Lucas Nussbaum has been doing some
full archive rebuilds on
Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Archive rebuilds play an important role in Debian Quality Assurance
and Release Management efforts
, according to Lucas, who has been running
Debian archive rebuilds on the
Grid’5000
testbed since 2007, and has filed over 6000 release-critical bugs in the
process. Lucas managed to get Amazon to
award
Debian $10,000 in order to run about 60 full archive rebuilds on
their infrastructure, allowing developers interested in custom tests
to do them themselves.
A diversity statement for the Debian
project has been approved by a large
majority of the project members.
The statement explicitly welcomes and encourages participation by everyone.
This statement marks a new stage in the process of welcoming contributors
to our project
, said Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader.
Community diversity goes hand in hand with community richness.
Adam D. Barratt, Release Team manager, announced that the armhf and s390x ports are now one step closer to being part of Wheezy: they are now officially being considered as release architectures. Adam thanks everyone involved in getting both architectures to this point.
Luca Capello announced that the DebConf13 organisers are seeking logo designs for next year's DebConf. Some ideas are already present on the DebConf wiki, but they would like to expand these a bit more in line with their vision. There are only a few days left if you would like to participate: the deadline for DebConf13 logo submissions is Sunday 17 June.
Thomas Goirand published a report from the first bug squashing party in Shanghai. About twenty people participated, including three Debian members, and twenty-five bugs were fixed.
Antonio Terceiro posted some bits from the Ruby Team in which he announced that the default Ruby interpreter for Wheezy would be Ruby 1.9. Ruby 1.8 will be available in Debian during the Wheezy life cycle, but since security support from upstream will end in the next year, it will not be shipped in subsequent major releases. With this switch, Debian users will benefit from the improvements, especially in performance, that Ruby 1.9 brings over Ruby 1.8. People who still want to use Ruby 1.8 as the default interpreter may find the ruby-switch or rbenv packages useful. More information is available on the dedicated wiki page.
There have been Debian Edu interviews
with
Ralf
Gesellensetter and
Mike
Gabriel, who both describe, among other things, how
they got involved in Debian Edu and their views about it.
There are several upcoming Debian-related events:
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the events section of the Debian web site, or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions: Europe, Netherlands, Hispanic America, North America.
Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events? Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our talks page? Send an email to the Debian Events Team.
Two applicants have been accepted as Debian Maintainers, and eleven people have started maintaining packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Tobias Stefan Richter, Fabrizio Regalli, cento, Nikolaus Valentin Hänel, Simon Busch, René Moser, Christoph Gille, Ask Hjorth Larsen, David Weber, William Dauchy, Chris Frey, Benjamin Eltzner, and Giulio Paci into our project!
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): arpwatch, libgdata, strongswan, nut, imp4, bind9, request-tracker3.8 (updated announcement), openoffice.org, iceweasel, iceape, nss, postgresql-8.4, and php5. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
Debian's Backports Team released advisories for these packages: request-tracker4 and nginx. 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 weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list (and the separate backports list, and stable updates list) for announcements.
484 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are: