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<p>Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="#1">Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q> released</a></li>
  <li><a href="#2">New layout and website related news</a></li>
  <li><a href="#3">Backports for <q>Squeeze</q> easier for users</a></li>
  <li><a href="#4">Volatile replaced by new updates suite</a></li>
  <li><a href="#5">Bits from the Debian Project Leader</a></li>
  <li><a href="#6">DebConf communication channels and decisions</a></li>
  <li><a href="#7">Handling Debian Merchandise</a></li>
  <li><a href="#8">Debian Google Code-in 2010-2011 report</a></li>
  <li><a href="#9">Further <q>This week in Debian</q> interviews</a></li>
  <li><a href="#10">... and much more</a>.</li>
</ul>


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<h2>Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q> released</h2>

<p>
Almost two years after Debian 5.0 <q>Lenny</q> was released, <a
href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20110205a">Debian 6.0
<q>Squeeze</q> was released on the 6th of February, 2011</a>.
Among other improvements, the completely free
Linux kernel now shipped in Debian has been <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/debian-squeeze-makes-key-progress-toward-being-a-fully-free-distribution">\
welcomed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>.
</p>

<p>
Adam D. Barratt, Release Team manager, has already announced a <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/1296956851.16209.5044.camel@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org">\
first point release planned for next month</a> and gave advice to maintainers
about further uploads to <q>unstable</q>: <q>Wheezy</q> is already on people's minds.
</p>


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<h2>New layout and website related news</h2>

<p>
The <a href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20110205b">new look for Debian's websites</a>
is already available on some of the Debian project's main web interfaces.
Gerfried Fuchs sent a <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20110202134918.GA3275@anguilla.debian.or.at">\
report about the last WWW Sprint</a> where members of the team
prepared this new layout, smashed and triaged some bugs filed
against the <code>www.debian.org</code> pseudo-package, and discussed other
topics such as whether there is any interest in moving away from CVS.
Martin Zobel-Helas, member of the DSA team who actively worked for
this to happen, <a href="http://lists.debian.org/20110206015402.GA22858@ftbfs.de">\
thanked the team</a> for putting the new layout proposed by
Kalle S&ouml;derman on line in time for the release of Debian <q>Squeeze</q>.
</p>

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<h2>Backports for <q>Squeeze</q> easier for users</h2>

<p>
Alexander Wirt announced the start of <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/20110208223822.GB21292@smithers.snow-crash.org">\
the next generation of backports</a>.
Users of <q>Squeeze</q> (and <q>Lenny</q>) will be offered new versions of
packages available in testing (<q>Wheezy</q>) via
<code>squeeze-backports</code> (and <code>lenny-backports-sloppy</code>).
He also explained to maintainers how to upload packages to the backports archive.
A recent change introduced in APT makes out-of-the-box use of
<code>squeeze-backports</code> <a href="http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/">\
easier than ever before</a>, without the need to
configure pinning for the backports repository in order to handle upgrades
to new versions of packages installed from there.
</p>

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<h2>Volatile replaced by new updates suite</h2>

<p>
The Debian Volatile archive has been replaced by the <a
href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20110215">new updates suite</a>: starting from this stable release
(<q>Squeeze</q>), packages that were handled via the Volatile repository
will enter the official release via the <code>squeeze-updates</code> suite.
Updated packages will also be included in the stable point
release following the announcement published in the <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">\
debian-stable-announce mailing list</a>.
</p>


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<h2>Bits from the Debian Project Leader</h2>

<p>
Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli sent another <a 
href="http://lists.debian.org/20110204151502.GA10245@upsilon.cc">\
bits from the DPL</a> report.
He discusses collaboration with others (via for example the <a
href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20110124">Debian derivatives census</a> or the
<a href="http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/appinstaller2011/">\
cross-distribution meeting</a>) and communication
with people from other projects and companies (via his latest
<a href="http://lca2011.linux.org.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/153">\
<q>Who the bloody hell cares about Debian?</q> talk</a>).
He also touches on the relationship between Debian and DebConf in
matters such as the <a
href="http://www.debconf.org/goals.shtml">goals</a> that were recently
published, and is looking for volunteers as DebConf chairs.
<br />
Stefano has also been interviewed for <a
href="http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/191">Linux Outlaws
Podcast</a>. 
</p>


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<h2>DebConf communication channels and decisions</h2>

<p>Richard Darst blogged on the <a
href="http://www.debian-administration.org/users/rkd/weblog/16">\
Debian Administration site</a> about the various communication
channels in the DebConf organization. DebConf is the group that
manages the yearly Debian Conference. He mentioned the various
connected media that the DebConf team uses, including IRC, wiki, and
mailing lists, describing how each channel is used and how to contribute.
</p>


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<h2>Handling Debian Merchandise</h2>

<p>
Have you ever wondered where Debian T-Shirts and other goodies come from?
How can you get your hands on a cool <q>Squeeze</q> T-Shirt? Well, the answer
lies with the Debian Merchandising team who co-ordinate Debian merchandise
for the various events where a Debian representative appears. Luca Capello,
known as Gismo, wrote about the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/02/msg00101.html">\
Merchandising team</a> to explain how it all works.
You can also have a look at an <a href="$(HOME)/misc/merchandise">\
overview of what Debian offers</a>.
</p>

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<h2>Debian Google Code-in 2010-2011 report</h2>

<p>Ana Guerrero L&oacute;pez blogged about the <a
href="http://ekaia.org/blog/2011/02/01/debian-at-the-google-code-in-2010-11/">Debian
participation at this year's Google Code-in</a>. Even though preparation for the
contest started quite late, and few tasks were open to those without a Debian installation,
<q>we got a moderate success</q>. As Ana says: about 30 students have
participated, doing 39 tasks mostly related to translation, bug triaging, and
writing documentation.</p>

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<h2>Further <q>This week in Debian</q> interviews</h2>

<p>Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian"><q>This week in
Debian</q> podcast</a> have been published:  with <a
href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-17">Andreas
Tille</a>, from the Debian Med Team, discussing Debian Pure Blends; and with <a
href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-18">Rapha&euml;l
Hertzog</a>, co-maintainer of dpkg.
</p>

<p>
There has also been two further <q>People behind Debian</q> interviews: with
<a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/03/people-behind-debian-mike-hommey-firefox-iceweasel-maintainer/">Mike
Hommey</a>, Firefox/Iceweasel maintainer; and with
<a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/17/people-behind-debian-maximilian-attems-member-of-the-kernel-team/">Maximilian
Attems</a>, member of the kernel team.
</p>


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<h2>Other news</h2>

<p>The 24th issue of the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/1296533206.2811.26.camel@chianamo">miscellaneous news for developers</a> 
has been released and covers the following topics:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Debian QA meeting</li>
  <li><q>Squeeze</q> release live microblogging</li>
  <li>Debian derivatives census</li>
  <li>planet.debian.org policy</li>
  <li>List of override disparities</li>
</ul>

<p>
Cyril Brulebois published the <a href="http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/01/DXN-3/">third</a>,
<a href="http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/08/DXN-4/">fourth</a>,
<a href="http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/17/DXN-5/">fifth</a>, and
<a href="http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/02/21/DXN-6/">sixth</a> issues of <q>Debian XSF News</q>,
summarising many recent events around X.org packaging in Debian &mdash;
new version uploads to <q>experimental</q>, <q>unstable</q>, and <q>stable</q> distributions;
initial testing of <a href="http://wayland.freedesktop.org/">Wayland</a>; removal
requests for unmaintained drivers; preparation of reference documentation on
dependency handling between the X server and the drivers; and much more.
He also thanked submitters for their bug reports.
</p>

<p>
David Paleino has reported that after almost six
years from the original ITP bug, <a
href="http://www.hanskalabs.net/posts/codeblocks-in-debian/">Code::Blocks is now in Debian</a>. 
</p>


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<h2>New Debian Contributors</h2>

	<p>
2 applicants have been
<a href="https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint">accepted</a>
	as Debian Developers,
1 applicant has been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/E1PpADs-00032v-SX@franck.debian.org">accepted</a>
	as a Debian Maintainer, and
19 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 Stefano Rivera, Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric-Emmanuel Picca,
	Javier Merino Cacho, 
Pedro Ribeiro, Julien Viard de Galbert,
Markus Schulz, Nik Lutz, Thomas Krennwallner, Qijiang Fan,
Rafael Kitover, Andy Bailey, Andrey Rahmatullin, David
Kalnischkies, Damian Johnson, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov,
Beno&icirc;t Knecht, Nicolas Dandrimont, Alessandro Ghedini,
Simon Ochsenreither, Julian Taylor, Pierre Saramito and Olaf van der Spek
	into our project!</p>


