/msg00055.html Removal of sun-java6 from the archive ------------------------------------- The release of Java update 29 from Oracle marks not only security updates, but a change to the licensing, removing Debian's ability to distribute the non-free JVM. The clause in the Java license under which we were able to distribute Java, the DLJ, has been removed. As a result, the sun-java6 package is no longer suitable for the archive, and has been removed, as documented in Debian Bug #646524 [2]. Sylvestre Ledru suggests [3] that sun-java6 installs be migrated to openjdk, the open-source alternative, using the following command: apt-get --purge remove sun-java6-jre &amp;&amp; apt-get install openjdk-7-jre Kai Wasserbäch has also been pointed out elsewhere [4] that this upgrade path might not be suitable for all Java programs, and special attention should be paid to re-testing installed Java applications on OpenJDK. 2 : http://bugs.debian.org/646524 3 : http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/10/25/removal_of_sun_java6_from_debian 4 : http://www.carbon-project.org/Removal_of_sun_java6_and_ElsterOnline.html Debian SDL packaging team revival --------------------------------- The SDL packaging team [5] has recently been seriously revived [6], with Dominique Dumont reorganising the team and Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo joining the effort. Packaging is progressively moving to Git for easier collaboration, and developers maintaining SDL-related packages not in the team's repository have been invited to join, too. A lot of old bugs have already been fixed and new SDL 1.3 and sdl-perl packages have been uploaded to experimental. SDL 1.3 brings support for newer OpenGL APIs, input improvements like multi-touch, gestures and force feedback device support, better Unicode support and support for multiple windows and displays. 5 : http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSdlGroup 6 : http://ddumont.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/sdl-team-revival/ Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent his "Bits from the DPL" for October [7] and November [8]. He reminds us that the New Maintainer Process has been renamed as the New Member Process, and that a list of "easy hacks" is a very effective way of attracting contributors to teams. He notes that Ubuntu plan to deprecate their package review platform (REVU) in favour of converging on mentors.debian.net. This will need some Debexpo changes and also more package sponsorship by Debian members. Stefano has approved funds for the recent DebConf video team sprint and also hardware replacements for lists.debian.org and ftp.debian.org, which have now arrived and are in the process of being set up by DSA. He reports that Fathi Boudra represented Debian at the Software Freedom Day in Algeria. Stefano also reported on his trademark-related activities, including a contact point for inquiries related to the Debian trademark, seeking legal advice on how trademark law applies to Debian packaging activities, and starting a discussion on the relationships between the DFSG and trademark restrictions. He is also working on a statement to make explicit the position of the Debian Project on software patents. The OSI have invited the Debian Project to their upcoming affiliation programme. There is also work in progress to have the Debian Project become a member of the forums for ISC software that we distribute. Stefano also mentioned his continuing work in creating a discussion forum for companies that have a strategic interest in Debian. 7 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/11/msg00001.html 8 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/12/msg00000.html Ubuntu appreciates Debian ------------------------- As part of Ubuntu's recent Community Appreciation Day [9], Michael Hall sent Debian a message of appreciation [10], stating "Without you we wouldn't be able to make the contributions we do. Ubuntu is great because Debian is great, and we appreciate all of the work that goes into making it that way." Michael will be joining [11] Canonical's Community Team, focusing on projects that are upstream for Ubuntu. 9 : http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UCADay 10 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00626.html 11 : http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/17/welcoming-our-new-horseman-michael-hall/ India mini-DebConf, Mangalore edition ------------------------------------- Christian Perrier reported [12] on his participation in the mini-DebConf in Mangalore, south-west India [13]. The conference was held at Nitte MahaLinga Adyanthaya Memorial Institute of Technology and organised by Vasudev Kamath and a team of computer-science students from the college with support from staff, including the college principal, Dr. S. Y. Kulakarni. Christian gave the opening talk, introducing Debian, how to contribute, and information about Debian internationalisation and localisation. Later Jonas Smedegaard presented a talk about Debian Pure Blends, focusing on how distributions derived from Debian can work inside Debian instead of outside of it. This was part of his trip [14] promoting Debian and Debian Pure Blends in Asia. The talks were followed on the second day with sessions on localisation, packaging, OpenPGP keys and contributing to Debian. The event was publicised in one of the major newspapers in India, namely "The Hindu". Events such as these are vital to local communities. The participation of "international" contributors in these events often brings more attention to them and is highly appreciated by the local community. 