Michael Stapelberg announced the \
birth of Debian Code Search, a search engine for source code
within Debian.
It allows you to search all ≈ 17000 source packages,
containing 130 GiB of FLOSS source code (including Debian
packaging) with regular expressions
, explained Michael.
The search engine
is already available for use.
Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for October: among other things, Stefano reported the boost of activity in the recently created debian-cloud mailing list. This new mailing list is dedicated to discussions of the development and use of Debian on public and private clouds, such as for instance the ongoing discussion about the integration of Debian on popular clouds like Windows Azure or the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
Wheezy
Neil McGovern sent an
update
on the state of the Wheezy
freeze, explaining that
the Release Team is now particularly focused on managing unblock
requests (where these comply with the
freeze
policy) and removing buggy leaf packages.
Meanwhile, the Release Critical bug count is decreasing, thanks also to the
great number of Bug Squashing Parties held during recent months.
More Debian Bug Squashing Parties
are scheduled for the upcoming
weeks: you can help Debian to release sooner by participating!
The Polish Debian User Group created a nice graph of the \ number of Release Critical bugs in Debian over the last year.
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 people have started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Hendrik Jaeger and Steven Chamberlain into our project!
According to the Bugs Search
interface of the Ultimate Debian Database, the upcoming release,
Debian Wheezy
, is currently affected by 425 Release-Critical bugs.
Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved,
roughly speaking, about 220 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved
for the release to happen.
Richard Hartmann published some
more
detailed statistics.
Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): request-tracker3.8, rtfm, icedove, openoffice.org, libproxy, and iceape. 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.
