Debian Project News - February 10th, 2014

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News                    [email protected]
February 10th, 2014           http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/03/
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Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Call for projects and mentors for Debian GSoC 2014
  * Bits from the Release Team
  * Reports from recent Debian Sprints
  * Other news
  * Upcoming events
  * New Debian Contributors
  * Important Debian Security Advisories
  * New and noteworthy packages
  * Work-needing packages
  * Want to continue reading DPN?


Call for projects and mentors for Debian GSoC 2014
--------------------------------------------------

Nicolas Dandrimont asked all Debian contributors for projects and
mentors=C2=A0[1] to help Debian participate in the tenth year of the Google
Summer of Code=C2=A0[2]. "Everyone (member of the Debian project or not,
student or not) is welcome to submit their ideas, and to try and find
people willing to mentor the projects", explained Nicolas in his mail.
If you have an idea, please publish it on the wiki page=C2=A0[3], and send =
an
email to the coordination mailing list=C2=A0[4]. You can also contact Nicol=
as
and the other GSoC administrators for Debian on their mailing list or on
their IRC channel, #debian-soc on irc.debian.org.

    1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg00001.html
    2: https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/
    3: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects
    4: [email protected]


Bits from the Release Team
--------------------------

Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Release Team=C2=A0[5]. The Release Te=
am
recently reviewed the status of the architectures in sid, and decided
that IA64 should be removed from testing=C2=A0[6], and will soon be removed
=66rom unstable and experimental=C2=A0[7].

Niels also indicated in his message that auto-removal from testing of
non-leaf RC-buggy packages has been suspended until there is a way to
properly notify the maintainers of reverse-dependencies that the removal
will occur.

In the meantime, thanks to the work of Ivo De Decker and Paul Wise, the
Package Tracking Service=C2=A0[8] will now display a warning for packages
that are about to be auto-removed from testing. The auto-removals are
also listed, thanks to Lucas Nussbaum=C2=A0[9], on the Debian Maintainer
Dashboard=C2=A0[10] and by the how-can-i-help=C2=A0[11] package.

    5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/01/msg00008.html
    6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00009.html
    7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00035.html
    8: http://packages.qa.debian.org/
    9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/01/msg00574.html
   10: http://udd.debian.org/dmd/
   11: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help


Reports from recent Debian Sprints
----------------------------------

Antonio Terceiro sent a report=C2=A0[12] of the Debian Ruby Sprint=C2=A0[13=
], held
in Paris on January 15=E2=80=9317, as a satellite event of the Paris Mini-
DebConf=C2=A0[14]. He explained in his message the efforts of the team
regarding the removal of the now deprecated 1.8 version of the Ruby
interpreter, and the goals of the Ruby team for Jessie.

The Debian Med team organised their fourth sprint in Aberdeen=C2=A0[15] from
January 31 until February 2. Several members of the team posted
reports=C2=A0[16] of=C2=A0[17] their=C2=A0[18] activities=C2=A0[19] during =
the sprint,
including packaging, bug fixing, and presentations of software.

The Ruby Team thanks IRILL for hosting the meeting, and both teams thank
the generous Debian sponsors for funding the expenses required for the
sprints.

   12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/02/msg00028.html
   13: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Meeting/Paris2014
   14: http://france.debian.net/events/minidebconf2014/
   15: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014
   16: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/2014/02/msg00000.html
   17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/2014/02/msg00001.html
   18: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/2014/02/msg00002.html
   19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/2014/02/msg00003.html


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

Lucas Nussbaum, Debian Project Leader, recently updated the delegation
for Debian Policy Editors=C2=A0[20], and reappointed Kurt Roeckx as Project
Secretary=C2=A0[21] for another term.

   20: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg00003.html
   21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg00002.html

Johannes Schauer posted on his blog=C2=A0[22] some updates about botch=C2=
=A0[23],
a tool to solve cyclic build dependencies and to generate an order in
which packages have to be built so that Debian can be bootstrapped
easily on new architectures.

