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Welcome to this year's fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian and "Google Code-in 2010" * Report from openSUSE Conference * Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release * Minutes from mini-DebConf Paris * Mini-DebConf in Ho Chi Minh City * Bits from the Website Team * Further "This week in Debian" interviews * ... and much more. Debian and "Google Code-in 2010" -------------------------------- After Debian has been successfully participated in the last "Google Summer of Code" , where Google sponsored students during the summer holidays to work on specific task for Open Source projects, a new campaign for pre-university students is now started: theGoogle Code-in 2010 [1]. In this new contest, pre-university students may work on smaller tasks during one or two weeks, and in the end may win T-Shirts, money and other prices. Coordination is done again by Obey Arthur Liu [2], who already started a general wiki page [3] and is now collecting tasks [4]. 1 : http://code.google.com/intl/en/opensource/gci/2010-11/ 2 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/msg00342.html 3 : http://wiki.debian.org/GoogleCodeIn2010 4 : http://wiki.debian.org/GoogleCodeIn2010/Tasks Report from openSUSE Conference ------------------------------- Gerfried Fuchs sent a report [5] of the openSUSE Conference [6] where she has been representing Debian through a talk about "Debian - The Project and its Resources" whoseslides [7] are available. One topic raised was about package naming schemes, sometimes diverting from upstream for consistency reasons, so inter-distribution tools would require some layer to map the package name from one distribution to another. 5 : http://lists.debian.org/20101027075154.ga29...@anguilla.debian.or.at 6 : http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference 7 : http://deb.li/DebSuSE Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release ---------------------------------- The first beta release of the installer for Debian Squeeze has been released on October 30th, 2010 [8]. This release is dedicated to Frans Pop, who was heavily involved in several aspects of Debian Installer until he passed away [9], and whose loss is deeply regretted. 8 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2010/20101030 9 : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100831 Many improvements are added in this release of the installer: new platforms (Marvell GuruPlug and OpenRD-Ultimate for example), isohybrid images, and 67 languages are supported, and many more. The errata [10] gather details and a full list of known issues. You are welcome to test the installer and report bugs; media and other information are available on the Debian Installer pages [11]. Especially, the new Win32-Loader should be tested on all Windows versions for all languages. 10 : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 11 : http://www.debian.org//devel/debian-installer Minutes from mini-DebConf Paris ------------------------------- The first mini-DebConf Paris [12] has just been held a week ago in the PPS laboratory of Université Paris 7. According to Stefano Zacchiroli, it was a complete success [13] gathering about 150 people from all over Europe. Stefano finalized the Debian Sprint Program [14], and Lucas Nussbaum [15] worked on UDD [16] and his piuparts replacement [17] between two [18] talks [19]. The Bug Squashing Party [20] also permitted to close (and fill) some bugs. 12 : http://fr2010.mini.debconf.org/ 13 : http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/10/mini_debconf_paris_-_success/ 14 : http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints 15 : http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=593 16 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi 17 : http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-qa/debcluster/scripts/tasks/instest.rb 18 : http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/files/minidebconfparis2010-debian-ubuntu.pdf 19 : http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/files/minidebconfparis2010-debian-qa.pdf 20 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Paris Mini-DebConf in Ho Chi Minh City -------------------------------- For the first time in Vietnam, the fifth mini-DebConf in Asia [21] will be held during FOSSASIA 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 12-14, 2010. The mini-DebConf will feature talks from different Debian Developers and contributers covering technical, social and policy topics, as well as a translation workshop to foster the Vietnamese translation community and to teach how to translate in Debian. More information is available at the organisation page [22]. 21 : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101102 22 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianVietnam/MiniDebConf2010 Bits from the Website Team -------------------------- Gerfried Fuchs sent some Bits from the Website Team [23] in which she summarized the recent activities of the team. Besides announcing that www-master was recently moved to another host, she reported the progress made in the website redesign process. Since several months, in fact, Gerfried Fuchs and Martin Zobel-Helas are working on implementing the Kalle Söderman's proposal [24] for the new website design across different sites and there are already available several previews: www.deb.at [25], debienna.at [26], dsa.debian.org [27], git.deb.at [28], lists.deb.at [29], packages.deb.at [30], and planet.deb.at [31]. You can follow the further progress on the related wiki page [32] and help the team testing new design with different web browser. The mail ends with a call for further contributors, which are always welcome. A lot of different things need to get done, and not all of them require specific skills. 23 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/11/msg00001.html 24 : http://kalleswork.net/projects/debian/ 25 : http://www.deb.at/ 26 : http://debienna.at 27 : http://dsa.debian.org/ 28 : http://git.deb.at/ 29 : http://lists.deb.at/ 30 : http://packages.deb.at/ 31 : http://planet.deb.at/ 32 : http://wiki.debian.org/KallesDesign Further "This week in Debian" interviews ----------------------------------------- Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, four new issues of the [33] "This week in Debian" podcast have been published: with Axel Beckert [34], member of the kFreeBSD Project; with Samuel Thibault [35], member of Debian's accessibility team; with Moritz Muehlenhoff [36], member of the Security Team from the Debian Project; and with Niels Thykier [37], maintainer of the Eclipse Package and Java Package. 33 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian 34 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-5 35 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-6 36 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-7 37 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-8 Other news ---------- The twenty-fourth issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [38] has been released and covers the following topics: 38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/11/msg00002.html * Screenshots on packages.d.o * BTS version tracking explained * Latest features of dpkg-dev * Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database * Re-evaluate the state of backported packages Beside the already announced Bug Squashing Parties in Paris [39] (just ended a week ago) and Bern [40] (27th and 28th November), there will also be a real live BSP on the 13th and 14th November in Manchester [41]. 39 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Paris 40 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Bern 41 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Manchester Raphaël Hertzog created a nice presentation template for OpenOffice.org [42]. 42 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/29/nice-openoffice-org-template-for-debian-presentations/ Debian decided to officially welcome non-packaging contributors [43]via a General Resolution [45]. Enrico Zini, on behalf of the Debian Account Managers team, already sent some guidelines for applying as non-uploading DD [46]. 43 : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101019 45 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/vote_002 46 : http://lists.debian.org/20101103095926.ga14...@enricozini.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 6 people started to maintain packages [47] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Daniele Napolitano, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, Roy Marples, Dipankar Patro, Deepak Tripathi, Bilal Akhtar and Etienne Millon into our project! 47 : 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 [48], the upcoming release, Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" , is currently affected by 284 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 126 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 48 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also more detailed statistics [49] as well as some hints on how to interpret [50] these numbers. 49 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/#2010-43 50 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): TYPO3 [51], glibc [52], NSS [53], and Xulrunner [54]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2121 52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2122 53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2123 54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124 Debian's Backports Team releases advisories for these packages: mailscanner [55], and pidgin [56]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 55 : http://lists.debian.org/01010221226.20261.w...@cyconet.org 56 : http://lists.debian.org/201010221319.31927.w...@cyconet.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 [57] (and the separate backports list [58]) for announcements. 57 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 58 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among others [59]): 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * pithos -- Pandora Radio client for the GNOME desktop [60] * salome-extras -- numerical simulation pre- and post-processor [61] * wesnoth-1.9 -- fantasy turn-based strategy game - complete suite (branch 1.9) [62] Please note that due to the freeze of the upcoming Debian 6.0 [63] "Squeeze" acceptance of new packages has almost ceased. 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pithos 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/salome-extras 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wesnoth-1.9 63 : http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806 Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. 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