12 : http://lists.debian.org/20111105184310.GD4138&lt; at &gt;mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org 13 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConf2011/MangaloreEdition 14 : http://dr.jones.dk/blog/debianasia2011/ New mirror in El Salvador ------------------------- The Debian mirrors team is happy to announce the first mirror in El Salvador [15], sponsored by the Ministry of Health [16], with the help of René Mayorga and Carlos Juan Martín Pérez. Salvadorian Debian users are invited to update their /etc/apt/sources.list in order to use ftp.sv.debian.org. To quote Carlos Juan Martín Pérez "For us, the Ministry of Health, and as members of the Salvadorian Community of Free Software, is an honour to belong to the great Debian family." For other countries, the full list of mirrors [17] is available online. There are still many countries lacking good connectivity to a Debian mirror; sponsors interested in hosting are invited to contact the mirrors team. 15 : http://ftp.sv.debian.org/debian/ 16 : http://www.salud.gob.sv/ 17 : http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Debexpo maintainers call for contributions ------------------------------------------ Discussing the potential integration of packaging teams into Debexpo, the software behind the mentors.debian.net [18] service, Arno Töll issued a call for contributions [19], since the current team members are busy. 18 : http://mentors.debian.net/ 19 : http://lists.debian.org/4ECD5330.40104&lt; at &gt;toell.net Debexpo [20] is maintained as an Alioth project [21]. 20 : http://wiki.debian.org/Debexpo 21 : https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debexpo/ Bug Squashing Party marathon started ------------------------------------ Similarly to previous releases [22,23,24,25], a marathon of Bug Squashing Parties (BSPs) has been started with concurrent BSPs being held in Hildesheim [26], Germany and Portland [27], OR, USA. While the first one concentrated on fixing Release Critical bugs, the second concentrated on creating multiarch patches for different libraries. 22 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathon 23 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonEtch 24 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonLenny 25 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonSqueeze 26 : http://www.debian.org/events/2011/1202-hildesheim-bsp 27 : http://www.debian.org/events/2011/1204-ubulocjam-debbsp Both BSPs were quite successful. In Hildesheim 60 Release Critical bugs were addressed [28] and several improvements to the archive software [29] introduced, while in Portland 14 multiarch patches [30] were created! They also noted down how to prepare cloud instances [31] in preparation for Bug Squashing Parties. 28 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/events/bsp-hi-2011-3 29 : http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2011/12/04/bsp-hildesheim.html 30 : http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Making_jam_from_bugs/ 31 : http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2011/12/05/ec2-instances-in-support-of-a-bsp/ The next Bug Squashing Parties in Mönchengladbach, Germany (January or February) and Paris, France (17 to 19 February) are already being organised [32]. The Debian Wiki has more information about organising a BSP [33], should you consider organising your own. 32 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonWheezy 33 : http://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP Debian would like to thank Pengutronix [34] (in Hildesheim) and PuppetsLabs [35] (in Portland) for their support in organising these two events. 34 : http://pengutronix.com/index_en.html 35 : http://puppetlabs.com/ Call for talks: FOSDEM 2012 --------------------------- Wouter Verhelst sent a call for talks for the distribution developers room [36] at the upcoming FOSDEM 2012 [37], the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting. The FOSDEM takes place in Brussels, Belgium in early February 2012. Acceptable sessions can be any wide range of things, including talks, BoF sessions, and round tables. Two cross-distributions devrooms are intended to be for people from any participating distribution project, and may cover Debian-specific subjects, or indeed targeted at Debian developers only. 36 : http://lists.debian.org/20111111113115.GZ17352&lt; at &gt;grep.be 37 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0204-fosdem New s390 buildd at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ---------------------------------------------------- Philipp Kern announced [38] that zemlinsky [39], a new Debian buildd hosted at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [40], is now available to support the s390(x) ports [41]. Thanks to this new host, s390x is progressing pretty quickly [42]: this new fast builder is one of the reasons why the slope is so steep. 38 : http://debblog.philkern.de/2011/12/new-debian-buildd-at-karlsruhe.html 39 : http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=zemlinsky 40 : http://www.iic.kit.edu/nachrichten/einzelansicht/article/iic-foerdert-debian-fuer-ibm-system-z/ 41 : http://www.debian.org/ports/s390/ 42 : http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eANKNSQ7zvg/Tt1XNDpjMaI/AAAAAAAAAX8/EwUsFR8LImU/s1600/graph-week-big.pngp Further interviews ------------------ There have been three further "People behind Debian" interviews: with Raphaël Hertzog [43], dpkg maintainer, book author; with Mark Shuttleworth [44], Ubuntu's founder; and with Stefano Zacchiroli [45], Debian Project Leader. 43 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/11/05#interview-raphael 44 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/11/17/people-behind-debian-mark-shuttleworth-ubuntus-founder/ 45 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/11/22/people-behind-debian-stefano-zacchiroli-debian-project-leader/ Stefano Zacchiroli was also interviewed by Karen Sandler on the FaiF oggcast [46], by Amber Granger during the Ubuntu Developer Summit [47] and by Lici.it [48] (original in Italian [49]). In addition the NeuroDebian team [50] were interviewed [51] by FLOSS for Science. 