#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2012-04-16" SUMMARY="" # $Id$ # $Rev$ # Status: [open-for-edit] ## TODO # # a lot of RC bugs squashed: # http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-01T17_50_17.txt # http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/04/02#squeeze-RCs-2012-3 (for stable) # # state of Debian s390x # http://debblog.philkern.de/2012/04/state-of-debian-s390x.html # # mancoosi tools in debian testing # http://mancoosi.org/~abate/mancoosi-tools-debian-testing # Should probably not be mentionned, as per http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2010/14/#removal — taffit # foo

More details about foo.

.

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 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.

Other news

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, held at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany. During the weekend the group has fixed various issues and has been able to push new versions of icedove and d-push to unstable while iceowl (dead upstream) is kept in experimental. Some work was also done on OpenChange, Zarafa ZCP and SOGo, and several evolution bugs were worked on.

Upcoming events

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.

New Debian Contributors

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!

Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release ## release= codename for the current testing release ## testing= number of bugs as defined by this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8k0 (for the not shortened url, look at webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/boilerplates.wml on the webwml repository) ## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8lo ## example: # 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 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.

New and noteworthy packages

XXX packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are:

Work-needing packages ## link= link to the mail report from wnpp@debian.org to debian-devel ML ## orphaned= number of packages orphaned according to $link ## rfa= number of packages up for adoption according to $link Want to continue reading DPN? #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="XXX, Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye" # Translators may also add a translator="foo, bar, baz" to the previous line