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   Copyright (c) 2010 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
-  Add other people here
+  Copyright (c) 2010 Jeremiah C. Foster
+  Copyright (c) 2010 David Prévot
   All rights reserved.
   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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  <p>Welcome to this year's fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
  Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
  <ul>
-   <li><a href="#1">foo</a></li>
+   <li><a href="#1">Debian Community Poll</a></li>
-   <li><a href="#2">bar</a></li>
+   <li><a href="#2">Automatic installation of hardware specific packages</a></li>
-   <li><a href="#3">baz</a></li>
+   <li><a href="#3">Desktop artwork and themes for Debian <q>Squeeze</q></a></li>
-   <li><a href="#4">... and much more</a>.</li>
+   <li><a href="#4">D-I string freeze coming up</a></li>
+   <li><a href="#5">Provisional list of talks for DebConf10</a></li>
+   <li><a href="#6">License usage in Debian</a></li>
+   <li><a href="#7">... and much more</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <a name="1"></a>
+ <h2>Debian Community Poll</h2>
+ <p>After getting the idea during the recent <a
+ href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-LT-Berlin/2010">Mini Debian
+ Conference</a> in Berlin, Torsten Werner <a
+ href="http://twerner.blogspot.com/2010/06/debian-community-poll.html">prepared</a>
+ a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3y33ska">poll for users of the Debian Operating
+ System</a> asking different types of questions like the usage of derivatives,
+ about the <a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines">Debian
+ Free Software Guidelines</a> and Firmwares and of course releases.</p>
+ <p>The Poll is available at <a
+ href="http://tinyurl.com/3y33ska">http://tinyurl.com/3y33ska</a>.  Torsten asks
+ to spread the link to as many users as possible.</p>
+ <a name="2"></a>
  <h2>Automatic installation of hardware specific packages</h2>
  <p>Petter Reinholdtsen introduced a new change into the Debian installation
  system allowing the installation of <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/2fly6f0ypze.fsf@login2.uio.no">hardware
- specific packages</a> at installation time (or an already installed
+ specific packages</a> at installation time (or on an already installed
  system).  This is useful for certain RAID controllers, graphic adaptors and
- other hardware and done by mapping PCI and USB IDs to the names of Debian
+ other hardware, and is done by mapping PCI and USB IDs to the names of Debian
- packages.  Petter welcomes help maintening this list.</p>
+ packages.  Petter welcomes help maintaining this list.</p>
- <p>He also pointed out, that for hot swappable devices this approach won't
+ <p>He also pointed out that for hot swappable devices this approach won't
  work, and wonders whether the existing discover package should be adapted
  to also support listening to DBus events, or whether <a
  href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> could be ported to
  Debian.</p>
- <a name="2"></a>
+ <a name="3"></a>
- <h2>Desktop Artwork and themes for Debian <q>Squeeze</q></h2>
+ <h2>Desktop artwork and themes for Debian <q>Squeeze</q></h2>
  <p>Valessio Brito <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2010/06/msg00003.html">started</a>
  to collect ideas and proposals for the <a
- href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopArtworkSqueeze">Desktop artwork
+ href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopArtworkSqueeze">desktop artwork
- used in Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q></a>.  The artwork should be the base for
+ used in Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q></a>.  This artwork would be the base for
  common themes throughout the system.  Yves-Alexis Perez started to <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2010/06/msg00004.html">list
- possible usages</a> for that artwork ranging for themes for different
+ possible uses</a> for that artwork ranging from themes for different
- Desktop Environments over boot splash screens to webisite banners.  He also
+ desktop environments through boot splash screens to website banners.  He also
  asked for more comments about the artwork from other users.</p>
- <a name="10"></a>
+ <a name="4"></a>
- <h2>Other news</h2>
+ <h2>Debian Installer string freeze coming up</h2>
+ <p>Christian Perrier <a
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/20100606071056.GA16165@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org">proposed</a>
+ a <q>string freeze</q> in order to officially notify translators that they should
+ consider completing their current work. Christian wrote: <q>During the string
+ freeze, developers would be required to avoid committing changes that involved
+ modifications to localizable strings. Each of these would require a prior
+ discussion in debian-boot and a formal ACK to commit.</q> He proposed <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2010/06/msg00015.html">
+ Sunday July 4th as deadline for the string freeze</a>. Time to finish up those translations!
