Bits from Debian Med

Andreas Tille sent some bits from the Debian Med team, reporting some recent initiatives of the team, such as the Mentoring of the Month efforts. Andreas also announced that in February there will be a real life meeting of Debian Med developers and users, in Kiel (Germany); all interested people are invited to join.

A look into the Linux kernel of Debian Wheezy

Ben Hutchings, member of the Debian Kernel team and maintainer of the 3.2.y stable series at kernel.org, wrote a series of three blogposts (part 1, part 2, part 3) about the additional features (missing from mainline 3.2) that will be included in the Linux kernel to be shipped with the next Debian stable.

Other news

Petter Reinholdtsen analysed the Debian archive to compile a list of the 20 most supported MIME types in Debian.

Bernhard R. Link took a closer look at cryptographic signatures in an informative article.

Ian Jackson summarised the ongoing discussion on a trademark policy for Debian.

Upcoming events

There is one upcoming Debian-related event:

New Debian Contributors

One person has started to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Alexandre Raymond into our project!

Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release Important Debian Security Advisories New and noteworthy packages module for locating (written) numbers in English text utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring Perl modules and scripts for manipulating SGML and XML DTDs Python module for storing secrets - Python 2.x version Work-needing packages Want to continue reading DPN?