On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 01:53:01AM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > [ Please reply on -publicity list ] > Hi all, > We have just finished the last bits of the new issue of DPN > to be released Monday. We would appreciate reviews and translations. > [...] Please accept my apologies for having attached the wrong file in my earlier email. Please find below the right one. Cheers, Cédric
#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2013-09-30" SUMMARY="A summary of Debian GSoc 2013, coming updates for Wheezy and Squeeze"
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<toc-add-entry name="gsoc">A summary of Debian GSoC 2013</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/";>Google Summer of Code</a>
has now come to an end, and the 16 students working on
improving Debian have sent their final reports. They've worked on various subjects
such as
<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2013-September/001888.html";>ZFS
on Linux integration</a>,
<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2013-September/001884.html";>a
rewrite of the package tracking system</a>,
<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2013-September/001879.html";>improvements
to Debian search</a>,
<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2013-September/001881.html";>scan-building
the Debian archive</a>,
<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2013-September/001889.html";>a
MIPS N32/N64 port</a>
or <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2013-September/001873.html";>the
redesign of metapackage creation for Debian Blends</a>.
The full list of Debian GSoC students and their project can be found on
<a href="http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/welcome-gsoc-students-2013.html";>the
Debian blog</a>.
The Debian project thanks the GSoC students for their amazing work and the Debian
mentors who followed them during these four months.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="releases">Coming updates for Wheezy and Squeeze</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Adam D. Barratt announced that both stable and old stable Debian releases will
be updated in the coming weeks:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/msg00089.html";>the
minor revision of Wheezy 7.2 is scheduled on October, 12</a>
and
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/msg00090.html";>the
minor revision revision of Squeeze 6.0.8 on October, 19</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Andreas Tille wrote
<a href="http://debianmed.blogspot.fr/2013/09/debconf-13-report-by-andreas-tille.html";>a
detailled report</a> of his experience in DebConf13 this summer in Switzerland.
</p>
<p>
Paul Tagliamonte wrote on his blog
<a href="http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/";>an interesting article</a>
about why and how system package managers like APT and pip, a tool to install
Python modules can coexist.
</p>
<p>
Debian Edu 7.1+edu0, the sixth Debian Edu / Skolelinux release,
based on Debian 7 <q>Wheezy</q>,
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2013/20130928">has been released on September, 28</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
<li>September, 26, Berlin, Germany — <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Germany";>Meeting of the Berlin Debian Local Group at the c-base</a></li>
<li>October, 3-5, Montrouge, France — Debian booth at the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/fr/2013/OWF";>Open World Forum</a></li>
<li>October, 10-12, Oslo, Norway — <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/10/12/no/Oslo";>Bug squashing party for Debian and Ubuntu</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="$(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="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org";>Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>
<p>
One applicant has been
<a href="https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done";>accepted</a>
as Debian Developer, and
seven people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started
to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
Jacob Appelbaum,
Doug Torrance,
Mattia Rizzolo,
bilibop project,
Simon Gareste,
Kevin Bortis,
Octavio Alvarez,
and
M. Hamish Bowman
into our project!</p>
<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>
<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2758">python-django</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2759">iceweasel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2760">chrony</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2761">puppet</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2762">icedove</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2763">pyopenssl</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2764">libvirt</a>, and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2013/dsa-2765">davfs2</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>
213 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/anomaly";>anomaly — detection of anomalous data in a numeric stream</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/catch";>catch — C++ Automated Test Cases in Headers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clang-modernize-3.4";>clang-modernize-3.4 — tool to convert C++98 and C++03 code to C++11</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cubemap";>cubemap — scalable video reflector, designed to be used with VLC</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-ebgaramond-extra";>fonts-ebgaramond-extra — EB Garamond Initials and TrueType fonts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gpg-remailer";>gpg-remailer — tool to forward re-encrypted PGP/GPG mail to a group</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ipv6toolkit";>ipv6toolkit — security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/keysync";>keysync — synchronization of OTR identities between the different chat programs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/musl";>musl — standard C library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rel2gpx";>rel2gpx — creation of GPX-track from OSM relation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/squishyball";>squishyball — audio sample comparison testing tool</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ssh-agent-filter";>ssh-agent-filter — filtering proxy for ssh-agent</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/view3dscene";>view3dscene — VRML / X3D browser, and a viewer for other 3D model formats</a></li>
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