Debian Project News - January 27th, 2014

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News                    [email protected]
January 27th, 2014            http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/02/
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Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Bits from the DPL
  * Debian France online shop open
  * Valve games for Debian Members and Maintainers
  * Debian real-time communication
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?


Bits from the DPL
-----------------

Lucas Nussbaum sent his monthly report of DPL activities for December
2013 and the first half of January 2014=C2=A0[1]. Lucas started public
discussions on several topics, such as evaluation criteria for trusted
organisations=C2=A0[2] and Debian services and Debian infrastructure=C2=A0[=
3].

    1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00005.html
    2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00060.html
    3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00010.html


Debian France online shop open
------------------------------

Sylvestre Ledru reported on his blog=C2=A0[4] that Debian France has opened
an online shop=C2=A0[5] with plenty of Debian goodies: some are already
familiar as they were sold during FOSDEM or various DebConfs (like the
Swiss army knives=C2=A0[6] or the classic polo shirts=C2=A0[7]), but there =
are
also brand-new Wheezy-themed t-shirts=C2=A0[8]. The website is only in
French, although an English version might exist in the future.

    4: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2014/01/15/debian-france-shop
    5: http://www.enventelibre.org/debian
    6: http://www.enventelibre.org/goodies/couteau-suisse-debian
    7: http://www.enventelibre.org/vetement/polo-debian
    8: http://www.enventelibre.org/vetement/t-shirt-debian-logo-gris


Valve games for Debian Members and Maintainers
----------------------------------------------

Neil McGovern announced=C2=A0[9] that Valve=C2=A0[10] wish to express their=
 thanks
to the Debian community for the operating system on which they based
Steam OS=C2=A0[11], a distribution for gamers. They are offering to all
Debian Members and Debian Maintainers a free subscription which provides
access to all past and future Valve produced games. If your
cryptographic key is in the Debian keyring=C2=A0[12] and you are interested
in this offer, send a GPG-signed email to Jo Shields=C2=A0[13].

    9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00006.html
   10: http://www.valvesoftware.com
   11: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
   12: http://keyring.debian.org/
   13: [email protected]


Debian real-time communication
------------------------------

Daniel Pocock announced=C2=A0[14] the availability of a SIP service=C2=A0[1=
5] for
Debian Members. This service, launched during the mini-DebConf in Paris,
offers real-time audio and video conversation through the browser (with
WebRTC) or a diverse range of traditional softphones, including Empathy,
Jitsi, Lumicall, Linphone, and CSIPSimple.

A phonebooth=C2=A0[16] is available=C2=A0[17] for people wanting to reach D=
ebian Members
through this service. For more information on how to use this service, plea=
se
consult the dedicated wiki page=C2=A0[18].

This service has been made possible by a significant effort by the DSA team
over the last few weeks. The Debian project is encouraging other free softw=
are
projects, including Debian derivatives, to emulate what Debian has done so =
that
we can all call each other.

   14: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00004.html
   15: https://rtc.debian.org/
   16: https://freephonebox.net
   17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00102.html
   18: http://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers


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

The 34th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers=C2=A0[19] has been
released and covers the following topics:

  * email notifications for git commits on git.debian.org
  * alioth.debian.org now exports project meta-data as RDF (using DOAP/ADMS=
=2ESW)
  * animate the Debian microblogging accounts!
  * cryptographic verification of upstream packages
  * state of the debian-keyring
  * ci.debian.net

   19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00007.html

Lucas Nussbaum mentioned on his blog=C2=A0[20] that thanks to Christophe
Siraut, the Debian Maintainer Dashboard=C2=A0[21] (a service based on the
Ultimate Debian Database=C2=A0[22]) now provides RSS feeds for recently add=
ed
tasks.

   20: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=3D805
   21: http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?
   22: http://udd.debian.org/

Adam D. Barratt announced that "Wheezy"=C2=A07.4 is to be published on
February 8=C2=A0[23], and "Squeeze"=C2=A06.0.9 on February 15=C2=A0[24]. Th=
e NEW queue
for these distributions will be frozen one week before the actual
release date.

   23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00117.html
   24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00118.html

Clint Adams posted=C2=A0[25] some statistics about the Debian keyrings,
breaking down the keys used in Debian by their types, lengths, and hash
algorithms.

