Re: Debian Project News - February 6th, 2012
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> February 6th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/03/
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> Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
> community. Topics covered in this issue include:
>
>
>
> * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released
> * Bits from the Release Team
> * Bits from the piuparts maintainers
> * Report from Debian Med sprint
> * Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze
> * Answering Debian users' questions
> * Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party
> * GNOME Shell 3.2 in "Wheezy" : a retrospective
> * 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?
>
>
> Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released
> -------------------------------------
>
>
> The fourth update for Debian 6.0 (codenamed [1] "Squeeze" ) has been released.
> This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable
> release, along with some adjustments for serious problems.
>
> 1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120128
>
>
> Bits from the Release Team
> --------------------------
>
>
> Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Release Team [2] where he announced
> various bits of news: the addition of armhf and s390x to testing (though these
> architectures may be temporarily out of sync with the others), the acceptance
> of a new release goal ( "security hardening build flags" ), and the completion
> of more than fourteen transitions to testing (including GNOME 3, Perl 5.14,
> Python 2.7, etc.). Niels also issued a reminder that the freeze is due in June,
> even if an exact freeze date has not been selected.
>
> 2 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00009.html
>
>
> In addition, Niels announced that Cyril Brulebois joined the Release Team,
> becoming Release Assistant: congratulations Cyril!
>
>
>
> Bits from the piuparts maintainers
> ----------------------------------
>
>
> Holger Levsen sent some bits from the piuparts maintainers [3] announcing that
> piuparts is again maintained by a team and they're receiving various patches
> and other contributions. piuparts is an important tool for Quality Assurance
> within Debian as it runs various tests in order to verify that packages can be
> installed, upgraded and removed without problems. Tests results are publicly
> available on the piuparts website [4], where they are updated on a daily basis.
> Holger urged maintainers to regularly check their personal status pages on
> piuparts in order to fix issues related to their packages. In addition to their
> regular tests, since December 2011, the piuparts maintainers have been testing
> the upgrade of individual packages from [5] "Squeeze" to "Wheezy" : 158
> packages failed the test (and another 130 failed it due to dependencies) while
> 33,708 passed it.
>
> 3 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00007.html
> 4 : http://piuparts.debian.org
> 5 : http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/
>
>
> Report from Debian Med sprint
> -----------------------------
>
>
> Andreas Tille sent a report from the Debian Med sprint [6] held in Southport,
> UK on 27-29 January. Among other activities, the Debian Med team fixed some
> bugs, mentored new members and students (consolidating the effort made via the
> [7] "Mentoring of the Month" initiative) and packaged new software.
>
> For more information on Debian Med activity, you can check their real time
> activity page [8].
>
> 6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/01/msg00452.html
> 7 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
> 8 : http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/
>
>
> Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> Petter Reinholdtsen announced on his blog that the next version of Debian
> Edu/Squeeze will contain a new tool, called sitesummary2ldapdhcp [9], which
> allows all the computers of a school to be quickly set up with a minimal number
> of manual steps. Once the central server is installed, this tool collects data
> from the network to generate system objects in the LDAP database. After a few
> modifications of the configuration from a GUI, the network of computers is
> ready to use.
>
> A third beta version of Debian Edu based on "Squeeze" and containing this tool
> has just been released.
>
> 9 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html
>
>
> Answering Debian users' questions
> ---------------------------------
>
>
> Raphaël Hertzog wrote a useful blogpost about how to answer the questions of
> Debian users [10] and, in general, how to support new users. There are many
> places for helping users (mailing lists [11], IRC channels [12], questions &
> answers websites [13], etc.) each with different characteristics, but the
> golden rule for every support channel is to be respectful and courteous (as
> stated in the Debian Community Guidelines [14]).
>
> 10 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/24/answering-questions-of-debian-users-on-various-support-channels/
> 11 : http://lists.debian.org/users.html#debian-user
> 12 : http://wiki.debian.org/IRC
> 13 : ask.debian.net
> 14 : http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/
>
>
> Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> Paul Wise announced a Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party [15] to be held on
> 25 and 26 February and organised by the Games Team [16]. The idea is to create
> screenshots for as many games in Debian/Ubuntu as possible and upload them to
> screenshots.debian.net [17] in order to have them available to goplay [18] (a
> games package browser).
