The sixth update for
Debian 6.0 (codenamed Squeeze
) has been released. This update
mainly adds corrections of security problems to the stable release,
along with some adjustments for serious problems.
The bug squashing party held in Dublin on Saturday, 8 September was hosted in Google office space and gathered 15 people. In addition to its impact on the Release-Critical bugs list it triggered the bootstrapping of a local Debian community with the desire to hold a second such party in October.
The following weekend, another bug squashing party held in Berlin gathered approximately 25 people who also worked on German translations besides dealing with Release-Critical bugs.
Ana Guerrero sent a report about Debian's Google Summer of Code. Debian has been participating in the Google Summer of Code since 2006, and sponsored 15 projects this year, of which 12 finished successfully. Students supervised by Debian mentors worked on various aspects of the project, including improvements to mentors.debian.net, the development of multi-arch cross-toolchains, and metrics for team activities, to name just three. Some of these results have already been included into Debian. The Debian project thanks those who took part, including especially the students for their contributions, and invites them to continue being involved in making Debian better.
Sylvestre Ledru, on the behalf of the organisation team, announced that the second Mini DebConf in Paris will take place on 24 and 25 November and will be hosted by EPITA. His message mentions that a BSP will be in progress through the entire event, and that they're currently soliciting talks for the event.
There has been a DebianEdu interview with Giorgio Pioda who describes, among other things, how he got involved in Debian Edu and his views about it.
Since the CIA service for monitoring VCS repositories via IRC is now dead, Martín Ferrari proposed KGB as a replacement.
Ansgar Burchardt, on behalf of the FTP team, announced some changes to the Debian Maintainer upload permissions system. The new interface replaces the old DMUA field, which will stop working on 24 November 2012.
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.
Eight applicants have been accepted as Debian Developers, six applicants have been accepted as Debian Maintainers, and two people have started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome # DD Tobias Hansen, Cédric Boutillier, Sébastien Villemot, Thibaut Jean-Claude Paumard, Nicolas Boulenguez, Janos Guljas, Asias He, Per Andersson, # DM Emilien Klein, Sascha Steinbiss, Ahmed Toulan, Bernhard Schmidt, Jeroen Dekkers, Andreas Rönnquist, # UDD Josue Ortega, and Kai Lüke into our project!
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): devscripts, asterisk, isc-dhcp, iceweasel, iceape, and tiff. 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.
114 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are: