------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org April 16th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/08/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's eight issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian project leader elected * Registration open for DebConf12 * Personal BSP initiatives * The state of Debian s390x * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian project leader elected ----------------------------- The Debian project has just reelected Stefano Zacchiroli for a third year as Debian Project Leader [1]. More than 80% of voters put him as their first choice (or equal first) on their ballot papers. 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120415 Stefano's large majority over his opponents shows how satisfied the Debian project is with his work so far, and its wish for him to represent the project during one last term — Stefano has already announced he won't be seeking reelection again next year. Wouter Verhelst and Gergely Nagy also gained a lot of support from Debian project members, both coming hundreds of votes ahead of the "None of the above" ballot choice. Registration open for DebConf12 ------------------------------- The Debian project is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the DebConf12 [2] conference, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, from Sunday 8 July to Saturday 14 July 2012. The conference will be preceded as usual by a week-long DebCamp, from Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July. It will only be possible to apply for food and accommodation grants and/or travel grants until 15 May. 2 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120412 Debian also invites submissions of proposals [3] for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for DebConf12 until 1 June 2012. 3 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00002.html Personal BSP initiatives ------------------------ We usually give information about BSPs where a group of people meet over a weekend, but today we'd like to mention two personal initiatives. Gregor Herrmann has reported every [4] week [5] over [6] ten [7] Release-Critical bugs squashed. Gerfried Fuchs also regularly reports on stable Release-Critical bugs squashed, and has managed to squash over [8] thirty [9] bugs [10] each month. We would like to thank Gregor Herrmann, Gerfried Fuchs and all other RC bug addicts who are constantly helping to make our distribution better. 4 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-08T21_24_42.txt 5 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-01T17_50_17.txt 6 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/03/#e2012-03-25T20_46_42.txt 7 : http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/03/#e2012-03-18T14_31_19.txt 8 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/04/02#squeeze-RCs-2012-3 9 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/02/08#squeeze-RCs-2012-2 10 : http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/01/19#squeeze-RCs-2012-1 The state of Debian s390x ------------------------- Philipp Kern posted an update on the current state of the Debian s390x port [11]. Work started on this port last summer, during DebConf11 [12], and in less than a month it already had almost 65% of packages built. Unfortunately, a new GLib release created some problems on this architecture; but recently a new major release of GLib [13] fixed all the issues. The next steps for this port will be to fix open bugs [14] and to make Iceweasel build successfully. 11 : http://debblog.philkern.de/2012/04/state-of-debian-s390x.html 12 : http://blog.aurel32.net/59 13 : http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/glib2.0/news/20120330T073522Z.html 14 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=s390x;users=debian-s390@lists.debian.org Interviews ---------- Raphaël Hertzog published a "People behind Debian" interview with Francesca Ciceri [15], a member of the Debian press and publicity teams, while Petter Reinholdtsen interviewed Wolfgang Schweer [16], Justin B Rye [17] and Andreas Mundt [18] for his "Debian Edu interviews" series. 15 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/04/06/people-behind-debian-francesca-ciceri-member-of-debian-press-publicity-teams/ 16 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html 17 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html 18 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html Other news ---------- Guido Günther sent out some bits from the fifth Debian Groupware Meeting [19], which was held at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany. During the weekend the group fixed various issues and was able to push new versions of icedove [20] and d-push [21] to "unstable" while iceowl [22] (dead upstream) remains in "experimental". Some work was also done on OpenChange, Zarafa ZCP and SOGo, and several evolution bugs [23] were worked on. 19 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00000.html 20 : http://packages.debian.org/icedove 21 : http://packages.debian.org/d-push 22 : http://packages.debian.org/iceowl 23 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=evolution;dist=unstable Michael Larabel did some benchmarks to compare Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD/PC-BSD 9.0 [24] on a dual AMD Opteron 2384 system with 4 GB of RAM and a 160 GB Western Digital SATA drive. It appears that Linux is generally faster than kFreeBSD for now, but kFreeBSD won on a few tests. For more details, you can consult the complete results page [25]. 24 : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4NTY 25 : http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1202215-BY-FREEBSD9683 Sebastian Harl called for help with handling the Debian booth [26] at the Grazer Linuxtage. If you are interested in helping out, please add yourself to the wiki page [27]. 26 : https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/04/msg00000.html 27 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2012/GLT Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote a useful tutorial for new Debian Developers [28] where she explained the useful configuration changes people may want to apply just after they become DDs. 28 : http://dunetna.probeta.net/doku.php/debian:non-dd_to_dd_steps Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * April 19-20, San Francisco, USA — Debian table atOpenStack Conference [29] * April 28, Graz, Austria — Debian booth at Grazer Linuxtage [30] * April 29-30, Shanghai, China — Debian Bug Squashing Party [31] You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [32] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [33], Netherlands [34], Hispanic America [35], North America [36]. 29 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0419-openstack 30 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0428-GLT12 31 : http://www.debian.org/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp 32 : http://www.debian.org/events 33 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 34 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 35 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 36 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na 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 talks page [37]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [38]. 37 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks 38 : mailto:events@debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Five people have started to maintain packages [39] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Mike Miller, Elena Grandi, Pierre Chambart, Prach Pongpanich and Corentin Labbe into our project! 39 : http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release --------------------------------------------------------- According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database [40], the upcoming release, Debian "Wheezy", is currently affected by 726 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 517 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 40 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi There are also some hints on how to interpret [41] these numbers. 41 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): libpng [42], tiff [43], inspircd [44], sqlalchemy [45], samba [46] and puppet [47]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 42 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2446 43 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2447 44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2448 45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2449 46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2450 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 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 security mailing list [48] (and the separate backports list [49], and stable updates list [50]) for announcements. 48 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 49 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 50 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 282 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [51] are: 51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * 0ad — real-time strategy game of ancient warfare [52] * dh-ada-library — Debian helper for Ada libraries [53] * dwb — lightweight WebKit browser [54] * fonts-dosis — very simple, rounded, sans serif font family [55] * legit — Git extension to assist in manipulating branches [56] * openimageio-tools — library for reading and writing images - command line tools [57] * shellinabox — publish command line shell through Ajax interface [58] * sound-theme-freedesktop — freedesktop.org sound theme [59] * xbmc — media center [60] * xbrlapi — access software for a blind person using a braille display [61] * xul-ext-automatic-save-folder — download helper which automates the sorting and saving of files [62] 52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/0ad 53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dh-ada-library 54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dwb 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-dosis 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/legit 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openimageio-tools 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shellinabox 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sound-theme-freedesktop 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xbmc 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xbrlapi 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-automatic-save-folder Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [63] 406 packages are orphaned [64] and 160 packages are up for adoption [65]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [66]. 63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00252.html 64 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 65 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 66 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [67] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity@lists.debian.org [68]. 67 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 68 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Moray Allan, Cédric Boutillier, Francesca Ciceri, David Prévot and Justin B Rye [69]. 69 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
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