Highlights
==========

There are various topics deserving an highlight this month, either
because I’ve been involved in them one way or another and you should
know about that, or because I’d like to point your attention to them.
Better get started…

RFH: debbugs
————

The first highlight for this update is a Request For Help around
debbugs, the software that powers our bug tracking service [1]. The BTS
is serving us well but, together with the current debbugs maintainers
[2], we believe it deserves some bit more people-power (that is the case
for many teams, but one at a time we can fix all of them ). As an
experiment, we’re therefore trying to have a debbugs mentoring sprint
[3] in the next few months. Don has kindly agreed to mentor newbies
through the code base and I’d like to thank him for that. The sprint can
also be a nice occasion to learn your way through debbugs code,
triage/squash some of its bugs, and—pet peeve of mine—improve
support for the backports bug work-flow [5]. If you are interested in
participating or help out with the organization, please follow-up to [3]
(ignoring my embarrassing typo, pretty please).

[1] http://bugs.debian.org
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-debbugs/2011/07/msg00000.html
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/bugs.debian.org
[5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2011/06/msg00027.html

Time-based freezes
——————

A few days ago the Release Team has sent (part 1 of) a report [6] from
their recent sprint [7]. Among the various news items, I’d like to
highlight a very important one: for this release cycle, we’re giving a
try to *time-based freezes*. I found that quite exciting; it means we
now know, 1 year in advance, that we will freeze Wheezy in June 2012
(well, it actually means we are *trying* to do that, it’s up to all of
us, collectively, to deliver). That gives time to all maintainers to
finalize their plans for Wheezy and also, for those who need it, to make
arrangements with upstreams in order to have a long term supportable
release ready for June 2012. I encourage all maintainers to go ahead
*now* and make such arrangements with upstreams, where possible and
useful.

[6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg00003.html
[7] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/Release

Python helpers
————–

Although it’s not really my job to do that, I think several people not
subscribed to -python will appreciate knowing that the Debian Python
community has recently converged on a single stack of helpers for
packaging Python stuff (see [8] for a nice fantasy tale ^W^W report
about that). That solves, at least part of, the long running issues
around Python governance in Debian. python-{central,support} “war” is no
more. I’d like to thank all the Debian Python people for taking this
important step.

[8] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/06/msg00136.html

IRC sessions
————

According to my memory, we have agreed in various discussions that
Debian will benefit from periodic training sessions (on IRC). I think
the same is true for periodic team meetings, as they are fun ways to get
work done together, and for any other gathering. That is why I salute
the recent new wave of IRC sessions organized by Francesca Ciceri [9]
(thanks!). I’ve been happy to help out a little bit with the setup and
to participate in the first “ask the DPL” session (logs are at [10]).
Another session has happened already and more are planned [9]. I
encourage all of you to participate to sessions, propose yourself as a
“speaker” on the wiki page, and peruse the #debian-meeting channel for
regular IRC meetings.

[9] http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting
[10] http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-meeting/2011/debian-meeting.2011-06-22-19.01.log.html

Interviews
==========

I’ve given a few interviews as of recently:

- an interview for the Muktware tech blog [11] (in English)
- an interview for the Comunità Digitali tech blog [12] (in Italian)
- an interview for an article about the whole “rolling” discussion (in
English, but still to appear)

[11] http://www.muktware.com/news/10/2011/1383
[12] http://comunitadigitali.blogosfere.it/2011/06/linux-intervista-a-stefano-zacchiroli-debian-project-leader-per-essere-parte-di-debian-ora-basta-mol.html

Sprints
=======

A couple of sprints have been approved by me and/or happened in June:

- a Release Team sprint (see [7] above)
- a DebianEdu sprint [8]

Remember: you can haz yut sprint too! Just follow the instructions [18].

[8] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/DebianEduSprint
[18] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints

Derivatives
===========

On the topic of derivatives, we got a status report [9] about the
completion of the first of DEX initiatives (done within the Ubuntu
chapter of DEX, and called “ancient-patches”). We’re now looking for
further DEX initiatives which, I remind you, are about closing a
technical gap—in terms of, for example, number of patches to be merged
or other metrics—that exists between Debian and one of its derivative
distribution. If you have in mind a technical area where Debian could
benefit from merging back work done in some of its derivatives, please
bring it up on the -derivatives mailing list.

If you are interested in the area of working with derivatives, I’ll be
co-hosting, together with other -derivatives people, a sort of “review”
talk [10] about that at DebConf, which you’re welcome to join.

[9] http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2011/06/msg00010.html
[10] https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc11/event/761

Miscellanea
===========

- after investigations done over the past few weeks, we’ve finally filed
the application to extend Debian (US) trademark to UK, EU, China, and
Japan (and payed the corresponding fee)

- I think we could greatly benefit from comparing governance mechanisms
we have in Debian with those of other projects. That is why, in the
context of the Debian/Society track I’m co-organizing with Daniel Kahn
Gillmor, we’ve called for an event submission about that [11]. If
you’re an expert on the topic and if you’re attending DebConf11 please
let us know, we might be able to find you at slot for presenting it
(no guarantees, though)

- there has been an interesting (and IMHO important) discussion about
hardware certification on -project (see [12] and follow-ups). An
interesting option of having a community-based framework for reporting
which hardware works and which doesn’t with Debian is in need of a
champion: speak up if you are up to the task!

Looking forward
===============

I’ll be traveling a bit on behalf of Debian over the summer (and I need
your input to represent you better).

- On July 12 I’ll be in Lisbon at a workshop [13] organized by Caixa
Magica [14], a derivative distribution that recently moved from an RPM
based system to a DEB based one. They are basing their distro on a
mixture of Debian and Ubuntu packages and they invited me to know more
about the interactions among Debian derivatives.

- The day before that, on July 11, I’ll deliver an invited speech about
Debian at the ACM workshop OSDOC’11 [15]

- At the end of August, I’ll participate and talk at the GNU Hackers
Meeting to be held in Paris [16]. The GNU hackers has invited me to
talk about Debian relationship with upstreams and also to discuss our
point of view on the Debian/GNU relationship. To that end, I’ve called
for input on -project [17] and already got very useful feedback
(thanks to anyone who replied up to now). But of course I could use
more feedback! If you are maintaining some GNU software in Debian
please check [17] and get back to me.

[11] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2011/06/debian_society_track_at_debconf/
[12] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/06/msg00001.html
[13] http://moss.dcti.iscte.pt/index.php?s_id=12
[14] http://www.caixamagica.pt/
[15] http://eurosigdoc.acm.org/osdoc2011/
[16] http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/
[17] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/06/msg00036.html

Thanks for bearing with me til the end of this report.
That’s all, folks.

PS as usual, the boring day-to-day activity log is available at

* Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder
* Upcoming changes for the Linux kernels on the i386 architecture
* Bits from the DPL
* Berkeley Database plans for the future
* Mono 2.10.1 now in “experimental”
* Report from FAI developer meeting
* The popcon problem
* Further interviews
* Other news
* New Debian Contributors
* Important Debian Security Advisories
* New and noteworthy packages
* Work-needing packages
* Want to continue reading DPN?

