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#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2014-11-14" SUMMARY="The Debian Community combats Global Warming with a Freeze, Tokyo area Debian study group, first Jessie based Debian Edu released, LTS Reports for October 2014, other reports, Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Fall, Who's using Debian Audit, 2014 Mini-DebConf in Cambridge at ARM"
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<toc-add-entry name="Freezing">The Debian Community combats Global Warming with a Freeze.</toc-add-entry>
<p>The Release Team is proud to <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00003.html";>announce</a> that Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is frozen.
Further updates to this release will be restricted to bug fixes only.
</p>
<p>
Lucas Nussbaum <a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=854";>wonders</a> if we can release Jessie before <a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/";>FOSDEM</a>, with Jessie
frozen on November 5th as planned and at the time of the freeze, 310 RC bugs
remained to be fixed. This is quite an achievement from the project as a whole,
and the Release Team specifically. First, we froze on the date announced more
than a year ago, and the freeze seems to have been well respected by all
maintainers.
Second, with 310 RC bugs at the time of the freeze, we are probably breaking
a record for all recent Debian releases. Could we have the shorter Debian
freeze ever? Given that FOSDEM is 12 weeks away, could we even release before
FOSDEM, and have a big party there to celebrate?
</p>
<p>
Richard Hartmann posted the <a href="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2014/11/07-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_45/";>Release Critical Bug report for Week 45</a> which
highlights the work needed to be done to push Jessie into release. There are
1,154 bugs of which 295 directly affect Jessie which we need to get down to
ZERO. Remaining are 229 bugs which affect both Jessie and unstable and 66
which affect Jessie only. He also posts a table of data which compares our
current status to the Squeeze release cycle. Not to be lost in the pretty data
and <a href="http://richardhartmann.de/img/rc_bugs_report_en_2014-45.png";>graph</a> is the request that if you are able please look into the <a href="http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie&merged=ign&rc=1&keypackages=only&chints=1&cdeferred=1&crttags=1";>key</a>
<a href="http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_and_sid&merged=ign&rc=1&keypackages=only&chints=1&cdeferred=1&crttags=1";>packages</a> which need the most help.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="Debkyo">Tokyo area Debian study group</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The <a href="http://tokyodebian.alioth.debian.org/";>Tokyo area Debian study group</a> staff held its 119th meeting starting with a
Debian common sense quiz, moved onto a discussion of the LibreOffice package
in Debian and desires to the see more upstream and downstream support. They
also had <a href="http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.de/2014/11/meeting-event-with-libo-people-in-tokyo.html";>a hands on event</a> for with debian-installer beta2 for Debian 8, Jessie.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="DebEdu">First Jessie based Debian Edu released</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Petter Reinholdtsen <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/10/msg00006.html";>announced</a> the first Jessie based Debian Edu release.
Debian Edu also known as <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/";>Skolelinux</a> is a complete operating system for schools,
with support for servers, workstations, and laptops working together on a
school network. The creation of a multi-user multi-machine study environment
can be completed in a few hours with hundreds of applications pre-installed.
Further details of the release include information about its current
distribution, <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie";>documentation</a> and <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie";>status</a>.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="LTS">LTS Reports for October 2014</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Thorsten Alteholz was assigned a workload of 13.75 hours towards Squeeze LTS
which allowed him to upload new versions of rsyslog security, torque security,
and libxml2 among others. He was also able to prepare a new upload of wget,
and sends congratulatory kudos to the Security Team who deal with support on a
daily basis.
</p>
<p>
Raphaël Hertzog <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/11/04/my-debian-lts-report-for-october-2014/";>reported</a> on 10 hours of paid LTS work with the CVE triage of
23 commits to the security tracker, the filing of several bug reports, a
sponsored upload, and mysql-5.1 and apache2 security updates. This month he
shares some thoughts on the workflow and user base of the project. The project
still needs help from its users, who are asked to subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/";>mailing list</a>
and to test some of the packages being submitted, and help by way of
organizations joining the project by providing help directly or <a href="http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html";>sponsoring</a>
others to do the work.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="Reports">Other Reports</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Thorsten Alteholz <a href="http://blog.alteholz.eu/2014/11/my-debian-activities-in-october-2014/";>blogged</a> his October 2014 Debian activities report which
started with working in the FTP assistant role which has seen a spike of
uploads as developers try to get their packages in prior to the freeze.
