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Call for Talks for the Debian Developers' room at FOSDEM

Wouter Verhelst — 2008-12-01T01:11:12

Hello World, It's that time of the year again: FOSDEM is almost upon us. For those living under a rock and unaware of what FOSDEM is: the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting is a yearly community meeting that takes place at the université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly non-commercial in nature, and a unique venue that allows FOSS people from all kinds of different backgrounds to meet and learn about the new things in the FOSS world. It is organized during a weekend in the month of February; this time, that will be the weekend of the 7th and 8th. As has become a habit now over the years, I've again requested a developers' room for the Debian project, and have just received an acceptance of that request[1]. This means we'll be able to hold talks at FOSDEM for one and a half day: during the afternoon on saturday, and the whole day on sunday. So, if you're interested in holding a talk at FOSDEM, now is the time. As usual, talks will be accepted on a first-come, first-serv

Dependency based boot sequencing release goal completed

Petter Reinholdtsen — 2008-11-30T10:06:00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Here is a new status update following the last report in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00011.html The release goal to prepare all init.d scripts for a dependency based init.d script system can now be considered complete. 99.8% of all packages in unstable now have the dependency information (2 packages missing it), and a similar amount in Lenny contain the dependency header. I am not sure how to calculate the fraction in Lenny. The initial testing of these dependencies have discovered some bugs in the headers, leading to incorrect boot or shutdown sequence, refusal to activate dependency based boot sequencing or rejecting a package installation. Most of these bugs are fixed, but some remain open in BTS. More testers are needed to discover problems with currently untested combination of packages. Please tag all such BTS issues appropriately to get them to show up on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=initscripts-n

Bits from the buildd.debian.org world

Adeodato Simó — 2008-11-24T18:26:06

Hi there, Recent work from Steve McIntyre (current DPL) in coordination with Ryan Murray (wanna-build maintainer and buildd admin for several architectures) has led to the injection of new blood in the buildd.debian.org world. We thank them both for this opportunity, plus DSA for their help throughout the process. Autobuilders ============ Let's start with the autobuilders: Ryan will take care of alpha now, and i386, mipsen, and powerpc get new people on board. The list of buildd admins for all architectures ends up like this: * alpha: Ryan Murray (backup Steve Langasek) * amd64: Kurt Roeckx, Frederik Schüler * arm: Aurelien Jarno * armel: Riku Voipio * hppa: LaMont Jones * i386: Philipp Kern, Luk Claes [*] * ia64: LaMont Jones * mips, mipsel: Thiemo Seufer, Martin Zobel-Helas [*] * powerpc: Philipp Kern, Wouter Verhelst * s390: Bastian Blank * sparc: Martin Zobel-Helas These are the people who are, or will be, behind the < at >buildd.d.o mail aliases. Arch

SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

Josselin Mouette — 2008-11-23T16:59:13

Hi SmellyWerewolf.com are kindly offering every Debian Developer a discount on their whole perfumes and make-up catalog[1]. If you apply under the procedure outlined below, you will pay according to "Rate Eeencredible", which at the time of this writing means 20% more chicks loving you! Steps to follow: - If you do not already own perfume bottle, buy one at your nearest convenience store. - If you are goth, transsexual, female or simply metrosexual, you also need to buy make-up at the same place. - Send your private Debian GPG Key to more-chicks< at >debian.org. Include the brand of your perfume and the color of the make-up. - Wait for an OK reply and your new “good friends” will be delivered directly at home. If you don’t want the chicks, you should still buy the perfume and the make-up, cause you know, that can’t hurt, and in this time of economic crisis, the Lust industry needs your help. [1] http://malsain.org/SmellyWerewolf About SmellyWerewolf.com: Created in 1415 after the

Gandi.net Hosting discount

Joerg Jaspert — 2008-11-23T11:23:23

Hi Gandi.net are kindly offering every Debian Developer a discount on their hosting solution[1]. If you apply under the procedure outlined below, you will pay according to "Rate E", which at the time of this writing is a discount of 20%! Steps to follow: - If you do not already have a Gandi.net handle, create one at http://www.gandi.net/login/new - Send a mail signed with your Debian GPG Key to gandi-discount< at >debian.org. Include your Gandi.net handle and the currency in which you want to pay. - Wait for an OK reply before you order your server share(s) (Or the first month will be normal rates). If you already own a server share with Gandi.net and want to have the rate, follow the procedure above and starting with the next month you should be fine. [1] http://www.gandi.net/hosting/ About Gandi.net: Created in 1999 and purchased in 2005 by an experienced managerial team, the French company Gandi manages more than 750,000 domain names for clients in 198 countries around the world, which pl

