The Debian project has just reelected Stefano Zacchiroli for the third time in a row as Debian project leader. # Only one of these two sentences will be picked at the last minute Given the large majority towards his opponents, the Debian project is satisfied of Stefano's previous work, and expects him to represent the project one last term, since Stefano already declared he won't be seeking reelection next year. # (some bash-style choice, depending of the actual numbers) The vote was {really,pretty} close: {Wouter Verhelst,Gergely Nagy} has also raised a lot of voices among the Debian project members.
# (some bash-style choice, depending of the actual numbers)The Debian project has just elected {Wouter Verhelst,Gergely Nagy} as Debian project leader, who will succeed to Stefano Zacchiroli after two consecutive terms. {Wouter Verhelst,Gergely Nagy} will start his term on 17 April 2012. # Only one of these two sentences will be picked at the last minute The vote was {really,pretty} close: {Wouter Verhelst,Gergely Nagy} has also raised a lot of voices among the Debian project members. The current project leader, Stefano Zacchiroli, also raised many voices among the Debian project members: the vote was close, but not enough to make it for a third time. The Debian project thanks Stefano Zacchiroli for the last two years he committed for the Debian Project, and looks forward for {Wouter Verhelst,Gergely Nagy} to represent the project for the next year. # Don't know yet what to say if zack is bashed here, but I'm pretty sure we'll # be able to find something nasty to say if needed ;-).
The Debian Project is pleased to announce that registration is now open for DebConf12, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, from Sunday 8 July to Saturday 14 July 2012. The conference will be preceded as usual by one week of DebCamp, from Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July. It will only be possible to apply for food and accommodation grants and/or travel grants until 15 May.
Debian also invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for its DebConf12 conference until 1 June 2012.
We usually give information about BSPs where a group of people meet over a weekend, but today we'd like to mention a personal initiative: Gregor Herrmann has reported every week over ten Release-Critical bugs squashed. Gerfried Fuchs also regularly reports on stable Release-Critical bugs squashed: she has managed to squash over thirty bugs each month. We would like to thank Gregor Herrmann, Gerfried Fuchs and all other RC Bugs addicts who are constantly helping to make our distribution better.
Philipp Kern gave some information on the current state of Debian s390x port. The effort for this port started last summer, during DebConf11, and in less than a month it already had almost the 65% of packages built. Unfortunately, a new glib release created some problems to this architecture; but finally a new major release of glib fixed all previous issues. The next step for this port will be to fix open bugs and try to successfully build Iceweasel.
Since the last issue of the Debian Project News,
new issues of the This week in
Debian
podcast have been published: with
XXX, xxx; and with
XXX, xxx.
There have also been
further People behind Debian
interviews: with
Firstname
Lastname (role in Debian here), ; and with
Firstname
Lastname (role in Debian here).
Raphaël Hertzog published a People behind Debian
interview with
Francesca
Ciceri, member of the Debian press and publicity teams, while
Petter Reinholdtsen interviewed
Wolfgang
Schweer and
Justin
B Rye for his Debian Edu interviews
series.
The xxth issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics:
Guido Günther sent some
bits
from the fifth Debian Groupware Meeting,
which was held at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany.
During the weekend the group fixed various issues and was able to
push new versions of icedove
and d-push to unstable
while iceowl (dead upstream)
remains in experimental
.
Some work was also done on OpenChange, Zarafa ZCP and SOGo, and several
evolution
bugs were worked on.
There are several upcoming Debian-related events:
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe, Netherlands, Hispanic America, North America.
Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page? Send an email to the Debian Events Team.
XXX applicants have been accepted as Debian Developers, XXX applicants have been accepted as Debian Maintainer, and XXX people have started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome X, Y, and Z into our project!
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): , Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: , Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package: . Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.
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 (and the separate backports list, and stable updates list) for announcements.
282 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are: