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  • Debian Project News - November 9th, 2017

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    Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org November 9th, 2017 https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2017/04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
    Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

    * Welcome to the Debian Project News!
    * Internal News/Happenings
    * Events
    * Reports
    * More than just code
    * Outside News
    * Quick Links from Debian Social Media
    * Want to continue reading DPN?


    Welcome to the Debian Project News!
    -----------------------------------

    We hope that you are enjoying this format of the DPN.

    For other news, please read the official Debian blog Bits from
    Debian [1], and follow https://micronews.debian.org which RSS-feeds <the @debian> profile in several social networks too.

    1: https://bits.debian.org

    Debian's Security Team releases current advisories on a daily basis
    (Security Advisories 2017 [2]). Please read them carefully and subscribe
    to the security mailing list [3].

    2: https://www.debian.org/security/2017/
    3: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/

    At the end of this Project News we've added a Quick Links section which
    links to a selection of the posts made through our other media streams.


    Internal News/Happenings
    ------------------------

    Updated Debian 9: 9.2 released

    The second update of the stable distribution Debian 9 "Stretch" was published [4] on 7 October 2017. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments
    for serious problems.

    4: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20171007

    After the 9.2.0 release was made and published, a bug was found with the sorting of packages in the full DVD, BD and DLBD sets (other images were
    not affected). The 9.2.1 build fixes this bug, and the build scripts
    have also been updated to ensure this cannot happen again in future. For
    more details about this, see the related note at the images download server [5].

    5: https://get.debian.org/images/release/9.2.1/

    OpenSSL 1.0 and Qt4 removal in Buster

    For the next release, Debian 10 "Buster", it's planned to remove OpenSSL
    1.0, the old version of the toolkit for the Transport Layer Security
    (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols, in favour of the more
    modern OpenSSL 1.1 version. Meanwhile, Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers are
    also actively working to remove Qt4, which is long dead upstream.
    Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, for the Debian Qt/KDE Team, has blogged [6] about the specific plans related to the OpenSSL support for
    Qt4 and Qt5 applications in Debian.

    6: https://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.es/2017/10/qt-4-and-5-and-oepnssl10-removal.html

    FTP services shutdown

    As previously announced [7], the public-facing debian.org FTP services
    shut down on November 1, 2017. Debian Developers can use FTP for the
    uploads to the security archive at ftp://ftp.security.upload.debian.org/pub/SecurityUploadQueue. More
    details and other options at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/10/msg00000.html.

    7: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170425

    DebConf mailing lists moved to lists.debian.org

    In order to simplify infrastructure and maintenance, the DebConf mailing
    lists have been moved to lists.debian.org (including their archives and subscriptions). Appropiate redirections have been put in place, but it
    is recommended for everybody to update any documentation or bookmarks
    with the new addresses or web links. Read the blog post [8] from
    Alexander Wirt for more details.

    8: http://blog.snow-crash.org/blog/debconf-mailinglists-moved-to-lists.debian.org/

    New and noteworthy packages

    Among many other packages that were added to the unstable Debian
    archive [9] in the last weeks, we can find:

    * UKUI Desktop — a lightweight desktop environment mainly developed by a Chinese team, the Ubuntu Kylin Team [10]
    * version 2.2.2 of Guile — the GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter [11]
    * version 10.2 of MariaDB database server and client,
    * version 3 of Gmsh — a 3D finite element grid generator with a build-in CAD
    engine and post-processor [12]

    9: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
    10: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ukui-session-manager
    11: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/guile-2.2
    12: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gmsh


    Events
    ------

    There will be a Debian booth at T-DOSE [13] in Eindhoven, Netherlands,
    next 18 and 19 November 2017. Everybody is invited to pass by and of
    course, to help spreading the word about Debian in the booth (visit the
    wiki page for more details and coordination).

    13: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/nl/2017/T-DOSE

    The Toulouse MiniDebConf 2017 [14] will take place during the Capitole
    du Libre event on November 18 and 19 2017, and MiniDebConf
    Cambridge [15] (UK) will happen the following weekend, from Thursday 23
    to Sunday 26 November 2017.

