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<toc-add-entry name="Jessie">Jessie coming soon!</toc-add-entry>
<p>Niels Thykier of the Debian Release team made the <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html";>official announcement</a> for a
target release date of Saturday the 25th of April for Debian 8 Jessie! The date
while announced is still subject to change for critical items but otherwise we
are moving into the final stages for release. There will be a quiet period
starting Saturday the 18th of April, all bug fixes must be in before then.
There is still time to work on and apply fixes, don't be shy! </p>
<p>The Debian Installer team <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00015.html";>announced</a> the second release candidate of the
installer for Jessie. Several improvements were made to brltty-udeb,
console-setup, and tasksel among others. Hardware support is also improved
with the installer providing u-boot binaries for armhf systems without u-boot
in flash, grub2 support for the 64-bit Linux kernel. There is full translation
for 19 of the 75 languages supported.</p>
<p>Steve McIntyre gives a <href="http://blog.einval.com/2015/03/30#Jessie-EFI_6";>final update</a> to his UEFI Debian installer work for Jessie
that all improvements were committed. The latest release candidate works just
as well as the test builds.</p>
<toc-add-entry name="reports">Reports</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Ulrike Uhlig <a href="http://apparmor.451f.org/2015/03/09/final-report/";>details</a> quite extensively her work on Improving AppArmor support
in Debian as part of her final report on the latest segment of Debian's support
of the Outreach Program for Women. She writes on <a href="https://apparmor.451f.org/2014/12/23/how-does-my-apparmor-profile-get-into-debian/";>first starting</a> with <a href="http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/Main_Page";>AppArmor</a> and
her learning curve with both it and with Debian, sharing the maturation process
from being uncomfortable at first to later <a href="https://apparmor.451f.org/2014/12/23/how-to-contribute-to-the-apparmor-upstream-profiles/";>authoring documentation</a> on how
others could contribute. Although the internship has ended the work continues as
she still plans on contributing as a member of the AppArmor Packaging team.
</p>
<p>Gregor Herrmann <a href="http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/rc_bugs_2015_07_10.html";>updates</a> on RC bugs he worked on towards Jessie's release</p>
<p>Freexianâ??s Debian Long Term Support <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2015/03/17/freexians-report-about-debian-long-term-support-february-2015/";>report</a> for February 2015 details the work of 58
work hours spent among the 4 paid contributors. <a href="http://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/debian-lts-work-february-2015.html";>Ben Hutchings</a> worked on
linux-2.6 version 2.6.32-48squeeze11, userland and security updates. <a href="http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20150310-lts-february-2015/";>Holger Levsen</a>
worked on the security tracker package. <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2015/03/06/my-free-software-activities-in-february-2015/";>Raphaël Hertzog</a> worked mostly on CVE
Triage with 41 commits to the tracker, a helper script for that process and a
sponsorship of e2fsprogs. <a href="http://blog.alteholz.eu/2015/03/my-debian-activities-in-february-2015/";>Thorsten Alteholz<a/> uploaded new versions of
php5 regression, krb5, unzip, and binutils.</p>
<toc-add-entry name="CFH">Calls For Help</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The AppArmor Packaging Team is asking for volunteers and interested parties to
please <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00008.html";>Help improve AppArmor support in Debian"</a>. They currently need help with
documentation and bug reports.
</p>
<p>
Are you good at graphical design or artwork? There are several projects right
now that <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/RequestArtwork";>need artwork</a> such as JuggleMaster which needs icons, the Debian wiki
which needs a community icon, and a the LTS group which needs a logo.
</p>
<p>The Debian Installer team, asks for feedback and help finding bugs and to
further improve the installer.</p>
<toc-add-entry name="interviews">Interviews</toc-add-entry>
<p>Zlatan TodoriÄ? interviews <a href="http://zgrimshell.github.io/interviews-with-floss-developers-laura-arjona/";>Laura Arjona</a> as part of a series on FLOSS developers.
Laura talks about applying to become a Debian Developer, her future plans in
Debian, self service hosting and administration.</p>
<p>Next in the series was an interview with <a href="http://zgrimshell.github.io/interviews-with-floss-developers-francesca-ciceri/";>Francesca Ciceri</a> who shares some
history of the non-packaging Debian Developer role, her history through Debian
through various teams, and how she came to be the voice of Debian's diversity.</p>
<p><a href="http://stefano.zacchiroli.usesthis.com/";>Stefano Zacchiroli</a> was interviewed by <a href="http://usesthis.com/";>The Setup</a> where he details the equipment
and software that a computer researcher and Debian Developer uses for getting
the job done. He <a href="http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2015/03/interview_for_The_Setup/";>follows up</a> with a small commentary and thank you.</p>
<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Following a vote and change to our constitution regarding <a href="https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_004";>term limits for technical committee members</a> and the manner in which those positions will
expire, new appointments were <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00003.html";>announced</a> for Sam Hartman, Tollef Fog Heen, and
Didier Raboud.