screenshots.debian.net

Christoph Haas — 2008-11-13T21:18:26

Hi everybody, a picture is worth a thousand words. And thanks to screenshots.debian.net[0] this finally comes true for Debian packages. Several people have proposed a service to provide screenshots for them. So after getting other developers' opinions and suggestions I sat down and crafted a web application that allows to upload and provide screenshots. Unless you are busy helping to fix RC bugs for the Lenny release please consider contributing screenshots of your favorite applications. Currently there are already over 260 screenshots available but there is still some way to go. Everybody can upload screenshots - you don't have to be a Debian developer or Debian maintainer to help. Your uploads will just be checked by the admin team and then published. I would love to see the screenshots integrated into packages.debian.org and perhaps they even get used in graphical package managers like synaptic, kpackage, adept or gnome-apt. It is easy to refer to screenshots from your own application or we

Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1

Otavio Salvador — 2008-11-13T00:05:24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Debian Installer team[1] is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. Improvements in this release of the installer * Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and more reliable than earlier releases); * Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell's ARM-compatible Orion chip: o QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409; o HP Media Vault mv2120; o Buffalo Kurobox Pro; * Installer images for Netwinder have been added again; * Installer images for i386 Xen guests[2] * Support for hardware speech synthesis (speakup) has been added; * Upgrade of packages early in pkgsel, for example to get available security updates for base system packages; * Support for loading firmware from (removable) media during the installation; * i386/amd64:

Announcement: Debian Pure Blends news

Andreas Tille — 2008-11-10T09:26:46

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, for those who might wander what the term Debian Pure Blends means: the Custom Debian Distributions now are called Debian Pure Blends - see below for further information. Here comes an update what was done since the beginning of this year which might be interesting for several projects. Web-Tools - --------- I'm proud to announce a new QA tool for all CDD^W Blends: Overview about all bugs about Dependencies of our metapackages. For the impatient here is a list of these pages: Debian Edu: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/edu/bugs Debian GIS: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/bugs Debian Jr: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/junior/bugs Debian Med: http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs Debian Science: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/bugs You can read more about the estimation of tasks status of the bugs at the Blends/BugPages wiki page[1]. Not that new are the so called tasks pages which are listing the packages in focus of

Debconf 8 internationalization sessions report

Christian Perrier — 2008-11-08T14:46:48

During Debconf 8, we handled four work sessions around internationalization as well as more informal work around i18n infrastructure. This long-overdue report summarizes the discussions during these meetings as well as other i18n-related work that happened during Debcamp and Debconf. Please accept our apologies for us being very late sending this. =============================================================== During Debconf 8, a lot of work happened around i18n, either during Debcamp, informal sessions during Debconf and four formal 1-hour sessions. i18n work session 1: infrastructure ----------------------------------- During that work session, several contributors of Debian i18n presented the recent progress about i18n infrastructure in Debian, mostly the dedicated server named "churro", aka i18n.debian.net. churro is hosted in Merida, Extremadura, Spain, since September 2006, the first i18n session held in Extremadura. Since then, several services were developed on churro (see http://i18n.debian.

For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

Pierre Habouzit — 2008-10-30T16:41:01

Hi, As some of you may know, I've been the original creator of bts-link[0]. Though, I have currently neither the motivation, nor the time to maintain it, or run it on a regular basis[1]. I believe bts-link has become an important piece of our infrastructure, especially for packagers with huge user base, but not only. This is why it's more than time that I give bts-link to people that have the time to care about the beast. Anyways, the information is: I don't intend to maintain or run bts-link anymore[2], it is up for adoption. If the BTS people wish to inherit the beast they come first, but any motivated group of people are welcomed. I believe that the most important things right now would be: * make it an official Debian service (running from a Debian.org host) so that one can lift some specific bans that bug trackers maintainers over the world impose to crawlers ; * make the code base better so that one can have a comprehensive list of bugs that bts-link cannot get a status for, which

Developer Status

Joerg Jaspert — 2008-10-22T21:33:28

Developer Status ================ Summary of this post -------------------- Discussions in the past have made it clear that the current definition of "Debian Developer" (AKA someone who is a member of the Debian project) should be modified and made more flexible. There have been attempts in the past to do something similar, notably Debian Maintainers (DM) [GR-DM], and to some extent debian-community.org [D-C], but these have only addressed parts of the whole issue. We plan to integrate DM more closely into the NM process/system while keeping the spirit of easing entry into Debian for newcomers. At the same time we add a separate track for less-technical contributors. If you are an existing Debian Developer or Debian Maintainer, don't be afraid, we are not going to take anything away from you. Currently becoming a Debian Developer means passing through all of the New Maintainer process. People that passed this get the < at >debian.org mail-forwarding, an account on all (developer-acces

