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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 15 Sep 22:43

Debian Project News - September 15th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 11th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:
 * Release Update
 * Should Security Enhanced Linux be priority "standard"?
 * Lenny Upgrade advisor
 * ... and much more.

Release update

Luk Claes [1]reported on the progress regarding the release of the new
stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny". While there are still a
lot of release critical bugs to be fixed, Lenny is in good enough shape
to call for upgrade tests and work on the release notes. Regarding the
upgrade tests, he especially asks to test the Linux 2.6.26 kernel.
Regarding the release notes, he asks that any issues that should be
documented should be reported as bug against the [2]release-notes
pseudo package. Further discussion will happen on the [3]debian-doc
mailing list.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00000.html
  2: http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes
  3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 2 Sep 07:15

Debian Project News - September 1st, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 10th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

 * Debian Live Lenny Beta1 released
 * Debian Translations for French and German Reach 100%
 * Policy for web apps session storage?
 * ... and much more.

Debian Live Lenny Beta1

The Debian Live team [1]announced the first beta of Debian Lenny's
Live images. This is the first official release of Debian Live CDs. The
main features are, that these Live images are build 100% with packages
in Debians main section and different flavours (GNOME, KDE and Xfce as
well as a small image without graphical environment.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00013.html

Future releases should also contain an installation system, which is
not part of this beta1 version, since it still contains some minor
bugs. The images are created using [2]live-helper, a collection of
scripts helping to create these CD images. There is also a
[3]graphical front end for these script.

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 19 Aug 21:20

Debian Project News - August 18th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

 * Debian turns 15
 * 8th annual Debian Conference finished
 * Freespire 5 to be based on Debian
 * ... and much more.

Debian turns 15

On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock [1]announced a new Linux distribution
named "Debian". 15 years later the project started by him is the
biggest Linux distribution worldwide, offering more than 20 000
software packages maintained by over 1'000 volunteers, supporting more
hardware architectures than any other Linux distribution, and providing
a base for more than twenty active derivatives, like [2]Knoppix,
[3]Skolelinux or [4]Ubuntu.

  1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6
  2: http://www.knoppix.net
  3: http://www.skolelinux.org
  4: http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 8 Aug 22:09

Mar Del Plata to host 9th Debian conference

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Mar Del Plata to host 9th Debian conference

  * 250 developers from 37 countries to come together at Hotel Dorá,
    Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 10-16 August 2008.
  * 100 talks and tutorial sessions scheduled.
  * Attendance is free of charge, on-site registration required.
  * Debian Project to turn 15 years of age.

Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 8 August 2008 - The Debian Project, the team
behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, is inviting members
of the public and the press to its annual conference, DebConf 8, which
takes place from 10 August to 16 August at the Hotel Dorá in Mar Del
Plata, Argentina.

Over 100 events have been scheduled with speakers from all parts of
the world, such as Debian Project leader Steve McIntyre and Hewlett
Packard's Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist, Bdale Garbee. The
topics include global team organisation, internationalisation,
development internals and policy, virtualisation, and systems &
network adminisatration. In tutorial sessions, attendants can gain
hands-on experience in various subjects. Development and brainstorming
takes place in the two "hack labs", and peripheral events, such as a
world cheese party, allow for extensive networking.

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 5 Aug 01:04

Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 8th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

 * "Lenny" frozen
 * Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated to include support for newer hardware
 * Schedule for 8th annual Debian Conference announced
 * Debian Days around the world
 * ... and much more.

"Lenny" frozen

Marc Brockschmidt, a Release Manager, announced that "Lenny", the
upcoming new stable release, has been [1]frozen as [2]planned. The
automatic transition of new versions of packages from the development
branch ("sid" or "unstable") to the current testing branch ("lenny") has
been stopped and new versions of packages need manual approval. New
versions which fix release critical bugs, other important bugs, add
documentation, or include translation fixes can be approved by the
release team upon request.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00002.html
  2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00005.html

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 22 Jul 00:38

Debian Project News - July 21st, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 7th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue:

 * Updates to the Lenny release process
 * Debian-installer to support loading of external firmwares
 * Best practice for debug packages
 * ... and much more.

