Debian Project News - January 27th, 2014

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Carl J Mannino, Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye hat geschrieben:------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org January 27th, 2014 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/02/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [1]. Lucas started public discussions on several topics, such as evaluation criteria for trusted organisations [2] and Debian services and Debian infrastructure [3]. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an ... 00005.html 2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00060.html 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00010.html Debian France online shop open ------------------------------ Sylvestre Ledru reported on his blog [4] that Debian France has opened an online shop [5] with plenty of Debian goodies: some are already familiar as they were sold during FOSDEM or various DebConfs (like the Swiss army knives [6] or the classic polo shirts [7]), but there are also brand-new Wheezy-themed t-shirts [8]. The website is only in French, although an English version might exist in the future. 4: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2014/0 ... rance-shop 5: http://www.enventelibre.org/debian 6: http://www.enventelibre.org/goodies/cou ... sse-debian 7: http://www.enventelibre.org/vetement/polo-debian 8: http://www.enventelibre.org/vetement/t- ... -logo-gris Valve games for Debian Members and Maintainers ---------------------------------------------- Neil McGovern announced [9] that Valve [10] wish to express their thanks to the Debian community for the operating system on which they based Steam OS [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 [12] and you are interested in this offer, send a GPG-signed email to Jo Shields [13]. 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an ... 00006.html 10: http://www.valvesoftware.com 11: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/ 12: http://keyring.debian.org/ 13: jo.shields@collabora.co.uk Debian real-time communication ------------------------------ Daniel Pocock announced [14] the availability of a SIP service [15] 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 [16] is available [17] for people wanting to reach Debian Members through this service. For more information on how to use this service, please consult the dedicated wiki page [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 software 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-an ... 00004.html 15: https://rtc.debian.org/ 16: https://freephonebox.net 17: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00102.html 18: http://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunica ... Developers Other news ---------- The 34th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [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.SW) * 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-an ... 00007.html Lucas Nussbaum mentioned on his blog [20] that thanks to Christophe Siraut, the Debian Maintainer Dashboard [21] (a service based on the Ultimate Debian Database [22]) now provides RSS feeds for recently added tasks. 20: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=805 21: http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi? 22: http://udd.debian.org/ Adam D. Barratt announced that "Wheezy" 7.4 is to be published on February 8 [23], and "Squeeze" 6.0.9 on February 15 [24]. The NEW queue for these distributions will be frozen one week before the actual release date. 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00117.html 24: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00118.html Clint Adams posted [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/ ... 00119.html Upcoming events --------------- There are several upcoming Debian-related events: * February 1-2, Brussels, Belgium — Debian booth at FOSDEM [26] * February 14-16, Minsk, Belarus — LVEE [27] conference [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-e ... 00002.html You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section [29] of the Debian wiki, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe [30], Netherlands [31], Hispanic America [32], North America [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 [34]? Send an email to the Debian Events Team [35]. 34: http://www.debian.org/events/talks 35: events@debian.org New Debian Contributors ----------------------- Two applicants have been accepted [36] as Debian Developers, nine applicants have been accepted [37] as Debian Maintainer, and eleven people have started to maintain packages [38] since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Apollon Oikonomopoulos, Vincent Cheng Diane Trout, Héctor Romojaro Gómez, Ximin Luo, Reuben Thomas, Sergiusz Pawłowicz, Timo Weingärtner, Christos Trochalakis, 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/ ... 00057.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 [39], openssl [40], libxfont [41], spice [42], srtp [43], movabletype-opensource [44], libspring-java [45], graphviz [46], djvulibre [47], mysql-5.1 [48], libvirt [49], drupal7 [50], and mysql-5.5 [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 [52] (and the separate backports list [53], and stable updates list [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 [55] are: * entr — tool to run arbitrary commands when files change [56] * htcondor — distributed workload management system [57] * init-select — init system selection tool [58] * jmtpfs — FUSE based filesystem for accessing MTP devices [59] * jscommunicator-web-phone — basic SIP video-phone web page using WebRTC [60] * kdeconnect — tool to connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma Workspace [61] * menulibre — advanced FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor [62] * noblenote — Qt program for taking notes [63] * simpleburn — minimalistic application for burning and extracting CDs and DVDs [64] * thc-ipv6 — The Hacker Choice's IPv6 attack toolkit [65] * thermald — thermal monitoring and controlling daemon [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/mai ... -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 [67] 520 packages are orphaned [68] and 155 packages are up for adoption [69]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [70]. 67: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel//2 ... 00451.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 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 [71] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org>. 71: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Carl J Mannino, Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye.