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#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2012-10-01" SUMMARY="Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.6 released, reports from the last BSPs, results from Debian's Google Summer of Code, Mini DebConf in Paris"
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<toc-add-entry name="pointrelease">Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.6 released</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The sixth <a href="$(HOME)/News/2012/20120929">update for
Debian 6.0 (codenamed <q>Squeeze</q>)</a> has been released. This update
mainly adds corrections of security problems to the stable release,
along with some adjustments for serious problems.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="BSP">Reports from the latest BSPs</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The <a href="http://beta.howtorecognise.mine.nu/blog/Dublin_BSP.html";>bug
squashing party held in Dublin</a> on Saturday, 8 September
was hosted in Google office space and gathered 15 people.
In addition to its impact on the Release-Critical bugs list it triggered
the bootstrapping of a local Debian community with the desire to
hold a second such party in October.
</p>
<p>
The following weekend, another
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/09/msg00008.html";>bug
squashing party held in Berlin</a> gathered approximately 25 people who also
worked on German translations besides dealing with Release-Critical bugs.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="gsoc">Results from Debian's Google Summer of Code</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Ana Guerrero sent a
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00011.html";>report
about Debian's Google Summer of Code</a>. Debian has been participating in the
Google Summer of Code since 2006, and sponsored 15 projects this year, of which 12
finished successfully.
Students supervised by Debian mentors worked on various aspects of the
project, including improvements to mentors.debian.net, the development
of multi-arch cross-toolchains, and metrics for team activities, to
name just three. Some of these results have already been included into Debian.
The Debian project thanks those who took part, including especially the
students for their contributions, and invites them to continue being involved
in making Debian better.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="mini-debconf">Mini DebConf in Paris</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Sylvestre Ledru, on the behalf of the
<a href="http://france.debian.net/";>organisation team</a>, announced that
the <a href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-Paris/2012";>second
Mini DebConf in Paris</a> will take place on 24 and 25Â November
and will be hosted by <a href="http://epita.fr/";>EPITA</a>. His
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00009.html";>message</a>
mentions that a BSP will be in progress through the entire event,
and that they're currently soliciting talks for the event.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="interviews">Interviews</toc-add-entry>
<p>There has been a
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju/";>DebianEdu interview</a> with
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html";>Giorgio Pioda</a>
who describes, among other things, how he got involved in Debian Edu and his views about it.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Since the <a href="http://cia.vc/";>CIA service</a> for
monitoring <acronym lang="en" title="version control
system">VCS</acronym> repositories via IRC is now dead, MartÃn Ferrari
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/09/msg00057.html";>proposed
KGB</a> as a replacement.
</p>
<p>
Ansgar Burchardt, on behalf of the FTP team, announced some
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html";>changes
to the Debian Maintainer upload permissions system</a>. The new interface replaces
the old DMUA field, which will stop working on 24 November 2012.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
<li>October 13-14, Utrecht, Netherlands â?? <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/1013-utrecht-bsp">Debian bug squashing party at Randomdata</a></li>
<li>October 13-17, New Orleans, USA â?? <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/1013-SfN12">Debian booth at Neuroscience 2012</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web site,
or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu";>Europe</a>,
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl";>Netherlands</a>,
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha";>Hispanic America</a>,
<a href="http://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="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org";>Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Eight applicants have been
<a href="http://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done";>accepted</a>
as Debian Developers,
six applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/09/msg00047.html";>accepted</a>
as Debian Maintainers, and
two people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started
to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
# DD
Tobias Hansen,
Cédric Boutillier,
Sébastien Villemot,
Thibaut Jean-Claude Paumard,
Nicolas Boulenguez,
Janos Guljas,
Asias He,
Per Andersson,
# DM
Emilien Klein,
Sascha Steinbiss,
Ahmed Toulan,
Bernhard Schmidt,
Jeroen Dekkers,
Andreas Rönnquist,
# UDD
Josue Ortega,
and
Kai Lüke
into our project!</p>
<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>
<rcstats release="Wheezy"
testing="480"
tobefixed="266" />
<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>
<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2549">devscripts</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2550">asterisk</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2551">isc-dhcp</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2553">iceweasel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2554">iceape</a>, and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2552">tiff</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>) for announcements.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>
<p>
114 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/hdav";>hdav â?? command-line WebDAV client</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jvm-7-avian-jre";>jvm-7-avian-jre â?? lightweight virtual machine using the OpenJDK class library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/libglyr1";>glyr â?? search engine for music-related metadata</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openstreetmap-client";>openstreetmap-client â?? OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-reloadevery";>xul-ext-reloadevery â?? Iceweasel extension to reload web pages in regular intervals</a></li>
</ul>
<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry>
## link= link to the mail report from wnpp@debian.org to debian-devel ML
## orphaned= number of packages orphaned according to $link
## rfa= number of packages up for adoption according to $link
<wnpp link="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00639.html";
orphaned="470"
rfa="137" />
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