Debian Project News - July 8th, 2013

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News                    [email protected]
July 8th, 2013                http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/14/
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Welcome to this year's fourteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * All Debian source are belong to us
  * Updating delegations
  * Debian Trademark Team
  * Architectures supported in Jessie
  * Other news
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?


All Debian source are belong to us
----------------------------------

Stefano Zacchiroli introduced a new service=C2=A0[1] for browsing and
searching through all the source code provided in Debian packages:
sources.debian.net=C2=A0[2].

    1: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2013/07/introducing_sources.debia=
n.net/
    2: http://sources.debian.net/


Updating delegations
--------------------

Following his previous announcement about revocation of obsolete
delegations=C2=A0[3], Lucas Nussbaum has updated the delegation for the
Policy Editors=C2=A0[4], welcoming Jonathan Nieder to the team, and the
delegation for the summer of code administrators=C2=A0[5], welcoming Sukhbir
Singh officially among them. More updates will follow.

    3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00003.html
    4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00004.html
    5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/06/msg00005.html


Debian Trademark Team
---------------------

Lucas Nussbaum mentioned that Debian does now have a Trademark Team=C2=A0[6=
].
A more official announcement is still to come. Besides answering
trademark use requests, the Trademark Team is currently working on
getting the Debian logo registered, and on clarifying the status of
Debian-related domain names.

    6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/06/msg00132.html


Architectures supported in Jessie
---------------------------------

During their previous sprint=C2=A0[7], the Debian System Administrators (DS=
A)
set a list of requirements=C2=A0[8] they consider necessary to support a po=
rt
for the next stable release. They listed some specific concerns for the
following architectures: armel, armhf, hurd, mips, mipsel, sparc, and
s390/x. Most of them are currently being addressed, but porters may
welcome help.

    7: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/13/#dsasprint
    8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2013/06/msg00606.html


Other news
----------

The thirty-third issue of the miscellaneous news for developers=C2=A0[9] has
been released, covering the following topics:

  * a summary of the Debian System Administration sprint
  * the introduction of the sources.debian.net=C2=A0[10] service
  * the release of the source code of the search engine behind codesearch.d=
ebian.net=C2=A0[11]
  * a list of packages that have never had a bug filed against them=C2=A0[1=
2], and which can
    serve as a starting point to get more involved in Debian quality assura=
nce work
  * various improvements to the central package overview for developers=C2=
=A0[13]

    9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/07/msg00001.html
   10: http://sources.debian.net/
   11: http://codesearch.debian.net
   12: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/nobugs.cgi
   13: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php


New Debian Contributors
-----------------------

Seven applicants have been accepted=C2=A0[14] as Debian Developers, and six
people have started to maintain packages=C2=A0[15] since the previous issue
of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Boris Pek, Russell Stuart,
Mazen Neifer, Sukhbir Singh, Rodolfo Garc=C3=ADa Pe=C3=B1as, Barry Warsaw, =
Helmut
Grohne, Marius Gavrilescu, Graham Inggs, Sebastian Gibb, ShuxiongYe, Tz-
Huan Huang and Nitesh A Jain into our project!

   14: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done
   15: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi


Important Debian Security Advisories
------------------------------------

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages
(among others): nginx=C2=A0[16], icedove=C2=A0[17], wordpress=C2=A0[18],
xml-security-c=C2=A0[19], puppet=C2=A0[20], iceweasel=C2=A0[21], kfreebsd-9=
=C2=A0[22], and
curl=C2=A0[23]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

   16: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2721
   17: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2720
   18: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
   19: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2717
   20: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2716
   21: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2715
   22: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2714
   23: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2713

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
subscribe to the security mailing list=C2=A0[24] (and the separate backports
list=C2=A0[25], and stable updates list=C2=A0[26]) for announcements.

   24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
   25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/
   26: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/


New and noteworthy packages
---------------------------

235 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among
many others=C2=A0[27] are:

  * adcli =E2=80=94 tool for performing actions on an Active Directory doma=
in=C2=A0[28]
  * exempi =E2=80=94 command line tool to manipulate XMP metadata=C2=A0[29]
  * kazam =E2=80=94 screencast and screenshot application created with desi=
gn in mind=C2=A0[30]
  * php-horde-trean =E2=80=94 web-based bookmarks application=C2=A0[31]
  * sat-xmpp-core =E2=80=94 Salut =C3=A0 Toi XMPP-based communication and s=
haring tool=C2=A0[32]
  * scilab-metanet =E2=80=94 Scilab graphs and networks computations module=
=C2=A0[33]

   27: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
   28: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/adcli
   29: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exempi
   30: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kazam
   31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/php-horde-trean
   32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sat-xmpp-core
   33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/scilab-metanet


Work-needing packages
---------------------

Currently=C2=A0[34] 496 packages are orphaned=C2=A0[35] and 150 packages ar=
e up
for adoption=C2=A0[36]: please visit the complete list of packages which ne=
ed
your help=C2=A0[37].

   34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/07/msg00176.html
   35: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
   36: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
   37: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested


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   38: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute


This issue of Debian Project News was edited by C=C3=A9dric Boutillier,
Richard Hartmann, David Pr=C3=A9vot and Justin B Rye.

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