46 : http://faif.us/cast/2011/nov/29/0x1D/ 47 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p64OUfcfe5M 48 : http://interview.lici.it/2011/11/15/an-interview-for-linux-to-stefano-zacchiroli/ 49 : http://interview.lici.it/it/2011/11/15/an-interview-for-linux-to-stefano-zacchiroli/ 50 : http://neuro.debian.net/ 51 : http://www.floss4science.com/interview-neurodebian/ New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Four applicants have been accepted [52] as Debian Developers, thirteen applicants [53,54] have been accepted as Debian Maintainer, and twenty-five people have started to maintain packages [55] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Nicholas Breen, Vincent Legout, Antoine Beaupré, Gergely Nagy, Wolodja Wentland, Vasudev Kamath, Matthias Klumpp, José Manuel Santamaría Lema, Floris Bruynooghe, Cédric Boutillier, Christophe Trophime, Tobias Hansen, Nicolas Dandrimont, Simone Rosetto, Jonas Genannt, Laszlo Kajan, James Page, Mikolaj Izdebski, Félix Arreola Rodríguez, Henry Velez, Gastón Ramos, Stephen M. Webb, Miguel de Val Borro, Simon Chopin, Paolo Greppi, B. Clausius, Mateusz Kijowski, José Luis Segura Lucas, Marcin Kulisz (kuLa), Teus Benschop, Ole Streicher, Paolo Rotolo, Martin Erik Werner, Raoul Gunnar Borenius, Geoffrey Thomas, Alkis Georgopoulos, Jerome Kieffer, Christopher Gervais, Håkon Nessjøen, David Stone, Nicolas Bourdaud and Mathias Ertl into our project! 52 : https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint 53 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/11/msg00012.html 54 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00004.html 55 : 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 [56], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", is currently affected by 1005 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 849 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 56 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [57] as well as some hints on how to interpret [58] these numbers. 57 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2011-49 58 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Moritz Muehlenhoff reminded users that security support [59] for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" will end on 6 February 2012. 59 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00238.html Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): moodle [60], nss [61], ffmpeg [62], postgresql [63], iceweasel [64], iceape [65], openssl [66], python-django-piston [67], icedove [68], proftpd-dfsg [69], bind9 [70], spip [71], freetype [72], systemtap [73], wireshark [74], puppet [75], ldns [76], cups [77], clearsilver [78], openjdk-6 [79], evince [80], openjdk-6 [81] (for "Lenny"), mojarra [82], chasen [83] and acpid [84]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 60 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2338 61 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2339 62 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2336 63 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2340 64 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2341 65 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2342 66 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2343 67 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2344 68 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2345 69 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2346 70 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2347 71 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2349 72 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2350 73 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2348 74 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2351 75 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2352 76 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2353 77 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2354 78 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2355 79 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2356 80 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2357 81 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2358 82 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2359 83 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2361 84 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2362 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: libvirt [85], libreoffice [86], puppet [87], iceweasel [88], openssl [89], apache2 [90], libsndfile [91] and nss [92]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 85 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00000.html 86 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00001.html 87 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00002.html 88 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00003.html 89 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00004.html 90 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00005.html 91 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00006.html 92 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/11/msg00007.html Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: linux-2.6 [93]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 93 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/11/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 [94] (and the separate backports list [95], and stable updates list [96] or volatile list [97], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 94 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 95 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 96 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 97 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 761 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [98] are: * 4digits -- guess-the-number game, aka Bulls and Cows [99] * guacamole -- HTML5 web application for accessing remote desktops [100] * knot -- authoritative domain name server [101] * mgen -- packet generator for IP network performance tests [102] * minetest -- InfiniMiner/Minecraft-inspired open game world [103] * musique -- simple but sophisticated graphical music player [104] * pinpoint -- hacker-friendly presentation program [105] * r8168-dkms -- dkms source for the r8168 network driver [106] * redsocks -- redirect any TCP connection to a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy server [107] * uhub -- high performance Advanced Direct Connect p2p hub [108] 98 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 99 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/4digits 100 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/guacamole 101 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/knot 102 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mgen 103 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/minetest 104 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/musique 105 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pinpoint 106 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/r8168-dkms 107 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/redsocks 108 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/uhub Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 392 packages are orphaned [109] and 143 packages are up for adoption [110]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [111]. 109 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 110 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 111 : 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 [112] 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;. 112 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Simon Chopin, Sam Hocevar, Simon Paillard, David Prévot, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Alexander Reshetov, Paul Tagliamonte, Justin B Rye and Paul Wise. </pre> Paul Wise 2011-12-14T09:37:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/460 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org November 7th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/14/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's fourteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Updated Debian: 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 released * DebConf12 official dates * Debian Installer localisation * Feedback after DebConf11 * Uses of Emdebian * Bits from the DPL * New Member process * Further interviews * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Updated Debian: 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 released ---------------------------------------- The third update for Debian 6.0 (codename [1] "Squeeze") and the ninth update for Debian 5.0 (codename [2] "Lenny") have been released. These updates mainly add corrections for security problems to the stable and oldstable releases, along with some adjustments for serious problems. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20111008 2 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20111001 DebConf12 official dates ------------------------ The DebConf team announced the final and official dates for DebConf12 [3]: DebCamp will be held from July 1 to 7 2012, followed by DebConf from July 8 to 14, in Managua, Nicaragua. DebConf will be preceded by a day during which the doors are opened to the general public, commonly called Debian Day. For further information, please visit the DebConf12 web pages [4]. 3 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20111102 4 : http://debconf12.debconf.org/ Debian Installer localisation ----------------------------- Christian Perrier reported some new progress [5] in Debian Installer localisation [6]. Nineteen languages are now up to date for D-I's core files; eight (Czech, Dutch, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish) are 100% complete for the moment, and many more should reach this hall of fame pretty soon, thanks to the translators. 5 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/10/31#di-l10n-update-2011-5 6 : http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/ Feedback after DebConf11 ------------------------ After his "This week in Debian" interview, Adnan Hodzic wrote a summary of DebConf11 and its consequences [7]. He offers an inside view of DebConf organisation, sharing some of the stresses and the amazing experiences he had with other organisers. Among the after-effects: the Government of Republika Srpska may seriously consider free and open source software for their own use, and Adnan has taken a vacation to prepare himself for his next projects. 7 : http://foolcontrol.org/?p=1310 Uses of Emdebian ---------------- Continuing his series on Emdebian [8], Neil Williams posted an article about the use of Emdebian on special purpose computers [9]. The common features of special purpose computers include: single task only, single-user support, single mode input, restricted connectivity, constrained user data. On this kind of computer Emdebian is very popular for many reasons, such as the multi-tasking kernel and userspace which provide a responsive machine, or the mere fact that in Emdebian (unlike proprietary competitors) the graphical software is trivially separated from the core software. But the most important reason is that Emdebian Grip allows better debugging: in fact,"Emdebian Grip is binary compatible with the equivalent Debian suite and when a bug appears in the high level user interface, it is much easier to debug that on the desktop than on the device", said Neil. 8 : http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/217-Documenting-Emdebian-intro.html 9 : http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/230-Uses-of-Emdebian-special-purpose-computers.html Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli reminded us that Wheezy is a few months away from its freeze [10]: everyone can help. He reported about some discussions that are worth attention [11]; about maintainers' and porters' responsibilities [12]; reasons not to use private email aliases [13]; etc. Stefano gave updates about sprints (for coordinating which there is a new mailing list [14]) and the trademark policy. He also recently attended the "Linux Day" in Parma, Italy, and the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida. 10 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg00003.html 11 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg00001.html 12 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00685.html 13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2011/09/msg00062.html 14 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/ New Member process ------------------ Enrico Zini announced that the"New Maintainer process" has changed its name, to become the "New Member process [15]": the procedure is still the same, and even its initials are unchanged, but its name is no longer confusing and ambiguous. