Welcome to this year’s third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * DebConf10 update * Squeeze freeze * Debian-Ubuntu relationship * Debian installation media and non-free firmware * … and much more.

In this issue: + LWN subscriptions + ubuntudiff.debian.net + TXT records on debian.net + Debian Sysadmin Team seeks for help + Receive Ubuntu bugs by mail via PTS

Hi, the Debian System Debian Administration Team hereby announces an updated version of the Debian Machine Usage Policies (DMUP). It will become effective on July 04th, 2010 and is then the binding version.

Hello, after some recent debian-newmaint and IRC conversation, it makes sense to post a quick note about advocacy messages.

Hi, This is the next in a (hopefully more frequent) series of updates from the Release Team.

I’m happy to announce that we have a new victim^W enthusiastic volunteer for the Debian auditor role, which is currently vacant.

I’ve been asked to clarify the delegation for the DSA team, so here it goes. First it comes the formal delegation text (between full-length dashed-lines), then a few informal comments.

As last year the Debian Groupware Meeting was held in the LinuxHotel, Essen, Germany[1]. This is a short summary what happened during the weekend:

Hello, world!, 48 hours into this new DPL term, here are my first ever “bits from the DPL” with kudos, directions, and some practical information.

Hi, to keep you informed on the mips* buildd status: Prior to the breakage of ftp-master things looked pretty well. Mipsel had not only no backlog, but enough spare cycles to start building experimental packages.

The Debian project is proud to announce a new service, available at http://snapshot.debian.org/, a wayback machine that allows access to old packages based on dates and version numbers.

Hi, I am pleased to inform you that we have a new powerful mips porterbox available. It is a Movidis Revolution x16 box, called gabrielli.debian.org. Movidis donated four of those boxes, so two or three of them will run as buildd and one as porter box.

Hi, As promised, here’s an update from the Release Team. After we spoke with several teams recently, we have tried to come up with a plan for the upcoming transitions, freeze and release of Debian Squeeze.

Hi! There’s been no general information about dpkg since Scott handed over dpkg maintenance to the new team. There’s been several announcements about specific features during this period though, the contents of which will be skipped here.

Hello, Some time has passed since the last news from the New Maintainer process[1]. Several DD accounts are about to become 6 months old, which qualifies for becoming Application Managers should one wish to do so. Older accounts are also accepted.

In the spirit of openness, the DebConf 10 Organizers are soliciting volunteers for the DebConf 10 Travel Sponsorship team.

Dear fellow developers, we all want to get out squeeze as soon as possible. Currently we are still at 400 bugs concerning the next stable release, with 300 of them not yet fixed in unstable.

New cdbuilder server improves Debian infrastructure. Today, the Debian project administrators are activating a new cdbuilder server. The server computes the official Debian ISO images once all software packages are ready for a new Debian release.

Hello everyone, I thought it was time again to send a mail to d-d-a, and looking for an excuse, I found the ftpteam.

Hi! We were again given the opportunity to represent the Debian Project at this years’ CeBIT, one of biggest IT-related exhibitions, which took place last week in Hanover, Germany.

In this issue: + DEHS, watching 10 000 packages + Conversion of source packages to 3.0 (quilt/native) + DEHS now supports format 3.0 source packages + userdir-ldap mail gateway updated + piuparts.d.o

Hola! I am happy to announce that we will be holding another edition of DudesConf a.k.a. debconf-es, the weekend 9-11 April in Coruña, Spain.

As you’re probably aware, we recently released the latest point release of the stable distribtion, lenny, as 5.0.4. We thought this would be a good opportunity to reiterate and clarify a few aspects of point releases and stable updates.

We hoped to freeze in March, but the current number of RC bugs makes this highly unlikely. From our experiences with previous release cycles, we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below the mark of 300

Dear developers, Debian policy 3.8.4.0 has been uploaded today with the following changes…

In this issue: + Notification of failed builds + Integration of experimental, non-free, backports.org, debian-edu and volatile into the official autobuilding infrastructure + Unification of buildd software + Browse WNPP bugs based on debtags + Multiple CSS skins disabled on the PTS …

Normally an overview of changes is given when a new version of Debian Installer is released. However, a release has been in preparation for something like the past six months and it is currently unclear whether one will happen before or after the next ice age.

Hello world, during this weekend FD/DAM had a meeting in Essen to discuss various things and issues around the New Maintainer process.

Release planning: Proposing a new freeze date is not easy. Taking into account all of the feedback we have received, both online (by e-mail, IRC) as well as in person, and some challenging release goals we have set for ourselves, we propose freezing in March 2010.

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