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Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released * New layout and website related news * Backports for "Squeeze" easier for users * Volatile replaced by new updates suite * Bits from the Debian Project Leader * DebConf communication channels and decisions * Handling Debian Merchandise * Debian Google Code-in 2010-2011 report * Further "This week in Debian" interviews * ... and much more. Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released ----------------------------- Almost two years after Debian 5.0 "Lenny" was released,Debian 6.0 [1] "Squeeze" was released on the 6th of February, 2011. Among other improvements, the completely free Linux kernel now shipped in Debian has been welcomed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) [2]. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a 2 : http://www.fsf.org/news/debian-squeeze-makes-key-progress-toward-being-a-fully-free-distribution Adam D. Barratt, Release Team manager, has already announced a first point release planned for next month [3] and gave advice to maintainers about further uploads to "unstable": "Wheezy" is already on people's minds. 3 : http://lists.debian.org/1296956851.16209.5044.ca...@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org New layout and website related news ----------------------------------- The new look for Debian's websites [4] is already available on some of the Debian project's main web interfaces. Gerfried Fuchs sent a report about the last WWW Sprint [5] where members of the team prepared this new layout, smashed and triaged some bugs filed against the www.debian.org pseudo-package, and discussed other topics such as whether there is any interest in moving away from CVS. Martin Zobel-Helas, member of the DSA team who actively worked for this to happen, thanked the team [6] for putting the new layout proposed by Kalle Söderman on line in time for the release of Debian "Squeeze". 4 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205b 5 : http://lists.debian.org/20110202134918.ga3...@anguilla.debian.or.at 6 : http://lists.debian.org/20110206015402.ga22...@ftbfs.de Backports for "Squeeze" easier for users ---------------------------------------- Alexander Wirt announced the start of the next generation of backports [7]. Users of "Squeeze" (and "Lenny") will be offered new versions of packages available in testing ("Wheezy") viasqueeze-backports (and lenny-backports-sloppy). He also explained to maintainers how to upload packages to the backports archive. A recent change introduced in APT makes out-of-the-box use of squeeze-backports easier than ever before [8], without the need to configure pinning for the backports repository in order to handle upgrades to new versions of packages installed from there. 7 : http://lists.debian.org/20110208223822.gb21...@smithers.snow-crash.org 8 : http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ Volatile replaced by new updates suite -------------------------------------- The Debian Volatile archive has been replaced by the new updates suite [9]: starting from this stable release ("Squeeze"), packages that were handled via the Volatile repository will enter the official release via thesqueeze-updates suite. Updated packages will also be included in the stable point release following the announcement published in the debian-stable-announce mailing list [10]. 9 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215 10 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ Bits from the Debian Project Leader ----------------------------------- Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli sent another bits from the DPL [11] report. He discusses collaboration with others (via for example the Debian derivatives census [12] or the cross-distribution meeting [13]) and communication with people from other projects and companies (via his latest [14] "Who the bloody hell cares about Debian?" talk). He also touches on the relationship between Debian and DebConf in matters such as the goals [15] that were recently published, and is looking for volunteers as DebConf chairs. Stefano has also been interviewed for Linux Outlaws Podcast [16]. 11 : http://lists.debian.org/20110204151502.ga10...@upsilon.cc 12 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110124 13 : http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/appinstaller2011/ 14 : http://lca2011.linux.org.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/153 15 : http://www.debconf.org/goals.shtml 16 : http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/191 DebConf communication channels and decisions -------------------------------------------- Richard Darst blogged on the Debian Administration site [17] about the various communication channels in the DebConf organization. DebConf is the group that manages the yearly Debian Conference. He mentioned the various connected media that the DebConf team uses, including IRC, wiki, and mailing lists, describing how each channel is used and how to contribute. 17 : http://www.debian-administration.org/users/rkd/weblog/16 Handling Debian Merchandise --------------------------- Have you ever wondered where Debian T-Shirts and other goodies come from? How can you get your hands on a cool "Squeeze" T-Shirt? Well, the answer lies with the Debian Merchandising team who co-ordinate Debian merchandise for the various events where a Debian representative appears. Luca Capello, known as Gismo, wrote about the Merchandising team [18] to explain how it all works. You can also have a look at an overview of what Debian offers [19]. 18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/02/msg00101.html 19 : http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise Debian Google Code-in 2010-2011 report -------------------------------------- Ana Guerrero López blogged about the Debian participation at this year's Google Code-in [20]. Even though preparation for the contest started quite late, and few tasks were open to those without a Debian installation, "we got a moderate success". As Ana says: about 30 students have participated, doing 39 tasks mostly related to translation, bug triaging, and writing documentation. 20 : http://ekaia.org/blog/2011/02/01/debian-at-the-google-code-in-2010-11/ Further "This week in Debian" interviews ---------------------------------------- Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the [21] "This week in Debian" podcast have been published: with Andreas Tille [22], from the Debian Med Team, discussing Debian Pure Blends; and with Raphaël Hertzog [23], co-maintainer of dpkg. 21 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian 22 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-17 23 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-18 There has also been two further "People behind Debian" interviews: with Mike Hommey [24], Firefox/Iceweasel maintainer; and with Maximilian Attems [25], member of the kernel team. 24 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/03/people-behind-debian-mike-hommey-firefox-iceweasel-maintainer/ 25 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/17/people-behind-debian-maximilian-attems-member-of-the-kernel-team/ Other news ---------- The 24th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [26] has been released and covers the following topics: 26 : http://lists.debian.org/1296533206.2811.26.camel@chianamo * Debian QA meeting * "Squeeze" release live microblogging * Debian derivatives census * planet.debian.org policy * List of override disparities Cyril Brulebois published the third [27], fourth [28], fifth [29], and sixth [30] issues of "Debian XSF News", summarising many recent events around X.org packaging in Debian -- new version uploads to "experimental", "unstable", and "stable" distributions; initial testing of Wayland [31]; removal requests for unmaintained drivers; preparation of reference documentation on dependency handling between the X server and the drivers; and much more. He also thanked submitters for their bug reports. 27 : http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/01/DXN-3/ 28 : http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/08/DXN-4/ 29 : http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/17/DXN-5/ 30 : http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/21/DXN-6/ 31 : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ David Paleino has reported that after almost six years from the original ITP bug, Code::Blocks is now in Debian [32]. 