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<h2>Important Debian Security Advisories</h2>

	<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
	advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2156">pcscd</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2157">postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4, and postgresql-9.0</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2158">cgiirc</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2159">vlc</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2160">tomcat6</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2161">openjdk-6</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2162">openssl</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2163">python-django</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2164">shadow</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2165">ffmpeg-debian</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2166">chromium-browser</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2167">phpmyadmin</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2168">openafs</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2169">telepathy-gabble</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2170">mailman</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2171">asterisk</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2172">moodle</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2173">pam-pgsql</a> and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2174">avahi</a>.

	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

        <p>Debian's Backports Team releases advisories for these packages:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/20110214090905.GD16462@chough.tokkee.org">git</a> and
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/87tyfvzvpe.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu">openafs</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>


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<h2>New and noteworthy packages</h2>

<p>The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">among
many others</a>):</p>

#I've dropped all libraries, all d-i, all -data -dbg -doc. But list is still
#huge. So, feel free to remove other entries. -- madamezou
<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/aha">aha &mdash; ANSI to HTML converter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apng2gif">apng2gif &mdash; convert APNG animated images to GIF files</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/autodock-vina">autodock-vina &mdash; docking of small molecules to proteins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-meego">banshee-meego &mdash; media management and playback application &mdash; MeeGo extension</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/between">between &mdash; game about consciousness and isolation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bitcoin-cli">bitcoin-cli &mdash; peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency &mdash; CLI tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bliss">bliss &mdash; tool to compute graph automorphisms and labelings</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bluez-tools">bluez-tools &mdash; set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ceph">ceph &mdash; distributed storage and file system</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clasp">clasp &mdash; conflict-driven nogood learning answer set solver</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/codeblocks">codeblocks &mdash; Code::Blocks integrated development environment (IDE)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/djview-plugin">djview-plugin &mdash; browser plugin for the DjVu image format</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/docvert-libreoffice">docvert-libreoffice &mdash; converts word processor files to HTML using LibreOffice</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/elastix">elastix &mdash; toolbox for rigid and nonrigid registration of images</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/foo-yc20">foo-yc20 &mdash; YC-20 organ emulation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/frogr">frogr &mdash; Flickr remote organizer for GNOME</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fuse-emulator-utils">fuse-emulator-utils &mdash; free Unix Spectrum emulator &mdash; utilities</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gcp">gcp &mdash; advanced command line file copy system</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gummi">gummi &mdash; graphical LaTeX editor with live preview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/icli">icli &mdash; command line interface for the icinga monitoring system</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/identicurse">identicurse &mdash; simple Identi.ca client with a curses-based UI</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/iok">iok &mdash; Indic onscreen keyboard</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jodreports-cli">jodreports-cli &mdash; merge OpenDocument text with data &mdash; command line tool</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ocaml-melt">ocaml-melt &mdash; LaTeX with OCaml (tools)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openclipart-libreoffice">openclipart-libreoffice &mdash; clip art for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openvpn-auth-radius">openvpn-auth-radius &mdash; OpenVPN RADIUS authentication module</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pd-mapping">pd-mapping &mdash; Pd library for creatively mapping data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pino">pino &mdash; simple and fast microblogging client</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/plasma-widget-veromix">plasma-widget-veromix &mdash; plasma widget to control PulseAudio</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/raptor2-utils">raptor2-utils &mdash; Raptor 2 RDF parser and serializer utilities</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/roundcube-plugins">roundcube-plugins &mdash; skinnable AJAX based webmail solution for IMAP servers &mdash; plugins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/valac-0.10">valac-0.10 &mdash; C# like language for the GObject system</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/visolate">visolate &mdash; tool for engraving PCBs using CNCs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wiican">wiican &mdash; simple Wiimote usage assistant and mapping manager</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xserver-xorg-input-multitouch">xserver-xorg-input-multitouch &mdash; multi-touch X input driver</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xtables-addons-dkms">xtables-addons-dkms &mdash; extensions targets and matches for iptables</a></li>
</ul>


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<h2>Work-needing packages</h2>

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


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