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- Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/07 Debian Project News - July 21, 2008
Welcome to this year's 7th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue:
- ... and much more.
TODO:
Summarize noteworthy articles from http://times.debian.net/
Mention [http://www.debian.org/events/ upcoming events]
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_firmware_loading/ - d-i firmware loading
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00187.html - best practices for debug packages
http://www.milliways.fr/2008/07/09/state-of-the-aptitude-week-7/ - State of (graphical) aptitude
http://blog.debconf.org/blog/debconf8/mf_website_help.dc - DebConf 8 website: a call for help
http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openjdk-6/news/20080712T101023Z.html - OpenJDK accepted
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00004.html - Bits from the DPL
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00003.html - Status of Emdebian {ARM}
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00371.html - Debian release versioning
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00321.html - Package management unsafe? - No!
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00187.html - Policy or best practices for debug packages?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00005.html - Release update
http://ekaia.org/blog/2008/07/19/debian-packages-for-kde-41-koffice-alpha9-and-more/ - Debian packages for KDE 4.1, KOffice alpha9 and more
Other news
The Xth issue of the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/... miscellaneous news for developers] has been released and covers the following topics:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2008/07/msg00039.html - Call for translations debian-refcard
http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/07/15#anti-l10n-cabal - Ask for translation updates when changing debconf templates
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/07/msg00259.html - sysklogd/rsyslog switch
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg01050.html - Call for testing: mantis Debian package
http://loeki.tv/log/archives/86-msttcorefonts-renamed-and-losing-relevance.html - msttcorefonts renamed and losing relevance
http://blog.venthur.de/2008/07/19/rng-10-in-unstable/ - Rng 1.0 in unstable
Important Debian Security Advisories
Debian's Security Team released among others advisories for the packages [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1603 bind9], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1604 bind8], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1605 DNS vulnerability through glibc], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1606 poppler], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1607 Iceweasel], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1608 MySQL] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1610 Gaim]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Please note that those are only the most important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you would like to be kept up to date about the security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ mailing list for security announcements.]
Work-needing packages
Currently x packages are orphaned and y packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00309.html recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00595.html reports] to see 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].
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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