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## TODO:
## * Color Management in Debian
##   (seems interesting so i just add this item to not forget if oters want to place it in this issue too -- eof)
##   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01223.html



<p>Welcome to this year's ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
<toc-display/>


<toc-add-entry name="Linuxtag">Report from LinuxTag 2011</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Jan Hauke Rahm sent a <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/05/msg00046.html">report
from the LinuxTag event</a> held in Berlin, Germany. This year, Debian
shared a booth with Kanotix and aptosid so, one of the main argument was
the relationship between Debian and its derivatives. Guests asked also
about various hot topics like the implementation of a <q>rolling</q>
version of Debian, new efforts as <q>/run</q>, etc.
Jan wants to thank Annette Kalbow for the booth's organization, and all the
helpers at the booth: a team of about ten to fifteen people everyday.
</p>
# I don't know what else write about it: the report mail isn't really
# full of stuff :) Improvement welcome! -- MadameZou

<toc-add-entry name="hwsupport">Testing new hardware support for Debian 6.0.2</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Ben Hutchings blogged about <a
href="http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/testing-new-hardware-support-for-debian-602.html">testing
new hardware support for Debian 6.0.2</a>. Ben prepared several updates intended
for Debian's point release 6.0.2. Since kernel team does not have a large
collection of hardware on which to test drivers changes, he asks for test reports from users.
Ben also describe changes in drivers, show where to get <a
href="http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/">prepared packages</a> and their <a
href="http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/linux-2.6_2.6.32-35~test1_multi.changes">checksums
in the signed changes file</a> so that users which want to help can verify downloaded packages,
and explain how to test drivers.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="perlbits">Bits from the Perl maintainers</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Dominic Hargreaves sent some <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00006.html">bits
from the Perl maintainers</a>, which describe changes in Debian's <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/perl">perl</a>
package. First of all, around twelve months after the first upstream 5.12 release,
Perl 5.12.3 was uploaded to <q>unstable</q>. Dominic thanks the Release Team for the
superb work of migrating new Perl packages to <q>testing</q>. He notices that although
Perl maintainers did their best to minimise Perl 5.12 specific breakage, but
there will inevitably be occasional problems to be fixed. An upgrade trigger
is also available in this major version. At the end of the his message,
Dominic has published plans for recent Perl 5.14 release which will be
uploaded to <q>unstable</q> later this year.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="alioth">Report from the Alioth sprint</toc-add-entry>

<p>Roland Mas sent a <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00010.html">report
from the Alioth sprint</a> held in Cambridge, England from 20 to 22
May when the three Alioth administrators (Stephan Gran, Tollef Fog
Heen and Roland Mas) have done an incredible amount of work to redefine
hosting structure of Alioth.
Basically, they have split the old <code>alioth.debian.org</code> into two different machines:
<code>vasks.debian.org</code> and <code>wagner.debian.org</code>, both running <q>Squeeze</q>. In
the first are hosted the writable repositories while in the second there
are the read-only anonymous access to repositories, the repository
browsers and the project websites. So, it's time to update the
<a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00007.html">fingerprints</a>
<a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00008.html">for
the two hosts</a>.
Another important change is that now the password only remote login 
is no longer allowed and only SSH login via RSA key are now possible.
During the sprint the basic setting up was done, trying to minimize the
inconveniences for the users: the Alioth team is still working on some
<a href="http://titanpad.com/yyhfwA9Pyr">other issues</a>.
You can also read further details of the Alioth team works
during the sprint on the report mail.
Roland ends his mail with a thank to the DPL and Collabora for triggering
and hosting the sprint.</p>

<toc-add-entry name="DPL">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry>

<p>Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli sent another <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg00000.html">bits
from the DPL</a> report. He summarizes some of the hot topics discussed
in the Debian developers mailing list, as the one about the
<q>rolling</q> release, pointing out how discussions in the
<tt>debian-devel</tt> mailing list have become more useful.
After listing the various events and conferences attended, Stefano
informs that he's working with SPI to figure out how — legally speaking —
could be possible setting up a <q>PPA</q> service, to <q>allow Debian
Developers to provide, under their own responsibility, unofficial Debian
packages benefiting from the usual archive and buildd toolchain</q>.</p>

<toc-add-entry name="mirrors">New mirrors closer to Debian users</toc-add-entry>

<p>After the
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20110525">announce</a> of
the <a href="http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/">official Chinese mirror</a>, the
Debian mirrors team is happy to announce the first Debian mirrors in
<a href="http://debian.mirror.tn/debian/">Tunisia</a> and
<a href="http://mg.debian.net/debian/">Madagascar</a>.
For other countries, the <a href="$(HOME)/mirror/list">full
list</a> is available online.
There are still many countries lacking a good connectivity to a Debian mirror:
interested hosters sponsors are invited to contact the mirrors team.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="press">Debian in newspapers</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Per Andersson and Hedvig Kamp wrote a series of article about Free
Software in general, and Debian in particular, in a Swedish newspaper,
Fria Tidningen. <q>One article is named <a
href="http://www.fria.nu/artikel/88296">Det demokratiska Debian</a>
(eng. The democratic Debian), which describes Debian's organisation
and social responsibility. Hedvig Kamp wrote about
<a href="http://www.fria.nu/artikel/88292">nerdfeminism and groups
that promote equality in free software</a>, among other groups she
presents Debian Women in the article (in the paper edition
there is also a big fat Debian Women logo). Also in the paper is a <a
href="http://www.fria.nu/artikel/88301">general
guide on how to install GNU/Linux</a>, with Debian as one of the
distro-tips</q>, said Per.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>

<p>Rene Engelhard, maintainer of Debian's LibreOffice packages, was
appointed as <a
href="http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/05/23/the-document-foundation-announces-the-members-of-the-engineering-steering-committee/">\
member of the LibreOffice's new Engineering Steering Committee</a>,
which discusses the release progress and coordinates development
activities.</p>

<p>Tanguy Ortolo wrote an interesting article about <a
href="http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/uninstall-meta-package">unistall
a single component of a meta-package</a>, explaining how to unmark all
the dependencies and recommendations of the metapackage itself.</p>


<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>

	<p>
Nine applicants have been
<a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint">accepted</a>
	as Debian Developers,
two applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/05/msg00055.html">accepted</a>
	as Debian Maintainer, and
eight people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
        to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
	Project News. Please welcome Bert Agaz, Olivier Berger,
	Gary Briggs, Jonathan Carter, Francesca Ciceri,
Serge Hallyn, Anton Gladky, Christoph Göhre,
Christian Kastner, Iain Lane, Gennaro Oliva, David Prévot, Filippo
Rusconi, Jeremy Salwen, Michael Tokarev, Matteo F. Vescovi, Sven Wick, Aron Xu
and Артём Попов into our project!</p>


<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
	advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2238">vino</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2237">apr</a> (update),
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2239">libmojolicious-perl</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2241">qemu-kvm</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2240">linux-2.6</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2242">cyrus-imapd-2.2</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2243">unbound</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2244">bind9</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2245">chromium-browser</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2246">mahara</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2247">rails</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2248">ejabberd</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2249">jabberd14</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2250">citadel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2251">subversion</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2252">dovecot</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2253">fontforge</a>, and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2254">oprofile</a>.
	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>


<p>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 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates
list</a> or <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/">volatile
list</a>, for <q>Lenny</q>, the oldstable distribution) for announcements.</p>


<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>

<p>
816 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">Among
many others</a> are:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/acoustid-fingerprinter">acoustid-fingerprinter &mdash; Acoustid fingerprinter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/activity-log-manager">activity-log-manager &mdash; blacklist configuration user interface for Zeitgeist</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/agda">agda &mdash; dependently typed functional programming language</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/at-spi2-core">at-spi2-core &mdash; Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (dbus core)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/autopostgresqlbackup">autopostgresqlbackup &mdash; Automated tool to make periodic backups of PostgreSQL databases</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/azr3-jack">azr3-jack &mdash; drawbar organ simulator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/binutils-msp430">binutils-msp430 &mdash; Binary utilities supporting TI's MSP430 targets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bird-dbg">bird-dbg &mdash; Debug symbols for BIRD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cantor-backend-octave">cantor-backend-octave &mdash; Octave backend for Cantor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/check-mk-agent">check-mk-agent &mdash; general purpose nagios-plugin for retrieving data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cliofetion">cliofetion &mdash; open source command line implementation of Fetion protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/creepy">creepy &mdash; geolocation information aggregator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/duende">duende &mdash; experimental maradns logging daemonizer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dvcs-autosync">dvcs-autosync &mdash; Automatically synchronize distributed version control repositories</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ebumeter">ebumeter &mdash; Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ecasound-doc">ecasound-doc &mdash; Documentation files for Ecasound</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ecatools">ecatools &mdash; Multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (tools)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ffmpegthumbs">ffmpegthumbs &mdash; video thumbnail generator using ffmpeg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fontforge-dbg">fontforge-dbg &mdash; debugging symbols for fontforge</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gcc-msp430">gcc-msp430 &mdash; The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for MSP430)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gladish">gladish &mdash; graphical interface for LADI Session Handler</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-desktop3-data">gnome-desktop3-data &mdash; Common files for GNOME desktop apps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-panel-control">gnome-panel-control &mdash; command line utility to invoke GNOME panel run dialog/menu</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gridsite">gridsite &mdash; Grid Security for the Web, Web platforms for Grids</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hledger">hledger &mdash; command-line double-entry accounting program</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jovie">jovie &mdash; text-to-speech system for KDE</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kaccessible">kaccessible &mdash; accessibility services for Qt applications</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kalgebramobile">kalgebramobile &mdash; </a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kdesdk-dolphin-plugins">kdesdk-dolphin-plugins &mdash; dolphin VCS plugins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/key-mon">key-mon &mdash; Utility to show live keyboard and mouse status.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/klatexformula">klatexformula &mdash; GUI to easily get an image from a LaTeX formula or equation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/klustakwik">klustakwik &mdash; automatic sorting of the samples (spikes) into clusters</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kremotecontrol">kremotecontrol &mdash; frontend for using remote controls</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ladish">ladish &mdash; session management system for JACK applications</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/latrace">latrace &mdash; traces library calls in dynamically linked programs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ldm-themes">ldm-themes &mdash; Collection of themes for the LTSP login manager</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lilv-utils">lilv-utils &mdash; library for simple use of LV2 plugins (runtime files)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lv2-extensions-good">lv2-extensions-good &mdash; LV2 extensions from the "good" set</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lv2file">lv2file &mdash; Command-line program to apply LV2 effects to files</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mlv-smile">mlv-smile &mdash; Find statistically significant patterns in sequences</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mutrace">mutrace &mdash; mutex and realtime memory allocation profiling tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/naspro-bridges">naspro-bridges &mdash; collection of bridges to LV2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nordugrid-arc-client">nordugrid-arc-client &mdash; ARC prototype clients</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nzbget">nzbget &mdash; command-line based binary newsgrabber for nzb files</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/obdgpslogger">obdgpslogger &mdash; suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/otrs">otrs &mdash; Open Ticket Request System (transitional package)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/packaging-tutorial">packaging-tutorial &mdash; introduction to Debian packaging</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/packup">packup &mdash; CUDF solver based on pseudo-Boolean constraints</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/recutils">recutils &mdash; text-based databases called recfiles</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/scantool">scantool &mdash; OBD-II vehicle diagnostic scanner</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/simgrid">simgrid &mdash; Toolkit for scalable simulation of distributed applications</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sordi">sordi &mdash; library for storing RDF data in memory - sordi tool</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sra-toolkit">sra-toolkit &mdash; utilities for the NCBI Sequence Read Archive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/starpu-tools">starpu-tools &mdash; Task scheduler for heterogeneous multicore machines - tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/udisks-glue">udisks-glue &mdash; simple automount daemon with support for user-defined actions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vdr-plugin-infosatepg">vdr-plugin-infosatepg &mdash; include TechniSat EPG data via satelite in vdr</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/west-chamber-dkms">west-chamber-dkms &mdash; iptable extension for bypassing content filtering firewall (dkms)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-perspectives">xul-ext-perspectives &mdash; verify HTTPS sites through notary servers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xyscan">xyscan &mdash; data thief for scientist</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/zita-rev1">zita-rev1 &mdash; pro-audio reverb effect</a></li>
</ul>


<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Currently <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/orphaned">\
316 packages are orphaned</a> and <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/rfa">\
140 packages are up for adoption</a>: please visit the complete 
	list of <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/help_requested">packages
	which need your help</a>.</p>


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