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Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Upcoming Debian GNU/Linux update * Spreading the world * New IRC Training Sessions * Report from the Debian Edu developer meeting * Meet Planet Debian Derivatives! * "Squeeze" debian-installer with Linux 2.6.38 * DebConf11: Call for keys for keysigning * Graphical installer for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD * Iceweasel 5.0 in "experimental" * Further interviews * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Upcoming Debian GNU/Linux update -------------------------------- Philip Kern announced the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2 [1]. This update, scheduled for Saturday, June 25th, will mainly add corrections for security problems to stable release, along with some adjustments for serious problems. 1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/06/msg00000.html Spreading the world ------------------- Christian Perrier published his annual report about the number of developers per country [2]. Among these numbers, we can noticed that Debian developers are present [3] in fifty-seven countries. Twenty-three more active Debian developers have been counted this year, along with two more countries. 2 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/06/12#devel-countries-201106-3 3 : http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc New IRC Training Sessions ------------------------- The Debian Project started a new round of IRC Training Sessions [4], which will be held on IRC by experienced community members. This time, there will be two different series: non-technical, called "Ask the ..." and more technical "One day with ..." . Additional information and scheduled sessions are always available on the relatedwiki page [5]. 4 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110617 5 : http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting The first session, held on June 22th and featuring Stefano Zacchiroli, current Debian Project Leader, was followed by more than 70 attendees who asked Stefano various interesting questions; it is also available the log of the session [6]. In the next one, scheduled for July 1st at 19:00 UTC, Gregor Herrmann will tell us about the day-to-day work of the Debian Perl Team and how join it. Don't miss it! 6 : http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-meeting/2011/debian-meeting.2011-06-22-19.01.log.html Report from the Debian Edu developer meeting -------------------------------------------- Holger Levsen sent a report from the Debian Edu developer gathering in Hamburg, Germany. [7] The main goal of the sprint was preparing the release of Debian Edu "Squeeze". Debian Edu developers discussed and worked on various things like documentation, Samba integration, and testing of "Squeeze" installation images. More than 200 commits were pushed to the Debian Edu's Subversion repository and 18 bugs fixed (and a bunch of bugs filed againstbugs.skolelinux.org). Participants also had a long discussion with two persons from "Chaos macht Schule", which is a CCC subproject. In the end of his mail Holger thanks CCC Hamburg, Opensides.be, the OLPC.de association and the Debian sprints program for their financially supporting the event. 7 : http://lists.debian.org/201106141624.46478.hol...@layer-acht.org Meet Planet Debian Derivatives! ------------------------------- Paul Wise blogged about creation [8] of [9] "Planet Debian Derivatives" which aggregates the blogs and planets of all the distributions represented in the derivatives census. As say Paul it's first concrete outcome from the Debian derivatives census [10]. He also shared his plans about integration of information about derivatives with Debian infrastructure and thanks Jörg Jaspert "for doing the necessary setup procedures". 8 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2011/06/16/planet-debian-derivatives/ 9 : http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ 10 : http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census "Squeeze" debian-installer with Linux 2.6.38 -------------------------------------------- Kenshi Muto announced the release of backported amd64 debian-installer for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 [11] "Squeeze", which is available onhis images archive page [12]. This image is based on Debian 6.0.1 and contain firmwares. Also Kenshi added in the image a new DHCP client which fixes an interacting problem with some DHCP servers. Please note that this is an unofficial image and you should use it only if you really need this. 11 : http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2638-squeeze.htm 12 : http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ DebConf11: Call for keys for keysigning --------------------------------------- Anibal Monsalve Salazar sent an announcement about organization of keysigning at DebConf11 [13] which will be held at Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. All who intend to participate in the keysigning should send their ASCII armored public key no later than 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 July 2011. All needed information can be found on corresponding page [14]. 13 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg00001.html 14 : http://people.debian.org/~anibal/ksp-dc11/ksp-dc11.html Graphical installer for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ------------------------------------------- Robert Millan announced that a graphical installer is now available for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD [15]: with it is now possible to install "Wheezy" in a more comfortable way. You can find it on thedaily images page [16]. 15 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/06/msg00187.html 16 : http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/daily/netboot/gtk/ Iceweasel 5.0 in "experimental" ------------------------------- Mike Hommey blogged about adding Iceweasel 5.0 to [17] "experimental". Mike also noticed that he discontinued the Iceweasel 4.0 backport for "Squeeze", but he will still backports patches to 3.5 in "Squeeze" and 3.0 in "Lenny". At the end of the post he added: "In the coming weeks, there will also be some additional changes to themozilla.debian.net [18] repository, but I'll give more details when that happens". 