>
> For more information, you can visit the related wiki page [19].
>
> 15 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/02/03/debian-ubuntu-games-screenshot-party/
> 16 : http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team
> 17 : http://screenshots.debian.net/
> 18 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/goplay
> 19 : http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties/Screenshots
>
>
> GNOME Shell 3.2 in "Wheezy" : a retrospective
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Jordi Mallach wrote an article on the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 in
> Debian [20] from the Debian GNOME Team point of view. "When you’re dealing
> with dozens of GNOME source packages at the same time, many of which introduce
> new libraries, or worse, introduce incompatible APIs that affect many more
> unrelated packages, things get hairy, and you need a plan" Jordi said. But even
> with a plan for a smooth transition, they encountered a lot of difficulties,
> such as failures to build from source on various architectures and
> incompatibilities with other packages. Finally GNOME Shell 3.2 has transitioned
> to Debian's testing suite and Jordi thanks not only all Debian GNOME Team
> members, but also Release Team members Julien Cristau and Cyril Brulebois and
> FTP assistant Luca Falavigna, who helped in reaching this goal.
>
> 20 : http://oskuro.net/blog/freesoftware/gnome-shell-3.2-in-wheezy-2012-01-31-01-23
>
>
> Interviews
> ----------
>
> There has been a
> "People behind Debian" interview withJosselin Mouette [21], founder of the
> Debian GNOME team.
>
> 21 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/27/people-behind-debian-josselin-mouette-founder-of-the-debian-gnome-team/
>
>
> Other news
> ----------
>
> The 28th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [22] has been released
> and covers the following topics:
>
> 22 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00005.html
>
>
> * Debian Member Portfolio Service
> * Release goals bugs displayed in the PTS
> * Transitions displayed in the PTS
> * dh_linktree helper tool
> * Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status
>
>
> The Debian website is now also optimised for handheld devices [23].
>
> 23 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654205
>
> Didier Raboud announced the birth of a new mailing list dedicated to everyone
> interested in discussing mobile inferfaces in Debian [24]. The debian-mobile
> mailing list [25] is intended as a place for "discussions around packaging
> suitable mobile interfaces for Debian" . For more information about running
> Debian on mobile devices, you can visit themobile [26] and smartphone [27] wiki
> pages.
>
> 24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00076.html
> 25 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile
> 26 : http://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
> 27 : http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone
>
>
> Micheal Gilbert wrote an article on a recent security flaw [28] (CVE-2012-0064
> [29]) and how it was handled by distributions. Thanks also to the detailed
> research by the discoverer of the issue, Debian reacted really fast and the
> issue was already fixed in Debian unstable less than six hours after the
> disclosure.
>
> 28 : https://lwn.net/Articles/477062/
> 29 : http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0064
>
>
> Andrew Pollock wrote some bits from the ISC DHCP Maintainer [30]: during a
> meeting with upstream, he gave them an overview of his packages on Debian
> advocating GNU/Hurd patches. A nice example of good distribution maintainer
> practices.
>
> 30 : http://blog.andrew.net.au/2012/01/21
>
>
> Ben Hutchings announced that Debian 7.0 [31] "Wheezy" will include Linux 3.2,
> which is currently in unstable and will soon enter testing.
>
> 31 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00012.html
>
>
> Lior Kaplan blogged about the upcoming PHP 5.4.0 [32] release, a pre-release
> version is already available in the experimental repository. Lior worked in
> particular on PHP extensions in order to make them compatible with PHP 5.4.
>
> 32 : http://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/php-5-4-debian/
>
>
> Upcoming events
> ---------------
>
> There are several upcoming Debian-related events:
>
>
>
> * February 10-12, Oslo, Norway —Skolelinux/Debian Edu developers meeting
> [33]
> * February 10-12, Minsk, Belarus — Debian contributors and enthusiasts will
> be present at the winter edition ofLinux Vacation / Eastern Europe [34]
> * February 15, Redwood Shores, CA, USA — [35] "Multiarch and Why You Should
> Care: Running, Installing and Crossbuilding With Multiple Architectures" by
> Wookey at Embedded Linux Conference
> * February 17-19, Paris, France —Debian Bug Squashing Party [36]
>
>
> You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the
> events section [37] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events
> mailing lists for different regions: Europe [38], Netherlands [39], Hispanic
> America [40], North America [41].
