------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org September 16th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/16/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's sixteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Women IRC meeting * Bits from the Release Team * Bits from the DPL * Videos of DebConf13 available * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Debian Women IRC meeting ------------------------ The Debian Women group held an IRC meeting [1] on September 7 on the topic of how to encourage women to get involved in Debian. Projects were discussed for the next Outreach Program for Women, but also smaller tasks and rewards for people that do not know how to contribute. It was also proposed to hold local events, possibly with other groups of women involved in FLOSS, and to restart IRC training sessions. The meeting was well attended and discussions continued after the official end. Margarita Manterola published minutes of the meeting [2]. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2013/09/msg00020.html 2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2013/09/msg00032.html Bits from the Release Team -------------------------- Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Release Team [3], containing proposals to improve the Jessie development cycle: a change to the testing migration rule, automated removals and automated metrics for architecture qualification for Jessie. 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/08/msg00006.html In related news, Jonathan Wiltshire called for release goals for Jessie [4]. To propose a goal, create a wiki page [5] before September 30 with a short description of the goal, details of the advocate(s) and how the goal will be achieved. 4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/09/msg00001.html 5: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals Bits from the DPL ----------------- Lucas Nussbaum sent his monthly report of DPL activities for August 2013 [6]. Among other things, Lucas mentioned the status of MariaDB in Debian and the fact that Debian was invited to participate in the OpenZFS community. He also summarised some actions taken as a consequence of the survey of new contributors [7], such as the creation of a package how-can-i-help, and moves to encourage the asking of packaging questions on localised mailing lists. He also mentioned that the next Outreach Program for Women will start soon. If you are willing to be a coordinator for the Debian side, please contact the Debian Women mailing list [8]. 6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/09/msg00002.html 7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/08/msg00011.html 8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/ Videos of DebConf13 available ----------------------------- Thanks to the amazing work of the DebConf Video Team, there are video recordings available for download [9] of many sessions of DebConf13 [10], which took place in August, in Vaumarcus, Switzerland. Sylvestre Ledru announced on his blog [11] that they can be viewed through a nice HTML5 interface on the IRILL website [12]. 9: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/ 10: http://debconf13.debconf.org/ 11: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2013/08/19/video-of-debconf-13-available 12: http://www.irill.org/videos/debconf13 Francesca Ciceri made a start on providing English subtitles for some of these videos [13] and getting them translated into various languages. Some are already available [14] online. If you would like to help with this initiative, have a look at the dedicated page on the DebConf wiki [15]. 13: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20130816.100346.cce380e6.en.html 14: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/subtitles/ 15: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam/Subtitles If you enjoyed the work of the DebConf Video Team, you can leave a kind message on their wiki page [16]. 16: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Videoteam/Thanks Other news ---------- Raphaël Hertzog announced on his blog [17] that the first chapters of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook are now available updated for Debian 7. 17: http://debian-handbook.info/2013/first-chapters-of-the-debian-administrators-handbook-updated-for-debian-7/ Andreas Tille put a spotlight on two Debian infrastructure teams that are in need of contributors: Internationalisation and DebTags [18]. If you want to contribute to Debian's infrastructure and do work directly visible for users, please consider joining these teams. 18: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/msg00065.html Martin Zobel-Helas sent his report of the GanetiConf 2013 [19], where he gave a talk about Debian's experience of Ganeti. Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool that has been deployed to all of the new Debian KVM virtualization servers. 19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/msg00042.html New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 8 applicants have been accepted [20] as Debian Developers, 12 applicants have been [21] accepted [22] as Debian Maintainers, and 33 people have started to maintain packages [23] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Hannes von Haugwitz, Nicolas Dandrimont, Brian Gupta, Richard Michael Hartmann, Agustin Henze, Alberto Garcia, James Downing Page, Michael Beattie, Apollon Oikonomopoulos, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho, Maarten Lankhorst, Martijn van Brummelen, Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli, Uwe Kleine-König, Colin King, Joe Healy, Adrien Grellier, Phillip Susi, Sergey Suslov, Tom Jampen, Adam Stokes, Oliver Sander, Daniel Mizyrycki, Petr Salinger, David Suárez, Stephen Nelson, Pablo Oliveira, Maarten Lankhorst, Laurent Destailleur, Bas Couwenberg, Emanuele Aina, Daniel Pfeiffer, Jack Bates, Dirk Huenniger, Andrea Rota, Guillaume Bouteille, Jose M Calhariz, Olof Johansson, Jackson Doak, Simon Kainz, Micah Gersten, Miles Lubin, Axel Wagner, Anton Balashov, Benjamin Barenblat, Tonnerre Lombard, Federico Brega, David Parsons, Axel Wagner, Léo Cavaillé, Stewart Smith, Maarten L. Hekkelman, and Thomas Bechtold into our project! 