The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Debian QA meeting + squeeze release live microblogging + Debian derivatives census + planet.debian.org policy + List of override disparities Debian QA meeting ----------------- A Debian QA meeting[1] will be held in Paris, France at the Center for Research and Innovation on Free Software (IRILL)[2]. It will begin in the early afternoon on Friday March 18th and end on Sunday March 20th. If you are attending and need sponsorship, please add your information to the wiki page by Tuesday February 8th so that sprint[3] funding can be applied for. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianQAParis2011 [2] http://www.irill.org [3] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints squeeze release live microblogging ---------------------------------- The Debian squeeze release will be live microblogged[4] to Debian's identica account[5]. Several steps of the release process are quite long and boring, so these quiet periods will be filled with funny or otherwise interesting facts about Debian. If you would like to help out by supplying some fun or interesting facts, please reply to the thread[6]. -- Paul Wise [4] http://lists.debian.org/20110130130240.GC30200@melusine.alphascorpii.net [5] http://identi.ca/debian [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/01/threads.html#00055 Debian derivatives census ------------------------- The Debian derivatives front desk[7] is conducting[8] a census[9] of all Debian derivatives. If you are a representative of a Debian derivative please add a page for your derivative based on the template[10]. Future plans for the Debian derivatives census include keeping track of Debian derivatives, addition of more information useful to Debian contributors, inclusion of machine-readable information and subsequent integration of information about derivatives into Debian infrastructure. In addition we would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to join the Debian derivatives[11] front desk[12] IRC channel[13] and mailing list[14]. -- Paul Wise [7] http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk [8] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110124 [9] http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census [10] http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusTemplate [11] http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives [12] http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk [13] irc://irc.debian.org/debian-derivatives [14] http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/ planet.debian.org policy ------------------------ Planet Debian[15] maintainers have revamped the Planet Debian policy[16] and linked it from Planet home page. The policy is a recommended reading for all Planet Debian users, be them reader or authors, and covers topics such as who can be on Planet Debian, what can be posted on Planet Debian, as well as technical documentation on how to benefit from various Planet Debian services. The main change is that webbugs which are not filtered by Planet Debian are frowned upon and can be ground for removal of the feed. Currently only feedburner tracking images are stripped. Any image not hosted by the syndicated blog that is automatically inserted in the feed and that is known to be used for tracking purpose is considered a webbug. If your feed happen to contain webbugs, you are welcome to contribute a supplementary filter to avoid being excluded. Send patches to planet@debian.org. -- Stefano Zacchiroli & Raphaël Hertzog [15] http://planet.debian.org [16] http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian List of override disparities ---------------------------- Policy § 2.5[17] states packages must not depend on other packages with lower priority values. In order to better adhere to it, FTP Team export a yaml-formatted list of packages affected override disparities[18]. Please adjust your package with one of your next uploads when you agree that your package is wrong, or file a bug on ftp.debian.org having us change the overrides for your package, when you think our overrides are wrong. See http://lists.debian.org/4D2CDDF5.2000600@debian.org for further details. -- Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [17] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities [18] http://ftp-master.debian.org/override-disparity.gz -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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