    14: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/fr/2017/Toulouse
    15: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2017/MiniDebConfCambridge


    Reports
    -------

    The Debian Cloud gathered in a Sprint [16] from 16 to 18 October 2017,
    to resolve some of the open issues that were discussed at the cloud
    sprint 2017 and the Cloud BoF discussion session at Debconf17.

    16: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2017/DebianCloudOct2017

    A Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg [17], Austria, took place on
    the weekend of October 20–22 2017.

    17: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/10/at/Salzburg

    MiniDebConf Cuba [18] took place during CubaConf 2017, the Free
    Technologies Cuban Conference from 7 to 9 November 2017, with several
    talks related to Debian and other activities.

    18: https://wiki.debian.org/Cuba/Eventos/MiniDebConfCuba2017

    LTS Freexian Monthly Reports

    Freexian issues monthly reports [19] about the work of paid contributors
    to Debian Long Term Support.

    19: https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/

    Reproducible Builds status update

    Follow the reproducible builds blog [20] to get the weekly reports on
    their work in the "Stretch" cycle.

    20: https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/blog/

    Once upon a time in Debian:

    * 2002-10-22 Debian Desktop subproject launched [21]
    * 2004-10-20 First release of Ubuntu (Warty Warthog) [22]
    * 2017-10-28 Debian Bug #880000 reported by Salvatore Bonaccorso [23]

    21: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/10/msg00016.html
    22: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.html
    23: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880000

    Packages needing help:

    Currently [24] 1153 packages are orphaned [25] and 151 packages are up
    for adoption [26]: please visit the complete list of packages which need
    your help [27].

    24: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/11/msg00010.html
    25: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
    26: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
    27: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested

    Newcomer bugs

    Debian has a "newcomer" bug tag, used to indicate bugs which are
    suitable for new contributors to use as an entry point to working on
    specific packages. There are 210 [28] bugs available tagged "newcomer".

    28: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer


    More than just code
    -------------------

    Contributors

    1799 people and 20 teams are listed on the Debian Contributors [29] page
    for 2017.

    29: https://contributors.debian.org/


    Outside News
    ------------

    The Reproducible Builds Summit 2017 [30] took place between October 31
    and November 2 2017. Debian has participated together with other free
    software distributions and projects in order to continue working in
    providing a verifiable path from software source code to its compiled
    binary form.

    30: https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2017/

    During the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 [31] in Tokyo this October, Hideki
    Yamane gave a talk about openSUSE tools on Debian [32].

    31: https://events.opensuse.org/conference/summitasia17
    32: https://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com.es/2017/10/opensuseasia-summit-2017-in-tokyo.html

    GitLab Inc. is switching from Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to
    Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for its source code
    contributions [33]. This change gives developers greater flexibility and portability, and aims to encourage contributions to their web-based Git repository manager. GitLab Community Edition is the basis for
    Salsa [34], the upcoming collaborative development server that will host
    the Debian git repositories that are currently on Alioth.

    33: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-license/
    34: https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa


    Quick Links from Debian Social Media
    ------------------------------------

    This is an extract from the micronews.debian.org [35] feed, in which we
    have removed the topics already commented on in this DPN issue. You can
    skip this section if you already follow micronews.debian.org or <the
    @debian> profile in a social network (Pump.io, GNU Social, Mastodon or Twitter). The items are given unformatted, and in descending order by
    date (recent news at the top).

    35: https://micronews.debian.org

    November

    * New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2017) https://bits.debian.org/2017/11/new-developers-2017-10.html


    October

    * "APT 1.6 alpha 1 – seccomp and more" by Julian Andres Klode https://juliank.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/apt-1-6-alpha-1-uploaded/
    * MiniDebConf Prishtina (Kosovo) next 7-8 October https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/ks/2017/MiniDebConfPrishtina
    * How was the Debian mini-event at FTSL 2017 in Curitiba http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/how-was-the-debian-mini-event-at-ftsl-2017-in-curitiba


    September

    * Debian Project News - September 20, 2017: news about the future of Alioth, Outreachy, Debian Astro 1.0, new translation team: Albanian, "Public Money, Public Code" campaign, and much more https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2017/03/



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    This issue of Debian Project News was edited by The Publicity Team with contributions from Jean-Pierre Giraud.


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