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<p>Welcome to this year's XXXth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the |
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Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p> |
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Lastname</a> (role in Debian here). |
Lastname</a> (role in Debian here). |
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<p>Raphaël Hertzog published a <q>People behind Debian</q> interview with |
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Petter Reinholdtsen interviewed |
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<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry> |
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<p>Guido Günther sent some |
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from the fifth Debian Groupware Meeting</a>, |
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held at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany. |
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During the weekend the group has fixed various issues and has been able to |
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push new versions of <a href="http://packages.debian.org/icedove">icedove</a> |
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and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/d-push">d-push</a> to <q>unstable</q> |
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while <a href="http://packages.debian.org/iceowl">iceowl</a> (dead upstream) |
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Some work was also done on OpenChange, Zarafa ZCP and SOGo, and several |
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<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry> |
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<p>There are several upcoming Debian related events:</p> |
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p> |
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<li><a href="$(HOME)/events/">xyz</a></li> |
<li>April 19-20, San Francisco, USA — Debian table at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0419-openstack">OpenStack Conference</a></li> |
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<li>April 28, Graz, Austria — Debian booth at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0428-GLT12">Grazer Linuxtage</a></li> |
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<li>April 29-30, Shangai, China — <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing |
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You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks |
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks |
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<p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? |
<p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? |
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Are you aware of other upcoming Debian related events? |
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? |
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Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link it on our |
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our |
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<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>? |
<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>? |
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Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>. |
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>. |
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<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry> |
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<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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Debian 7.0 <q>Wheezy</q>, is currently affected by |
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XXX Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved |
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or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about |
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<p>There are also <a |
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href="http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/#2010-XX">more detailed |
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<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry> |
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<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>. |
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/"></a>. |
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Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.</p> |
Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.</p> |
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<p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security |
<p>Please note that these are a selection of the more important security |
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advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about |
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about |
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subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing |
subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing |
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list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports |
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-stable-announce/">stable updates |
list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates |
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list</a> or <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/">volatile |
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list</a>, for <q>Lenny</q>, the oldstable distribution) for announcements.</p> |
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<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry> |
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<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry> |
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<p>Currently <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/orphaned">\ |
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XXX packages are up for adoption</a>: please visit the complete |
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list of <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/help_requested">packages |
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which need your help</a>.</p> |
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<toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry> |
<toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry> |
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<p>Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers |
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<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute">contributing |
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page</a> to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail |
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at <a href="mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org">debian-publicity@lists.debian.org</a>.</p> |
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#use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="XXX, Francesca Ciceri, Jeremiah C. Foster, David Prévot, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Alexander Reshetov, Justin B Rye" |
#use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="XXX, Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye" |
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