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Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to the Debian Project News! * Internal News/Happenings * Events * Reports * More than just code * Outside News * Quick Links from Debian Social Media * Want to continue reading DPN? Welcome to the Debian Project News! ----------------------------------- We hope that you are enjoying this format of the DPN. For other news, please read the official Debian blog Bits from Debian [1], and follow https://micronews.debian.org which RSS-feeds <the @debian> profile in several social networks too. 1: https://bits.debian.org Debian's Security Team releases current advisories on a daily basis (Security Advisories 2017 [2]). Please read them carefully and subscribe to the security mailing list [3]. 2: https://www.debian.org/security/2017/ 3: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ At the end of this Project News we've added a Quick Links section which links to a selection of the posts made through our other media streams. Internal News/Happenings ------------------------ Updated Debian 9: 9.2 released The second update of the stable distribution Debian 9 "Stretch" was published [4] on 7 October 2017. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. 4: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20171007 After the 9.2.0 release was made and published, a bug was found with the sorting of packages in the full DVD, BD and DLBD sets (other images were not affected). The 9.2.1 build fixes this bug, and the build scripts have also been updated to ensure this cannot happen again in future. For more details about this, see the related note at the images download server [5]. 5: https://get.debian.org/images/release/9.2.1/ OpenSSL 1.0 and Qt4 removal in Buster For the next release, Debian 10 "Buster", it's planned to remove OpenSSL 1.0, the old version of the toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols, in favour of the more modern OpenSSL 1.1 version. Meanwhile, Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers are also actively working to remove Qt4, which is long dead upstream. Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, for the Debian Qt/KDE Team, has blogged [6] about the specific plans related to the OpenSSL support for Qt4 and Qt5 applications in Debian. 6: https://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.es/2017/10/qt-4-and-5-and-oepnssl10-removal.html FTP services shutdown As previously announced [7], the public-facing debian.org FTP services shut down on November 1, 2017. Debian Developers can use FTP for the uploads to the security archive at ftp://ftp.security.upload.debian.org/pub/SecurityUploadQueue. More details and other options at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/10/msg00000.html. 7: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170425 DebConf mailing lists moved to lists.debian.org In order to simplify infrastructure and maintenance, the DebConf mailing lists have been moved to lists.debian.org (including their archives and subscriptions). Appropiate redirections have been put in place, but it is recommended for everybody to update any documentation or bookmarks with the new addresses or web links. Read the blog post [8] from Alexander Wirt for more details. 8: http://blog.snow-crash.org/blog/debconf-mailinglists-moved-to-lists.debian.org/ New and noteworthy packages Among many other packages that were added to the unstable Debian archive [9] in the last weeks, we can find: * UKUI Desktop — a lightweight desktop environment mainly developed by a Chinese team, the Ubuntu Kylin Team [10] * version 2.2.2 of Guile — the GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter [11] * version 10.2 of MariaDB database server and client, * version 3 of Gmsh — a 3D finite element grid generator with a build-in CAD engine and post-processor [12] 9: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 10: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ukui-session-manager 11: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/guile-2.2 12: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gmsh Events ------ There will be a Debian booth at T-DOSE [13] in Eindhoven, Netherlands, next 18 and 19 November 2017. Everybody is invited to pass by and of course, to help spreading the word about Debian in the booth (visit the wiki page for more details and coordination). 13: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/nl/2017/T-DOSE The Toulouse MiniDebConf 2017 [14] will take place during the Capitole du Libre event on November 18 and 19 2017, and MiniDebConf Cambridge [15] (UK) will happen the following weekend, from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 November 2017. 14: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/fr/2017/Toulouse 15: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2017/MiniDebConfCambridge Reports ------- The Debian Cloud gathered in a Sprint [16] from 16 to 18 October 2017, to resolve some of the open issues that were discussed at the cloud sprint 2017 and the Cloud BoF discussion session at Debconf17. 16: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2017/DebianCloudOct2017 A Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg [17], Austria, took place on the weekend of October 20–22 2017. 17: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/10/at/Salzburg MiniDebConf Cuba [18] took place during CubaConf 2017, the Free Technologies Cuban Conference from 7 to 9 November 2017, with several talks related to Debian and other activities. 18: https://wiki.debian.org/Cuba/Eventos/MiniDebConfCuba2017 LTS Freexian Monthly Reports Freexian issues monthly reports [19] about the work of paid contributors to Debian Long Term Support. 19: https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/ Reproducible Builds status update Follow the reproducible builds blog [20] to get the weekly reports on their work in the "Stretch" cycle. 20: https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/blog/ Once upon a time in Debian: * 2002-10-22 Debian Desktop subproject launched [21] * 2004-10-20 First release of Ubuntu (Warty Warthog) [22] * 2017-10-28 Debian Bug #880000 reported by Salvatore Bonaccorso [23] 21: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/10/msg00016.html 22: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.html 23: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880000 Packages needing help: Currently [24] 1153 packages are orphaned [25] and 151 packages are up for adoption [26]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [27]. 24: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/11/msg00010.html 25: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 26: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 27: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Newcomer bugs Debian has a "newcomer" bug tag, used to indicate bugs which are suitable for new contributors to use as an entry point to working on specific packages. There are 210 [28] bugs available tagged "newcomer". 28: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer More than just code ------------------- Contributors 1799 people and 20 teams are listed on the Debian Contributors [29] page for 2017. 29: https://contributors.debian.org/ Outside News ------------ The Reproducible Builds Summit 2017 [30] took place between October 31 and November 2 2017. Debian has participated together with other free software distributions and projects in order to continue working in providing a verifiable path from software source code to its compiled binary form. 30: https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2017/ During the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 [31] in Tokyo this October, Hideki Yamane gave a talk about openSUSE tools on Debian [32]. 31: https://events.opensuse.org/conference/summitasia17 32: https://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com.es/2017/10/opensuseasia-summit-2017-in-tokyo.html GitLab Inc. is switching from Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for its source code contributions [33]. This change gives developers greater flexibility and portability, and aims to encourage contributions to their web-based Git repository manager. GitLab Community Edition is the basis for Salsa [34], the upcoming collaborative development server that will host the Debian git repositories that are currently on Alioth. 33: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-license/ 34: https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa Quick Links from Debian Social Media ------------------------------------ This is an extract from the micronews.debian.org [35] feed, in which we have removed the topics already commented on in this DPN issue. You can skip this section if you already follow micronews.debian.org or <the @debian> profile in a social network (Pump.io, GNU Social, Mastodon or Twitter). The items are given unformatted, and in descending order by date (recent news at the top). 35: https://micronews.debian.org November * New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2017) https://bits.debian.org/2017/11/new-developers-2017-10.html October * "APT 1.6 alpha 1 – seccomp and more" by Julian Andres Klode https://juliank.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/apt-1-6-alpha-1-uploaded/ * MiniDebConf Prishtina (Kosovo) next 7-8 October https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/ks/2017/MiniDebConfPrishtina * How was the Debian mini-event at FTSL 2017 in Curitiba http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/how-was-the-debian-mini-event-at-ftsl-2017-in-curitiba September * Debian Project News - September 20, 2017: news about the future of Alioth, Outreachy, Debian Astro 1.0, new translation team: Albanian, "Public Money, Public Code" campaign, and much more https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2017/03/ Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. 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