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

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Further 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 xxth issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics:

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 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.

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 stable updates list or volatile list, for Lenny, the oldstable distribution) for announcements.

New and noteworthy packages

1244 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are:

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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