Debian Project mourns the loss of Adrian von Bidder
—————————————————

The Debian Project lost Adrian von Bidder [2], who was involved in
Debian, represented the project at numerous events and was one of the
founding members and current secretary of debian.ch [3]. He also founded
the “NTP Pool [4]” (crowd-sourced time synchronisation), which our
project has since fully adopted.

2 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110423
3 : http://debian.ch
4 : http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/

Upcoming changes for the Linux kernels on the i386 architecture
—————————————————————

Ben Hutchings announced some upcoming changes [5] for the Linux kernels
[6] in the i386 architecture [7] (aka 32-bit PC). The most notable change
with the 2.6.39 kernel packages will be the drop of the 686 flavour, even
so it’s the most widely used. Ben explains that only a very limited set
of processors are not able to use the 686-bigmem flavour, which has less
limitations and supports more that 4GB of RAM (on top of some other
benefits). He also points out that these processors not supported by the
686-bigmem flavour seem to gain performance with the 486 flavour. Without
the 686 flavour, the 686-bigmem will be renamed to 686-pae.

5 : http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/upcoming-changes-in-debian-linux-packages-for-i386.html
6 : http://packages.debian.org/src:linux-2.6
7 : http://www.debian.org/ports/i386/

He also said, that the amd64 flavour will be dropped as soon as migration
from a 32-bit userland with 64-bit kernel to a 64-bit userland with
64-bit kernel is implemented and has been tested.

Before that, Ben blogged about changes introduced with 2.6.38 [8]
kernels. One change is the introduction of a user space daemon [9]
providing the kernel with country specific regulations for wireless usage
from a database [10].

8 : http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/recent-changes-in-debian-linux-packages.html
9 : http://packages.debian.org/crda
10 : http://packages.debian.org/wireless-regdb

Bits from the DPL
—————–

Ignoring the result of his reelection [11], Stefano Zacchiroli sent his
last bits from the DPL [12], where he was glad to refer to the Debian
Derivatives Exchange project [13] recently launched and the high activity
on the debian-devel [14] and debian-project [15] mailing lists. He
enjoyed spreading the Debian verb in Bosnia, Taiwan and France; and is
looking forward at the LinuxTag in Berlin [16], the Greek Free and Open
Source Software Society [17] conference and the Ubuntu Developer Summit
[18]. Stefano discussed the relationships with others: the GNOME
Foundation invited Debian at the GNOME.Asia summit [19] where Josselin
Mouette attended on behalf of Debian, John Sullivan who become the new
executive director at FSF, and Graziano Sorbaioli, the gNewSense
community manager. He finally kept us posted about the upcoming DebConf
preparation, sprints and other expenses.

11 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2011/vote_001
12 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/04/msg00010.html
13 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110318
14 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/
15 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/
16 : http://www.linuxtag.org/2011/
17 : http://www.ellak.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6874/
18 : http://uds.ubuntu.com/
19 : http://www.gnome.asia/

After being reelected as Debian Project Leader, Stefano Zacchiroli sent
his first bits from the DPL in this term [20]: “Thanks! I’m flattered by
the support and trust in me you have shown. It’s a honor to be confirmed
as Debian Project Leader, as well as it’s a honor to represent Debian
before the Debian community and the world out there. I’ll try very hard
not to disappoint any of you.” Stefano described what is the DPL role and
how people can help and contact him.

20 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00000.html

Berkeley Database plans for the future
————————————–

Ondrej Surý reported from the plans of the Berkeley DB maintainers [21]
to reduce the number of BDB versions [22] shipped in stable releases.
Debian 5 “Lenny” and Debian 6 “Squeeze” both contained three different
versions which where needed to supported during the release as well as
during upgrades, which was often quite difficult. In the future, each
stable release should have only one version as default as well as the
tools for the previous one to ensure smooth upgrades.

21 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg01030.html
22 : http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/BerkeleyDB

Mono 2.10.1 now in “experimental”
———————————

Mirco Bauer notified us about his recent upload of Mono 2.10.1 into
Debian’s [23] “experimental” branch. The biggest change from a packaging
point of view is making Mono even more modular with one library per
package. This reduces the install size.

23 : http://www.meebey.net/posts/the_big_split_mono_2.10_debian_packaging/

Report from FAI developer meeting
———————————

Michael Prokop blogged about the FAI developer meeting [24] held last
month in Cologne, Germany. The meeting was very fruitful: as Micheal
reported, during the two days were made 134 Subversion commits, regarding
a new release candidate version, various website improvements, and the
documentation. The team has also discussed about the release management
(deciding to use 3.4.x version as long term stable release and 4.x as
developer version) and has defined its future goals.

24 : http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/04/21/report-from-fai-developer-meeting-042011/

The popcon problem
——————

Joey Hess wrote an interesting post about popcon [25] where analyzes
various issues regarding the use of the Debian Popularity Contest [26].
First of all, noticed Joey, there’s a measuring problem: popcon units are
unknown and the only way to resolve this ambiguity is the use of ratios
of values. Also, it is deceptive to compare popcon scores of packages
with different functions and targets: in fact, some packages are
installed by default on a wide range of machines, while others are more
specific. At the end, Joey noticed that one of the most interesting
aspect of Debian is that you can find in it even uncommon and specific –
but not necessarily popular or widespread — software: so, “every removal
of a package for “low popcon score” runs the risk of silently degrading
this overall value of Debian.”

25 : http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/the_popcon_problem/
26 : http://popcon.debian.org/

Further interviews
——————

There has been a further “People behind Debian” interview withMeike
Reichle [27], Press Officer and member of the Debian Women project.

27 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/04/21/people-behind-debian-meike-reichle-member-of-debian-women/

Other news
———-

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl noted that repository used to draft this
newsletter has just seen it’s 2000th commit [28].

28 : http://lists.debian.org/4DAE970A.4030408@schmehl.info

Tom Marble noted [29] that, according to popcon [30], openjdk-6-jre [31]
installations on Debian surpassed sun-java6-jre [32]. Well done, OpenJDK
Team!

29 : http://identi.ca/notice/71944067
30 : http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=sun-java6-jre,+openjdk-6-jre&show_installed=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
31 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openjdk-6-jre
32 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-free/sun-java6-jre

Russel Coker blogged about valid policies for Security-Enhanced Linux
[33] (SELinux).

33 : http://etbe.coker.com.au/2011/04/29/valid-se-linux-policy/

After her recent [34] “People behind Debian” interview, Press Officer
Meike Reichle followed up in her blog about “What it’s like to do Debian
Press Work [35]” .

34 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/04/21/people-behind-debian-meike-reichle-member-of-debian-women/
35 : http://blog.alphascorpii.net/english/debian/press-work.html

Jan Hauke Rahm called for help for Debian’s presence at the upcoming
LinuxTag in Berlin [36].

36 : http://blog.jhr-online.de/283

Daniel Kahn Gillmor blogged about his experience with the new systemd
packages [37] available for Debian “Sid” and “experimental”. While he
agrees that “systemd seems to get some things right” , he’s a bit
concerned about the Linux-centricism of systemd and the general “bloat”
of it.

37 : http://debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/78

It seems that Mike Hommey is already working on iceweasel 5 [38]
packages.

38 : http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1981

Bastien Roucaries asked if Debian intends to do a consolidation of
cryptographic libraries [39] similar to Fedora [40]. In the following
discussion, it was agreed to be a good idea, but it should ensured that
there were no regressions.

39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg01062.html
40 : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation

Christian Perrier activated the Uyghur language in Debian Installer [41],
which is the language of Xinjiang or East Turkestan [42] spoken by nearly
nine millions people.

41 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/04/21#di-uyghur
42 : http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/04/25#east-turkestan

New Debian Contributors
———————–

16 people have started to maintain packages [43] since the previous issue
of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Robin Sheat, Gabriel de
Perthuis, Andriy Beregovenko, Koichi Akabe, Denis Roio, Arno Töll, Onur
Aslan, Keith Lawson, Shravan Aras, Swapnil Kulkarni, Sana Khan, Bill Cox,
Luciana Fujii Pontello, Geoffroy Youri Berret, Sebastian Bator, and
Luboš Novák into our project!

43 : 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): xmlsec1 [44], request-tracker3.6 and request-tracker3.8
[45], libmojolicious-perl [46], tinyproxy [47], doctrine [48], openjdk-6
[49], asterisk [50], libmodplug [51], iceape [52], iceweasel [53], spip
[54], and qemu-kvm [55]. Please read them carefully and take the proper
measures.

44 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2219
45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2220
46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2221
47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2222
48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2223
49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2224
50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2225
51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2226
52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2227
53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2228
54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2229
55 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2230

Debian’s Backports Team released an update announcement for the package:
request-tracker3.8 [56], Please read it carefully and take the proper
measures.

56 : http://lists.debian.org/201104201741.10701.waja@cyconet.org

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] or volatile list [60], for
“Lenny” , the oldstable distribution) 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/
60 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/

New and noteworthy packages
—————————

402 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among
many others [61] are:

61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg

* 7kaa — Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries — real-time strategy game [62]
* abacas — Algorithm Based Automatic Contiguation of Assembled Sequences [63]
* aglfn — Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts [64]
* apparmor — User-space parser utility for AppArmor [65]
* apparmor-notify — AppArmor notification system [66]
* apparmor-profiles — Profiles for AppArmor Security policies [67]
* apparmor-utils — Utilities for controlling AppArmor [68]
* aspcud — CUDF solver based on Answer Set Programming [69]
* asterisk-dahdi — DAHDI devices support for the Asterisk PBX [70]
* asterisk-ooh323 — H.323 protocol support for the Asterisk PBX – ooH323c [71]
* asterisk-voicemail — simple voicemail support for the Asterisk PBX [72]
* ckport — portability analysis and security checking tool [73]
* cliquer — clique searching program [74]
* crtmpserver — High performance RTMP/RTSP streaming server [75]
* d-push — an implementation of the ActiveSync protocol [76]
* darktable — virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers [77]
* darnwdl — WDL document format viewer [78]
* db5.1-sql-util — Berkeley v5.1 SQL Database Utilities [79]
* etoolbox — Toolbox for LaTeX class and package authors [80]
* expeyes — hardware & software framework for developing science experiments [81]
* figtree — graphical phylogenetic tree viewer [82]
* freegish — a physics based arcade game [83]
* fs2ram — manage post-mount/pre-unmount scripts for tmpfs across reboot [84]
* gaduhistory — EKG history viewer [85]
* gbrowse — The GMOD Generic Genome Browser [86]
* gofigure2 — Tool for visualizing, processing and analysing of bioimages [87]
* gpick — advanced GTK+ color picker [88]
* herculesstudio — Hercules GUI front-end [89]
* hg-fast-export — mercurial to git converter using git-fast-import [90]
* ideviceinstaller — Utility to manage installed applications on an iDevice [91]
* ikiwiki-hosting-dns — ikiwiki hosting — dns server [92]
* ikiwiki-hosting-web — ikiwiki hosting — web server [93]
* imhangul-common — Common files for imhangul [94]
* jsxgraph — Interactive Geometry with JavaScript [95]
* kdocker — lets you dock any application into the system tray [96]
* keepass2 — Password manager [97]
* lcrt — graphic linux remote login tool [98]
* logreq — LaTeX compiling helper [99]
* mana — opensource 2D MMORPG platform client [100]
* maqview — graphical read alignment viewer for short gene sequences [101]
* mediathekview — View streams from German public television stations [102]
* minitunes — Simple but sophisticated graphical music player [103]
* modsecurity-crs — modsecurity’s Core Rule Set [104]
* mothur — sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota [105]
* mpd-sima — Automagically add title to mpd playlist [106]
* mpikmeans-tools — Standalone applications for MPIKmeans [107]
* msgpack-python — Python implementation of MessagePack format [108]
* nigiri — D-Bus-based IRC suite (terminal client) [109]
* nwchem — High-performance computational chemistry software [110]
* oasis — Architecture for building OCaml libraries and applications [111]
* openbabel-gui — Chemical toolbox utilities (graphical user interface) [112]
* passwordmaker-cli — creates unique, secure passwords – cli version [113]
* polygraph — performance testing tool for caching proxies and more [114]
* postler — desktop mail client built in vala [115]
* proftpd-mod-vroot — ProFTPD module mod_vroot [116]
* racket — extensible programming language in the scheme family [117]
* runlim — tool for sampling time and memory usage [118]
* rygel-preferences — GNOME UPnP/DLNA services – preferences tool [119]
* scolasync — graphic tool to copy data to or from a set of USB storage media [120]
* scrypt — File encryption utility using scrypt for key derivation [121]
* serdi — lightweight RDF syntax library – serdi tool [122]
* showq — MIDI controllable audio player [123]
* snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface [124]
* sonic — Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech [125]
* spark — SPARK programming language toolset [126]
* spek — acoustic spectrum analyser [127]
* squizz — Sequence/alignment converter [128]
* synapse — semantic file launcher [129]
* tekka — D-Bus-based IRC suite (graphical client) [130]
* tetraproc — Tetrahedral Microphone Processor for Ambisonic Recording [131]
* torchat — decentralized instant messenger built on top of the Tor Network [132]
* tumbler — D-Bus thumbnailing service [133]
* twittering-mode — a Twitter client for Emacs [134]
* ultracopier — Advanced graphical file copy system [135]
* unhide.rb — Forensic tool to find processes hidden by rootkits [136]
* uxlaunch — quick X and user desktop starter [137]
* xul-ext-compactheader — Icedove extension to reduce header size to one or two lines [138]
* yade — Platform for discrete element modeling [139]

