Debian News

Argentina’s government has just announced its decision to not apply DST this year. DST was about to begin on Sunday, Oct 18th.

All up-to-date systems include a version of tzdata that says that time changes on Sunday. Thus, these systems need to be updated in the next two days if they are to show the correct time next Sunday.

Packages have already been prepared and are being uploaded to unstable, lenny-volatile and etch-volatile. In the meantime, these packages can be used to fix the systems.

• Etch: tzdata_2009g-0etch1.1_all.deb
• Lenny: tzdata_2009l-0lenny1.1_all.deb and tzdata-java_2009l-0lenny1.1_all.deb (only needed if tzdata-java was already installed).
• Squeeze/Sid: tzdata_2009n-1.1_all.deb and tzdata-java_2009n-1.1_all.deb (only needed if tzdata-java was already installed).

Sid’s version has also been tested for Ubuntu’s Jaunty and Karmic.

• Mike Hommey blogged Iceweasel 3.5.3 and xulrunner 1.9.1 are now in unstable, replacing Iceweasel 3.0.x and 1.9.0.x.
• New GDB 7.0 has been uploaded to unstable.(changelog)
• There was some noteworthy updates in experimental: Linux 2.6.31, Python 3.1.1, parrot 1.6.0.

• Redmine, a project management web application, is now packaged in Debian. Exactly a pre-release of 0.9.0 has been uploaded to unstable. (changelog)
• Python 2.6 continues being worked in experimental, 2.6.3 has been already uploaded.(changelog)
• Amarok 2.2.0 is out and it has been uploaded to unstable. (changelog)
• The first beta of cupt 1.0.0, a partial re-implementation of APT suite, has been uploaded. More information.

• Most of the kernel team has gathered at Linux Plumbers Conference. They have not uploaded 2.6.31 yet but they uploaded a big update of 2.6.30.
• mini-debconf 2009 in Taiwan was held this week. See group photo.
• Nagios 3.2.0 finally uploaded to unstable.
• Squid updates: squid 2.7 STABLE 7 and Squid3 3.0 STABLE19 have been updated in unstable. Squid3 3.1.0.x has been updated in experimental.

GNOME 2.28 is out and it is already being uploaded to unstable. Some parts are being held by third party packages and will take a bit more.

You can check the status here.

In the last days, a new version of Xserver has migrated to testing, Brice Goglin blogged about the upcoming migration with some details a few days ago.

This is the first update of Xserver in testing since May 2008, and it is a major upgrade from the previous version. You are encouraged to read /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz (read online here) to avoid problems and before reporting bugs.

• With sun-java5 being removed from the archive and sun-java6 orphaned, it seems like a good moment to follow Kees Cook’s advice and switch to OpenJDK.
• The libraries and core packages of KDE 4.3.1 have migrated to testing.
• Samba 4 alpha 8 has been uploaded to unstable. (upload changelog)
• Iceweasel 3.5 continues being worked on in experimental and Iceweasel 3.5.3 was uploaded together xulrunner 1.9.1.3.

• Debian 5.0.3 is out. This is the 3rd update of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “lenny”.
• Sean Finney has announced that the debian patch-tracker is back alive and now hosted as an official debian.org service at http://patch-tracker.debian.org
• CUPS 1.4.0 has been uploaded to unstable with a huge amount of updates and improvements, check the Debian changelog with all the updates

With the latest upload of GRUB 0.97-58 to unstable, the upgrade path is set to GRUB2.

If you want to continue using GRUB Legacy, it is now provided in the grub-legacy package that will continue being supported at least until the Squeeze release. You just need to uninstall the grub dummy package and keep upgrading the mentioned grub-legacy package happily.

Update: Grub maintainers have sent a Bits from the GRUB maintainers email and there is also a wiki page to track this release goal.

Adnan Hodzic has created http://start.debian.net/, for those who want a nice Debian start page.

More information at his blog post