+ </p>
- <p>The xxth issue of the
- <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/">miscellaneous news for developers</a>
+ <a name="5"></a>
- has been released and covers the following topics:</p>
+ <h2>Provisional list of talks for DebConf10</h2>
- <ul>
-   <li></li>
+ <p>Ana Guerrero <a
-   <li></li>
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/20100609025528.GA19122@pryan.ekaia.org">announced</a>
-   <li></li>
+ the publication of a <a
-   <li></li>
+ href="https://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events.en.html">provisional list
-   <li></li>
+ of talks</a>. She also mentioned the opportunities for ad-hoc events to be
- </ul>
+ scheduled during DebConf, in order to plan a last minute event with others once
+ at DebConf. Details on the scheduling of these events will be available at the
+ conference.</p>
+ <p>Some of the planed highlights are <q>Bits from the Debian Project
+ Leader</q>, <q>Debian in (and on) the cloud</q>, <q>Debian/kFreeBSD from the
+ FreeBSD Point of View</q>, <q>Multimedia Patents vs. Debian</q>, <q>RC bug
+ fixing + NMU = Fun</q> and <q>The Nexenta Project: OpenSolaris + apt +
+ GNU</a>.</p>
+ <a name="6"></a>
+ <h2>License usage in Debian</h2>
+ <p>While working on requests to add specific license texts to
+ <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/</tt>, Russ Allbery wrote a script to check,
+ which license are used how often in the Debian archive.  He also published <a
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2010/06/msg00099.html">his
+ results</a>.  Not surprising: The most used licenses are the different forms and
+ versions of the GNU General Public License.</p>
+ <a name="7"></a>
+ <h2>Other news</h2>
  <p>Ana Guerrero <a
  href="http://lists.debian.org/20100525173727.GA5200@pryan.ekaia.org">announced</a>
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+Line 155
  href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen#migrationTODO">migration TODO
  list</a>.</p>
- <p>Adrian von Bidder announced, that he will now <a
+ <p>Adrian von Bidder announced that he will now <a
  href="http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/84-Order-Your-Debian-Swirl-Umbrella-Now.html">take
  orders</a> for <a
  href="http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/80-Yay!-Debian-Logo!.html">Debian
  Umbrellas</a>.</p>
+ <p>Bill Allombert announced that <a
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/20100606132103.GJ11095@yellowpig">circular
+ dependencies in unstable reached an all-time low</a>. Even if fixing some might be too
+ intrusive for <q>Squeeze</q>, Petter Reinholdtsen noticed that some
+ of them may also cause <a
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/2flr5kgozc0.fsf@login2.uio.no">upgrades from
+ <q>Lenny</q> to <q>Squeeze</q> to fail</a>.</p>
+ <p>Andrew Pollock blogged about his recent <a
+ href="http://blog.andrew.net.au/2010/06/08#dhcp_4.1_progress_report2" >progress
+ on the ISC DHCP 4.1 package</a>: packages in experimental appear to work, and
+ upgrade cleanly from the 3.1 packages, so they will soon reach unstable.</p>
+ <p>The <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/project/2010/04/">previous issue of
+ the Debian Project News</a> mentioned, that the boot loader <a
+ href="http://packages.debian.org/lilo">LiLO</a> was about to removed from
+ Debian due to missing upstream development.  In the <a
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00117.html">following
+ discussion</a> Joachim Wiedorn volunteered to take over upstream development,
+ while the Debian Maintainer William Pitcock will continue <a
+ href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00137.html">taking care
+ of packaging</a> once upstream development created a release that actually has
+ merit.</p>
+ <p>Bastian Blank wondered, whether Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q> should be shipped
+ <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00220.html">Xen 3.4 or
+.0</a> and listed some pros and cons for both versions.</p>
- <a name="11"></a>
+ <a name="8"></a>
  <h2>New Developers and Maintainers</h2>
- <p>XXX applicants have been
+ <p>Six applicants have been
- <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/01/msg00009.html">accepted</a>
+ <a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1OLPhC-0004Dr-AN@merkel.debian.org">accepted</a>
  as Debian Developers and two applicants have been
  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1OJ5es-00033L-A1@ries.debian.org">accepted</a>
  as Debian Maintainer since the previous issue of the Debian
- Project News.  Please welcome Hannes von Haugwitz and Tang Ke into our project!</p>
+ Project News.  Please welcome Dominique Belhachemi, Sylvain Beucler, Scott
+ Kitterman, Giovanni Mascellani, Alessio Treglia, Ulises Vitulli,
+ Hannes von Haugwitz and Tang Ke into our project!</p>
- <a name="12"></a>
+ <a name="9"></a>
  <h2>Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</h2>
  <p>According to the <a href="http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php">unofficial
  RC-bugs count</a>, the upcoming release, Debian 6.0
  <q>Squeeze</q>, is currently affected by
- XX release critical bugs.
+release critical bugs.
- XX of them have already been fixed in Debian's <q>unstable</q> branch. Of the remaining
+of them have already been fixed in Debian's <q>unstable</q> branch. Of the remaining
- XX release critical bugs,
+release critical bugs,
- XX already have a patch (which might need testing) and
+already have a patch (which might need testing) and
- XXX are marked as pending.</p>
+are marked as pending.</p>
  <p>Ignoring these bugs as well as release critical bugs for packages in contrib or non-free,
- XXX release critical bugs remain to be solved for the
+release critical bugs remain to be solved for the
  release to happen.</p>
- <a name="13"></a>
+ <a name="10"></a>
  <h2>Important Debian Security Advisories</h2>
  <p>Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages
  (among others):
  <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2054">bind9</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2055">OpenOffice.org</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2056">zonecheck</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2057">mysql-dfsg-5.0</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058">glibc</a>,
  Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
  <p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
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  list</a> for announcements.</p>
- <a name="14"></a>
+ <a name="11"></a>
  <h2>New and noteworthy packages</h2>
  <p>The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
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  others</a>):</p>
  <ul>
- <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/XXX">\
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ants">ants &mdash; advanced normalization tools for brain and image analysis</a></li>
-         XXXX &mdash; XXXX</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bucardo">bucardo &mdash; asynchronous replication system for PostgreSQL</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bup">bup &mdash; highly efficient file backup system based on git</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cloc">cloc &mdash; statistics utility to count lines of code</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/connectagram">connectagram &mdash; word unscrambling game</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/desktopnova">desktopnova &mdash; utility that changes the wallpaper automatically</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/emdebian-crush">emdebian-crush &mdash; emdebian crossbuilding helpers</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/espeakedit">espeakedit &mdash; A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer - editor</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eucalyptus-cloud">eucalyptus-cloud &mdash; Elastic Utility Computing Architecture - Cloud controller</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fcgiwrap">fcgiwrap &mdash; simple server to run CGI applications over FastCGI</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fetch-crl">fetch-crl &mdash; Downloads Certificate Revocation Lists</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freespacenotifier">freespacenotifier &mdash; free space notification module for KDE</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/frontaccounting">frontaccounting &mdash; A web based double-entry accounting and ERP program</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/glpeces">glpeces &mdash; Tangram (puzzle) game clone</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/grr.app">grr.app &mdash; RSS reader for GNUstep</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gst123">gst123 &mdash; GStreamer based command line media player</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/guayadeque">guayadeque &mdash; lightweight music player</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/haskell-debian-utils">haskell-debian-utils &mdash; Various helpers to work with Debian packages</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hpanel">hpanel &mdash; minimalist panel for X</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/html2markdown">html2markdown &mdash; convert HTML page into ascii markdown format</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jackmeter">jackmeter &mdash; a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jkmeter">jkmeter &mdash; horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jpegjudge">jpegjudge &mdash; determine which of two given jpegs (same size) is the original</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kraft">kraft &mdash; small business-management application</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ltpanel">ltpanel &mdash; lightweight tasklist panel for minimalist WMs</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lunch">lunch &mdash; distributed process launcher</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mango-lassi">mango-lassi &mdash; Share mouse and pointer with other computers</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nam">nam &mdash; the Network Animator</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ns2">ns2 &mdash; Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openstv">openstv &mdash; single transferable vote and instant runoff voting software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/otcl-shells">otcl-shells &mdash; OTcl shells</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pdebuild-cross">pdebuild-cross &mdash; cross-building support for pbuilder</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plymouth-x11">plymouth-x11 &mdash; Graphical Boot Animation and Logger</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/quvi">quvi &mdash; command line tool for parsing video download links</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/radicale">radicale &mdash; simple calendar server - daemon</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/radiotray">radiotray &mdash; online radio streaming player</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rawtherapee">rawtherapee &mdash; A free RAW converter and digital photo processing software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ruby-tomoe">ruby-tomoe &mdash; Handwriting recognition engine (ruby binding)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rxp">rxp &mdash; A validating XML parser</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sakura">sakura &mdash; simple but powerful libvte-based terminal emulator</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sentinella">sentinella &mdash; System monitor that can react to user chosen conditions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sflphone-gnome">sflphone-gnome &mdash; SIP and IAX2 compatible VoIP phone - GNOME client</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/silentjack">silentjack &mdash; silence detector for the JACK audio system</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/smarty3">smarty3 &mdash; Template engine for PHP</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/stterm">stterm &mdash; an extremely simple terminal for windowed system</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tiled">tiled &mdash; generic tile map editor</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ttf-denemo">ttf-denemo &mdash; Music Notation Symbol Fonts for denemo</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/u-boot">u-boot &mdash; A boot loader for embedded systems</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ufraw-batch">ufraw-batch &mdash; batch importer for raw camera images</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/upnp-router-control">upnp-router-control &mdash; simple program that manages UPnP compliant routers</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vainfo">vainfo &mdash; Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- info program</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wiki2beamer">wiki2beamer &mdash; Tool to create LaTeX beamer presentations in wiki syntax</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xen-tools">xen-tools &mdash; Tools to manage Xen virtual servers</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/yoshimi">yoshimi &mdash; A software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zynjacku">zynjacku &mdash; JACK based host for LV2 synths and LV2 plugins</a></li>
  </ul>
- <a name="15"></a>
+ <a name="12"></a>
  <h2>Work-needing packages</h2>
  <p>Currently
- XXX packages are orphaned and
+packages are orphaned and
- XXX packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the
+packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the
  <a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1OKKlx-0007DT-Va@merkel.debian.org">recent</a>
- <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/...">reports</a>
+ <a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1OMs6i-0006PZ-Rt@merkel.debian.org">reports</a>
  to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of
  <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested">packages which need
  your help</a>.</p>
- <a name="16"></a>
+ <a name="13"></a>
  <h2>Want to continue reading DPN?</h2>
  <p>Please help us create this newsletter.  We still need more volunteer writers
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  at <a href="mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org">debian-publicity@lists.debian.org</a>.</p>
- #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="XXX, XXX, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl"
+ #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="David Prévot, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl"

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