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<li><a href="#1">Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q> to be released this weekend</a></li>
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the Debian Security Team</a> reporting about the group's meeting at the <a href="http://www.linuxhotel.de/">Linux
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Hotel</a> in Essen, Germany. Among the things they discussed was various
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process of Debian Security Advisories - redesigned from the ground up; a longer security support for Debian
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often missunderstood, Debian Developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <a
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some myth about the non-Removal of Firmwares</a>, including <q>Debian
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removed all firmware files from its kernels</q> (short answer: No);
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for other installation media available): <q>Ah, those Debian freedom
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supporting IPv6 </a>(suitable for IPv6-only networks) and <a
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images supporting Wi-Fi Protected Access</a> (WPA). He calls for testers
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for both images.</p>
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Meeting on Application Installer</a>.
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packages and users) and how to share them between distributions or, at
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how to define some standards for these metadata. Enrico has presented <a
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two of the most powerful tools for handle package metadata in Debian. As
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across distributions.
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screenshots of applications to users and package management frontends), <a
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(DDTP for short; translating Debian package description into other
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languages), or <a href="http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/">debtags</a>
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(tagging debian packages for easier search) where a very welcome help and
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much marveled by other representatives.</p>
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<h2>On the maintainability of Ruby</h2>
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href="$(HOME)/News/project/2010/12/">again</a> topic of discussion, after
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two of the long term package maintainers, decided to <a
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related packaging</a>. He explains some of the problems he sees, which
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make it difficult for distributions to package Ruby and its libraries;
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often problems seem to arrise due to different needs of developers and
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administrators / distributors. The topic was also discussed in an article
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the situation will continue is not yet clear, even so some progress has
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been reported. Both maintainers also said, that they will be open to hand
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over package maintainance of their Ruby related packages, to new
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volunteers.</p>
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<h2>Bits from Debian GIS</h2>
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<p>The mailing list for general discussion of GIS issues in Debian
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was moved from Alioth to <a
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a more generic name and hopefully can attract more GIS users and
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developers in Debian to discuss relevant issues.</p>
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observation</q>
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at their <a href="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks">tasks page</a>
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which contains a list of not yet official packages which are potential
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targets for inclusion into Debian. Feel free to discuss this task or
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other ideas you might have about the GIS relevant packages on the
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mailing list mentioned above.</p>
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packages, together with the Debian OpenStreetMap Team
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(<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-osm/">pkg-osm on
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