we just released dpkg 1.16.1 to unstable. It comes with several disruptive changes that you need to be aware of. Please read carefully.

Welcome to this year’s thirteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include…:

Dear Developers, August has been a rather short month in DPL land, given that I took two weeks off. Here is a report of DPL activities for the rest of the month.

Dear Developers, here is a report of DPL activities for July 2011. I apologize for the embarrassing delay, but I’ve been away, shamelessly on vacation, for the first half of August. On the bright side, this delay means that very soon you will re-hear back from me for a report about August, happy?

The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian Murdoch’s founding announcement [1]. Quoting from the official project history [2]: “The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a ‘distribution’ of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a [...]

Welcome to this year’s twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

Topics: Vendor profiles – Configuration file changes – Changes to Lintian options – Other improvements – Known bugs and issues – Help us help you

Électricité de France S.A. is pleased to announce that its new supercomputer, which is 200 Tflops and 43rd in the latest TOP500 (June 2011) [1], is based on Debian Squeeze.

Welcome to this year’s eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

Dear Developers, another month, another bit(s). (This report was meant to be sent out about a week ago, so it covers happenings in DPL land for June. Bear with me for further news shortly after the end of DebConf.)

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it will be present at several events in the coming weeks, ranging from developer-oriented conferences to workshops for users and wannabe developers. As usual, upcoming events are listed on our website [1]. 1: http://www.debian.org/events/ >From June 27 to July 3, during Campus Party 2011 [2] in Bogotá, [...]

In this update: * Release Team sprint minutes * Squeeze wrap up/retrospective * Release team membership/workload * Time based freezes * Migrations from unstable to testing * Misc, and what’s in the next update

The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename “Squeeze”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems.

Welcome to this year’s tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include…

Welcome to this year’s ninth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include * Report from LinuxTag 2011 * Testing new hardware support for Debian 6.0.2 * Bits from the Perl maintainers * Report from the Alioth sprint * Bits from the DPL * New mirrors closer to [...]

Dear Developers, another month has passed, time for another update of what has been going on in DPL-land. Since the last update of mine—released shortly after the recent elections [1]—has been mostly about “DPL interaction tips & tricks”, this one will cover the time span from mid April to now. Better get started …

Alioth has become an important part of the Debian infrastructure in recent years; it has been used by more and more people and teams inside Debian, as well as by some upstream projects.

The Debian project is proud to announce the availability of a new primary mirror in mainland China. The new mirror, ftp.cn.debian.org [1], will significantly reduce network latency to the Debian software repositories and help to raise Debian’s profile in China, and is accessible via IPv6 as well as via IPv4.

Welcome to this year’s eighth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that its domains debian.org and debian.net are now secured by the DNS Security Extension (DNSSEC). The corresponding DNS records have recently been added in the .net and .org zones.

Welcome to this year’s seventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community.

Hi everybody, sorry for the delay [1], it’s about time that I thank you all and recall some practical information about how to use DPL “services”.

Welcome to this year’s fifth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

The Debian Project has taken another important step towards better collaboration with its more than 300 derivative distributions by launching the Debian dErivatives eXchange project (DEX).

Welcome to this year’s fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include…

It has been a long time since we sent the last bits from the Debian Installer Team. Since then Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’ was released and a lot has changed inside the team and in the installer itself. We intend to use this e-mail to summarise it and communicate better with people interested on helping with [...]

With the release of Squeeze, a new suite is available on all mirrors of the Debian archive. This suite is known as “stable-updates” and replaces the “volatile” archive which was used in previous releases.

We’re now a into the campaigning period. We only have 1 candidate this year, our current DPL: Stefano Zacchiroli

The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + DebConf news + Multiarch support + win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network + Team-specific NM questions + Debian games team meeting

As anticipated in the past DPL bits, I hereby formalize the delegation of DebConf chairs, as part of the ongoing effort in clarifying the relationships between the Debian Project and DebConf organization.