- Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/09 Debian Project News - August 18th, 2008
Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include:
- ... and much more.
TODO:
Summarize noteworthy articles from http://times.debian.net/
Mention [http://www.debian.org/events/ upcoming events]
Add new and noteworthy packages from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg (done by a script directly creating HTML)
- Artwork for Lenny:
- excess secondary CD/DVD image downloading
- Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!
- Freespire Returns to Debian Roots
- 2008 M68k Porter Meeting
- RFA: The Debian Jr. project
- ? SSL support for the services on i18n.debian.net
- improved integration among PTS and Lintian, PTS integrated with mentors and gifts
- Another info source for Debian
- Of popular packages removed from testing, and the Ultimate Debian Database GSOC project
- Being Debian leader can be 'scary at times'
- Bits from the GNU/kFreeBSD porters
- ? ftp.d.o is no longer accepting rsync connections
- Debian’s Freeze
- graphical aptitude
DebConf 8 finished
- OpenAFS on Debian
How-To: Install and Run ?FrostWire 4.17.0 in Debian Lenny
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:
Important Debian Security Advisories
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa- foo], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-... bar] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-... baz]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ security mailing list] for announcements.
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.]
New and noteworthy packages
The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently ([http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg among others]):
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/... recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/... reports] to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of [http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested packages which need your help].
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