Debian News

GnuPG 1.4.10 Release Candidate 1 has been packaged and uploaded to experimental. The upload closes a lot of bugs (see changelog) and the maintainers are asking for testing.

It all started here 16 years ago.


Happy 16th birthday Debian!

Just for the record, your editor is not really planning to mention here all the stuff sent to debian-devel-announce.

if you are interested in Debian development, you should be subscribed to the mentioned list because all the very important news that have a big impact the daily work of every developer should go there, while reading this blog is just for stuff that is nice to know but not mandatory.

That said, if you have some information that you want the Debian community to know, just submit it!

For those not reading debian-devel-announce, there are some nice information about the latest updates in the BTS, (Bug Tracking System), you can read about them at Bits o’ Bugs from the BTS.

The following packages are new in the Debian archive:


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The Debian Timeline has been updated to include large updates to the Debian Policy, the recent time-based release announcements and a handful of miscellaneous events.

It is available on the web at http://timeline.debian.net/ or in the debian-timeline package. The author welcomes patches and updates (file a bug in the BTS against the package).

Another new mailing list, Debian research has been created with the goal to gather those interested in Debian from an academic perspective.

Dutch speaker users can use now the new debian-user-dutch mailing list.

With this new list, there are user support lists in 21 different languages listed at Debian List for User. 22 languages, if you count English!

• debian-user: Help and discussion among users of Debian in english
• debian-chinese-big5: debian-user in Chinese [Big5]
• debian-chinese-gb: debian-user in Chinese [GB]
• debian-esperanto: debian-user in Esperanto
• debian-italian: debian-user in Italian
• debian-japanese: debian-user in Japanese
• debian-russian: debian-user in Russian
• debian-user-catalan: debian-user in Catalan
• debian-user-danish: debian-user in Danish
• debian-user-dutch: debian-user in Dutch
• debian-user-french: debian-user in French
• debian-user-german: debian-user in German
• debian-user-greek: support list for Greek speaking users
• debian-user-hungarian: debian-user in Hungarian
• debian-user-icelandic: debian-user in Icelandic
• debian-user-indonesian: debian-user in Indonesian
• debian-user-polish: debian-user in Polish
• debian-user-portuguese: debian-user in Portuguese
• debian-user-spanish: debian-user in Spanish
• debian-user-swedish: debian-user in Swedish
• debian-user-turkish: debian-user in Turkish
• debian-user-ukrainian: debian-user in Ukrainian
• debian-user-vietnamese: debian-user in Vietnamese

The Security Team has recently added some trainees. So far, Sebastien Delafond, Jan Christoph Nordholz and Luciano Bello have worked on updates, with a fourth candidate in the pipeline.

The uploads are reviewed and released by the current Security Team members, usually identified by the Sender: header line in the announcement mail.

Welcome!

David Palacio prepared a KDE 4.3.0 livecd with help of the pkg-kde and live-helper teams. You can download it via BitTorrent, fetch the Torrent file from here!.