17 : http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2108 18 : http://mozilla.debian.net/ Further interviews ------------------ There has been two further "People behind Debian" interviews: withPhilipp Kern [19], Stable Release Manager and member of the wanna-build team; and with Sam Hartman [20], Kerberos package maintainer explains how he uses Debian despite his blindness. 19 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/10/people-behind-debian-philipp-kern/ 20 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/24/people-behin-debian-sam-hartman-kerberos-package-maintainer/ Christian Perrier noticed that the bug #630000 [21] has been reported Friday, 10 Jun 2011. 21 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/06/10#630000 Daniel Barlow blogged about how to clone a Debian system [22] installing on it identical packages and versions. 22 : http://www.debian-administration.org/article/669/Cloning_a_Debian_system_-_identical_packages_and_versions Martin Zobel-Helas wrote an interesting article on how start contributing to Debian [23]. He listed various ways to help Debian: from reporting bugs and try to reproduce them, to write documentation or translate the existing one, to organize events or deliver talk on Debian-related topics. And, if you haven't time to actively work with Debian, you could always help it donating money or hardware. As Martin said: "Find your own area to work on within Debian, and don't think you can't help. Even graphic designers, lawyers or clerks can help Debian!" . 23 : http://blog.zobel.ftbfs.de/2011/06/how-you-can-help-debian-1.html New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 14 people have started to maintain packages [24] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome John T. Nogatch, Matthias Kämmerer, Jonathan Riddell, Alexey S Kravchenko, Cleto Martan, Petr Hlozek, Nikolaus Rath, Maxime Chatelle, Gergely Nagy, Leonid Borisenko, Julien Dutheil, Manish Sinha, Bastian Blywis, and Wences Arana into our project! 24 : 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): tiff [25], vlc [26], kolab-cyrus-imapd [27], fex [28], rails [29], redmine [30], moodle [31], movabletype-opensource [32], linux-2.6 [33], perl [34], Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 25 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2256 26 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2257 27 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2258 28 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2259 29 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 30 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2261 31 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2262 32 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2263 33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2264 34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2265 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 [38] (and the separate backports list [39], and stable updates list [40] or volatile list [41], for "Lenny" , the oldstable distribution) for announcements. 38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 40 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ 41 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 263 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [42] are: 42 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * apt-clone -- Script to create state bundles [43] * brltty-espeak -- Access software for a blind person - espeak driver [44] * c2esp -- Driver for Kodak ESP 5xxx AiO color inkjet printers [45] * cardstories -- multiplayer online card guessing game [46] * clementine -- modern music player and library organizer [47] * espeakup-udeb -- Configure the speech synthesizer voice [48] * extundelete -- utility to recover deleted files from ext3/ext4 partition [49] * hunspell-ml -- Malayalam dictionary for hunspell [50] * jack-stdio -- program to pipe audio-data from and to JACK [51] * letodms -- open source document management system based on PHP and MySQL [52] * linux-headers-2.6.39-2-486 -- Header files for Linux 2.6.39-2-486 [53] * linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae -- Linux 2.6.39 for modern PCs [54] * m2300w -- Driver for the Minolta magicolor 2300W/24000W color laser printers [55] * preprocess -- portable multi-language file preprocessor [56] * rhash -- utility for computing hash sums and magnet links [57] * xul-ext-linky -- iceweasel extension to handle web and image links [58] 43 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apt-clone 44 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/brltty-espeak 45 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/c2esp 46 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cardstories 47 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clementine 48 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/espeakup-udeb 49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/extundelete 50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hunspell-ml 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jack-stdio 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/letodms 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/linux-headers-2.6.39-2-486 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/m2300w 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/preprocess 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rhash 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-linky Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently 306 packages are orphaned [59] and 142 packages are up for adoption [60]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [61]. 59 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 60 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 61 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. 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