32 : http://www.hanskalabs.net/posts/codeblocks-in-debian/ New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 2 applicants have been accepted [33] as Debian Developers, 1 applicant has been accepted [34] as a Debian Maintainer, and 19 people have started to maintain packages [35] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Stefano Rivera, Frédéric-Emmanuel Picca, Javier Merino Cacho, Pedro Ribeiro, Julien Viard de Galbert, Markus Schulz, Nik Lutz, Thomas Krennwallner, Qijiang Fan, Rafael Kitover, Andy Bailey, Andrey Rahmatullin, David Kalnischkies, Damian Johnson, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov, Benoît Knecht, Nicolas Dandrimont, Alessandro Ghedini, Simon Ochsenreither, Julian Taylor, Pierre Saramito and Olaf van der Spek into our project! 33 : https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint 34 : http://lists.debian.org/e1ppads-00032v...@franck.debian.org 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): pcscd [36], postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4, and postgresql-9.0 [37], cgiirc [38], vlc [39], tomcat6 [40], openjdk-6 [41], openssl [42], python-django [43], shadow [44], ffmpeg-debian [45], chromium-browser [46], phpmyadmin [47], openafs [48], telepathy-gabble [49], mailman [50], asterisk [51], moodle [52], pam-pgsql [53] and avahi [54]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2156 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2157 38 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2158 39 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2159 40 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2160 41 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2161 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2162 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2163 44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2164 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2165 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2166 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2167 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2168 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2169 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2170 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2171 52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2172 53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2173 54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2174 Debian's Backports Team releases advisories for these packages: git [55] and openafs [56]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 55 : http://lists.debian.org/20110214090905.gd16...@chough.tokkee.org 56 : http://lists.debian.org/87tyfvzvpe....@windlord.stanford.edu Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [57] (and the separate backports list [58], and stable updates list [59] or volatile list [60], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 57 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 58 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 59 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce 60 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among many others [61]): 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * aha -- ANSI to HTML converter [62] * apng2gif -- convert APNG animated images to GIF files [63] * autodock-vina -- docking of small molecules to proteins [64] * banshee-meego -- media management and playback application -- MeeGo extension [65] * between -- game about consciousness and isolation [66] * bitcoin-cli -- peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency -- CLI tools [67] * bliss -- tool to compute graph automorphisms and labelings [68] * bluez-tools -- set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for Linux [69] * ceph -- distributed storage and file system [70] * clasp -- conflict-driven nogood learning answer set solver [71] * codeblocks -- Code::Blocks integrated development environment (IDE) [72] * djview-plugin -- browser plugin for the DjVu image format [73] * docvert-libreoffice -- converts word processor files to HTML using LibreOffice [74] * elastix -- toolbox for rigid and nonrigid registration of images [75] * foo-yc20 -- YC-20 organ emulation [76] * frogr -- Flickr remote organizer for GNOME [77] * fuse-emulator-utils -- free Unix Spectrum emulator -- utilities [78] * gcp -- advanced command line file copy system [79] * gummi -- graphical LaTeX editor with live preview [80] * icli -- command line interface for the icinga monitoring system [81] * identicurse -- simple Identi.ca client with a curses-based UI [82] * iok -- Indic onscreen keyboard [83] * jodreports-cli -- merge OpenDocument text with data -- command line tool [84] * ocaml-melt -- LaTeX with OCaml (tools) [85] * openclipart-libreoffice -- clip art for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice gallery [86] * openvpn-auth-radius -- OpenVPN RADIUS authentication module [87] * pd-mapping -- Pd library for creatively mapping data [88] * pino -- simple and fast microblogging client [89] * plasma-widget-veromix -- plasma widget to control PulseAudio [90] * raptor2-utils -- Raptor 2 RDF parser and serializer utilities [91] * roundcube-plugins -- skinnable AJAX based webmail solution for IMAP servers -- plugins [92] * valac-0.10 -- C# like language for the GObject system [93] * visolate -- tool for engraving PCBs using CNCs [94] * wiican -- simple Wiimote usage assistant and mapping manager [95] * xserver-xorg-input-multitouch -- multi-touch X input driver [96] * xtables-addons-dkms -- extensions targets and matches for iptables [97] 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/aha 63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apng2gif 64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/autodock-vina 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-meego 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/between 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bitcoin-cli 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bliss 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bluez-tools 70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ceph 71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clasp 72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/codeblocks 73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/djview-plugin 74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/docvert-libreoffice 75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/elastix 76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/foo-yc20 77 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/frogr 78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fuse-emulator-utils 79 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gcp 80 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gummi 81 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/icli 82 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/identicurse 83 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/iok 84 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jodreports-cli 85 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ocaml-melt 86 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openclipart-libreoffice 87 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openvpn-auth-radius 88 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pd-mapping 89 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pino 90 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plasma-widget-veromix 91 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/raptor2-utils 92 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/roundcube-plugins 93 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/valac-0.10 94 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/visolate 95 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wiican 96 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xserver-xorg-input-multitouch 97 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xtables-addons-dkms Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 379 packages are orphaned and 139 packages are up for adoption: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [98]. 98 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. 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