20: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/07/msg00024.html 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/09/msg00038.html 23: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): php-radius [24], openjdk-6 [25], bind9 [26], openafs [27], gnupg [28], libgcrypt11 [29], chromium-browser [30, 39], otrs2 [31], wireshark [32, 53], iceweasel [33], putty [34], swift [35], ruby1.9.1 [36], cacti [37, 45], python-django [38, 52], php5 [40], kfreebsd-9 [41], tiff [42], linux [43], icedove [44], cacti [45], exactimage [46, 51], asterisk [47], imagemagick [48], libmodplug [49], phpbb3 [50], and wordpress [54]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 24: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2726 25: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2727 26: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2728 27: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2729 28: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2730 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2731 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2732 31: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2733 32: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2734 33: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735 34: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2736 35: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2737 36: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2738 37: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2739 38: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2740 39: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741 40: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2742 41: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2743 42: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2744 43: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2745 44: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746 45: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2747 46: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2748 47: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2749 48: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2750 49: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2751 50: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2752 51: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2754 52: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2755 53: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2756 54: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757 Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the packages: tzdata [55] and libdatetime-timezone-perl [56]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures. 55: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2013/09/msg00000.html 56: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2013/09/msg00001.html 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 [57] (and the separate backports list [58], and stable updates list [59]) for announcements. 57: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 58: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 59: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 1598 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [60] are: * apt-listdifferences — source differences notification tool [61] * ben — toolbox for Debian maintainers [62] * berusky2 — logic game Bugs Escape 3D [63] * calypso — CalDAV/CardDAV server with git backend [64] * codesearch — regular expression search over large bodies of source code [65] * curseofwar — fast-paced action strategy game for Linux based on ncurses [66] * cyclograph — route altimetry plotting application [67] * dateutils — nifty command line date and time utilities [68] * dgit — git interoperability with the Debian archive [69] * dianara — client for the pump.io federated social network [70] * git-remote-gcrypt — encrypted git repositories [71] * how-can-i-help — opportunities for contributing to Debian [72] * iwyu — tool to analyze #includes in C and C++ source files [73] * jitsi — VoIP and Instant Messaging client [74] * mnemonicode — tool to convert binary data into a sequence of words [75] * morris — nine men's morris game [76] * seahorse-adventures — help Barbie the seahorse float on bubbles to the moon [77] * stegsnow — steganography using ASCII files [78] 60: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 61: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apt-listdifferences 62: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ben 63: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/berusky2 64: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/calypso 65: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/codesearch 66: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/curseofwar 67: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cyclograph 68: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dateutils 69: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dgit 70: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dianara 71: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/git-remote-gcrypt 72: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/how-can-i-help 73: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/iwyu 74: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jitsi 75: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mnemonicode 76: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/morris 77: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/seahorse-adventures 78: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/stegsnow Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [79] 535 packages are orphaned [80] and 135 packages are up for adoption [81]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [82]. 79: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/09/msg00217.html 80: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 81: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 82: 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 [83] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org>. 83: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Justin B Rye and Thomas Vincent.
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