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli for hisproposal [16]. Jan Hauke Rahm also joined the New Member Front Desk, which can now be reached at nm&lt; at &gt;debian.org [17]. 15 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg00004.html 16 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2011/10/msg00028.html 17 : mailto:nm&lt; at &gt;debian.org Further interviews ------------------ Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the [18] "This week in Debian" podcast have been published: with Jonathan Nadeau [19], who talks about the Ohio LinuxFest and his internship at the FSF; and with Adnan Hodzic [20], who talks about DebConf11. 18 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian 19 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-28 20 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-29-1 Other news ---------- Julien Cristau announced that in the current testing Debian distribution, the default Python version pointed at by the /usr/bin/python symlink is now Python 2.7 [21]. 21 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg00000.html Meike Reichle officially announced the Wheezy Bug Squashing Party Marathon [22], starting in Hildesheim on December 2, 2011 [23]. 22 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonWheezy 23 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2011/Hildesheim New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Twenty-four people have started to maintain packages [24] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Harish Badrinath, Andrew Harvey, Michael Jumper, Jakub Adam, Tiziano Zito, Zlatan Todoric, Ivo Maintz, Judit Foglszinger, Daniel Hughes, Mark Owen, Rico Rommel, Alex Chiang, Daniel Schaal, Alexander Chernyakhovsky, Jerome Robert, Shell Xu, Sebastian Eichelbaum, Jeroen Nijhof, Michael Milligan, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin, Arthur Gautier, Kouhei Maeda, Rodolphe Pelloux-Prayer and Ahmed Toulan into our project! 24 : http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): linux-2.6 [25], openjdk-6 [26], iceape [27], iceweasel [28], puppet [29], openoffice.org [30], quagga [31], icedove [32], cyrus-imapd-2.2 [33], policykit-1 [34], dokuwiki [35], moin [36], bugzilla [37], radvd [38], wireshark [39], kfreebsd-8 [40], pam [41], libfcgi-perl [42], freetype [43], torque [44], simplesamlphp [45], tor [46], python-django [47], phpldapadmin [48], mahara [49], man2html [50] and xen [51]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 25 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2310 26 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2311 27 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2312 28 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2313 29 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 30 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2315 31 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2316 32 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2317 33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2318 34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 35 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2320 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2321 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2322 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2323 39 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2324 40 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2325 41 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2326 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2327 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2328 44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2329 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2330 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2331 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2332 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2333 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2334 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2335 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2337 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: puppet [52] (updated announce [53]) and iceweasel [54], Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 52 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/10/msg00000.html 53 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/10/msg00003.htm 54 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/10/msg00001.html Debian's Stable Release Team released update announcements for the packages: tzdata [55] (last updated announce [56]) and clamav [57]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 55 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/09/msg00000.html 56 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/11/msg00000.html 57 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/10/msg00003.html Debian's Volatile Team released update announcements for the packages: tzdata [58] (last updated announce [59]) and clamav [60]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 58 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00006.html 59 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00009.html 60 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00007.