------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-public...@lists.debian.org March 28th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/05/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Updated Debian: 6.0.1 released * Nicaragua to host DebConf12 * Debian Derivative Exchange project launched * Bits from the Debian Installer Team * Insider summary of recent developments in DebConf11 organization * Debian -offtopic mailing list * Further "This week in Debian" interviews * ... and much more. Updated Debian: 6.0.1 released ------------------------------ The first update for Debian 6.0 (codename [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/2011/20110319 Nicaragua to host DebConf12 --------------------------- The DebConf committee has announced that DebConf12, the Debian developer conference for 2012, will be held in Managua, Nicaragua [2]. The Managua bid beat a bid from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. More details can be found on the organizers' wiki [3]. 2 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110325 3 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12 Debian Derivatives Exchange project launched -------------------------------------------- Stefano Zacchiroli and Matt Zimmerman launched a new project called the Debian dErivatives eXchange project (DEX) [4]. The main goal of this project is to reduce the technical differences between Debian and its derivatives. The first such group is the Ubuntu DEX Team [5], which aims to start integrating packages and changes available in Ubuntu back into Debian. A gNewSense DEX Team is also expected soon. 4 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110318 5 : http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu/ The Debian Project invites all Debian based distributions and other projects to join the DEX project and work together on a common base. Bits from the Debian Installer Team ----------------------------------- Otavio Salvador sent some bits from the Debian Installer Team [6], which summarizes changes that have happened in the team since the release of "Squeeze" (such as the switch from Subversion to Git), and the team's goals for "Wheezy" (among others, more features for netcfg: wireless support for WPA networks, IPv6, VLAN network infrastructure support, and link detection). An important part of the mail is dedicated to a call for help: the right moment to join the team and start contributing is exactly now, as it's starting a new development cycle. 6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/03/msg00403.html Insider summary of recent developments in DebConf11 organization ---------------------------------------------------------------- Vedran Omeragic has blogged about some recent developments in DebConf11 organization [7]. The official DebConf11 website [8] has been completed and contains a lot of information for those wanting to attend this year's Debian developer conference. Another important step was made (during a meeting held on 22 February) in establishing sponsorship levels [9], slightly changed from last year, and completing sponsorship brochures [10], available in three different qualities. There are also some clarifications about the Bosnian visa regime: all the information can be found on the related wiki page [11]. At the end, Vedran lists the next steps: opening registration, working on finding the best routes for attendees, looking for sponsors, and preparing promotional material. You can contact the DebConf11 organizational team on their mailing list at debconf11-localt...@lists.debconf.org [12]. 7 : http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf11/vo_insiderssummary.dc 8 : http://debconf11.debconf.org/ 9 : http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml 10 : http://debconf11.debconf.org/documentation.xhtml#localdoc 11 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Travel-Visa 12 : mailto:debconf11-localt...@lists.debconf.org Debian -offtopic mailing list ----------------------------- Have you ever wanted to discuss things completely unrelated to Debian or even computers with fellow users or developers? On debian-user the custom is to put [OT] in the subject and fire away. Unfortunately, this can be disruptive for uninterested subscribers, especially on a high volume mailing list like debian-user. Because of this, with the kind support of Holger Levsen and the Debian Community project [13], the d-community-offtopic list [14] has been created. 13 : http://www.debian-community.org 14 : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic The list is open to anyone, just like most other Debian lists, so all you have to do is to CC and set Reply-To to the list, so that whoever is interested will know discussion is moving to that list. Have fun and be excellent to each other! Further "This week in Debian" interviews ---------------------------------------- Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the [15] "This week in Debian" podcast have been published: with Joe Shields [16] of the Debian Mono team; and with Jonathan Nadeau [17], about Debian and the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest. 15 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian 16 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-22 17 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-23 Other news ---------- Michael Gilbert announced the first unofficial Debian monthly [18] "testing" snapshot release. The release is currently available as mini ISO images for i386 and amd64 architectures. 18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00347.html Alexander Reichle-Schmehl noticed that the video of the Linux New Media Award ceremony [19], in which we can see Alexander himself and Meike Reichle receive two awards on behalf of the Debian Project, is finally available online [20]. 19 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/events/cebit-2011/lnm-award-video-online 20 : http://www.techcast.com/events/cebit11/do11/ As reported by Ana Guerrero in her mail, the deadline for proposing Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects is close [21]. As you may know Debian has again this year been accepted as a mentor organization for the GSoC. The submission of student proposals opened today, but we are still missing project proposals and mentors: you can visit last year's projects page [22] to find some inspiration, or simply think of an project in your team and propose it. 21 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00972.html 22 : http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010#SelectedProjects New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Nine people have started to maintain packages [23] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Vincent Cheng, Rodolfo García Peñas, Guillaume Mazoyer, Fernando Mercês, Daniel Thomas, Christo Buschek, Jean Schurger, Manu Garg, and Vasudev Kamath into our project! 