Bug Sprint - Oct 25 to Oct 30 - Register and eat cookies

Josselin Mouette — 2008-10-21T11:43:01

Dear developers, we are currently very close to release lenny which is most likely going to be absolutely awesome. However, there are currently around 100 RC bugs remaining that stand between us and this release. In the permanent BSP state that has lasted for quite some time, people seem to lose focus on this urgent need for the release and the most motivated people are losing motivation after this marathon. Hence the idea of the bug sprint. 100 developers × 5 days = 100 RC bugs closed 100 developers will be working during 5 days and each of them will commit to close a RC bug that will be assigned to him. Fixing a RC bug means either of: * Uploading a NMU that fixes the bug to unstable. * Convincing, with a mail that details the rationale, a release manager to tag the bug lenny-ignore. * Convincing, in a similar way, a release manager to remove the package from lenny. The one who Fixes a RC bug that is more than 3 months old by writing a patch shall become a W

Bits from the Debian CD team

Steve McIntyre — 2008-10-14T23:23:34

Hi folks, It's probably time for a quick update on what we've been up to lately in terms of producing Debian CD and DVD and (!) BD images. That will give the game away for the biggest change that has happened lately - we're now producing some Blu-ray images alongside the existing CD and DVD images with each weekly Lenny build. As a standard Blu-ray disc will hold up to 25GB of data, that means that, for the first time in several years, users should be able to fit all of the packages for one architecture on a single disc. Woo! The downside of adding yet another image type is that potentially we could use up huge amounts more disk space and bandwidth on our central servers and our mirrors to accommodate them. What I've done, therefore, is start imposing limits on which images we will produce each week and with Lenny when it ships. What we now have is (in increasing order of size): * Business card and netinst CDs for all architectures (except s390), available for download as ISO, torrent and jigdo. As f

Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, autumn 2008

Ben Armstrong — 2008-10-13T17:35:16

Also posted as http://syn.theti.ca/2008/10/13/ Some brief highlights of the last three months of Debian Eee PC development. Thermal and ACPI breakage resolved in 2.6.26-7 We're pleased to see that in the upload to Sid of linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-7, the pair of [1]2.6.26 bugs we've been tracking that have made it difficult for Eee users to upgrade their systems have been resolved. Since then 2.6.26-8 has been uploaded and is expected to enter Lenny this week due to a freeze exception. Once the new kernel has migrated we will move quickly to build and release a new installer that includes it. Ath5k wifi works on Eee PC in Linux 2.6.27 Jean-Christophe reports that [2]ath5k works in Linux 2.6.27 on the Eee PC 701, and just needs a [3]small patch to work with our eeepc-acpi-scripts package. This is good news for those of us with models 701, 900, 900A and 1000HD who have been wanting to get off of the non-free Madwifi drivers and onto DFSG free drivers.

Debian bugs #600000 and #1000000 contest

Christian Perrier — 2008-10-12T14:10:27

As the bug #500000 mark was turned on September 24th 2008, Debian developers and contributors need a new challenge. So, again, a small contest has been set up. The principle is very simple: please place a bet (one per person) about the day bugs #600000 and #1000000 will be reported. The winner(s) will be the person(s) placing her|his|their bet as close as possible to the real moment bug #600000 and #1000000 are reported. There is nothing to win but the pride of being the person who predicted our bug report rate for the next months|years, just what René Mayorga won by winning the bug #500000 prediction game (http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/500000.html). The bet page is a wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/600000thBugContest It will be closed on November 30th 2008. Bets will be kept statically until bug #600000 is reported. Then the page will be reopened with a new list of bets for bug #1000000. Thus, we will have four sets of bets for bug #1000000 with even more suspense and fun!. Enjoy...