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 [61] (and the separate backports list [62], and stable updates list [63] or volatile list [64], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 61 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 62 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 64 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- Hundreds of packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [65] are: 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * dff -- powerful, efficient and modular digital forensic framework [66] * ebook-speaker -- eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice [67] * openteacher -- learn words in a foreign language [68] * openxenmanager -- full-featured graphical management tool for Xen using XenApi [69] * ptex2tex -- easy generation of (possibly complex) LaTeX environments [70] * qxw -- advanced interactive crossword construction tool [71] * rbenv -- simple per-user Ruby version manager [72] * shinken -- flexible monitoring tool [73] * unbound-anchor -- utility to securely fetch the root DNS trust anchor [74] * x2 -- brand new text editor for the GNOME desktop [75] 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dff 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ebook-speaker 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openteacher 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openxenmanager 70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ptex2tex 71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qxw 72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rbenv 73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shinken 74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/unbound-anchor 75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/x2 Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 400 packages are orphaned [76] and 145 packages are up for adoption [77]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [78]. 76 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 77 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 78 : 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 [79] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [80]. 79 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 80 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Alexander Reshetov and Justin B Rye [81]. 81 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> David Prévot 2011-11-07T19:52:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/459 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ DebConf12 Nicaragua dates confirmed press&lt; at &gt;debian.org November 2nd, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20111102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DebConf12 Nicaragua dates confirmed DebConf12 to take place in Managua, Nicaragua in July 2012 The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian operating system, has confirmed the dates and venue for its next annual conference, DebConf12. The conference will take place from July 8 to July 14 2012, in Managua, Nicaragua. In DebConf's twelve-year history, this will be the first time it will be held in Central America. Every year, DebConf allows new and existing Debian project participants from around the world to assemble, share knowledge, make collaborative contributions to Debian, and build tighter community bonds. Conference costs are largely funded by corporate sponsors who find significant value in enabling Debian's success. "The members of the Debian community in Nicaragua, working together with their fellow communities in Central America, are very excited to be hosting this event, and are happy to welcome our colleagues from around the world to join us in Managua at this very important and productive conference" says Leandro G&amp;oacute;mez, leader of the local team for DebConf12. "This conference will boost the local Debian and Free Software communities and help to bring awareness for the Debian Project, with new contributors and enthusiasts from our country and the surrounding region joining the Debian community and helping Debian to build the best operating system." DebConf will be preceded by a day when it opens its doors to the general public, commonly called Debian Day. There will be talks and demonstrations about the benefits of Debian and Free and Open Source software in general to corporate, governmental, academic, and individual users. The call for papers and registration will open in early 2012. DebConf12 will be preceded by DebCamp, the yearly developer work sessions, starting on July 1. The final calendar of the event is: July 1-7 2012:DebCamp, the yearly developer work sessions July 7 2012:Debian Day July 8-14 2012:DebConf12 July 15 2012:Departure/cleanup day 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 system Debian GNU/Linux. About DebConf ------------- DebConf is the annual Debian conference, which has taken place since 2000 in places as varied as Canada, Finland and Argentina. Several hundred developers, contributors, and users gather each year at a new location to further ideas, cooperate, and socialise. More information about DebConf is available from the Debconf website at http://debconf.org. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the DebConf12 web pages at http://debconf12.debconf.org/ or send mail to &lt;press&lt; at &gt;debconf.org&gt;. </pre> Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 2011-11-02T11:19:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.news/458 <pre>------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org September 19th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/13/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's thirteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian's 18th birthday * Bits from the DPL * Debian Bug Squashing Party at MIT * Squeeze backports for Xorg * Debian feeds on Identi.ca and Twitter * Debian in Myanmar * Further interviews * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian's 18th birthday ---------------------- On August 16 the Debian Project turned 18 [1]: for that occasion, across the world there were various parties [2] organised by Debian Developers, Maintainers, Contributors and Users. Pictures of these parties can be viewed at the Debian Birthday website [3], where the project has collected 2230 thanks messages! The Debian Project takes this opportunity to thank all its users and contributors, and its upstream developers. The Project has also received some birthday cakes [4] from Polish users: thank you! 