   22: http://blog.mister-muffin.de/2014/02/06/botch-updates
   23: https://gitorious.org/debian-bootstrap/botch

The fourth update of the stable distribution of Debian (codename
"Wheezy") was released on February 8=C2=A0[24].

   24: http://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140208


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

There are several upcoming Debian-related events:

  * 28 February=E2=80=932 March, Phnom Penh, Cambodia =E2=80=94 first Mini-=
DebConf in Cambodia=C2=A0[25]
  * 15=E2=80=9316 March, Barcelona, Spain =E2=80=94 Debian Women Mini-DebCo=
nf=C2=A0[26]
  * 15=E2=80=9316 March, Chemnitz, Germany =E2=80=94 Debian booth at the Ch=
emnitz Linux Days=C2=A0[27]

   25: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianCambodia/MiniDebConf2014
   26: http://bcn2014.mini.debconf.org/
   27: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2014/ChemnitzerLinuxTage

You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on
the events section=C2=A0[28] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of
our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe=C2=A0[29],
Netherlands=C2=A0[30], Hispanic America=C2=A0[31], North America=C2=A0[32].

   28: http://www.debian.org/events
   29: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu
   30: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl
   31: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha
   32: 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[33]? Send an email
to the Debian Events Team=C2=A0[34].

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


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

One applicant has been accepted=C2=A0[35] as a Debian Maintainer, and seven
people have started to maintain packages=C2=A0[36] since the previous issue
of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Joao Eriberto Mota Filho,
Pierre Rudloff, Adam Sampson, Rebecca Palmer, Dariusz Dwornikowski,
Raoul Snyman, Iain R. Learmonth, and Joseph HERLANT into our project!

   35: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done
   36: 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): curl=C2=A0[37], libyaml=C2=A0[38], drupal6=C2=A0[39], libga=
du=C2=A0[40],
horde3=C2=A0[41], mumble=C2=A0[42], and libav=C2=A0[43]. Please read them c=
arefully and
take the proper measures.

   37: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2849
   38: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2850
   39: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2851
   40: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2852
   41: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2853
   42: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2854
   43: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2855

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[44] (and the separate backports
list=C2=A0[45], and stable updates list=C2=A0[46]) for announcements.

   44: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
   45: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/
   46: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/


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

246 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among
many others=C2=A0[47] are:

  * drupal7-mod-drucall =E2=80=94 WebRTC SIP module for the Drupal CMS=C2=
=A0[48]
  * etm-qt =E2=80=94 tool to manage events and tasks using simple text file=
s=C2=A0[49]
  * fonts-noto =E2=80=94 "No Tofu" font families with large Unicode coverag=
e=C2=A0[50]
  * gnome-shell-pomodoro =E2=80=94 GNOME Shell time-management app=C2=A0[51]
  * hash-slinger =E2=80=94 tools to generate special DNS records=C2=A0[52]
  * mugshot =E2=80=94 lightweight user-configuration application=C2=A0[53]
  * optcomp =E2=80=94 syntax extension for optional compilation with cpp-li=
ke directives (tools)=C2=A0[54]
  * rurple-ng =E2=80=94 learn programming in Python with a robot=C2=A0[55]
  * tetgen =E2=80=94 quality tetrahedral mesh generator=C2=A0[56]
  * udevil =E2=80=94 alternative storage media interface=C2=A0[57]

   47: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
   48: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/drupal7-mod-drucall
   49: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/etm-qt
   50: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-noto
   51: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gnome-shell-pomodoro
   52: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hash-slinger
   53: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mugshot
   54: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/optcomp
   55: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rurple-ng
   56: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tetgen
   57: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/udevil


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

Currently=C2=A0[58] 512 packages are orphaned=C2=A0[59] and 152 packages ar=
e up
for adoption=C2=A0[60]: please visit the complete list of packages which ne=
ed
your help=C2=A0[61].

   58: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00176.html
   59: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
   60: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
   61: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested


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Please see the contributing page=C2=A0[62] to find out how to help. We're
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   62: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute


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



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