   25: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00119.html


Upcoming events
---------------

There are several upcoming Debian-related events:

  * February 1-2, Brussels, Belgium =E2=80=94 Debian booth at FOSDEM=C2=A0[=
26]
  * February 14-16, Minsk, Belarus =E2=80=94 LVEE=C2=A0[27] conference=C2=
=A0[28], Winter Edition

   26: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2014/FOSDEM
   27: http://lvee.org/en/main
   28: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2014/01/msg00002.html

You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on
the events section=C2=A0[29] of the Debian wiki, or subscribe to one of our
events mailing lists for different regions: Europe=C2=A0[30],
Netherlands=C2=A0[31], Hispanic America=C2=A0[32], North America=C2=A0[33].

   29: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents
   30: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu
   31: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl
   32: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha
   33: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are
you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a
Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page=C2=A0[34]? Send an email
to the Debian Events Team=C2=A0[35].

   34: http://www.debian.org/events/talks
   35: [email protected]


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

Two applicants have been accepted=C2=A0[36] as Debian Developers, nine
applicants have been accepted=C2=A0[37] as Debian Maintainer, and eleven
people have started to maintain packages=C2=A0[38] since the previous issue
of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Apollon Oikonomopoulos,
Vincent Cheng Diane Trout, H=C3=A9ctor Romojaro G=C3=B3mez, Ximin Luo, Reub=
en
Thomas, Sergiusz Paw=C5=82owicz, Timo Weing=C3=A4rtner, Christos Trochalaki=
s,
Dmitry Shachnev, Chris Boot, Marco Bardelli, Tianon Gravi, Ivan Mincik,
Jose Luis Rivero, Richard Stephen Uhler, Rupert Swarbrick, Jorge Soares,
Sylvain Pineau, Mark Buda, Jyrki Pulliainen, and Maykel Moya into our
project!

   36: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done
   37: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00057.html
   38: 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): asterisk, devscripts=C2=A0[39], openssl=C2=A0[40], libxfont=
=C2=A0[41],
spice=C2=A0[42], srtp=C2=A0[43], movabletype-opensource=C2=A0[44], libsprin=
g-java=C2=A0[45],
graphviz=C2=A0[46], djvulibre=C2=A0[47], mysql-5.1=C2=A0[48], libvirt=C2=A0=
[49],
drupal7=C2=A0[50], and mysql-5.5=C2=A0[51]. Please read them carefully and =
take
the proper measures.

   39: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2836
   40: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2837
   41: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2838
   42: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2839
   43: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2840
   44: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2841
   45: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2842
   46: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2843
   47: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2844
   48: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2845
   49: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2846
   50: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2847
   51: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2848

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[52] (and the separate backports
list=C2=A0[53], and stable updates list=C2=A0[54]) for announcements.

   52: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
   53: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/
   54: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/


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

369 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among
many others=C2=A0[55] are:

  * entr =E2=80=94 tool to run arbitrary commands when files change=C2=A0[5=
6]
  * htcondor =E2=80=94 distributed workload management system=C2=A0[57]
  * init-select =E2=80=94 init system selection tool=C2=A0[58]
  * jmtpfs =E2=80=94 FUSE based filesystem for accessing MTP devices=C2=A0[=
59]
  * jscommunicator-web-phone =E2=80=94 basic SIP video-phone web page using=
 WebRTC=C2=A0[60]
  * kdeconnect =E2=80=94 tool to connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma Wor=
kspace=C2=A0[61]
  * menulibre =E2=80=94 advanced FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor=C2=
=A0[62]
  * noblenote =E2=80=94 Qt program for taking notes=C2=A0[63]
  * simpleburn =E2=80=94 minimalistic application for burning and extractin=
g CDs and DVDs=C2=A0[64]
  * thc-ipv6 =E2=80=94 The Hacker Choice's IPv6 attack toolkit=C2=A0[65]
  * thermald =E2=80=94 thermal monitoring and controlling daemon=C2=A0[66]

   55: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
   56: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/entr
   57: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/htcondor
   58: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/init-select
   59: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jmtpfs
   60: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jscommunicator-web-phone
   61: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kdeconnect
   62: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/menulibre
   63: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/noblenote
   64: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/simpleburn
   65: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/thc-ipv6
   66: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/thermald


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

Currently=C2=A0[67] 520 packages are orphaned=C2=A0[68] and 155 packages ar=
e up
for adoption=C2=A0[69]: please visit the complete list of packages which ne=
ed
your help=C2=A0[70].

   67: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel//2014/01/msg00451.html
   68: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
   69: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
   70: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested


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-----------------------------

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writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on.
Please see the contributing page=C2=A0[71] to find out how to help. We're
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   71: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute


This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Carl J Mannino, C=C3=A9dric
Boutillier and Justin B Rye.



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