Debian Project News - September 30th, 2013

Saxman · Beitrag von **Saxman** » 01.10.2013 08:26:43

Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye hat geschrieben:------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org September 30th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/17/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's seventeenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * A summary of Debian GSoC 2013 * Coming updates for Wheezy and Squeeze * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? A summary of Debian GSoC 2013 ----------------------------- The Google Summer of Code [1] has now come to an end, and the 15 students working the whole summer on improving Debian have sent in their final reports. They've worked on various subjects such as ZFS on Linux integration [2], a rewrite of the package tracking system [3], improvements to Debian search [4], scan-building the Debian archive [5], a MIPS N32/N64 port [6], and a redesign of metapackage creation for Debian Blends [7]. The full list of Debian GSoC students and their projects can be found on the Debian blog [8]. The Debian project thanks the GSoC students for their amazing work and the Debian mentors who followed them during these four months. 1: https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ 2: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 01888.html 3: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 01884.html 4: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 01879.html 5: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 01881.html 6: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 01889.html 7: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 01873.html 8: http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/welcome- ... -2013.html Coming updates for Wheezy and Squeeze ------------------------------------- Adam D. Barratt announced that both stable and oldstable Debian releases will be updated in the coming weeks: the Wheezy 7.2 minor revision is scheduled for October 12 [9] and the Squeeze 6.0.8 minor revision for October 19 [10]. 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00089.html 10: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00090.html Other news ---------- Andreas Tille wrote a detailed report [11] of his experiences in DebConf13 in Switzerland this summer. 11: http://debianmed.blogspot.fr/2013/09/de ... tille.html Paul Tagliamonte wrote an interesting article [12] on his blog about how and why system package managers like APT and pip, a tool to install Python modules, can coexist. 12: http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/ Debian Edu 7.1+edu0, the sixth Debian Edu / Skolelinux release, based on Debian 7 "Wheezy", was released on September 28 [13]. 13: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928 Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * October 3-5, Montrouge, France — Debian booth at the Open World Forum [14]; * October 10-12, Oslo, Norway — Bug squashing party for Debian and Ubuntu [15]. 14: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/fr/2013/OWF 15: http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/10/12/no/Oslo You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [16] of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [17], Netherlands [18], Hispanic America [19], North America [20]. 16: http://www.debian.org/events 17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu 18: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl 19: http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha 20: 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 [21]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [22]. 21: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 22: events@debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- One applicant has been accepted [23] as Debian Developer, and seven people have started to maintain packages [24] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Jacob Appelbaum, Doug Torrance, Mattia Rizzolo, Yann Amar, Simon Gareste, Kevin Bortis, Octavio Alvarez, and M. Hamish Bowman into our project! 23: https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist#done 24: 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): python-django [25], iceweasel [26], chrony [27], puppet [28], icedove [29], pyopenssl [30], libvirt [31], and davfs2 [32]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 25: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2758 26: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2759 27: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2760 28: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2761 29: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2762 30: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2763 31: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2764 32: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2765 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 [33] (and the separate backports list [34], and stable updates list [35]) for announcements. 33: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 34: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 213 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [36] are: * anomaly — detection of anomalous data in a numeric stream [37] * catch — C++ Automated Test Cases in Headers [38] * clang-modernize-3.4 — tool to convert C++98 and C++03 code to C++11 [39] * cubemap — scalable video reflector, designed to be used with VLC [40] * fonts-ebgaramond-extra — EB Garamond Initials and TrueType fonts [41] * gpg-remailer — tool to forward re-encrypted PGP/GPG mail to a group [42] * ipv6toolkit — security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols [43] * keysync — synchronization of OTR identities between the different chat programs [44] * musl — standard C library [45] * rel2gpx — creation of GPX-track from OSM relation [46] * squishyball — audio sample comparison testing tool [47] * ssh-agent-filter — filtering proxy for ssh-agent [48] * view3dscene — VRML / X3D browser, and a viewer for other 3D model formats [49] 36: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 37: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/anomaly 38: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/catch 39: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mai ... ernize-3.4 40: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cubemap 41: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mai ... mond-extra 42: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gpg-remailer 43: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ipv6toolkit 44: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/keysync 45: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/musl 46: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rel2gpx 47: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/squishyball 48: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mai ... ent-filter 49: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/view3dscene Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [50] 537 packages are orphaned [51] and 150 packages are up for adoption [52]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [53]. 50: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/20 ... 00551.html 51: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 52: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 53: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? ----------------------------- Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [54] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org>. 54: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye.