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- Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/14 Debian Project News - November 3rd, 2008
Welcome to this year's 14th 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)
- Xen status for Lenny
http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/blog/floss/xen_on_lenny-2008-10-20-18-56.html
- Is there a kind of "official" source for that?
- Bug Sprint - Oct 25 to Oct 30 - Register and eat cookies
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00004.html
- Will be over, when the DPN is released; but we can report the results
- Porting debian-installer to the DNS-323
http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/porting_d-i_to_the_dns_323.html
- Port for DNS-323 available as well as lengthy explanation how to port d-i to a new architecture
- Etch upgraded
- Changes in developer status
- sarge / oldstable moved to archive.debian.org
- Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster
- Report from Systems
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:
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!
Important Debian Security Advisories
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1655 linux-2.6.24], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1656 cupsys], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1657 qemu], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/das-1658 dbus] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/das-1660 clamav] 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]):
Debian Package of the Day featured the packages [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/... foo] and [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/... bar].
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/2008/10/msg00609.html 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].
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 [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.
X, Y and Z contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.