Another month, another load of DPL bits! In case you haven’t noticed, the big news since the last bits is that, not only we have a new stable release in Debian history (the 11th), but also that development for Wheezy is open, meaning you can now break your pet packages (not).

According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin “six weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.”

Welcome to this year’s third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released * New layout and website related news * Backports for “Squeeze” easier for users * Volatile replaced by new updates suite * Bits from the Debian Project Leader * DebConf [...]

Overrides breakage. During the development of Lintian 2.5.0 it was decided to finally use a consistent way to report file names in tags. Additionally, the previously separate embedded-lib* tags have been merged into the embedded-library tag.

The Debian Project is happy to announce that it will again be represented at this years CeBIT IT fair in Hanover, Germany [1] from the 1st to the 5th of March. Debian will again be a present as “special guest” at the booth of Univention GmbH [2], whose motto this year is “Open source keeps [...]

The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting from the upcoming Debian release 6.0 (“Squeeze”). It is replaced by the suite squeeze-updates on the official mirrors. Its management will move to the Debian Release Team, who already manage regular updates to Debian stable and oldstable.

The Debian Project wishes to announce the change of the GNU Privacy Guard key used to digitally sign the 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.

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a “technology preview”.

Dear Developers, let’s see if I can intrude in the Squeeze release countdown (to expire during the upcoming week-end [1]!) with some DPL bits.

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 user oriented trade fairs. As usual, upcoming events are also listed on our website [1].

The Debian Project would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to participate in a census[1] of Debian derivatives. In addition we would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to join the Debian derivatives[2] front desk[3][4]. Debian encourages members of derivative distributions to contribute their ideas, patches, bug reports to [...]

In the weekend 14-16 January 2011, the Debian Security Team convened in Linux Hotel, Essen. We discussed many things, a lot of security work was done and of course the necessary socialising wasn’t forgotten. We’d like to thank the Linux Hotel for again receiving us in such a great way!

We now have a target date of the weekend of 5th and 6th February for the release. We have checked with core teams, and this seems to be acceptable for everyone.

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

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. Changes since the second beta of the installer include:

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release candidate release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze.

Dear Developers, I suspect you have been missing DPL SPAM, so let me try to fix that. In the meantime, Squeeze is looking better and better every passing day [0], but we’re not there yet. How about offering as gifts to your closest friends some RC bug fixes? I’m sure they’ll appreciate!

It’s been a while since I started working on this project and even longer since I had the idea. It’s therefore a pleasure to finally announce the DACA project.

Hello! Another month has passed since our last email, and we’re just missing you all so much, so we thought we’d write and let you know what we’re up to.

Welcome to this year’s seventeenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Updated Debian GNU/Linux: 5.0.7 released * Debian WWW Sprint * ZFS support in “Squeeze” * Interview with Debian Developer Colin Watson * Further “This week in Debian” interviews * … and much more.

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze.

Welcome to this year’s sixteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * State of Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” * Highlights from the Debian linux-2.6 Meeting * New default artwork for Debian “Squeeze” * Debian Women IRC Training Sessions * Bits from the Debian Project Leader * Bits [...]

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”: Call for Upgrade and Installation tests. The Debian project is proud to announce, that its upcoming release Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” has entered the final phase of its development cycle and is nearly in its final form. We now seek the help of our users to find the remaining bugs related to upgrades [...]

It’s time for another release update as we move, like a glacier, inevitably and unstoppingly towards the release.

Hi! Since there has been a lot happening in the Debian Multimedia world during the Squeeze release, so we figured we should give you an update on that.

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

In this issue: + Screenshots on packages.d.o + BTS version tracking explained + Latest features of dpkg-dev + Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database + Re-evaluate the state of backported packages

This status message is long overdue, hope not all of you have lost trust yet that the webteam is actually doing work.

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze.

Hi! One of the side effects of the freeze [1] of our upcoming stable release – squeeze – is that not all tasks get done as quickly as you might be used to in the past. For example, work on things that are not entirely release critical, like processing the NEW queue [2], are not [...]