62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/7kaa
63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/abacas
64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/aglfn
65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apparmor
66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apparmor-notify
67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apparmor-profiles
68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/apparmor-utils
69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/aspcud
70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/asterisk-dahdi
71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/asterisk-ooh323
72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/asterisk-voicemail
73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ckport
74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cliquer
75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/crtmpserver
76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/d-push
77 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/darktable
78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/darnwdl
79 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/db5.1-sql-util
80 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/etoolbox
81 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/expeyes
82 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/figtree
83 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freegish
84 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fs2ram
85 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gaduhistory
86 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gbrowse
87 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gofigure2
88 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gpick
89 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/herculesstudio
90 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hg-fast-export
91 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ideviceinstaller
92 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ikiwiki-hosting-dns
93 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ikiwiki-hosting-web
94 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/imhangul-common
95 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jsxgraph
96 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kdocker
97 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/keepass2
98 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/lcrt
99 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/logreq
100 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mana
101 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/maqview
102 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mediathekview
103 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/minitunes
104 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/modsecurity-crs
105 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mothur
106 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mpd-sima
107 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mpikmeans-tools
108 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/msgpack-python
109 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nigiri
110 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nwchem
111 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/oasis
112 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openbabel-gui
113 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/passwordmaker-cli
114 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/polygraph
115 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/postler
116 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/proftpd-mod-vroot
117 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/racket
118 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/runlim
119 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rygel-preferences
120 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/scolasync
121 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/scrypt
122 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/serdi
123 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/showq
124 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/snappy
125 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sonic
126 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/spark
127 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/spek
128 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/squizz
129 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/synapse
130 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tekka
131 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tetraproc
132 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/torchat
133 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tumbler
134 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/twittering-mode
135 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ultracopier
136 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/unhide.rb
137 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/uxlaunch
138 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-compactheader
139 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/yade

Work-needing packages
———————

Currently 312 packages are orphaned [140] and 151 packages are up for
adoption [141]: please visit the complete list of packages which need
your help [142].

140 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
141 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
142 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested

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What always astonishes me is that people in all circumstances I’m
reporting about Debian Med immediately agree with me that this is
something which is really helpful and needed. However, even if I’m
traveling through the world since eight years to talk about this concept
- not only for the topic of medicine, also for other fields – people
consider it brand new and they were not aware that such a thing really
exists. The obvious conclusion is that I (or rather we Debian people)
somehow failed in advertising it.

We could even say that Debian could serve as (buzz-word alarm)
application store for different fields of work. While we probably are a
bit nervous about such kind of buzz words it actually fits to some
extend to what we are doing (at least I came to this conclusion when
talking to other conference participants). More advertising adictive
people than we would sell Debian as this. While I’m hesitating to sell
Debian as “something” we probably need to adapt to the language our
potential users are speaking to let them understand what we are doing.
In times where importand people pronounce “Debian was a pointless
exercise”[2] we should not trust that users simply find their way to
Debian just by evaluating its technical brilliance. We (at least the
Debian Med team) are now targeting at other user groups as well.

For instance I talked to an engaged Fedora user who liked the support of
medical software inside Debian. When I told him that there is also
support for Education, Science, Multimedia, GIS, Games, etc. he could
not even believe this. (I think I finally got this guy convinced when I
explained him that we even support kFreeBSD which enables him to use ZFS
and it took me about 5min to make sure he really understood what we
provide – at first he believed in certain hacks, chroots, VMs whatever.)

But this guy made an important point: If we obviosely fail in
advertising the cool stuff we just have, what about using social media
like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. I’m personally quite ignorant of
all this stuff. However, if I look over the shoulder of some of my
friends and see with what pieces of “information” they are poluting the
“byte space” by using twitter so that I’m convinced that it is a
reasonable thing to ignore this medium – I could perfectly imagine to
twitter any uploaded Debian package. Something like

Uploaded –

and in the case of Debian Med enriched with ‘#DebianMed’ could do a
reasonable job. Once implemented this could serve as a quite cheap way
to get some attention amongst potential users.

What do you think about this and what other chances do you see to make
use of social media to make the things we are doing right more popular?

Kind regards

Andreas.

[1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/201104_luxembourg
[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/our-exclusive-interview-with-linus-torvalds-lca2011/

–

http://fam-tille.de

* Updated Debian: 6.0.1 released
* Nicaragua to host DebConf12
* Debian Derivative Exchange project launched
* Bits from the Debian Installer Team
* Insider summary of recent developments in DebConf11 organization
* Debian -offtopic mailing list
* Further “This week in Debian” interviews
* … and much more.

Updated Debian: 6.0.1 released
——————————

The first update for Debian 6.0 (codename [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/2011/20110319

Nicaragua to host DebConf12
—————————

The DebConf committee has announced that DebConf12, the Debian developer
conference for 2012, will be held in Managua, Nicaragua [2]. The Managua
bid beat a bid from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. More details can be found on
the organizers’ wiki [3].

2 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110325
3 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12

Debian Derivatives Exchange project launched
——————————————–

Stefano Zacchiroli and Matt Zimmerman launched a new project called the
Debian dErivatives eXchange project (DEX) [4]. The main goal of this
project is to reduce the technical differences between Debian and its
derivatives. The first such group is the Ubuntu DEX Team [5], which aims
to start integrating packages and changes available in Ubuntu back into
Debian. A gNewSense DEX Team is also expected soon.

4 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110318
5 : http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu/

The Debian Project invites all Debian based distributions and other
projects to join the DEX project and work together on a common base.

Bits from the Debian Installer Team
———————————–

Otavio Salvador sent some bits from the Debian Installer Team [6], which
summarizes changes that have happened in the team since the release of
“Squeeze” (such as the switch from Subversion to Git), and the team’s
goals for “Wheezy” (among others, more features for netcfg: wireless
support for WPA networks, IPv6, VLAN network infrastructure support, and
link detection). An important part of the mail is dedicated to a call for
help: the right moment to join the team and start contributing is exactly
now, as it’s starting a new development cycle.

6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/03/msg00403.html

Insider summary of recent developments in DebConf11 organization
—————————————————————-

Vedran Omeragic has blogged about some recent developments in DebConf11
organization [7]. The official DebConf11 website [8] has been completed
and contains a lot of information for those wanting to attend this year’s
Debian developer conference. Another important step was made (during a
meeting held on 22 February) in establishing sponsorship levels [9],
slightly changed from last year, and completing sponsorship brochures
[10], available in three different qualities. There are also some
clarifications about the Bosnian visa regime: all the information can be
found on the related wiki page [11]. At the end, Vedran lists the next
steps: opening registration, working on finding the best routes for
attendees, looking for sponsors, and preparing promotional material. You
can contact the DebConf11 organizational team on their mailing list at
debconf11-localteam@lists.debconf.org [12].

7 : http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf11/vo_insiderssummary.dc
8 : http://debconf11.debconf.org/
9 : http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml
10 : http://debconf11.debconf.org/documentation.xhtml#localdoc
11 : http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Travel-Visa
12 : mailto:debconf11-localteam@lists.debconf.org

Debian -offtopic mailing list
—————————–

Have you ever wanted to discuss things completely unrelated to Debian or
even computers with fellow users or developers? On debian-user the custom
is to put [OT] in the subject and fire away.

Unfortunately, this can be disruptive for uninterested subscribers,
especially on a high volume mailing list like debian-user. Because of
this, with the kind support of Holger Levsen and the Debian Community
project [13], the d-community-offtopic list [14] has been created.

13 : http://www.debian-community.org
14 : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

The list is open to anyone, just like most other Debian lists, so all you
have to do is to CC and set Reply-To to the list, so that whoever is
interested will know discussion is moving to that list. Have fun and be
excellent to each other!

Further “This week in Debian” interviews
—————————————-

Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, two new issues of the
[15] “This week in Debian” podcast have been published: with Joe Shields
[16] of the Debian Mono team; and with Jonathan Nadeau [17], about Debian
and the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest.