</p>
<p>A recap of <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00004.html";>miscellaneous developer news.</p>
<ul>
<li>Gitorious and Codehaus will be closing soon. <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/";>Gitorious</a> will shut down at the
end of May and <a href="https://codehaus.org/";>Codehaus</a> will be removing projects from April 2nd onwards.</li>
<li>There is currently a queue of prospective Debian members waiting for
Application Managers (Ams). If you would like to help please contact the
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FrontDesk";>New Members Front Desk</a>.</li>
<li>check-all-the-things is a tool to check all of the things related to an unpacked
or post-build source package or VCS repository. It will <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/check-all-the-things_2015.02.04.html";>soon be available in</a>
experimental and can be checked out from collab-maint git.</li>
<li>Debian's hardware donations wishlist has moved to the Debian wiki to allow all
Debian contributors to add their Debian-related hardware wishlists. If you have
a need for hardware to enable your work on Debian, please <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Wanted#add";>add an entry</a> to the
wiki so that hardware donors can contact you about it.</li>
<li>There has been a change in how our <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-services-admin/2015/01/msg00002.html";>SSL cert config</a> is setup. Going forward
DSA-administered machines do not trust any CA certs and will only trust SSL
certs for debian.org services.</li>
</ul>
<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reminder: <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/03/msg00121.html";>Bug Squashing party</a> in Salzburg/Austria. 17 - 19 April 2015.</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyJessie";>Debian Jessie Release Parties - listed Alphabetically</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web site,
or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu";>Europe</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl";>Netherlands</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha";>Hispanic America</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na";>North America</a>.
</p>
<p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our
<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org";>Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>
<p>
##XXX applicants have been
##<a href="https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done";>accepted</a>
## as Debian Developers,
1 applicant has been
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2015/03/msg00054.html";>accepted</a>
as Debian Maintainer, and
3 people have <a href="https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started
to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
#DMs
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda,
#DCs
Jessie Frazelle,
Rodney Dawes,
and
Tycho Andersen
into our project!</p>
<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>
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## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query â?? http://ur1.ca/8p8lo
## example:
# <rcstatslink release="Wheezy"
# url="http://www.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-23";
# testing="734"
# tobefixed="496" />
#
# In case Tolimar's blog post has not been published this week, one can use the shorten form:
# /!\ s/rcstatslink/rcstats/
#
# <rcstats release="Wheezy"
# testing="613"
# tobefixed="410" />
<rcstatslink release="Jessie"
url="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/04/10-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_15/";
testing="82"
tobefixed="40" />
<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="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3177">mod-gnutls</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3181">xen</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3182">libssh2</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3183">movabletype-opensource</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3184">gnupg</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3185">ibgcrypt11</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3186">nss</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3187">icu</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3188">freetype</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3189">libav</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3190">putty</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3191">gnutls26</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3192">checkpw</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3193">tcpdump</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3194">libxfont</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3195">php5</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3196">file</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3197">openssl</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3198">php5</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3199">xerces-c</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3200">drupal7</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3201">iceweasel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3202">mono</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3203">tor</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3204">python-django</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3205">batik</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3206">dulwich</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3207">shibboleth-sp2</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3208">freexl</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3209">openldap</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3210">wireshark</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3211">icewaesel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3212">icedove</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3213">arj</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3214">mailman</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3215">libgd2</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3216">tor</a>, and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2015/dsa-3217">dpkg</a>.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
<p>The Debian team in charge of Squeeze Long Term Support released
security update announcements for these packages:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00003.html";>libarchive</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00004.html";>redcloth</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00005.html";>konversation</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00006.html";>axis</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00007.html";>mod-gnutls</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00008.html";>libssh2</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00009.html";>libextlib-ruby </a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00010.html";>putty</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00011.html";>tcpdump</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00012.html";>gnupg</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00013.html";>mono</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00014.html";>openssl</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00015.html";>tor</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html";>tzdata</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00017.html";>gnutls26</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00018.html";>xerces-c</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00019.html";>batik</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00020.html";>libxfont</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00021.html";>binutils</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00022.html";>freetype</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00000.html";>mailman</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00001.html";>tor</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00002.html";>arj</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00003.html";>libgd2</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00004.html";>libgcrypt11</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00005.html";>checkpw</a>, and
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html";>ntp</a>.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
# <p>Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages:
#<a href="https://lists.debian.org/";></a>,
# Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
<p>Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2015/03/msg00000.html";>tzdata</a>, and
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2015/03/msg00001.html";>libdatetime-timezone-perl</a>.
Please read it 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="https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/";>security mailing
list</a> (and the separate <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/";>backports
list</a>, <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/";>stable updates
list</a>, and <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/";>long term
support security updates list</a>) for announcements.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>
<p>
66 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. <a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg";>Among
many others</a> are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pipexec";>pipexec â?? create a directed graph of processes and pipes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/superkb";>superkb â?? Hotkey-based application launcher with on-screen hints</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/golang-logrus-dev";>golang-logrus-dev â?? Logrus: a logging library for Go</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/afl";>afl â?? instrumentation-driven fuzzer for binary formats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-beanbag";>python-beanbag â?? Helper module for accessing REST APIs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rofi";>rofi â?? window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/yubikey-neo-manager";>yubikey-neo-manager â?? YubiKey NEO management graphical user interface</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ksmtuned";>ksmtuned â?? enables and tunes Kernel Samepage Merging</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fw4spl";>fw4spl â?? FrameWork for Software Production Line</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-beanbag";>python-beanbag â?? Helper module for accessing REST APIs</a></li>
</ul>
<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry>
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## orphaned= number of packages orphaned according to $link
## rfa= number of packages up for adoption according to $link
<wnpp link="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/04/msg00088.html";
orphaned="667"
rfa="147" />
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