</p>
<p>
Thomas Goirand greatly <a href="http://thomas.goirand.fr/blog/?p=225";>detailed</a> his OpenStack packaging activity for October.
His work involved patch submissions, uploads of multiple release candidates
through various stages, and the writing of a new system in openstack-pkg-tools.
He also backported python-libvirt, python-setuptools, and some needed
JS packages. The OpenStack Juno packages were all uploaded and ready by the
day of the upstream release.
</p>
<p>
Raphaël Hertzog <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/11/05/my-free-software-activities-in-october-2014/";>updates</a> his free software activities for the month of October
with packaging work towards the upcoming Jessie freeze, bugfixes for Publican,
the first point release of Django 1.7.1 to unstable, and package sponsorship.
Work on the Distro Tracker continued, along with a request for others to
<a href="http://tracker.debian.org/docs/contributing.html";>contribute</a> to the project with plenty of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/tracker.debian.org";>easy bugs to fix<a/>. All of the Distro
Tracker instances he manages are nor running Django which he opted to make
mandatory.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="OSC2014">Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Fall</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Hideki Yamane <a href="http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.de/2014/10/open-source-conference-2014-tokyofall.html";>blogged</a> about the Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Fall. Over
1,500 attendees participated over 2 days at the event which focused on FOSS.
The <a href="http://tokyodebian.alioth.debian.org/";>Tokyo area Debian study group</a> maintained a booth, gave out fliers, DVDs and
information. In the Debian community session Nobuhiro Iwamatsu spoke Debian8,
Jessie.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="Whos">Who's using Debian Audit</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The <a href="https://www.debian.org/users/";>Who's using Debian</a> page lists Educational, Commercial, Government and
non-profit organizations that use Debian. Over the course of time the page
has collected a few stale entries that need to be removed or updated in order
to keep the listing relevant and current. Toward that goal, the page and
entries will undergo an <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2014/10/msg00019.html";>audit</a>. Comments, suggestions, and interested parties are
welcome.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="JessRemoved">Jessie removals/updates</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Matthias Klumpp shared via blog, <a href="http://blog.tenstral.net/2014/11/the-state-of-appstreamgnome-software-in-debian-jessie.html";>the state of AppStream/GNOME-Software</a> in
Debian Jessie. When GNOME was updated to 3.14, the normal functionality for
update notifications was moved from gnome-settings-daemon to GNOME-Software.
As GNOME-Software requires additional integration work by the
distributors, GNOME systems are currently without update notifications as <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/";>AppStream</a> metadata is
not yet available in Debian and its full integration to Jessie has been
postponed though with an option to include some metadata for GNOME and KDE to
use via normal .deb packages.
All is not lost as GNOME-Software is in unstable at time, but because it uses
<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/";>offline-updates</a> by default, which don't work great yet in Debian, it currently
has an RC bug, preventing it from entering Testing.
We need a way forward to bring update-notifications back, and there is
currently work going on to do that. For all Debian users: Please be patient
while we resolve the situation. For all developers: If you would like to help,
please contact Matthias Klumpp or Laurent Bigonville, there are some tasks
which could use some help.
On the Xfce front, we will soon have a new pk-update-icon package, which is
currently in NEW. That will resolve the situation there.
This situation does not affect KDE which uses Apper, which covers all the
update-notification needs.
</p>
<p>
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer of the <a href="http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/";>Debian QT/KDE Team<a/>, <a href="http://perezmeyer.blogspot.de/2014/11/early-announce-qt4-removal-in-jessie1.html";>announced</a> the
removal of Qt4 from Debian Jessie+1. Qt4 has been depreciated since the
release of Qt5 on December 19, 2012, almost 2 years from the present date.
