The seventh 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.
Paul Tagliamonte, newly appointed administrator
for Debian participation in the Google Summer of Code
program 2013, asked all Debian contributors for projects
and mentors to help Debian participate in the initiative this year.
Everyone (member of the Debian project or not, student or
not) is welcome to submit
their ideas, and to try and find people willing to mentor the
projects
, explained Paul in his mail. Information on how to
submit proposals is available in the
relevant wiki page.
You can also contact Paul and the other GSoC administrators for Debian on their
mailing
list or on their IRC channel, #debian-soc on irc.debian.org.
Niels Thykier, release team member, noticed that the current pace of RC bug fixes is slowing down, with only 1.1 RC bugs fixed a day since his last report. About 200 RC bugs are left to be fixed, and if the pace of RC bug fixes does not pick up, the release team may need to remove packages along with their reverse dependencies.
Hideki Yamane reported about Debian
participation at Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring at Meisei
University, in Tokyo, Japan. Debian was present with a booth where Hideki
and other contributors talked with users and enthusiasts. Takahide Nojima
delivered a talk titled Debian Update
focused on the latest Debian
achievements.
Wookey announced the
availability
of the arm64 image. This is the culmination of a
three year long effort to make Debian bootstrappable, which has been
used for the first time on the port to the 64-bit ARMv8
architecture. Whilst it should be considered alpha-grade for now, it
represents a great achievement: all these packages were cross-built on
raring, untangling cyclic dependencies with build profiles making this the first
(non x86) self-bootstrapped Debian port ever
, explained Wookey.
Getting this port working has been
, he added.
The current
status of the bootstrap is online,
whilst more information on the port (and how to build
images) is available on the
wiki page of the project.
interesting
because it's
attempting four new things all at once: multiarch (file layouts and dependencies),
crossbuilding (tools and packaging support in a distro that historically
was always natively built), arm64 (aarch64) support in
packages that need it, and build-profiles to linearise the
build-order
Paul Wise blogged about a QA tool for finding packages' inadequacies (broken symlinks, missing copyright files, obsolete conffiles, etc.) called adequate and developed by Jakub Wilk. People interested in software quality are invited to participate in Debian's QA initiatives.
Kurt Roeckx, Debian Project Secretary, announced the timetable for the DPL election.
Hideki Yamane blogged about
the
series of articles about Debian he is writing for the Japanese
magazine Software Design
.
Olivier Sallou sent a report from the Debian Med sprint held during the last weekend of February in Schönberg, Germany. The team worked mainly on packaging new software as well as updating existing packages.
There is one upcoming Debian-related event: