The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + DebConf news + Multiarch support + win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network + Team-specific NM questions + Debian games team meeting DebConf news ------------ The DebConf team recently had meetings discussing DebConf12 bids[1] and preparations for DebConf11[2]. The meeting to decide where DebConf12 will be held will occur on 22nd March, from 20:00 UTC. According to the recent DebConf11 report[3], preparations for DebConf11 are going well, especially with the support from the local and national governments. People who will need a visa or that might have problem with visas to visit Bosnia should visit the visas[4] web page, register in penta and then contact the team at visa@debconf.org since the DebConf11 organising team have assistance from the government Republika Srpska. Registrations for DebConf11 are targeted at being open by April 1st. As usual; if you need sponsorship to attend DebConf, please apply before the deadlines and don't be pessimistic about your eligibility. If you or your company would like to help DebConf financially, please take a look at the sponsorship web page[5] and donate as you are able. Take a look at the "How can I help?"[6] web page for other ways to assist DebConf11, including volunteering[7] your time during the conference, which can be very rewarding. The Debconf10 final report is due out on March 14th so keep an eye out for it and have a read if you were there or are interested in what DebConf is like. The reports for earlier years are available[8] and go back to DebConf5 in Finland. -- Paul Wise [1] http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-01-20.01.html [2] http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-08-20.01.html [3] http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20110224.204950.5f426a36.en.html [4] http://debconf11.debconf.org/visas.xhtml [5] http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml [6] http://debconf11.debconf.org/helpus.xhtml [7] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Teams#Volunteers [8] http://media.debconf.org/ Multiarch support ----------------- dpkg is on good track to support multi-arch[9]. But the possibility to co-install the same package from multiple architectures is going to break some assumptions in various packages. Check out this message on debian-devel[10] to learn more about the problems and how they should be fixed. Please report back any package that is likely to be affected by those problems. -- Raphaël Hertzog [9] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec [10] http://lists.debian.org/20110302140611.GH20023@rivendell.home.ouaza.com win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network --------------------------------------------------- Since its 0.6.22 version and thanks to the help of FTP Masters, win32-loader.exe is now downloadable from the official Debian mirrors[11]. When run from a Windows host, this executable (the standalone flavour of the setup.exe available on the x86 CDs) downloads the Debian-Installer kernel and initrd and configures the Windows bootloader to allow a seamless reboot to the Debian-Installer. It is supposed to work on all known Windows versions and can download both the GNU/Linux and GNU/kFreeBSD Debian-Installer flavours. -- Didier Raboud [11] http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.exe Team-specific NM questions -------------------------- I sent a call[12] for teams to send me team-specific P&P and T&S questions. I'll collect them and add them in one file per team to the NM template repository. They can be useful not only for NM, but also to give people a way to get up to speed on how the team works. -- Enrico Zini [12] http://lists.debian.org/20110309130159.GA27335@enricozini.org Debian games team meeting ------------------------- The Debian games team is having a meeting[13] on the 18th March 2011 at 9:00PM UTC. If you maintain a game in Debian or outside Debian or are interested in gaming and Debian we would like to invite you to attend and discuss various topics with us. The agenda is not yet set, to help us decide which items to talk about, please fill out the poll[14]. -- Paul Wise [13] http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings/2011-03-18 [14] http://doodle.com/e53i5dad794vxadq -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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