While the team did support bugfixes-only releases, upstream has announced they
will end support for Qt4 in 2015 which creates a special effort just for Jessie
for bugs fixes for the period of only 1 year. As Qt5 is available the decision
to no longer support Qt4 was made. As there is still a lot of software that
relies on using Qt4 and to ease the transition there is a backport for Wheezy
for Qt5.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="minidebconf">2014 Mini-DebConf in Cambridge at ARM</toc-add-entry>
<p>
Andrew Cater takes us through the <a href="http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/here-at-debian-mini-conf-in-cambridge.html";>start</a> of the <a href="https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2014";>2014 Mini-DebConf Cambridge UK</a>
ARM, getting to meet with a speak to individuals in person rather than via
email, surrounded by Debian Developers who've taken on help desk <a href="http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/at-mini-debconf-cambridge-much.html";>roles<a/> solving
issues with broken laptops, and the release <a href="http://nthykier.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/release-sprint-preparing-for-jessie/";>sprint</a> with the Release Team.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>
<p>
##XXX applicants have been
##<a href="https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done";>accepted</a>
## as Debian Developers,
##XXX applicants have been
##<a href="https://lists.debian.org/...";>accepted</a>
## as Debian Maintainer, and
13 people have <a href="https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi";>started
to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
#DCs
Richard Sellam
James Marsh
Pierre Mavro
Benda Xu
Nicolas Schier
Wolfgang Fuetterer
Balasankar C
Josh Triplett
Reiner Herrmann
Kurashiki Satoru
Daniel Gröber
Jakub Warmuz
and
Dmitry Borisyuk
into our project!</p>
<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>
## release= codename for the current testing release
## url= link to the Tolimar's blog post → http://www.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/201#-##
## testing= number of bugs as defined by this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8k0 (for the not shortened url, look at webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/boilerplates.wml on the webwml repository)
## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8lo
## example:
# <rcstatslink release="Wheezy"
# url="http://www.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-23";
# testing="734"
# tobefixed="496" />
#
# In case Tolimar's blog post has not been published this week, one can use the shorten form:
# /!\ s/rcstatslink/rcstats/
#
# <rcstats release="Wheezy"
# testing="613"
# tobefixed="410" />
<rcstatslink release="Wheezy"
url="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2014/11/07-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_45/";
testing="295"
tobefixed="193" />
<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="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3056">libtasn1-3</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3057">libxml2</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3058">torque</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3059">dokuwiki</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3060">linux</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3061">icedove</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3062">wget</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3063">quassel</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3064">php5</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3065">libxml-security-java</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3066">qemu</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3067">qemu-kvm</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3068">konversation</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3069">curl</a>, and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2014/dsa-3070">kfreebsd-9</a>.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
<p>Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/";></a>,
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
<p>Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/";></a>.
Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.</p>
<p>The Debian team in charge of Squeeze Long Term Support released
security update announcements for these packages:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/10/msg00010.html";>libtasn1-3</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/10/msg00011.html";>torque</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/10/msg00013.html";>dokuwiki</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/10/msg00014.html";>libxml2</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/11/msg00000.html";>openssl</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/11/msg00001.html";>wget</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/11/msg00003.html";>curl</a>,
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/11/msg00004.html";>libxml-security-java</a>,
and
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/11/msg0000.html";></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="https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/";>security mailing
list</a> (and the separate <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/";>backports
list</a>, <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/";>stable updates
list</a>, and <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/";>long term
support security updates list</a>) for announcements.
</p>
<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>
<p>
196 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. <a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg";>Among
many others</a> are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/armory";>armory — advanced Bitcoin wallet management software</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bareos";>bareos — Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ghc-mod-el";>ghc-mod-el — Happy Haskell programming with Emacs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/irony-mode";>irony-mode — C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mysecureshell";>mysecureshell — SFTP Server with ACL</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/phabricator";>phabricator — Software engineering platform</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qmenu";>qmenu — tool to create simple menus for terminal interfaces</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ripmime";>ripmime — extraction of attachments out of MIME encoded emails</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/utopia-documents";>utopia-documents — PDF reader that displays interactive annotations on scientific articles</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="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00149.html";
orphaned="606"
rfa="141" />
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