The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian Linux operating system, proudly announces the first Debian Mini Conference in Taiwan which takes place 26th-27th September at Technology Building, Taipei City, Taiwan(R.O.C.) during International Conference on Open Source(ICOS) 2009 [1].

To help with the tracking of the numerous issues the Release Team has to deal with, we decided to make use of the release.debian.org pseudo-package on the BTS[1]. It will help us to avoid missing requests, which sadly happens a bit too often for our taste.

Hi, As you may have noticed, upgrades of the GRUB Legacy package (`grub’) in unstable have begun using GRUB 2 (`grub-pc’ package) as upgradepath.

Hi, during DebConf9 the Debian Keyring Maintainers, the “Debian Maintainer Keyring Team” and FTPMaster discussed the maintenance of the extra debian-maintainers keyring. The conclusion was that the maintenance of the keyring is handed over to the Debian Keyring maintainers, while the policy (add/remove/change) is kept with the DM Keyring team.

Heya, This mail should be the first in a row of roughly monthly mails informing the project about the state of the release. Please don’t hesitate to contact us on debian-release@lists.debian.org whenever you have questions.

Hi, here are some bits from Debian Pure Blends [0]:

In this issue: + PTS news: accessibility, piuparts, l10n + cvs.debian.org (and its webwml repo) moved to Alioth + Git user’s survey 2009 + New source formats + New mailing list debian-user-dutch

What is http://news.debian.net? It is an unofficial news website where you can read and submit news about what is going on in the Debian project…. With the project growing over the years, every day we generate interesting bits about our project that are nice to know, but it is not always so important that it [...]

Hello, Now there is a wiki page for listing the Debian Day 2009 events. Please, list, link, and announce the page availability for your local user group.

Hi, we are re-purposing gluck.debian.org (formerly people.debian.org) as a new security mirror to be shipped to Australia. Therefore the gluck.debian.org you have all come to love and depend upon will cease to exist in the near future.

Dear developers, Debian policy 3.8.2.0 has been uploaded today with the following changes…

In this issue: + GCC 4.4 related build failures tracked in the BTS + Debian is switching to EGLIBC + Debian Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) mailing list + New upload queue for European Developers + Updates of LXDE

Debian Archive Signing Key to be changed. The Debian Project wishes to announce the change of the GNU Privacy Guard key used to digitaly sign its archive reference files. Signatures are used to ensure that packages installed by users are the very same originally distributed by Debian, and have not been exchanged or tempered with.

We’re pleased that Lenny released with good support for the Eee PC and are now turning our efforts to make Squeeze even better, while continuing to provide support for our Lenny user base.

Hello, I’m pleased to announce the upload of boost-defaults, a new package that supplies unversioned -dev packages for Boost (libboost-dev, etc.) that simply depend on the current “default” Boost version (today, it is Boost 1.38.0).

Aurelien Jarno has just uploaded a fork of glibc called eglibc, which is targeted at embedded systems and is source- and binary-compatible with glibc.

In this issue: + Updates of major desktop environments + Alioth updated to lenny and FusionForge 4.7 + wiki.debian.org migrated to MoinMoin 1.7 + Tidbits from the wanna-build team + RFH: Removing spam from the listarchive + Groupware discussion list

Hi, As you probably know, back in December last year it was decided [1] that the Linux package shipped with Debian Lenny would include non-free code in it (so-called “blobs” of binary-only firmware).

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. Amidst the preparations for the upcoming DebConf in Spain, the organisers of last year’s DebConf in Argentina have put the finishing touches on the final report.

Hi, Hurry up! It’s only six days left for registering your attendance at DebConf9 in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, from July 23 to 30, 2009.

After the release of Lenny, for which the Debian Installer team felt proud for being a part of the technical success….but also guilty for being one of the release delay factors, the team felt the need to virtually sit down and discuss about our future, organization and technical challenges for the Lenny->Squeeze release cycle.

Hello,We’ve ended up with some transitions in unstable that can’t be uncoupled despite our efforts.¹ The good news is that the biggest of these sets is almost ready to migrate, which means it’s time to temporarily block uploads of the involved packages to ensure that we’ll be able to push the lot to testing once [...]

Hello world, As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of the archive, but this change is.