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#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2011-11-04" SUMMARY="Updated Debian <q>Lenny</q> and <q>Squeeze</q>, DebConf12 dates, Emdebian uses, New Member process" # $Id: index.wml 2741 2011-11-05 02:40:46Z taffit $ # $Rev: 2741 $ # Status: [frozen] <p>Welcome to this year's fourteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p> <toc-display/> <toc-add-entry name="stable">Updated Debian: 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 released</toc-add-entry> <p> The third <a href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20111008">update for Debian 6.0 (codename <q>Squeeze</q>)</a> and the ninth <a href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20111001">update for Debian 5.0 (codename <q>Lenny</q>)</a> have been released. These updates mainly add corrections for security problems to the stable and oldstable releases, along with some adjustments for serious problems. </p> <toc-add-entry name="dc12">DebConf12 official dates</toc-add-entry> <p> The DebConf team announced the <a href="$(HOME)/News/2011/20111102">\ final and official dates for DebConf12</a>: DebCamp will be held from July 1 to 7 2012, followed by DebConf from July 8 to 14, in Managua, Nicaragua. DebConf will be preceded by a day when it opens its doors to the general public, commonly called Debian Day. For further information, please visit the <a href="http://debconf12.debconf.org/";>DebConf12 web pages</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="di">Debian Installer localization</toc-add-entry> <p> Christian Perrier reported some <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/10/31#di-l10n-update-2011-5";>\ new progress</a> in the <a href="http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/";>Debian Installer localization</a> after changes were introduced to some templates: nineteen languages are now up to date in the level 1. German, Persian, French, Portuguese ans Russian are 100% complete for the moment, and many more should reach the 100% completeness hall of fame pretty soon, thanks to the translators. </p> <toc-add-entry name="dc11">Feedback after DebConf11</toc-add-entry> <p> After his <a href="#twid"><q>This week in Debian</q> interview</a>, Adnan Hodzic wrote his <a href="http://foolcontrol.org/?p=1310";>DebConf11 summary and its after effects</a>. He offers an inside view of the DebConf organization, shares part of the stress and the amazing experience he had with other organizers. Among the consequences, the Government of Republika Srpska may seriously consider free and open source softwares for their own use, and Adnan took some vacations to prepare himself for his next projects. </p> <toc-add-entry name="emd">Uses of Emdebian</toc-add-entry> <p> Continuing his <a href="http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/217-Documenting-Emdebian-intro.html";> series on Emdebian</a>, Neil Williams posted an article about <a href="http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/230-Uses-of-Emdebian-special-purpose-computers.html";> the use of Emdebian on special purpose computers</a>. Special purpose computers are characterized by: single task only, single-user support, single mode input, restricted connectivity, constrained user data. On this kind of computer Emdebian is very popular for many reason as the multi-tasking kernel and userspace which provide a responsive machine or the mere fact that in Emdebian (differently from proprietary competitors) the graphical software is trivially separated from the core software. But the most important reason is that Emdebian Grip allows a better debugging: Emdebian Grip, in fact, is <q>binary compatible with the equivalent Debian suite and when a bug appears in the high level user interface, it is much easier to debug that on the desktop than on the device</q>, said Neil. </p> <toc-add-entry name="dpl">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry> <p> Stefano Zacchiroli reminded us that Wheezy is a <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg00003.html";>few months away of its freeze</a>: everyone can help. He reported about some <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg00001.html";>discussions that are worth the attention</a>: about <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00685.html";>maintainers and porters responsibilities</a>, <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2011/09/msg00062.html";>private email aliases</a> that can be harmful, etc. Stefano gave updates about the sprints (and it's new <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/";>contact point</a>) and the trademark policy. He also recently attended to the <q>Linux Day</q> in Parma, Italy, and the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida. </p> <toc-add-entry name="nm">New Member process</toc-add-entry> <p> Enrico Zini announced that the <q>New Maintainer process</q> changed its name and became the <q><a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg00004.html";>New Member process</a></q>: the process is still the same, the NM initials are even unchanged, but gets rid of its confusing and ambiguous name. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli for his <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2011/10/msg00028.html";>proposal</a>. Jan Hauke Rahm also joined the New Member Front Desk that can now be reached at the at <a href="mailto:n...@debian.org">n...@debian.org</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="twid">Further interviews</toc-add-entry> <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-28";>Jonathan Nadeau</a>, who talks about the Ohio LinuxFest and his internship at the FSF; and with <a href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-29-1";>Adnan Hodzic</a>, who talks about about DebConf11. </p> <toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry> <p> Julien Cristau announced that in the current testing Debian distribution, the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg00000.html";>\ <tt>/usr/bin/python</tt> symlink points to Python 2.7</a>. </p> <p> Meike Reichle officially announced the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathonWheezy";>Wheezy Bug Squashing Party Marathon</a> open, starting <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2011/Hildesheim";>December 2 2011 in Hildesheim</a>. </p> <toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry> <p> Twenty-four 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 Harish Badrinath, Andrew Harvey, Michael Jumper, Jakub Adam, Tiziano Zito, Zlatan Todoric, Ivo Maintz, Judit Foglszinger, Daniel Hughes, Mark Owen, Rico Rommel, Alex Chiang, Daniel Schaal, Alexander Chernyakhovsky, Jerome Robert, Shell Xu, Sebastian Eichelbaum, Jeroen Nijhof, Michael Milligan, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin, Arthur Gautier, Kouhei Maeda, Rodolphe Pelloux-Prayer, and Ahmed Toulan 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-2310">linux-2.6</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2311">openjdk-6</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2312">iceape</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2313">iceweasel</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2314">puppet</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2315">openoffice.org</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2316">quagga</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2317">icedove</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2318">cyrus-imapd-2.2</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2319">policykit-1</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2320">dokuwiki</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2321">moin</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2322">bugzilla</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2323">radvd</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2324">wireshark</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2325">kfreebsd-8</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2326">pam</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2327">libfcgi-perl</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2328">freetype</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2329">torque</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2330">simplesamlphp</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2331">tor</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2332">python-django</a>, <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2333">phpldapadmin</a> and <a href="$(HOME)/security/2011/dsa-2334">mahara</a>. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p> <p>Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/10/msg00000.html";>puppet</a> (<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/10/msg00003.htm";>updated announce</a>) and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/10/msg00001.html";>iceweasel</a>, Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p> <p>Debian's Stable Release Team released update announcements for the packages: <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/09/msg00000.html";>tzdata</a> (<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/11/msg00000.html";>last updated announce</a>) and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/10/msg00003.html";>clamav</a>. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p> <p>Debian's Volatile Team released update announcements for the packages: <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00006.html";>tzdata</a> (<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00009.html";>last updated announce</a>) and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00007.html";>clamav</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> Hundreds of 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/dff";>\ dff — powerful, efficient and modular digital forensic framework</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ebook-speaker";>\ ebook-speaker — eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openteacher";>\ openteacher — learn words in a foreign language</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openxenmanager";>\ openxenmanager — full-featured graphical management tool for Xen using XenApi</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ptex2tex";>\ ptex2tex — easy generation of (possibly complex) LaTeX environments</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qxw";>\ qxw — advanced interactive crossword construction tool</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rbenv";>\ rbenv — simple per-user Ruby version manager</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shinken";>\ shinken — flexible monitoring tool</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/unbound-anchor";>\ unbound-anchor — utility to securely fetch the root DNS trust anchor</a></li> <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/x2";>\ x2 — brand new text editor for the GNOME desktop</a></li> </ul> <toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry> <p>Currently <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/orphaned">\ 400 packages are orphaned</a> and <a href="$(DEVEL)/wnpp/rfa">\ 145 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> <toc-add-entry name="continuedpn">Want to continue reading DPN?</toc-add-entry> <p>Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute";>contributing page</a> to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <a href="mailto:debian-public...@lists.debian.org">debian-public...@lists.debian.org</a>.</p> #use wml::debian::projectnews::footer editor="Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Alexander Reshetov, Justin B Rye" # Translators may also add a translator="foo, bar, baz" to the previous line
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