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Debian Project News - June 9th, 2014


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





DebConf15, which will be held
in Heidelberg, Germany, ran a logo
competition in May. After the votes were tallied, they are pleased to
announce
Valessio Brito as the winner with his submitted design.
The winning design (with ongoing work on optimisation for print, web, etc.) can be found on the
DebConf15 artwork page.


Hello, MATE!



Mike Gabriel from the MATE package team announced
that the MATE 1.8 desktop environment has fully arrived in Debian. MATE is a
fork of what was previously the GNOME v2 desktop environment. It is available
in unstable, testing, and wheezy-backports. Feel free to use and test via the
meta-packages mate-desktop-environment and mate-desktop-environment-extras.


The Debian Continuous Integration project



Antonio Terceiro wrote on his blog
about how new versions of packages can potentially break some functionality in other
packages, and what can be done about this. He detailed the Debian Continuous
Integration project which checks inter-package dependencies across the entire
Debian archive. The origins of the project go back to the introduction of
the autopkgtest tool,
which tests packages in their installed form, and was later adopted as the
DEP-8 standard.
The continuous integration tool, called
debci, is run against the entire archive for
packages that declare a test suite using the DEP-8 format. Debian CI runs at most four tests per day
and publishes its results at ci.debian.net every
hour along with a global status. With the introduction of Debian CI earlier
this year there has been a rise in the number of packages with test suites.
Maintainers are encouraged to use test suites in their packages and read the
documentation about the system.


Other news


The 35th issue of the
miscellaneous news for developers
has been released and covers the following topics:




In an update
of the Release Team delegation, DPL Lucas Nussbaum announced that Emilio
Pozuelo Monfort was joining the Release Team, and
updated
its delegation
.



Bug #750000 has been opened on May
31 by Holger Levsen, reporting an upgrade issue discovered by
piuparts.


New Debian Contributors



Five applicants have been
accepted
as Debian Maintainers, and
six people have started
to maintain packages
since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
Harlan Lieberman-Berg,
Graham Inggs,
Gert Wollny,
Leo Iannacone,
Sebastien Badia,
Lubomir Rintel,
David King,
Hugo Lefeuvre,
Domenico Iezzi,
Stefan Breunig,
and
Roland Fehrenbacher
into our project!


Important Debian Security Advisories


Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
mod-wsgi,
chromium-browser,
lxml,
typo3-src,
php5,
gnutls26,
chkrootkit,
python-gnupg,
libav,
python-bottle,
linux,
openssl, and
mupdf.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.


The Debian team in charge of squeeze long term support released a
security update announcement for these packages:
gnutls26,
chkrootkit, and
openssl,
Please read it 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
, stable updates
list
, and long term
support security updates
) for announcements.


New and noteworthy packages



185 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. Among
many others
are:



Work-needing packages


Currently 585 packages are orphaned and 139 packages are up for adoption: please visit the complete list of packages which need your help.


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This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Cédric Boutillier, Donald Norwood and Justin B Rye.