23 : 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): proftpd-dfsg [24], chromium-browser [25], libcgroup [26], libvirt [27], php5 [28], maradns [29], quagga [30], tex-common [31], iceape [32], iceweasel [33], wireshark [34], apache2 [35], nss [36], and imp4 [37]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 24 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2191 25 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2192 26 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2193 27 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2194 28 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2195 29 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2196 30 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2197 31 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2198 32 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2199 33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2200 34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201 35 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2202 36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2203 37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2204 Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: subversion [38] and iceweasel [39]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/03/msg00001.html 39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/03/msg00000.html Debian's Stable Release Team released update announcements for these packages: clamav [40] and tzdata [41]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 40 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/03/msg00003.html 41 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/03/msg00004.html Debian's Volatile Team released an update announcement for the package tzdata [42]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 42 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00003.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 [43] (and the separate backports list [44], and stable updates list [45] or volatile list [46], for "Lenny", the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 43 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 44 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 45 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce 46 : 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 [47]): 47 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * banshee-extension-karaoke -- karaoke extension for Banshee [48] * channel-server -- buddycloud channels service for XMPP [49] * coala -- translates action languages into answer set programs [50] * discount -- implementation of Markdown markup language in C [51] * dvbstreamer -- console based streamer for DVB/ATSC services [52] * ekg2 -- instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems [53] * geiser -- enhanced Scheme interaction mode for Emacs [54] * geoclue-skyhook -- map and geocode server for GeoClue (Skyhook) [55] * gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 -- GNU version of the Mach microkernel [56] * gringo -- grounding tools for (disjunctive) logic programs [57] * hyphen-pl -- Polish hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org [58] * minissdpd -- keep memory of all UPnP devices that announced themselves [59] * mobile-atlas-creator -- program to create offline atlases for GPS/cell phone applications [60] * monav-client -- fast navigation system featuring exact routing - client [61] * mudlet -- graphical MUD client with fast Lua scripting support [62] * mythes-pl -- Polish thesaurus for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org [63] * pdb2pqr -- preparation of protein structures for electrostatics calculations [64] * peg-solitaire -- board game for one player with pegs [65] * perlbrew -- script to manage Perl installations in your $HOME [66] * pev -- utility to the get Product Version of PE32 executables [67] * propka -- modify the protonation state of protein structures [68] * purity-ng -- reimplementation of the classic [69] "purity" game in Python * rapid-photo-downloader -- photo downloader (importer) from cameras, memory cards and other devices [70] * sigrok -- logic analyzer and protocol decoder software [71] * sikuli-ide -- IDE to develop SIKULI scripts and use them a JUnit test cases [72] * spatialite-gui -- user-friendly graphical user interface for SpatiaLite [73] * streamtuner2 -- browser for Internet radio stations [74] * systemd -- system and service manager [75] * tabix -- generic indexer for TAB-delimited genome position files [76] * timbl -- Tilburg memory based learner [77] * transifex-client -- command line interface for Transifex [78] * tuxfootball -- great 2D soccer (sometimes called football) game [79] * ucto -- Unicode tokenizer [80] * undertaker -- static code analysis tool checking preprocessor directives [81] 48 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-karaoke 49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/channel-server 50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/coala 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/discount 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dvbstreamer 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ekg2 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/geiser 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/geoclue-skyhook 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gringo 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hyphen-pl 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/minissdpd 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mobile-atlas-creator 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/monav-client 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mudlet 63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mythes-pl 64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pdb2pqr 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/peg-solitaire 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/perlbrew 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pev 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/propka 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/purity-ng 70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rapid-photo-downloader 71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sigrok 72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sikuli-ide 73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/spatialite-gui 74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/streamtuner2 75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/systemd 76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tabix 77 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/timbl 78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/transifex-client 79 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tuxfootball 80 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ucto 81 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/undertaker Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 330 packages are orphaned and 149 packages are up for adoption: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [82]. 82 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. 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