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t <h2><q>Squeeze</q> Deep Freeze</h2>
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t still to do and you can help. Check out the <a
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<h2>Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q> to be released with completely free Linux Kernel</h2>
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uest Kernel</a>. Thus achieving a long term goal, which was already set for
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Debian 4.0 <q>Etch</q> and 5.0 </q>Lenny</q>. Thanks to the work of the
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these non-free firmware files, to still use them.</p>
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uest <p>Steve McIntyre, lead of Debian's CD team, added that <a
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images</a> are created, containing non-free, but distributable firmware
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files for some time. More details can be found in <a
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uest href="http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware">Debian wiki</a>.</p>
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of the changes</a>.</p>
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t <h2>Machine-readable format for debian/copyright files</h2>
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<p>Lars Wirzenius <a
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Proposals 5 specifing a machine-readable
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format for the copyright information of a Debian package</a> has become a
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software packages must come with copyright information of the used source
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automatically.</p>
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<h2>Bits from the Debian Project Leader</h2>
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the DPL</a>. Besides mentioning various talks and interviews he gave, he
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policy for the <a
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to follow soon.</p>
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(which has already been taken place) and one for the Security Team (which
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activities, like <a
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t Center / App Store.</p>
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t <h2>Further documentation on Emdebian: components and filters</h2>
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t <p>Continuing his intermittent series on Emdebian, <a
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href="http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/218-Documenting-Emdebian-components-and-filters.html">Neil
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t Williams described Emdebian's concepts of components and filters</a>. As
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sanely handled on embedded systems, therefore Emdebian Grib sub-divides
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t Debian's main repository to minimize cached data, so systems not using e.g.
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related packages. Neil also explained in detail further filtering
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techniques done by Emdebian.</p>
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<h2>Two new Debian Women tutorials</h2>
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Debian</q> podcast</a> have been published: with
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t Castro</a>, discussing Ubuntu as a Debian derivative; with
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t <a href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-14">Jonathan
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t Nadeau</a>, about the latest Debian news, and the upcoming release of <q>Squeeze</q>; and with
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<a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/23/people-behind-debian-mehdi-dogguy-release-assistant/">Mehdi
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people behind Debian</a></q> interview with <a
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Raphaël Herzog</a>.</p>
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the Debian project in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein,
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will take place 31st of January in Aareheim in the center of Bern.</p>
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t to contribute to Debian?</a><q> and thus pointed to the <a
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Analysis</q> (DACA) project</a>, which runs various source code quality
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tools over all Debian source packages available.</p>
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5 applicants have been
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t as Debian Developers and
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1 applicant has been
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t <a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1PUrYr-0000Ag-MG@franck.debian.org">accepted</a>
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as Debian Maintainer and
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12 people <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
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to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
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Project News. Please welcome
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Didier Raboud, Benjamin Drung, Kåre Thor Olsen, Scott James Remnant, Jerome Marant,
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Gregor Jasny,
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t into our project!</p>
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<p>It is our special pleasure to welcome with Kåre Thor Olsen, who is
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non-packaging Debian Developer</a>!</p>
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t <h2>Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</h2>
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t <p>According to the <a href="http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi">Bugs Search
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interface of the Ultimate Debian Database</a>, the upcoming release,
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t Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q>, is currently affected by
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93 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved
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t or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about
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25 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the
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t release to happen.</p>
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t <p>There are also <a
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t statistics</a> as well as some <a
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t <h2>Important Debian Security Advisories</h2>
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t <p>Debian's Security Team recently released
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t <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2132">xulrunner</a>,
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2133">collectd</a>,
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t <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2135">xpdf</a>,
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t <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2140">libapache2-mod-fcgid</a>,
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2141">openssl, nss, apache2 and lighttpd</a>,
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t <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2142">dpkg</a> and
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t Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
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<p>Debian's Backports Team releases advisories for these packages:
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t <a href="http://lists.debian.org/20101222074418.GH8143@anguilla.noreply.org">tor</a>,
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t <a href="http://lists.debian.org/20110102194528.GB5290@glandium.org">iceweasel</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/20101213101706.889441A983F@taggart.lackof.org">wordpress</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/20110106142003.GD1999@downhill.g.la">exim4</a> and
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/4D2B21C5.7050407@elego.de">subversion</a>.
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Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
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<p>Debian's Volatile Team released an update announcement for the package:
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>.
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Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
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t <p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
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t advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
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t security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
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t subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
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uest list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
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list</a> and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce">volatile list</a>) for announcements.</p>
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t <h2>New and noteworthy packages</h2>
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t <p>The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
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t recently (<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">among
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t others</a>):</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clzip">clzip — data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (C version)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/debian-reference-pt">debian-reference-pt — Debian system administration guide, Portuguese translation</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gjacktransport">gjacktransport — access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider</a></li>
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t <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ir-keytable">ir-keytable — alter keymaps of remote controller devices</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/k8temp">k8temp — AMD K8 thermal diode reader for BSD system</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nginx-full">nginx-full — small, but very powerful and efficient web server and mail proxy</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nginx-light">nginx-light — small, but very powerful and efficient web server - light</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nodau">nodau — simple console based note taking program</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plzip">plzip — parallel data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm</a></li>
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t <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pyppd">pyppd — CUPS PostScript Printer Description's compressor and generator</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/surf">surf — simple web browser</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/telepathy-ring">telepathy-ring — GSM and 3G UMTS Telepathy connection manager</a></li>
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t <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/transgui">transgui — front-end to remotely control Transmission</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/whyteboard">whyteboard — overlay painting and annotation application</a></li>
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t <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wraplinux">wraplinux — utility to wrap a Linux kernel and initrd into an ELF or NBI file</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zita-at1">zita-at1 — JACK autotuner</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zutils">zutils — utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently</a></li>
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<p>Please note that due to the <a
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uest Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q></a> acceptance of new packages has almost ceased.</p>
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t <p>Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers
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t to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the
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t <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute">contributing
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t page</a> to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail
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t #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="Francesca Ciceri, Jeremiah Foster, David Prévot, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl"
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