#use wml::debian::projectnews::header PUBDATE="2012-09-17" SUMMARY="Bits from the FTP Team, bits from the DPL, Technical Committee nominations"
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<toc-add-entry name="ftpteam">Bits from the FTP Team</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Joerg Jaspert sent some <a
href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00001.html">bits
from the FTP Team</a>, announcing the ongoing sprint
during which the team is working on optimising the current code behind
the main archive, finalising a proposal for Debian Personal
Package Archives (PPAs), and merging backports.debian.org into the main
archive host.
This year, participation in the Google Summer of Code initiative
helped the team in implementing a true multi-archive capability, making
it possible to merge separated parts of the Debian archive (like security
and backports) into the main archive.
Joerg also added a call for volunteers: if you are a Debian Developer and
want to help one of the key teams of the Debian infrastructure, please
consider joining them.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="dplbits">Bits from the DPL</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Stefano Zacchiroli sent his usual <a
href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00002.html">monthly
report of DPL activities</a>: during August, Stefano continued his
efforts on a new trademark policy and on the DFSG-free logo relicensing
(with the help of members of the Software Freedom Law Center).
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="ctte-nominations">Technical Committee Nominations</toc-add-entry>

<p>
The technical committee
has <a href="http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20120910223445.GX8318@rzlab.ucr.edu">called
for nominations</a> to fill
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/502808CD.3090508@golden-gryphon.com">Manoj
Srivastava's seat</a>. To nominate yourself or someone else, send
email to debian-ctte-private@debian.org with the subject "CTTE
Nomination of loginname", where loginname is the nominee's Debian
account login. Please see
the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20120910223445.GX8318@rzlab.ucr.edu">call
for nominations</a> for more information.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="interviews">Interviews</toc-add-entry>

<p>Jennifer Cloer interviewed <a
href="https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-developers/632197-30-linux-kernel-developers-in-30-weeks-ben-hutchings/">Ben
Hutchings</a>, member of the Linux kernel team in Debian.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Cyril Brulebois announced <a
href="$(HOME)/devel/debian-installer/News/2012/20120909">the
second beta release of the Debian Installer 7.0</a>.
</p>

<p>
Christian Perrier reported about <a
href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/09/10#wheezy-100-1">the state
of translations for debconf screens</a>: 
<a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/09/14#wheezy-100-2">five
languages</a> have reached 100%
(German, Russian, Swedish, French, Portuguese). Many thanks to all the
translators!
</p>

<p>
Mattias Wadenstein published some <a
href="http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120906.123046.3c8e6f1a.en.html">statistics
on the number of accesses to the server hosting DebConf12 video
recordings</a>: during July and August, 3653.8 GiB of data have been
downloaded by 7162 unique IP addresses.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
 <li>September, 24, Guaíba, RS, Brazil — <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0924-guaiba">talk and debate: What is the Debian Project</a></li>
 <li>September, 29-30, online on <tt>debian-fr@chat.jabberfr.org</tt> Jabber chat room — <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/1001-jabberfr-bsp">JabberFR Bug Squashing Party</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web site,
or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu">Europe</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl">Netherlands</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha">Hispanic America</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na">North America</a>.
</p>

<p>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
<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>? 
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>

	<p>
Four people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
        to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
	Project News. Please welcome
Ben Howard, Marcin Juszkiewicz, Alexander Golovko
and Ehud Meiri
	into our project!</p>


<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>

## release= codename for the current testing release
## url= link to the Tolimar's blog post → http://www.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/201#-##
## testing= number of bugs as defined by this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8k0 (for the not shortened url, look at webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/boilerplates.wml on the webwml repository)
## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8lo
## example:
# <rcstatslink release="Wheezy"
# 	url="http://www.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-23"
# 	testing="734"
# 	tobefixed="496" />
#
# In case Tolimar's blog post has not been published this week, one can use the shorten form:
# /!\ s/rcstatslink/rcstats/
#
 <rcstats release="Wheezy"
 	testing="443"
 	tobefixed="243" />


<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
	advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2538">moin</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2539">zabbix</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2540">mahara</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2541">beaker</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2542">qemu-kvm</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2543">xen-qemu-dm-4.0</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2544">xen</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2545">qemu</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2546">freeradius</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2547">bind9</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2548">tor</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2480">request-tracker3.8</a> (updated announcement), and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2549">devscripts</a>.
	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

<p>
Debian's Backports Team released an advisory for the package
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2012/09/msg00000.html">libreoffice</a>.
Please read it carefully and take the proper measures.
</p>


<p>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 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates
list</a>) for announcements.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>

<p>
47 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">Among
many others</a> are:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/alot">alot — text mode MUA using notmuch mail</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dmtx-utils">dmtx-utils — utilities for reading and writing Data Matrix 2D barcodes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gammaray">gammaray — tool for examining the internals of Qt applications</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pxz">pxz — parallel LZMA compressor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pynag">pynag — command line interface to Nagios configuration</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/python3-debian">python3-debian — Python 3 modules to work with Debian-related data formats</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/tribler">tribler — Python based BitTorrent/Internet TV application</a></li>
</ul>


<toc-add-entry name="wnpp">Work-needing packages</toc-add-entry>

## link= link to the mail report from wnpp@debian.org to debian-devel ML
## orphaned= number of packages orphaned according to $link
## rfa= number of packages up for adoption according to $link

<wnpp link="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00368.html"
	orphaned="457"
	rfa="141" />

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