>
> 33 : http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2012-02-10-12-Oslo
> 34 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/LVEE/2012Winter
> 35 : https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference/wookey
> 36 : http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2012/Paris
> 37 : http://www.debian.org/events
> 38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu
> 39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl
> 40 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha
> 41 : 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 [42]? Send an email to the Debian Events
> Team [43].
>
> 42 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks
> 43 : mailto:events@debian.org
>
>
> New Debian Contributors
> -----------------------
>
>
> Six applicants have been accepted
> as Debian Maintainer, and nine people have started to maintain packages
> [44] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News.
> Please welcome Neutron Soutmun, Boris Pek, Christian M.
> Amsüss, Alexandre Mestiashvili, Emmanuel "Kasper" Kasprzyk, Aleksey
> Kravchenko, Dan Stowell, Adam Michal Ziaja, Sebastian Boehm, Cyril Lavier,
> Phillip Susi, Jose Ernesto Davila Pantoja, Peter Drysdale, Dominique Lasserre
> and Antono Vasiljev into our project!
>
> 44 : 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
> [45], the upcoming release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" , is currently affected
> by 695 Release-Critical bugs.
> Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved,
> roughly speaking, about 482 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the
> release to happen.
>
> 45 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi
>
> There are also more detailed statistics [46] as well as some hints on
> how to interpret [47] these numbers.
>
> 46 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-05
> 47 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats
>
>
> Important Debian Security Advisories
> ------------------------------------
>
> Debian's Security Team recently released
> advisories for these packages (among others): rails [48] (update),
> cacti [49] (update), openssl [50], bip [51], libxml2 [52], wireshark [53],
> qemu-kvm [54], icu [55], curl [56], php5 [57], iceweasel [58], tomcat6 [59],
> iceape [60], php5 [61] and xen-qemu-dm-4.0 [62].
> Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
>
> 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
> 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2384
> 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2392
> 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2393
> 52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2394
> 53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2395
> 54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2396
> 55 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2397
> 56 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2398
> 57 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2399
> 58 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2400
> 59 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2401
> 60 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2402
> 61 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2403
> 62 : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2404
>
>
> Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package
> clive [63]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.
>
> 63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2012/02/msg00000.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 [64] (and the separate backports list [65], and stable
> updates list [66] or volatile list [67], for "Lenny" , the oldstable
> distribution) for announcements.
>
> 64 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
> 65 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/
> 66 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/
> 67 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/
>
>
> New and noteworthy packages
> ---------------------------
>
>
> 1008 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many
> others [68] are:
>
> 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
>
>
> * clinica — simple medical records manager [69]
> * coinst — computes the co-installability kernel of a deb or RPM repository
> [70]
> * espeak-gui — graphical user interface for eSpeak [71]
> * instead — simple text adventures/visual novels engine [72]
> * pyformex — program to create 3D geometry from Python scripts [73]
> * actionaz — emulate human activity through a powerful GUI and JavaScript
> [74]
> * apper — KDE package management tool [75]
> * vagrant — tool for building and distributing virtualized development
> environments [76]
>
> 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clinica
> 70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/coinst
> 71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/espeak-gui
> 72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/instead
> 73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pyformex
> 74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/actionaz
> 75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apper
> 76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vagrant
>
> Work-needing packages
> ---------------------
>
> Currently 390 packages are orphaned [77] and 148 packages are up for
> adoption [78]: please visit the complete
> list of packages which need your help [79].
>
> 77 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
> 78 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
> 79 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested
>
>
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> -----------------------------
>
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> contributing page [80] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to
> receiving your mail at debian-publicity@lists.debian.org [81].
>
> 80 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute
> 81 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
>
>
>
> This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Francesca
> Ciceri, David Prévot, Justin B Rye and Paul Wise [82].
>
> 82 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
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