15 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian
16 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-22
17 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-23

Other news
———-

Michael Gilbert announced the first unofficial Debian monthly [18]
“testing” snapshot release. The release is currently available as mini
ISO images for i386 and amd64 architectures.

18 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00347.html

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl noticed that the video of the Linux New Media
Award ceremony [19], in which we can see Alexander himself and Meike
Reichle receive two awards on behalf of the Debian Project, is finally
available online [20].

19 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/events/cebit-2011/lnm-award-video-online
20 : http://www.techcast.com/events/cebit11/do11/

As reported by Ana Guerrero in her mail, the deadline for proposing
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects is close [21]. As you may know
Debian has again this year been accepted as a mentor organization for the
GSoC. The submission of student proposals opened today, but we are still
missing project proposals and mentors: you can visit last year’s projects
page [22] to find some inspiration, or simply think of an project in your
team and propose it.

21 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00972.html
22 : http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010#SelectedProjects

New Debian Contributors
———————–

Nine people have started to maintain packages [23] since the previous
issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Vincent Cheng, Rodolfo
García Peñas, Guillaume Mazoyer, Fernando Mercês, Daniel Thomas, Christo
Buschek, Jean Schurger, Manu Garg, and Vasudev Kamath into our project!

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): proftpd-dfsg [24], chromium-browser [25], libcgroup [26],
libvirt [27], php5 [28], maradns [29], quagga [30], tex-common [31],
iceape [32], iceweasel [33], wireshark [34], apache2 [35], nss [36], and
imp4 [37]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

24 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2191
25 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2192
26 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2193
27 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2194
28 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2195
29 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2196
30 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2197
31 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2198
32 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2199
33 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2200
34 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201
35 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2202
36 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2203
37 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2204

Debian’s Backports Team released advisories for these packages:
subversion [38] and iceweasel [39]. Please read them carefully and take
the proper measures.

38 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/03/msg00001.html
39 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2011/03/msg00000.html

Debian’s Stable Release Team released update announcements for these
packages: clamav [40] and tzdata [41]. Please read them carefully and
take the proper measures.

40 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/03/msg00003.html
41 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2011/03/msg00004.html

Debian’s Volatile Team released an update announcement for the package
tzdata [42]. Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.

42 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00003.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 [43] (and the separate backports
list [44], and stable updates list [45] or volatile list [46], for
“Lenny”, the oldstable distribution) for announcements.

43 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
44 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/
45 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce
46 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce

New and noteworthy packages
—————————

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently
(among many others [47]):

47 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg

* banshee-extension-karaoke — karaoke extension for Banshee [48]
* channel-server — buddycloud channels service for XMPP [49]
* coala — translates action languages into answer set programs [50]
* discount — implementation of Markdown markup language in C [51]
* dvbstreamer — console based streamer for DVB/ATSC services [52]
* ekg2 — instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems [53]
* geiser — enhanced Scheme interaction mode for Emacs [54]
* geoclue-skyhook — map and geocode server for GeoClue (Skyhook) [55]
* gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 — GNU version of the Mach microkernel [56]
* gringo — grounding tools for (disjunctive) logic programs [57]
* hyphen-pl — Polish hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org [58]
* minissdpd — keep memory of all UPnP devices that announced themselves [59]
* mobile-atlas-creator — program to create offline atlases for GPS/cell phone applications [60]
* monav-client — fast navigation system featuring exact routing – client [61]
* mudlet — graphical MUD client with fast Lua scripting support [62]
* mythes-pl — Polish thesaurus for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org [63]
* pdb2pqr — preparation of protein structures for electrostatics calculations [64]
* peg-solitaire — board game for one player with pegs [65]
* perlbrew — script to manage Perl installations in your $HOME [66]
* pev — utility to the get Product Version of PE32 executables [67]
* propka — modify the protonation state of protein structures [68]
* purity-ng — reimplementation of the classic [69] “purity” game in Python
* rapid-photo-downloader — photo downloader (importer) from cameras, memory cards and other devices [70]
* sigrok — logic analyzer and protocol decoder software [71]
* sikuli-ide — IDE to develop SIKULI scripts and use them a JUnit test cases [72]
* spatialite-gui — user-friendly graphical user interface for SpatiaLite [73]
* streamtuner2 — browser for Internet radio stations [74]
* systemd — system and service manager [75]
* tabix — generic indexer for TAB-delimited genome position files [76]
* timbl — Tilburg memory based learner [77]
* transifex-client — command line interface for Transifex [78]
* tuxfootball — great 2D soccer (sometimes called football) game [79]
* ucto — Unicode tokenizer [80]
* undertaker — static code analysis tool checking preprocessor directives [81]

48 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-karaoke
49 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/channel-server
50 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/coala
51 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/discount
52 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dvbstreamer
53 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ekg2
54 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/geiser
55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/geoclue-skyhook
56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnumach-image-1.3.99-486
57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gringo
58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hyphen-pl
59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/minissdpd
60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mobile-atlas-creator
61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/monav-client
62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mudlet
63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mythes-pl
64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pdb2pqr
65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/peg-solitaire
66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/perlbrew
67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pev
68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/propka
69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/purity-ng
70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rapid-photo-downloader
71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sigrok
72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sikuli-ide
73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/spatialite-gui
74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/streamtuner2
75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/systemd
76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tabix
77 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/timbl
78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/transifex-client
79 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tuxfootball
80 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ucto
81 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/undertaker

Work-needing packages
———————

Currently 330 packages are orphaned and 149 packages are up for adoption:
please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [82].

82 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested

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This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Alexander Reshetov,
Andrei Popescu, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl and Francesca Ciceri [85].

85 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org

1: http://dex.alioth.debian.org

The DEX project complements the already existing Debian derivatives
front desk [2] by organizing cross-distribution working groups and
projects to monitor and merge changes from derivatives into Debian
proper. In DEX, developers from both Debian and derivatives work
side-by-side to merge changes into Debian. A first working group is the
DEX Ubuntu Team [3], targeting to integrate packages and changes
available in Ubuntu back into Debian, continuing the work of the already
existing Utnubu Team on a more general level. A gNewSense DEX Team is
also expected in the near future: “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t
exist, especially when you measure numbers of defects you want to fix.
Arguably, most of the deltas between Debian and its derivatives need to
be fixed, by merging them back into Debian. DEX has the potential to
host a number of cross-distro initiatives that will measure and
ultimately reduce existing deltas among Debian and its derivatives.”
Stefano Zacchiroli (Debian Project Leader and co-founder of DEX)
explains about this project.

2: http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk
3: http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu/

The Debian Project invites all Debian based distributions and other
projects to join the DEX project and work together on a common base. As
Matt Zimmerman (Chair of the Ubuntu Technical Board and co-founder of
DEX) says: “If you want to see Debian benefit from technical work done
in derivatives, DEX is a chance for you to act together to make it
happen. If you work on a derivative and want to carry a smaller delta,
come and join us. I’m sure we’ll learn a lot from this experience.”

About Debian
————

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Over three thousand
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Translated into over 70 languages, and supporting a
huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the “universal
operating system”.

Contact Information
——————-

For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to .

