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 * ...  * Release Update
 * Beta-2 of the Lenny Debian Installer released
 * Report from LinuxTag 2008
 * Call for help by the german translation team
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= Bits from the ftp-masters =
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Joerg Jaspert send out "bits from the ftp-masters" containing recent
activities of that team, including some personal changes as well as a lot
of code changes regarding Debians infrastructure improving the overall
teamwork, for example by making it easier for the release team to handle
transitions. He also asked for volunteers for new ftp assistants. Later
[http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/06/05/ftp-assistants.html he] reported
that he already got four volunteers as well as several other suggestions
for improvements.
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 * http://bugs.debian.org/484129 and the discussion before that regarding removal of packages in tasks from testing = Report from LinuxTag 2008 =
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 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00012.html "official" Bits from the ftp-masters
  * http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/06/05/ftp-assistants.html
[http://blog.venthur.de/2008/05/31/linuxtag-2008/ Bastian Venthur] and
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00001.html Noel Koethe]
reported about this years Debian booth at the LinuxTag 2008, a major conference
about free software in europe. Marko Jung, one of the organisers,
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00003.html added thanks]
for the well done job. He also notes, that they would like to have a
a Debian sub-conference at next years LinuxTag due to the demand of their
visitors.
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 * http://blog.venthur.de/2008/05/31/linuxtag-2008/ Report from this years LinuxTag 2008
  * http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00001.html send to -events-eu by Noel Koethe
= Handling of removed packages =
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 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01100.html handling of removed packages
  * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01103.html reply by Frans pop: Problem isn't as abad as it looks
Marc Brockschmidt wondered about the proper way to
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01100.html handle packages removed between two releases].
One of his major concerns are packages becoming unsupported without users
noticing it. Several people replied, that package management tools are
already trying to notify users, while
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01103.html Frans Pop noted], that the
[http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading#s-obsolete release notes]
have a chapter handling this issue.
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 * http://tretkowski.de/blog/archives/415-5-years-backports.org.html backports.org turns 5 (Nobse might write something more till the next issue is send out) = French completed all debconf translations =
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 * http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#french-100-virtually French finished translating all debconf translations Christian Perrier [http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#french-100-virtually reported]
that the french translation team finished translating all templates for the debconf system,
helping users to configure packages on installation time. He notes, that some of these packages
still need to add the translated templates. German, Czech and Portuguese are also quite close to
the 100% mark.
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 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2008/05/msg01534.html call for help of the german translation team = Call for help by the german translation team =
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 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01052.html should gpm be installed by default The german translation team send a
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2008/05/msg01534.html call for help]
for the translation of package descriptions. The upcoming stable release will support
showing users translated descriptions of available packages, but currently only 2100 of
the more than 18000 package descriptions are translated to german, yet. The statistics
for other packages are similar. Informations on how to help the ongoing translation
efford are available at [http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ddtp our website].

The 8th miscellaneous news for developers have
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 * http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#samba-may31 News from samba packages development
  * http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#samba-32rc1 Please test samba 3.2.0-rc1
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 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01119.html 37,5% boot time reduction The 8th issue of the
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00013.html miscellaneous news for developers]
have been released and cover the following
topics: Minor update to the mailing list code of conduct, Document aimed at
upstreams in preparation, d-i beta2 in preparation, breaks beta 1, New
"transition check" tool.
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 * http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/05/on_maintainer_script_sizes/ Analysis of length of maintainer scripts (Some numbers but nothing that fancy and no conclusion to be drawn from that; most likely to be removed) Christian Perrier reported [http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#samba-may31 some news]
from samba packages development team. He later asked for test of his
[http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#samba-32rc1 Samba 3.2.0-rc1 packages].
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 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00010.html new debian.ch board ? Petter Reinholdtsen found some ways to reduce the boot time of his Debian system
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01119.html by 37,5% boot] and asked
for further ideas.
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 * http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2008/05/reportbug-340-in-unstable.html New reportbug uploaded, now team maintained Norbert Tretkowski [http://tretkowski.de/blog/archives/415-5-years-backports.org.html reported],
that backports.org - a service providing inofficial updated packages for the current stable
release - turned 5 years old. Congratulations!

Sandro Tosi
[http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2008/05/reportbug-340-in-unstable.html uploaded a new version of reportbug],
which is now maintained in a team.
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Currently x packages are orphaned and y packages are up for adoption. Please take a look Currently 450 packages are orphaned and 107 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look

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Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue:

  • Release Update
  • Beta-2 of the Lenny Debian Installer released
  • Report from LinuxTag 2008

  • Call for help by the german translation team
  • And much more.

Read on!

