#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2011-03-14" SUMMARY="" #use wml::debian::acronyms # $Id$ # $Rev$ # Status: open-for-edit http://lists.debian.org/$0 # Copyright (c) 2011 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl # Copyright (c) 2011 David Prévot # Copyright (c) 2011 Jeremiah C. Foster # Add other people here # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are # met: # # * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS # IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED # TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A # PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT # OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, # SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT # LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, # DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY # THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE # OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # TODO: # # * Upcoming FTPMaster meeting # http://lists.debian.org/87ipx0g76w.fsf@gkar.ganneff.de # * More graphs for the Debian Bug Tracking System # http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1817 # * DPL election coming up # http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00002.html # * "Debian is the most important Linux" # http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/05/013205/Debian-Is-the-Most-Important-Linux # http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3926941/Linux-Leaders-Debian-and-Ubuntu-Derivative-Distros.htm # * GeoMirror (aka cdn.debian.net) as default mirror in standard # installation? # http://lists.debian.org/201103050951.00942.elmig@debianpt.org # http://lists.debian.org/1299747535.3524.12.camel@havelock.lan # http://lists.debian.org/20110310195547.GA24278@localhost # http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=KiybjHXg6+8tbJkZFjdBaRNxsxz8d6WuQEWcx@mail.gmail.com # * Ruby changes for Wheezy # http://lists.debian.org/20110304085947.GA4250@xanadu.blop.info # Not sure about that; they seeked for "Debian internal comments" but # haven't talked with upstreams, yet, so I guess it's (not yet?) for # publication? # * enable/disable flags in /etc/default # http://lists.debian.org/87zkpi5xwo.fsf@qurzaw.varnish-software.com # * Update on Xfce 4.8 # http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1528 # * More graphs for the Debian Bug Tracking System # http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1817 # * http://jackyf.livejournal.com/115115.html # New Version of cupt comming up # * Bits from the DPL # * Report from this years CeBIT # http://lists.debian.org/<4D761A4E.2030302@debian.org> # * DebConf chairs delegation # http://lists.debian.org/20110309091510.GA22436@upsilon.cc #

Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

The Debian project wins awards at CeBIT

The Debian project won two awards at the recent CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany. Not only was Debian awarded the "Best Open Source Server Distribution" for its "pioneering work," it also won the prestigious "Outstanding contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software," an award presented by Carsten Gerloff, the President the Free Software Foundation Europe, who donned a snazzy Debian tie just for the occasion. Official press release here:

Bits from the Debian Project Leader

The Debian Project Leader (DPL) sent an email describing the aftermath of the Squeeze release. One of the important points in his email is the discussions between Debian and the Free Software Foundation. The discussions touch on the different areas of focus of the two projects even though both projects are working to develop Free Software. The DPL also lists a number of interviews in various places regarding the Squeeze release. There are also some links in the email to talks given by the DPL and clearly he's been quite busy.

Further This week in Debian interviews

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 has also been further People behind Debian interviews: with , ; and with , .

Other news

The 26th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics:

Cyril Brulebois published the seventh issue of the Debian XSF News. He mentions various events converning Debian's X.org packages, and closes with an impressive statistics: The number of open bugs for X.org related packages droped from 880 in November down to 540 now.

New Debian Contributors

XXX applicants have been accepted as Debian Developers, XXX applicants has 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!

Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release

According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database, the upcoming release, Debian 6.0 Squeeze, is currently affected by XXX release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about XXX release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.

There are also more detailed statistics as well as some hints on how to interpret these numbers.

Important Debian Security Advisories

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 releases advisories for these packages: , Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

Debian's Volatile 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 volatile list) for announcements.

New and noteworthy packages

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among many others):

Work-needing packages

Currently XXX packages are orphaned and XXX packages are up for adoption: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help.

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