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110816 2 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2011 3 : http://thank-you.debian.net/ 4 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/08/msg00023.html Bits from the DPL ----------------- Stefano Zacchiroli sent some Bits from the DPL, reporting his activities for July [5] and August [6]. The first mail includes some interesting news on trademarks: a potential issue with the redistribution of GNOME [7] (according to a strict interpretation of the GNOME trademark) was solved [8] partly during DebConf, with the help of Karen Sandler (Executive Director of the GNOME foundation). With regard to the Debian trademark, thanks to Jimmy Kaplowitz (SPI director) and Mishi Choudhary (lawyer at SFLC) a survey of existing Debian-related trademark was completed and the trademark on the name "DEBIAN" was extended to the European Union, China and Japan. In the second mail, Stefano writes about the services administration initiative, started by Enrico Zini [9], and reports on his participation at the GNU Hackers Meeting. 5 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00003.html 6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/09/msg00000.html 7 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/07/msg00031.html 8 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/07/msg00061.html 9 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-services-admin/2011/08/msg00001.html Debian Bug Squashing Party at MIT --------------------------------- Asheesh Laroia blogged about the Bug Squashing Party held at the MIT in Cambridge, USA [10] on August 21. The event was promoted by Geoffrey Thomas for MIT's student computing group and went quite well: the attendees, some of them having their first experience as Debian contributors, fixed several release-critical bugs with the help of the present developers. And speaking of bugs, Gregor Herrmann resumed work on the Release Critical Bugs of the Week (RCBW) initiative [11], launched in 2009 by Stefano Zacchiroli, which consists of fixing one Release Critical bug per day. Gregor, one of the most active developers in this initiative, observed that in this phase of the development cycle there are plenty of RC bugs, some of them really easy to fix [12]. It's possible to use the UDD bugs page [13] to search in the BTS for RC bugs. If fixing bugs is too much for you, you can help triaging them, as explained in the useful tutorial [14] blogged by Raphaël Hertzog. 10 : http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/sep-2011-bsp.html 11 : http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/ 12 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2011/09/#e2011-09-11T23_26_22.txt 13 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi 14 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/09/16/how-to-triage-bugs-in-the-debian-bug-tracking-system/ Squeeze backports for Xorg -------------------------- Cyril Brulebois announced the availability of X.Org Server backports for Squeeze [15]. These backports are particularly useful for people who need a newer driver, while users with a perfectly working X could stay with its old version. For those interested in the backported Xorg, a documentation page [16] is also available. 15 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2011/08/msg00069.html 16 : http://x.debian.net/reference/squeeze-backports.html Debian feeds on Identi.ca and Twitter ------------------------------------- In order to highlight the work done by Debian and to improve the availability of such information, Sylvestre Ledru introduced three new feeds on identi.ca [17]: 17 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/08/msg00034.html * Debian new packages [18], which shows the new packages submitted to the Debian Archive (also available on Twitter [19]). * Debian bugs [20], which provides a feed of the new bugs (also available on Twitter [21]). * Debian removed packages [22], which provides a feed of the removed packages in the archive (also available on Twitter [23]). 18 : http://identi.ca/debiannew/ 19 : http://twitter.com/debiannew 20 : http://identi.ca/debianbug/ 21 : http://twitter.com/debianbug 22 : http://identi.ca/debianremove/ 23 : http://twitter.com/debianremove Debian in Myanmar ----------------- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan sent a report of his visit to Yangon [24] where he delivered some talks and tutorials on Debian packaging and mirroring. In particular, Theppitak has done the preliminary actions to realise a Debian mirror in Myanmar; sadly, due to Myanmar's internet policy, SSH connections between domestic and international sites are prohibited, so only local people will be able to maintain the mirror. Another interesting initiative was the start of packaging of resources for Myanmar languages support; in addition Thura Hlaing and Ngwe Tun started a translation process for Myanmar in Debian and in GNOME. He also reported that GNU/Linux is not popular in Myanmar due to lack of internet access, which is mostly provided by internet cafés rather than from homes. 24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2011/09/msg00014.html Further interviews ------------------ There have been two "People behind Debian" interviews: with Peter Palfrader [25], Debian System Administrator; and with Enrico Zini [26], member of the New Maintainer Frontdesk. 25 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/08/18/people-behind-debian-peter-palfrader-debian-system-administrator/ 26 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/09/09/people-behind-debian-enrico-zini-member-of-the-new-maintainer-frontdesk/ Other news ---------- Stefano Zacchiroli announced that Colin Watson has been appointed as the eighth member of the Debian Technical Committee [27]. Congratulations, Colin! 27 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00004.html Enrico Zini announced the creation of a new mailing list [28]: debian-services-admin [29], aiming to create a single point of contact for issues with Debian infrastructure services. In addition, Enrico promoted a census of those services: you can consult the first results of the census on the related wiki page [30]. 28 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00005.html 29 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-services-admin/ 30 : http://wiki.debian.org/Services Fernando C. Estrada announced the launch of the spam cleaning effort [31] on Spanish language lists. For more information, you can visit the relevant wiki page [32]. 31 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/2011/09/msg00123.html 32 : http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/SpanishSpamClean Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Lintian maintainers [33] in order to announce changes in Lintian 2.5.2. Lintian [34] is a useful (and widely used) tool for checking Debian packages in order to find bugs and policy violations before upload to the Debian archive. This new version includes several new features, including the ability to process related packages together, support for architecture-specific overrides, and test coverage of over 75% of tags. 33 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00002.html 34 : http://lintian.debian.org/ New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 22 people have started to maintain packages [35] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Thomas Bechtold, Theodore Lytras, Ivo De Decker, Tim Booth, Jessica McKellar, Gustavo Goretkin, Andrew O. Shadura, Luis Rivas Vañó, Noah Swartz, Roland Clobus, Jonathan McCrohan, Eric P. Mangold, Enrique Hernández Bello, Igor Pashev, Guido van Steen, Jean-Philippe Mengual, Sebastian Humenda, Yannick Schwartz, Ximin Luo, Haïkel Guémar, Gregory C. Sharp and Georg Koppen into our project! 35 : http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): iceape [36], iceweasel [37], icedove [38], apache2 [39], ca-certificates [40], nss [41], rails [42], bcfg2 [43], linux-2.6 [44], squid3 [45], vsftpd [46], ffmpeg [47], chromium-browser [48], mantis [49], and openssl [50]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297 39 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2298 40 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2299 41 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2300 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2302 44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2303 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2304 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2305 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2306 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2307 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2308 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2309 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: icedove [51], nss [52], and apache2 [53]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 51 : http://lists.debian.org/20110826202359.GB5944&lt; at &gt;oxana.chris.lan 52 : http://lists.debian.org/20110906061010.GB3837&lt; at &gt;glandium.org 53 : http://lists.debian.org/20110905190651.7987c810&lt; at &gt;queued.net Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: pianobar [54]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 54 : http://lists.debian.org/1313647561.26267.624.camel&lt; at &gt;hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org 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 [55] (and the separate backports list [56], and stable updates list [57] or volatile list [58], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 55 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 56 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 57 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 58 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 100 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [59] are: 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * boinc-cgi-stripchart -- CGI script for plotting basic statistical graphs [60] * fonts-jura -- monospaced, sans-serif font [61] * git-daemon-sysvinit -- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (git-daemon service) [62] * itstool -- tool for translating XML documents with PO files [63] * jcadencii -- piano roll editor for singing synthesis [64] * vdpauinfo -- video decode and presentation API for UNIX (vdpauinfo utility) [65] * xpra -- tool to detach and reattach running X programs [66] * xul-ext-cookie-monster -- very easy cookies management in a whitelist-based way [67] * xul-ext-status4evar -- status bar widgets and progress indicators [68] 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/boinc-cgi-stripchart 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-jura 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/git-daemon-sysvinit 63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/itstool 64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jcadencii 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vdpauinfo 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xpra 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-cookie-monster 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-status4evar Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 252 packages are orphaned [69] and 126 packages are up for adoption [70]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [71]. 69 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 70 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 71 : 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 [72] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org [73]. 72 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 73 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Francesca Ciceri, Fernando C. Estrada, Sylvestre Ledru, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Alexander Reshetov and Justin B Rye [74]. 74 : mailto:debian-publicity&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org </pre> Francesca Ciceri 2011-09-20T06:12:15 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.user.news