Release Update

Marc Brockschmidt reported about the status of the upcoming stable release. After some major transitions, like the [ttp://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/05/debian_ocaml_news/ ocaml] [http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/06/ocaml_3.10.2_is_in_testing/ transition] "Lenny" is still in good shape, but still a lot of work needs to be done. Since the armel architecture made great improvements the release team decided to upgrade it to a proper release architecture.

Regarding Lenny the Qt/KDE Packaging Team [http://ekaia.org/blog/2008/06/08/lets-go-for-kde-359-in-lenny/ decided] that the upcoming release will be shipped with KDE 3.5.9 (and with the KDE 4.1 development platform: kde4libs, kdepimlibs and kdebase-runtime).

Debian Installer for Lenny Beta-2 ready for testing

The second beta version of the Debian Installer for the upcoming release "Lenny" has been released. Some new or improved features are:

  • Linux Kernel version 2.6.24
  • i386 and amd64 have a new boot menu, allowing a more user-friendly selection of boot options (e.g. for the graphical installer)
  • full support for encrypted partitioning for the graphical installer
  • The installer will warn users when the translation of the installer to their language is incomplete
  • When using the KDE or Xfce CD images it is now possible to select additional tasks

Images for different installation media and architectures are available for [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ testing]. After using the Debian-Installer, please send an installation report, even if there weren't any problems.

Bits from the ftp-masters

Joerg Jaspert send out "bits from the ftp-masters" containing recent activities of that team, including some personal changes as well as a lot of code changes regarding Debians infrastructure improving the overall teamwork, for example by making it easier for the release team to handle transitions. He also asked for volunteers for new ftp assistants. Later [http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/06/05/ftp-assistants.html he] reported that he already got four volunteers as well as several other suggestions for improvements.

Report from LinuxTag 2008

[http://blog.venthur.de/2008/05/31/linuxtag-2008/ Bastian Venthur] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00001.html Noel Koethe] reported about this years Debian booth at the LinuxTag 2008, a major conference about free software in europe. Marko Jung, one of the organisers, [http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00003.html added thanks] for the well done job. He also notes, that they would like to have a a Debian sub-conference at next years LinuxTag due to the demand of their visitors.

Handling of removed packages

Marc Brockschmidt wondered about the proper way to [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01100.html handle packages removed between two releases]. One of his major concerns are packages becoming unsupported without users noticing it. Several people replied, that package management tools are already trying to notify users, while [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01103.html Frans Pop noted], that the [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading#s-obsolete release notes] have a chapter handling this issue.

French completed all debconf translations

Christian Perrier [http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#french-100-virtually reported] that the french translation team finished translating all templates for the debconf system, helping users to configure packages on installation time. He notes, that some of these packages still need to add the translated templates. German, Czech and Portuguese are also quite close to the 100% mark.

Call for help by the german translation team

The german translation team send a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2008/05/msg01534.html call for help] for the translation of package descriptions. The upcoming stable release will support showing users translated descriptions of available packages, but currently only 2100 of the more than 18000 package descriptions are translated to german, yet. The statistics for other packages are similar. Informations on how to help the ongoing translation efford are available at [http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ddtp our website].

The 8th miscellaneous news for developers have

Other News

The 8th issue of the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/05/msg00013.html miscellaneous news for developers] have been released and cover the following topics: Minor update to the mailing list code of conduct, Document aimed at upstreams in preparation, d-i beta2 in preparation, breaks beta 1, New "transition check" tool.

Christian Perrier reported [http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#samba-may31 some news] from samba packages development team. He later asked for test of his [http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/06/01#samba-32rc1 Samba 3.2.0-rc1 packages].

Petter Reinholdtsen found some ways to reduce the boot time of his Debian system [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01119.html by 37,5% boot] and asked for further ideas.

Norbert Tretkowski [http://tretkowski.de/blog/archives/415-5-years-backports.org.html reported], that backports.org - a service providing inofficial updated packages for the current stable release - turned 5 years old. Congratulations!

Sandro Tosi [http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2008/05/reportbug-340-in-unstable.html uploaded a new version of reportbug], which is now maintained in a team.

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Tream released beneath other advisories for the packages [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00168.html Samba], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00166.html Linux] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00172.html 2.6.18] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00174.html tomcat 5.5]. Please look at them and take the proper measures.

Please note, that those are just the most important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you would like to be always up to date regarding security advisories release by the Debians Security Team, please subscribe to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ our mailing list for security announcements.]

Work-needing packages

Currently 450 packages are orphaned and 107 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg01144.html recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00155.html reports] if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete archive of packages requesting [http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested help].

Mention who has contributed here Meike Reichle, Ana Guerrero and Alexander Schmehl contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.

Want to continue reading DPN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers who watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the [:ProjectNews/HowToContribute:contributing page] to find out how to help. We're looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity@lists.debian.org.


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