Debian Project News - Jun 10th, 2013

Saxman · Beitrag von **Saxman** » 10.06.2013 22:51:03

Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye. hat geschrieben:------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org June 10th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/12/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this year's twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to Debian GSoC Students * Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment * Bits from the DPL * Expiration of debian-multimedia.org * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian Security Advisories * New and noteworthy packages * Work-needing packages * Want to continue reading DPN? Welcome to Debian GSoC Students ------------------------------- The Debian project is proud to announce that this year, 16 students have been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program [1] to work on improving Debian. This is the highest number of students accepted since Debian started participating in this program. The list of selected students and the projects they're working on is publicly [1] available [2]. If you are interested in one of these projects, you are encouraged to come and join the #debian-soc IRC channel, or to contact the students and their mentors directly. 1: http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/welcome- ... -2013.html 2: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/ ... 013/debian Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment -------------------------------------------------------- Mònica Ramírez Arceda announced the result [3] of Debian participation in the Outreach Program for Women [4]. One of the four applicants was accepted, but also received a slot for the Google Summer of Code. As a consequence, this internship was not used. Since the Outreach Program for Women is run twice a year, Mònica has opened the discussion about further Debian participation with a call for more volunteers. Join the #debian-opw IRC channel if you are willing to help with this initiative. 3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ ... 00002.html 4: http://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen Bits from the DPL ----------------- Lucas Nussbaum sent his monthly report of DPL activities for May 2013 [5]. Among other things, Lucas reminded readers that it could still be possible to submit talks for DebConf13, in Vaumarcus, Switzerland [6], and called for the creation of a Debian trademark team, handling the trademark use requests that are being received following the publication of the Debian trademark policy [7]. He also mentioned that discussions which occurred during the last DPL campaign have been summarised by Brian Gupta on a dedicated page of the Debian Wiki [8], and encouraged people to contribute to maintaining this page when ideas are raised on Debian lists. 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an ... 00000.html 6: http://debconf13.debconf.org/ 7: http://www.debian.org/trademark#policy 8: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Ideas Expiration of debian-multimedia.org ----------------------------------- debian-multimedia.org was a popular unofficial repository of Debian packages. Last year, this service moved to a new domain, and despite efforts from Debian, the debian-multimedia.org domain recently expired, and has now been registered by someone unknown to Debian. "This is a good example of the importance of the use of cryptography to secure APT repositories", DPL Lucas Nussbaum said [9]. The Debian project would like to emphasise the need to consider possible security issues when using third-party repositories and the importance of not blindly adding keys to the APT keyring. 9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an ... 00000.html Other news ---------- A Swedish municipal e-service named "Fixa Min Gata [10]" ("fix my street" in English), used for reporting potholes, broken paving stones, graffiti, non-functioning lamp posts, and other problems, has been reported [11] to be powered by Debian servers. 10: http://fixamingata.se/ 11: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/ca ... ing-bottom New Debian Contributors ----------------------- 4 applicants have been accepted [12] as Debian Maintainers since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Gianfranco Costamagna, Emmanuel Bourg, Geoffrey Thomas and Prach Pongpanich into our project! 12: http://lists.debian.org//debian-project ... 00001.html Important Debian Security Advisories ------------------------------------ Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): subversion [13], telepathy-gabble [14], wireshark [15], iceweasel [16], krb5 [17], gnutls26 [18], otrs2 [19] and chromium- browser [20]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 13: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2703 14: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702 15: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2700 16: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699 17: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2701 18: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2697 19: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2696 20: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2695 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 [21] (and the separate backports list [22], and stable updates list [23]) for announcements. 21: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ 22: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/ 23: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 612 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [24] are: * choreonoid — integrated robotics GUI environment [25] * clonezilla — bare metal backup and recovery of disk drives [26] * dconf-editor — simple configuration storage system [27] * emscripten — LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler [28] * hoogle — Haskell API Search for Debian system [29] * pybik-bin — 3D Rubik's cube game - binary files [30] * python-pelican — blog aware, static website generator [31] * shaarli — personal, minimalist, super-fast and no-database Delicious clone [32] * systemd-ui — graphical fronted for systemd [33] * xul-ext-deejayd-webui — Deejayd web user interface XUL extension [34] 24: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg 25: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/choreonoid 26: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clonezilla 27: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dconf-editor 28: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/emscripten 29: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/hoogle 30: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pybik-bin 31: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python-pelican 32: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shaarli 33: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/systemd-ui 34: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mai ... jayd-webui Work-needing packages --------------------- Currently [35] 488 packages are orphaned [36] and 142 packages are up for adoption [37]: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help [38]. 35: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/20 ... 00263.html 36: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned 37: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa 38: 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 [39] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org>. 39: http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier and Justin B Rye.