* The Debian project wins awards at CeBIT
* Debian named the most important GNU/Linux distribution
* Report from CeBIT 2011
* Bits from the Debian Project Leader
* Happy birthday, FSFE!
* Upcoming election for the Debian Project Leader
* Geographical mirror selection as default?
* New version of Cupt coming up
* Bits from ARM and embedded sprint
* More graphs for the Debian Bug Tracking System
* Further “This week in Debian” interviews
* … and much more.

The Debian project wins awards at CeBIT
—————————————

The Debian project won the Linux New Media award in two categories [1]
at the recent CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany. Not only was Debian
named as the “Best Open Source Server Distribution” for its “pioneering
work” both in the technical field and in the definition of free software
standards and processes, but it also won the prestigious award for
“Outstanding contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software”, presented
by Karsten Gerloff, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe,
who donned a snazzy Debian tie just for the occasion.

1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110304

The full text of his speech [2] has been made available, including a
short explanation of why this award is so important: the jury consists
of over 300 FLOSS community members, developers, journalists, and
companies, selected through secret ballot. The award is not awarded by a
publisher, but by the representatives of the entire Free Software
Community!

2 : http://lists.debian.org/20110307084157.GU15429@melusine.alphascorpii.net

Debian named the most important GNU/Linux distribution
——————————————————

IT journalist Bruce Byfield published an article analyzing in detail the
[3] “market share” and influence of the Debian distribution. Gathering
various data (e.g. the number of active Debian derivatives [4] according
to DistroWatch [5]; 63% of these are directly or indirectly based upon
Debian) he also lists various specialties of Debian and its derivatives.
His conclusion: “It’s not quite true to say that, if you can think of a
specialty, then there is at least one Debian or Ubuntu derivative is
designed for it. However, it is not much of an exaggeration, either.”
This was also mentioned on Slashdot [6] under the title “Debian is the
most important Linux [7]“.

3 : http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3926941/Linux-Leaders-Debian-and-Ubuntu-Derivative-Distros.htm
4 : http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&status=Active
5 : http://distrowatch.com/
6 : http://slashdot.org/
7 : http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/05/013205/Debian-Is-the-Most-Important-Linux

Report from CeBIT 2011
———————-

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl sent a report [8] of this year’s CeBIT [9]
where he and other Debian Contributors has represented Debian joining
the booth of Univention, a company which bases its product on Debian. In
three days nearly two hundred people had visited the Debian booth,
mostly asking how to help and join the Debian Project or asking more
specific questions regarding, for example, Debian’s stance on
LibreOffice or the internal structure of the project and its governance.
Many people also visited the booth simply to express their appreciation
for the release of “Squeeze”, the new website layout, and the new
spacefun theme. At the booth a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD box was also present,
as a technological preview, which attracted some interest from visitors.
Alexander wants to thank our sponsors Univention [10] and Deutsche Messe
AG, as well as the Debian folks who help with the booth.

8 : http://lists.debian.orgt/2011/03/msg00020.html
9 : http://www.cebit.de/home
10 : http://www.univention.de/

Bits from the Debian Project Leader
———————————–

Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli sent an email describing the
aftermath of the [11] “Squeeze” release. One of the important points in
his email is the discussions between Debian and the Free Software
Foundation. The discussions touch on the different areas of focus of the
two projects even though both projects are working to develop Free
Software. Stefano also lists a number of interviews in various places
regarding the “Squeeze” release. There are also some links in the email
to talks given and clearly he’s been quite busy.

11 : http://lists.debian.org/20110306183248.GA5144@upsilon.cc

Happy birthday, FSFE!
———————

The Free Software Foundation Europe [12] is celebrating its 10th
birthday [13]! Congratulations! To celebrate this important date, it is
planned to highlight important events in FSFE’s history [14].

12 : http://fsfe.org
13 : http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110310-01
14 : http://fsfe.org/about/history/birthday10

Upcoming elections for the Debian Project Leader
————————————————

Debian Project Secretary Kurt Roeckx published the time line for this
year’s Debian project leader elections [15]. The Nomination period has
already ended on Friday, March 11. The current Debian Project Leader
Stefano Zacchiroli will again be a candidate [16]. From Saturday, March
12 until April 1, candidates will campaign and discuss, followed by the
actual voting period from Saturday, April 2, 2011 until Friday, April 15
2011.

15 : http://lists.debian.org/20110304183818.GA24016@roeckx.be
16 : http://lists.debian.org/20110306152941.GA1628@upsilon.cc

Geographical mirror selection as default?
—————————————–

The topic of using some kind of GeoMirror for new installations has been
brought up on the debian-boot [17] mailing list, and later also on the
general debian-devel [18] list. Various pros and cons were exchanged
including possible problems with DNSSEC and different approaches based
upon apt-spy [19] or netselect-apt [20], or DNS based approaches. APT
developer Michael Vogt posted some hints that apt recently had a useful
feature [21] added for a similar purpose, allowing general deb
mirrors:// lines to be specified as apt sources. Just the server side
[22] is missing, but that’s already being worked on [23].

17 : http://lists.debian.org/201103050951.00942.elmig@debianpt.org
18 : http://lists.debian.org/1299747535.3524.12.camel@havelock.lan
19 : http://packages.debian.org/apt-spy
20 : http://packages.debian.org/netselect-apt
21 : http://lists.debian.org/20110310195545.GA24278@localhost
22 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00512.html
23 : http://lists.debian.org/20110311112014.GD9247@anguilla.noreply.org

New version of Cupt coming up
—————————–

Eugene Lyubimkin blogged about an upcoming release of Cupt [24], an
alternative front-end for the dpkg package manager. The most notable
feature: if there’s no solution to satisfy the actions requested by a
user, Cupt will not only show an error message, but also show why the
dependencies couldn’t be resolved.

24 : http://jackyf.livejournal.com/115115.html

Bits from ARM and embedded sprint
———————————

The ARM and embedded Debian teams had the opportunity to meet up at ARM
offices in Cambridge for a Debian Sprint [25]. There are lots of things
happening on ARM and in embedded land. There is an ongoing effort to
build a new Debian port (named armhf [26]) which will provide a more
efficient userland, suitable for modern ARM chips (v7), as found in
recent netbooks, tablets, nettops, and smartphones.

25 : http://lists.debian.org/20110301110302.GA25977@enorme
26 : http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort

There have also been great improvements in support for “multiarch”.
This will make it possible to cross-install libraries from a foreign
userland, and thus run things like i386 non-free Flash on amd64 systems.
Cross-building support is also being integrated into Debian itself, so
developers should soon be able to easily create applications on their
desktops to run on their ARM devices running Debian.

Inspired by Eben Moglen’s vision of a small, cheap, and simple computer
that serves freedom in the home, the teams are building a Debian based
platform for distributed applications which could help replace
centralized services provided by the cloud. FreedomBox is about privacy,
control, ease of use, and decentralization.

More graphs for the Debian Bug Tracking System
———————————————-

Mike Hommey added several new features to the graphs of Debian’s Bug
Tracking System [27]. Besides having per package graphs, it’s now also
possible to have data for multiple packages consolidated into a single
graph, or graphs per maintainer [28].

27 : http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1817
28 : http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/by-maint/tolimar.png

Further “This week in Debian” interviews
—————————————-

Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, three new issues of the
[29] “This week in Debian” podcast have been published: with Stefano
Zacchiroli [30], Debian Project Leader; with Jon [31] “Maddog” Hall,
about Project Cauã; and with Adnan Hodzic [32], about Debconf 2011 in
Bosnia.

29 : http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian
30 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-19
31 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-20
32 : http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-21

There has also been one further “People behind Debian” interview:
with Christian Perrier [33], translation coordinator.

33 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/03/03/people-behind-debian-christian-perrier-translation-coordinator/

Other news
———-

The 26th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [34] has been
released and covers the following topics:

34 : http://lists.debian.org/1299689793.12966.64.camel@chianamo

* DebConf news
* Multiarch support
* win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network
* Team-specific NM questions
* Debian games team meeting

Yves-Alexis Perez gave an update on Xfce 4.8 [35]. The packages for the
new upstream release of the desktop environment have been assembled in
Debian’s “experimental” branch and he’s now synchronizing with the
release team over when an upload to Debian’s “unstable” branch will be
possible.

35 : http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1528

Cyril Brulebois published the seventh issue of the [36] “Debian XSF
News”. He mentions various events concerning Debian’s X.org packages,
and closes with an impressive statistic: the number of open bug reports
for X.org-related packages has dropped from 880 in November down to 540
now.

36 : http://blog.ikibiki.org/2011/03/04/DXN-7/

Holger Levsen, Moray Allan, and Gunnar Wolf have been delegated as [37]
“DebConf Chairs”. While the organization of the yearly Debian
Conference remains unchanged, the three will now act as liaison between
the Debian Project and the DebConf project.

37 : http://lists.debian.org/20110309091510.GA22436@upsilon.cc

FTP-Master Jörg Jaspert announced an upcoming meeting of the FTP-Team
[38] from the 21st to the 27th of March in the LinuxHotel [39] in Essen,
Germany. He also announced the current agenda for the meeting (ranging
from internal stuff like “buildd autosigning” up to end-user-oriented
services likedata.debian.org).

38 : http://lists.debian.org/87ipx0g76w.fsf@gkar.ganneff.de
39 : http://www.linuxhotel.de/

Tollef Fog Heen wondered if it would be useful to harmonize the naming
of flags to enable and disable services [40] via their configuration
snippets in /etc/default. Others added in the thread that there could
also be better (UI-)tools to do so, or to customize runlevels. It was
also pointed out that the interface has been complicated by the
introduction of insserv [41].

40 : http://lists.debian.org/87zkpi5xwo.fsf@qurzaw.varnish-software.com
41 : http://packages.debian.org/insserv

New Debian Contributors
———————–

1 applicant has been accepted [42] as a Debian Developer, 5 applicants
have been accepted [43] as Debian Maintainers, and 4 people have started
to maintain packages [44] since the previous issue of the Debian Project
News. Please welcome Frédéric-Emmanuel Picca, Stephen Kitt, Higuchi
Daisuke, Alberto Garcia, Sergey B Kirpichev, Roland Dreier, Miguel
Colonn, Pietro Monteiro, Boris Dušek, and Mahyuddin Susanto into our
project!

42 : https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint
43 : http://lists.debian.org/E1PvEnU-0002h8-Cq@franck.debian.org
44 : 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): samba [45], cups [46], pywebdav [47], pango1.0 [48], dtc
[49], iceape [50], subversion [51], logwatch [52], nbd [53], isc-dhcp
[54], proftp-dfsg [55], iceweasel [56], icedove [57], webkit [58],
chromium-browser [59], and wordpress [60]. Please read them carefully
and take the proper measures.

45 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2175
46 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2177
48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2178
49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2179
50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2180
51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2181
52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2182
53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2183
54 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2184
55 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2185
56 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2186
57 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2187
58 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188
59 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2189
60 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2190

Debian’s Stable Release Team released advisories for these packages:
clive [61] and tzdata [62]. Please read them carefully and take the
proper measures.

61 : http://lists.debian.org/1299948170.22892.1634.camel@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org
62 : http://lists.debian.org/1299949646.22892.1737.camel@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org

Debian’s Volatile Team released update announcements for the packages:
tzdata [63] and clamav [64]. Please read them carefully and take the
proper measures.

63 : http://lists.debian.org/20110312195826.GA4551@thrall.0×539.de
64 : http://lists.debian.org/20110313103241.GA21031@thrall.0×539.de

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 [65] (and the separate backports
list [66], and stable updates list [67] or volatile list [68], for
“Lenny”, the oldstable distribution) for announcements.

65 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
66 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/
67 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce
68 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce

New and noteworthy packages
—————————

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (among many others [69]):

69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg

* banshee-extension-ampache — Ampache extension for Banshee [70]
* banshee-extension-clutterflow — CoverFlow functionality for Banshee [71]
* banshee-extension-jamendo — Jamendo extension for Banshee [72]
* banshee-extension-lastfmfingerprint — Last.FM fingerprinting extension for Banshee [73]
* banshee-extension-openvp — visualizations extension for Banshee [74]
* banshee-extension-randombylastfm — random by Last.FM extension for Banshee [75]
* banshee-extension-zeitgeistdataprovider — Zeitgeist data provider extension for Banshee [76]
* classads — Condor’s classad utilities [77]
* comixcursors-lefthanded — X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling (LH, translucent) [78]
* comixcursors-lefthanded-opaque — X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling (LH, opaque) [79]
* comixcursors-righthanded — X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling (RH, translucent) [80]
* comixcursors-righthanded-opaque — X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling (RH, opaque) [81]
* cpm — curses based password manager using PGP-encryption [82]
* doxygen-latex — documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages [83]
* drupal6-mod-views-charts — views_charts modules for Drupal 6 [84]
* drupal6-mod-views-groupby — views_groupby modules for Drupal 6 [85]
* eq10q — LV2 equalizer [86]
* failmalloc — memory allocation failure crash-test tool [87]
* git-el — fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (Emacs support) [88]
* grub-imageboot — boot ISO and floppy images with GRUB 2 and Syslinux MEMDISK [89]
* gscanbus — scan IEEE1394 (FireWire/i.Link) bus [90]
* ibus-sunpinyin — SunPinyin engine for IBus [91]
* kdesrc-build — tool for building KDE from its source repositories [92]
* live-config-systemd — Debian Live – system configuration scripts (systemd backend) [93]
* live-tools — Debian Live – system support scripts [94]
* miniupnpc — UPnP IGD client lightweight library client [95]
* nagircbot — IRC bot that announces Nagios status [96]
* pd-hcs — Pd library of experiments in UNIX, the Pd GUI, and more [97]
* python2.7 — interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7) [98]
* qt-assistant-compat — Qt Assistant compatibility binary (legacy) [99]
* qt4-qmlviewer — Qt 4 QML viewer [100]
* qtmobility-examples — Qt Mobility examples [101]
* ranger — file manager with an ncurses frontend written in Python [102]
* rgbpaint — simple pixel-based painting program [103]
* rhythmbox-ampache — play audio streams from an Ampache server [104]
* scim-sunpinyin — SunPinyin engine for SCIM [105]
* servicefw — Qt Mobility Service Framework tool [106]
* sunpinyin-utils — simplified Chinese input method from Sun (utilities) [107]
* termit — simple terminal emulator based on VTE library, embedded Lua [108]
* tryton-proteus — Tryton application platform (Proteus) [109]
* xsunpinyin — standalone XIM server for SunPinyin [110]
* xul-ext-firetray — system tray extension for thunderbird/firefox alike apps [111]
* xul-ext-ubiquity — browser interface based on natural language input [112]

70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-ampache
71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-clutterflow
72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-jamendo
73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-lastfmfingerprint
74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-openvp
75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-randombylastfm
76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/banshee-extension-zeitgeistdataprovider
77 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/classads
78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/comixcursors-lefthanded
79 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/comixcursors-lefthanded-opaque
80 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/comixcursors-righthanded
81 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/comixcursors-righthanded-opaque
82 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cpm
83 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/doxygen-latex
84 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/drupal6-mod-views-charts
85 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/drupal6-mod-views-groupby
86 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eq10q
87 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/failmalloc
88 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/git-el
89 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/grub-imageboot
90 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gscanbus
91 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ibus-sunpinyin
92 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kdesrc-build
93 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/live-config-systemd
94 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/live-tools
95 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/miniupnpc
96 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nagircbot
97 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pd-hcs
98 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python2.7
99 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qt-assistant-compat
100 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qt4-qmlviewer
101 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/qtmobility-examples
102 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ranger
103 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rgbpaint
104 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rhythmbox-ampache
105 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/scim-sunpinyin
106 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/servicefw
107 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sunpinyin-utils
108 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/termit
109 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tryton-proteus
110 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xsunpinyin
111 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-firetray
112 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-ubiquity

Work-needing packages
———————

Currently 329 packages are orphaned and 144 packages are up for
adoption: please visit the complete list of packages which need your
help [113].

113 : 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 [114] to find out how to help. We’re
looking forward to receiving your mail at
debian-publicity@lists.debian.org [115].

114 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute
115 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org

This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Hector Oron, Francesca
Ciceri, Jeremiah C. Foster and Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [116].

116 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org

The suite contains a subset of the packages available via the
“proposed-updates” suite which many users may wish to be able to install
without having to cherry-pick them or wait for the next point release.
Such updates will be uploaded to “proposed-updates” as normal, and then
optionally pushed to “stable-updates” by the SRMs with an announcement
being sent to “debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org”.

The criteria used to add packages to “stable-updates” will be:

* The update is urgent and not of a security nature. Security updates
will continue to be pushed through the security archive. Examples
include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
releases.
* The package in question is a data package and the data must be
updated in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).
* Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
video downloading tools and tor).
* Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).

If you believe that your update meets the above criteria, please contact
the Release Team as usual via debian-release@lists.debian.org,
mentioning that you think the update should also be pushed via
“stable-updates”.

The first update has already been added to the suite – “clive”, in order
to resolve an issue with the retrieval of some YouTube videos. An
update for “tzdata”, in order to include changes to Chile’s DST which
take affect over this weekend, is planned to be added later today.

Regards,

Adam, for the SRMs

DebConf news
————

The DebConf team recently had meetings discussing DebConf12 bids[1] and
preparations for DebConf11[2]. The meeting to decide where DebConf12 will
be held will occur on 22nd March, from 20:00 UTC.

According to the recent DebConf11 report[3], preparations for DebConf11
are going well, especially with the support from the local and national
governments. People who will need a visa or that might have problem with
visas to visit Bosnia should visit the visas[4] web page, register in
penta and then contact the team at visa@debconf.org since the DebConf11
organising team have assistance from the government Republika Srpska.
Registrations for DebConf11 are targeted at being open by April 1st. As
usual; if you need sponsorship to attend DebConf, please apply before the
deadlines and don’t be pessimistic about your eligibility. If you or your
company would like to help DebConf financially, please take a look at the
sponsorship web page[5] and donate as you are able. Take a look at the
“How can I help?”[6] web page for other ways to assist DebConf11, including
volunteering[7] your time during the conference, which can be very
rewarding.

The Debconf10 final report is due out on March 14th so keep an eye out
for it and have a read if you were there or are interested in what
DebConf is like. The reports for earlier years are available[8] and go
back to DebConf5 in Finland.

— Paul Wise

[1] http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-01-20.01.html
[2] http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2011/debconf-team.2011-03-08-20.01.html
[3] http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20110224.204950.5f426a36.en.html
[4] http://debconf11.debconf.org/visas.xhtml
[5] http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml
[6] http://debconf11.debconf.org/helpus.xhtml
[7] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Teams#Volunteers
[8] http://media.debconf.org/

Multiarch support
—————–

dpkg is on good track to support multi-arch[9]. But the possibility to
co-install the same package from multiple architectures is going to break
some assumptions in various packages. Check out this message on
debian-devel[10] to learn more about the problems and how they should be
fixed. Please report back any package that is likely to be affected by
those problems.

— Raphaël Hertzog

[9] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec
[10] http://lists.debian.org/20110302140611.GH20023@rivendell.home.ouaza.com

win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network
—————————————————

Since its 0.6.22 version and thanks to the help of FTP Masters,
win32-loader.exe is now downloadable from the official Debian
mirrors[11]. When run from a Windows host, this executable (the
standalone flavour of the setup.exe available on the x86 CDs) downloads
the Debian-Installer kernel and initrd and configures the Windows
bootloader to allow a seamless reboot to the Debian-Installer. It is
supposed to work on all known Windows versions and can download both the
GNU/Linux and GNU/kFreeBSD Debian-Installer flavours.

— Didier Raboud

[11] http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.exe

Team-specific NM questions
————————–

I sent a call[12] for teams to send me team-specific P&P and T&S
questions. I’ll collect them and add them in one file per team to the NM
template repository. They can be useful not only for NM, but also to give
people a way to get up to speed on how the team works.

— Enrico Zini

[12] http://lists.debian.org/20110309130159.GA27335@enricozini.org

Debian games team meeting
————————-

The Debian games team is having a meeting[13] on the 18th March 2011 at
9:00PM UTC. If you maintain a game in Debian or outside Debian or are
interested in gaming and Debian we would like to invite you to attend and
discuss various topics with us. The agenda is not yet set, to help us
decide which items to talk about, please fill out the poll[14].

— Paul Wise

[13] http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings/2011-03-18
[14] http://doodle.com/e53i5dad794vxadq

The squeeze-updates suite is carried by all official mirrors[0] just
like Squeeze itself. To use it, a snippet such as the following can be
used in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main

[0] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Announcements about stable updates pushed through squeeze-updates will
be published on debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org To subscribe
please visit its web page[1].

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/

This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following
criteria:

* The update is urgent and not of a security nature. Security updates
will continue to be pushed through the security archive. Examples
include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
releases.

* The package in question is a data package and the data must be
updated in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).

* Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
video downloading tools and tor).

* Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).

These updates will also be included in the next stable point release
after the announcement. Regular updates not fitting the criteria above
will be pushed through point releases according to the rules of the
Stable Release Management.

About Debian
————

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
the largest and most influential open source projects. Over a thousand
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the “universal operating
system”.

Contact Information
——————-

For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to .