What you can do for "Lenny"

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl — 2008-10-06T16:44:49

Hi! You probably noticed by now, that Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 aka "Lenny" hasn't been released in September. Well, that's a shame, but very easy to explain: Too many release critical bugs[1]. 1: http://bts.turmzimmer.net/graph-large.png Well, our release team coordinated several transitions, took care of release goals, but it's pretty hard to estimate, how fast RC bugs will be fixed, and apparently they were a bit to optimistic :( The big question is: What can you do, to help release "Lenny" at least in this quarter? That's pretty easy: Fix rc-bugs, take care, that the fixed packages are migrated to "Lenny", do upgrade tests, document problems in the release-notes. Pretty simple, isn't it? For users (or better: For everyone) ========= Even as a "simple user" (aren't we all just users?) you may help getting "Lenny" released. Some things you can do: * If you are running stable (aka "Etch"), you could consider upgrading to "Lenny" and see, if everything works fine. Currently there are no detailed re

Bits from the DPL

Steve McIntyre — 2008-09-29T23:05:16

Hey folks, At the risk of sounding like a broken record here, apologies for taking so long to write this. It's been a few too many weeks since I wrote my last summary. In the last couple of months, I was ill for 3 weeks (as you may have seen from my blog post[1]) and otherwise very busy. I've been struggling to catch up with everything, but I think I'm just about there. So, what's up? Debconf! -------- Debconf 8 [2] has been and gone. We had an excellent time in Mar del Plata, with the usual mix of great technical talks and lots of socialising. The local orga team put in a huge amount of work to make the conference happen, and they did astoundingly well. I'm sure there are places where they'd disagree (*grin*), but as far as I and other attendees could see everything ran smoothly. Woo! Due to the typically long travel distance to Argentina (and, therefore, the high cost of travel), unfortunately many of our developers could not make the trip this year. However, the video team did an amazing job this year

Debian-Edu Skolelinux Developer Gathering in Oslo, Norway, 10th-12th of October 2008

Holger Levsen — 2008-09-26T09:18:55

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Anders Kringstad skolelinux.org> Hello everyone! Once again the board of Free software in schools Norway are happy to invite everyone who wish to contribute to the Skolelinux-project to our developer gathering in Oslo on the 10th-12th of October. The gathering will be held at the dep. of informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway. To register for this developer gathering, please send an email to debian-edu< at >lists.debian.org containing the following information: Subject: Yes, I will participate in the developer gathering 10th-12th of october in Oslo. Body: - Your name - Your travel expenses (if you are or plan to be an active developer, translator or contributor to Skolelinux). - Which part of the gathering you are joining (conference, technical/testing, translation, system user/documentation, facilitators) - If you are joining us for dinner on Thursday, Friday and/or

ssh.upload.debian.org

Joerg Jaspert — 2008-09-21T14:59:58

Hi as the possibility to upload via ssh is something people like we just setup an upload queue supporting this. If you want to upload using ssh please use the hostname ssh.upload.debian.org and place the files into /srv/upload.debian.org/UploadQueue to get them processed. If you use this upload queue you will receive one more mail about your upload, at the time our queue daemon moves your files over to the ftp.upload.debian.org host. ssh.upload.d.o does support .commands files to remove broken uploads. The DELAYED queue is *not* supported using ssh. If you want to upload something with a delay, you have to use ftp. Please always only use the symbolic names for the places to upload to (ie ftp.upload.debian.org and ssh.upload.debian.org), do not use any machine name directly. Queues may move at any time, without further notice and the symbolic names will be updated.

DELAYED queue and upload hostname

Joerg Jaspert — 2008-09-20T16:30:55

Hi, for the impatient people: :) - the DELAYED queue is back on ftp-master - there is ftp.upload.debian.org, please use that in future instead of ftp-master.debian.org DELAYED queue ------------- Thanks to work from Thomas Viehmann the DELAYED queue is back on the ftp-master host, integrated with the normal processing tools. The current service provided by Tollef[1] is probably going away sometime soon. To upload your files with a waiting delay before they enter Debian, upload them into a subdirectory of the new DELAYED/ you can find at the normal ftp upload place. Packages uploaded into the X-day (X between 0 and 15) subdirectories of that DELAYED/ will be moved into the DEFERRED queue and won't be placed into the archive before the waiting time is over. To avoid confusion, the terms used are: DELAYED - the public ftp upload directories, reachable via DELAYED/X-day DEFERRED - this is the place where the uploads are placed by the queue daemon after processing and where packages wait b

Call for testing of next Debian Installer release

Otavio Salvador — 2008-09-17T12:38:47

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Call for testing of Debian Installer - ------------------------------------ We are approaching the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) release and the Debian Installer team is working to fix the remaining issues for it. The Debian Installer Release Candidate 1 is being prepared and we are short in time to make fixes. The installer has a lot of new and impressive features against last Etch release and Lenny beta 2. For a better view of the changes made on the installer since last beta, take a look on our release announcement draft[1]. We are sure you are going to have a nice feeling about it. We count on you to help us! 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce How could I help Debian Installer team? ======================================= That is easy! Go to our development webpage[2], download the weekly builds or daily snapshots and give it a try! This is very important and simple way to help us since it is impossible for the team to try all possible confi