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Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Noèl Köthe [1]announced Debian [2]packages for the [3]Kolab groupware server. An update for the stable Debian [4]release is currently being [5]prepared which will incorporate about 40 security updates. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/02/msg00077.html 2. http://pkg-kolab.alioth.debian.org/ 3. http://www.kolab.org/ 4. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/ 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/02/msg00024.html Finnish Debian Community honoured. Lars Wirzenius [6]reported that the Finnish Debian community has been [7]honoured by the Finnish Linux User's Group (FLUG). Every year since 2002 FLUG gives out an award to the people or organisations who have worked well to promote GNU/Linux in Finland. This year the main award was given to the Finnish translators of OpenOffice.org. 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/02/msg00002.html 7. http://liw.iki.fi/liw/misc/flug-2006-kunniamaininta-pieni.png Call for Project Leader Nominations. Manoj Srivastava [8]called for nominations for the upcoming project leader election. The nomination period will end on February 26th, followed by the campaigning period until March 19th and the voting period until April 9th. Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution and their platform statements will be published on the [9]voting pages. 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00243.html 9. http://www.debian.org/vote/ Graphical Installer Development. Davide Viti [10]reported about the first Extremadura development [11]meeting whose subject was the graphical version of the Debian [12]installer. An unofficial graphical installer image based on Gtk+ 2.8.10 has been [13]built. Various usability issues and future features of the graphical installer were also discussed. 10. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/02/msg00012.html 11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/12/msg00003.html 12. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/02/msg00225.html Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update your systems if you have any of these packages installed. * DSA 961: [14]pdfkit.framework -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 962: [15]pdftohtml -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 963: [16]mydns -- Denial of service. * DSA 964: [17]gnocatan -- Denial of service. * DSA 965: [18]ipsec-tools -- Denial of service. 14. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-961 15. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-962 16. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-963 17. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-964 18. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-965 New or Noteworthy Packages. Due to [19]packages.debian.org being down because of performance issues we are unable to provide the regular list of new packages. 19. http://packages.debian.org/ Removed Packages. 6 packages have been [20]removed from the Debian archive during the past week: 20. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt * gtkglextmm -- C++ wrapper for the OpenGL extension to GTK [21]Bug#349254: Request of QA: rc-buggy, no rev-deps * redboot -- Red Hat embedded debug and bootstrap firmware [22]Bug#349411: Request of QA: rc-buggy, old, unmaintained * doomlegacy -- Port of the Doom engine that supports OpenGL [23]Bug#350122: Request of QA: has never been part of a stable release, rc-buggy; alternatives exist; orphaned, license problems * notify-daemon -- Daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications [24]Bug#350402: Request of maintainer: renamed back to notification-daemon * horde2 -- Horde web application suite [25]Bug#350630: Request of maintainer: dead upstream * linuxvideostudio -- MJPEG-tools GTK graphical user interface [26]Bug#350846: Request of maintainer, old; depends on non-free; alternatives exist 21. http://bugs.debian.org/349254 22. http://bugs.debian.org/349411 23. http://bugs.debian.org/350122 24. http://bugs.debian.org/350402 25. http://bugs.debian.org/350630 26. http://bugs.debian.org/350846 Want to continue reading DWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers who watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the [27]contributing page to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing 28. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
