Cyril Brulebois sent some bits
from the Release Team. Cyril announced that, although the
exact date has not been determined yet, the freeze of Debian 7.0
Wheezy
has been scheduled for the second half of June.
Cyril also asked for help in fixing the high number of Release-Critical
bugs affecting Wheezy
.
Ana Beatriz Guerrero López blogged about the removal
of Qt3 from Debian: the package was orphaned a year ago and, as
nobody has volunteered to maintain it, is now a candidate for removal
before the release of Wheezy
.
A wiki page tracking the status of the removal
is available.
Praveen Arimbrathodiyil wrote a report from the Debian Utsavam event that was held at the end of April at MES college of Engineering in Kuttippuram, India. The two-day event was targeted at both new and advanced users, with talks on basic command-line usage as well as workshops on how to create Debian packages.
ITWire published an interview with Stefano Zacchiroli, following his re-election as Debian Project Leader.
Christian Perrier noted that 14 languages are to be deactivated in the Debian Installer and called for volunteers to help to keep them working.
Christopher Huhn noted that the computer infrastructure at GSI uses Debian. GSI is a German non-profit research lab that runs a heavy ion accelerator: they run a Debian-based Linux farm with more than 1000 nodes.
There are a couple of upcoming Debian-related events:
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17 people have started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Jeremy Bicha, Dmitry Nezhevenko, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche, Mehdi Abaakouk, John Millikin, Juhani Numminen, Raoul Snyman, Maarten L. Hekkelman, Jeroen Dekkers, Simrun Basuita, Philip Muškovac, Jean-Louis Dupond, Tom Jampen, Sebastian Lohff, John R. Baskwill, Alexis Bienvenüe and Kevin Smith into our project!
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): iceweasel, iceape, ffmpeg, gridengine, openoffice.org, ikiwiki, openssl, pidgin-otr, sympa, sudo, libxml2 and request-tracker3.8. 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.
632 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are: