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<toc-add-entry name="bits-dpl">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Lucas Nussbaum sent his
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00005.html";>monthly
report of DPL activities for December 2013 and the first half of January 2014</a>.
Lucas started public discussions on several topics, such as
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00060.html";>\
evaluation criteria for trusted organizations
</a>
or
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00010.html";>\
Debian services and Debian infrastructure
</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="debian-france-shop">Debian France online shop open</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Sylvestre Ledru
<a href=http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2014/01/15/debian-france-shop";>reported on his blog</a>
that <a href="http://france.debian.net";>Debian France
opened an <a href="http://www.enventelibre.org/debian";>on-line shop</a>
with plenty of Debian goodies:
products already known by the community (like the
<a href="http://www.enventelibre.org/goodies/couteau-suisse-debian";>Swiss army knives</a>
or the
<a href="http://www.enventelibre.org/vetement/polo-debian";>classical polos</a>),
as they were sold during FOSDEM or various Debconfs,
but also
<a href="http://www.enventelibre.org/vetement/t-shirt-debian-logo-gris";>brand-new Wheezy-themed
t-shirts</a>.
The website is only in French, although an English version might be in the
future.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="valve">Valve games for Debian Members and Maintainers</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Niel McGovern <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00006.html";>announced</a>
that
<a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com";>Valve</a> are willing to thank the
Debian community for their operating system, on which they based
<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/";>Steam OS</a>, a
distribution for gamers. They are offering to all Debian Members and Debian
Maintainers a free subscription which provides access to all past and future
Valve produced games.
If your cryptographic key is in the
<a href="http://keyring.debian.org/";>Debian keyring</a> and you are interested
by this offer, send a GPG-signed email to
<a href="mailto:jo.shields@collabora.co.uk";>Jo Shields</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="sip">Debian real-time communication </toc-add-entry>
<p>
Daniel Pocock
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00004.html";>announced</a>
the availability of a <a href="https://rtc.debian.org/";>SIP service</a>
for Debian Members. This service, launched during the mini-DebConf in Paris,
offers real time audio and video conversation through the browser (with WebRTC)
or diverse range of traditional softphones, including Empathy, Jitsi, Lumicall,
Linphone, CSIPSimple.
There is a
<a href="https://freephonebox.net";>phonebooth</a>
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00102.html";>available</a>
for people wanting to reach Debian Members
through this service.
For more information on how to use this service, please consult the
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers";>dedicated
wiki page</a>.
This service has been made possible by a significant effort by the DSA
team over the last few weeks.
The Debian project is encouraging other free software projects, including
Debian derivatives to emulate what Debian did so that we can all call each other.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Lucas Nussbaum <a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=805";>mentionned on his blog</a>
that thank to Christophe Siraut, the
<a href="http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?";>Debian Maintainer Dashboard</a>, a service based on the
the <a href="http://udd.debian.org/";>Ultimate Debian Database</a>, now provides RSS feeds for
recently added tasks.
</p>
<p>
Adam D. Barrat announced that
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00117.html";><q>Wheezy</q> 7.4
is to be published on February, 8th</a>, and
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00118.html";><q>Squeeze</q> 6.0.9
on February, 15th</a>. The NEW queue for those distributions will be frozen one
week before the actual release date.
</p>
<p>
Clint Adams <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00119.html";>posted</a>
some statistics about the Debian keyrings, giving the repartition in terms of the type, the
length and hash algorithms of the keys used in Debian.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
<li>February 1-2, Brussels, Belgium — Debian booth at
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2014/FOSDEM";>FOSDEM</a>
</li>
<li>February 14-16, Minsk, Belarus — <a href="http://lvee.org/en/main";>LVEE</a>
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2014/01/msg00002.html";>conference</a>, Winter Edition
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents";>events section</a> of the Debian wiki,
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="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>?
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org";>Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Two applicants have been
<a href="https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done";>accepted</a>
as Debian Developers,
nine applicants have been
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/...";>accepted</a>
as Debian Maintainer, and
eleven people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started
to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
#DDs
Apollon Oikonomopoulos,
Vincent Cheng
#DMs
Diane Trout,
Héctor Romojaro Gómez,
Ximin Luo,
Reuben Thomas,
Sergiusz Pawłowicz,
Timo Weingärtner,
Christos Trochalakis,
Dmitry Shachnev,
Chris Boot,
#DCs
Marco Bardelli,
Tianon Gravi,
Ivan Mincik,
Jose Luis Rivero,
Richard Stephen Uhler,
Rupert Swarbrick,
Jorge Soares,
Sylvain Pineau,
Mark Buda,
Jyrki Pulliainen,
and
Maykel Moya
into our project!</p>
<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>
<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2835">asterisk,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2836">devscripts</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2837">openssl</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2838">libxfont</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2839">spice</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2840">srtp</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2841">movabletype-opensource</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2842">libspring-java</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2843">graphviz</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2844">djvulibre</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2845">mysql-5.1</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2846">libvirt</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2847">drupal7</a>, and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-2848">mysql-5.5</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>
369 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/entr";>entr — tool to run arbitrary commands when files change</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/htcondor";>htcondor — distributed workload management system</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/init-select";>init-select — init system selection tool</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jmtpfs";>jmtpfs — FUSE based filesystem for accessing MTP devices</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jscommunicator-web-phone";>jscommunicator-web-phone — basic SIP video-phone web page using WebRTC</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kdeconnect";>kdeconnect — tool to connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma Workspace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/menulibre";>menulibre — advanced FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/noblenote";>noblenote — Qt program for taking notes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/simpleburn";>simpleburn — minimalistic application for burning and extracting CDs and DVDs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/thc-ipv6";>thc-ipv6 — The Hacker Choice's IPv6 attack toolkit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/thermald";>thermald — thermal monitoring and controlling daemon</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//2014/01/msg00451.html";
orphaned="520"
rfa="155" />
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