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- Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/13 Debian Project News - October 20th, 2008
Welcome to this year's 13th 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)
- Debian, patents (mpeg) and archives
- Bits from the Debian CD team
- Bits from the Debian Eee PC team
- packages.debian.org move
- Is something wrong with KDE patch backport policies?
- bts.turmzimmer.net with delayed queue again
- Report from Skolelinux/Debian-edu gathering
- Overview over debian.net subdomains in the wiki
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:
A poll has been set up on debain-art to find a new slogan for the next stable release: http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2008/10/msg00037.html
New Developers
X applicants have been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/... accepted] as Debian Developers since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Foo, Bar and Baz in our project!
3 applicants have been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/10/msg00040.html accepted] as Debian Maintainers since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Emmanuel Bouthenot, Samuel Thibaul and David Paleino in our project!
Important Debian Security Advisories
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649 iceweasel], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1650 openldap], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1651 ruby1.8], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1652 runy1.9], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653 linux-2.6.18] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1655 libxml2]. 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.
New and noteworthy packages
The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently ([http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg among others]):
[http://debaday.debian.net/2008/... foo] and [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/... bar] where presented by Debian Package of the Day.
Work-needing packages
Currently 441 packages are orphaned and 124 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00217.html recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00339.html 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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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 [http://wiki.debian.org/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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