Updates to the Lenny release process

Luk Claes sent a [1]release update regarding the upcoming stable
release Debian 5.0 "Lenny". An important part is, that starting with
next week, the transition of packages from the unstable to the testing
branch will be frozen to concentrate on: fixing the remaining bugs. He
further reports on the different release goals, which he sees in good
shape, but is a bit worried about the architecture qualification pages
on wiki.debian.org, which still miss a lot of information. Porters
should provide status information on these pages, so it's easier for
the release team to inform themselves about the status of different
hardware architectures.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00005.html

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Joerg Jaspert | 7 Jul 22:26

Debian Project News - July 7th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue:

 * DebianDay 2008
 * DPL-initiated teams survey finished
 * Bits from the testing security team
 * ... and much more.

Debian Day 2008 around the Globe

16 August 2008 will mark the 15th birthday of the Debian project since
its [1]first announcement by founder Ian Murdock on
comp.os.linux.development on 16 August 1993. A coordination page for
local Debian User Groups organizing and announcing birthday events is
[2]already available at the Debian Wiki.

  1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6
  2: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2008

DPL-initiated teams survey finished

Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre has published the [3]summary of
the results of his teams survey. The survey yielded 116 replies, which

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Alexander Schmehl | 24 Jun 10:23

Debian Project News - June 23rd, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue:

 * Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers
 * Backports.org keyring package?
 * Debian powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer
 * ... and much more.

Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers

Marc Brockschmidt, member of the New Maintainer Frontdesk, [1]sent a
call for Application Managers taking care of New Maintainers.
Application Managers should have a broad experience in sponsoring and
mentoring of prospective developers, a firm knowledge of the Debian
Policy and Developer's Reference and at least a rough understanding of
the current New Maintainer process.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/06/msg00005.html

Interested Developers, who have above all that a few hours of time each
week, should send mail to [2]new-maintainer <at> debian.org.

  2: mailto:new-maintainer <at> debian.org

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Alexander Schmehl | 10 Jun 01:30

Debian Project News - June 9th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue:

 * Release Update
 * Beta-2 of the Lenny Debian Installer released
 * Report from LinuxTag 2008
 * Call for help by the german translation team
 * ... and much more.

Release Update

Marc Brockschmidt reported[1] about the status of the upcoming stable
release. After some major transitions, like the ocaml transition[2][3]
"Lenny" is in good shape, but still a lot of work needs to be done. Since
the armel architecture made great improvements the release team decided
to upgrade it to a proper release architecture.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/06/msg00000.html
  2: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/05/debian_ocaml_news/
  3: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/06/ocaml_3.10.2_is_in_testing/

Regarding Lenny the Qt/KDE Packaging Team [4]decided that the upcoming
release will be shipped with KDE 3.5.9 (and with the KDE 4.1 development

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Alexander Schmehl | 27 May 01:04

Debian Weekly News - May 26th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Steve McIntyre sent a new "Bits from the DPL" mail. A
serious issue in Debians OpenSSL package has been fixed recently.
Debian is discussing about an archive strucure for huge packages.

Bits from the Debian Project Leader
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Steve McIntyre sent a new release of his "Bits from the DPL"[1] reporting
his recent activities as elected Project Leader. He starts by pointing to
several interviews he gave recently[2][3][4][5][6] and continues by
informing about personal changes in core teams. Jonathan McDowell has
been added as keyring maintainer, and is already working together with
James Troup on easier integration of keyring maintenance and our ldap
system for better cooperation with the Debian System Administrators. He
thanks Anthony Towns, who stepped down from the teams he was in.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00006.html
  2: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17716/1090/
  3: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=741
  4: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39406494,00.htm
  5: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/21/debian_developers_approved/
  6: http://www.tllts.org/audio/tllts_244-05-07-08.ogg

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Alexander Schmehl | 16 May 22:43

Debian Project News - May 9th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. We would like to thank everyone for his feedback on the last
issue of the Debian Project News! We didn't reckoned a tiny newsletter
would cause such an sensation - we where even mentioned in some print
magazines! So many, many thanks! We'll try our very best to come up and
exceed your expectations!

While visiting Stefano Zacchiroli the www 2008 conference[1] in china Sir
Tim Berners-Lee[2] offered Debian kudos[3] for its well thought-out
encapsulation/packaging of libraries. Paul Wise will close[4] his Debian
user[5] and Debian new contributor[6] surveys on June 1st so that
analysis of the results can begin. Please participate if you haven't done
so, yet.

  1. http://www2008.org/
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_berners-lee
  3. http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/04/unexpected_kudos_from_TBL/
  4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00006.html
  5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02475.html
  6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/03/msg00030.html

Debian and Googles Summer of Code
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The Debian Project announced[7] to participate again in Googles Summer of

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