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Welcome to this year's fifteen issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:
The Release Team is proud to announce that Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is frozen.
Further updates to this release will be restricted to bug fixes only.
With the freeze occurring as planned on November 5, Lucas Nussbaum
blogged:
This is quite an achievement from the project as a whole,
and the Release Team specifically. First, we froze on the date announced more
than a year ago, and the freeze seems to have been well respected by all
maintainers.
Second, with 310 RC bugs at the time of the freeze, we are probably breaking
a record for all recent Debian releases. Could we have the shorter Debian
freeze ever? Given that FOSDEM
is 12 weeks away, could we even release before FOSDEM, and have a big
party there to celebrate?
Richard Hartmann posted the Release Critical Bug report for Week 45 which
highlights the work that needs to be done to push Jessie into release. There are
1,154 bugs of which 295 directly affect Jessie, which we need to get down to
zero. Of these, 229 are bugs which affect both Jessie and unstable and 66
affect Jessie only. He also posts a table of data which compares our
current status to the Squeeze release cycle. Not to be lost in the pretty data
and graph
is the request that if you are able, please look into the
key
packages
which need the most help.
The Tokyo area Debian
study group held its 119th meeting starting with a
Debian common sense quiz, moving on to a discussion of the LibreOffice package
in Debian and desires to see more upstream and downstream support. They
also had a
hands-on event for debian-installer beta2 for Debian 8 "Jessie".
Petter Reinholdtsen announced
the first Jessie based Debian Edu release.
Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a complete
operating system for schools,
with support for servers, workstations, and laptops working together on a
school network. The creation of a multi-user multi-machine study environment
can be completed in a few hours with hundreds of applications pre-installed.
Further details of the release include information about its current
distribution, documentation,
and status.
Raphaël Hertzog reported
on ten hours of paid LTS work with the CVE triage of
23 commits to the security tracker, the filing of several bug reports, a
sponsored upload, and mysql-5.1 and apache2 security updates. This month he
shares some thoughts on the workflow and user base of the project. The project
still needs help from its users, who are asked to subscribe to the mailing list
and to test some of the packages being submitted, and help by way of
organisations joining the project by providing help directly or sponsoring
others to do the work.
Thorsten Alteholz
reported
that he was assigned a workload of 13.75 hours towards Squeeze LTS
which allowed him to upload new versions of rsyslog, torque,
and libxml2 among others. He was also able to prepare a new upload of wget,
and sends congratulatory kudos to the Security Team who deal with support on a
daily basis.
Thorsten Alteholz also
blogged his other October Debian activities which
started with working in the FTP assistant role, which has seen a spike of
uploads as developers try to get their packages in prior to the freeze.
Thomas Goirand greatly detailed
his OpenStack packaging activity for October.
His work involved patch submissions, uploads of multiple release candidates
through various stages, and the writing of a new system in openstack-pkg-tools.
He also backported python-libvirt, python-setuptools, and some needed
JavaScript packages. The OpenStack Juno packages were all uploaded and ready by the
day of the upstream release.
Raphaël Hertzog updated
his free software activities for the month of October
with packaging work towards the upcoming Jessie freeze, bug fixes for Publican,
the first point release of Django 1.7.1 to unstable, and package sponsorship.
Work on the Distro Tracker continued, along with a request for others to
contribute to the project with plenty of
easy bugs to fix. All of the Distro
Tracker instances he manages are now running Django which he opted to make
mandatory.
Hideki Yamane blogged
about the Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Fall. Over
1,500 attendees participated over two days at the event which focused on FOSS.
The Tokyo area Debian study group
maintained a booth, giving out fliers, DVDs and
information. In the Debian community session Nobuhiro Iwamatsu spoke
about Debian 8 "Jessie".
The Who's using Debian
page lists Educational, Commercial, Government and
non-profit organisations that use Debian. Over the course of time the page
has collected a few stale entries that need to be removed or updated in order
to keep the listing relevant and current. Toward that goal, the page and
entries will undergo an audit.
Comments, suggestions, and interested parties are
welcome.
Matthias Klumpp shared via his blog
the state of AppStream/GNOME-Software in
Debian Jessie. When GNOME was updated to 3.14, the normal functionality for
update notifications was moved from gnome-settings-daemon to GNOME-Software.
As GNOME-Software requires additional integration work by the
distributors, GNOME systems are currently without update notifications as AppStream metadata is
not yet available in Debian and its full integration to Jessie has been
postponed though with an option to include some metadata for GNOME and KDE to
use via normal .deb packages.
All is not lost as GNOME-Software is in unstable, but because it uses
offline-updates
by default, which don't work well yet in Debian, it currently
has an RC bug, preventing it from entering Testing.
We need a way forward to bring update-notifications back, and there is
currently work going on to do that. For all Debian users: Please be patient
while we resolve the situation. For all developers: If you would like to help,
please contact me or Laurent Bigonville, there are some tasks
which could use some help.
On the Xfce front, Debian will soon have a new pk-update-icon package, which is
currently in NEW. That will resolve the situation there.
This situation does not affect KDE which uses Apper, which covers all its
update-notification needs.
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer of the Debian QT/KDE Team
gave
an early warning of the removal of Qt4 for Debian Stretch (Jessie+1). Qt4 has been deprecated
since the release of Qt5 on December 19, 2012, almost 2 years ago now.
While the team did support bug-fix-only releases, upstream has announced they
will end support for Qt4 in 2015, which means from that point on bug fixes
for Jessie will require a special effort. As Qt5 is available the decision
to no longer support Qt4 was made. As there is still a lot of software that
relies on using Qt4 and to ease the transition there is a backport for Wheezy
for Qt5.
Andrew Cater took us through the start
of the 2014
Mini-DebConf at the ARM offices in Cambridge, UK, getting to meet and speak to
individuals in person rather than via email, surrounded by Debian Developers who've taken on help desk
roles
solving issues with broken laptops, and the release
sprint
with the Release Team.
13 people have started
to maintain packages since the previous issue of the Debian
Project News. Please welcome
Richard Sellam,
James Marsh,
Pierre Mavro,
Benda Xu,
Nicolas Schier,
Wolfgang Fuetterer,
Balasankar C,
Josh Triplett,
Reiner Herrmann,
Kurashiki Satoru,
Daniel Gröber,
Jakub Warmuz,
and
Dmitry Borisyuk
into our project!
According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database, the upcoming release, Debian Jessie
, is currently affected by 427 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 268 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.
There are also more detailed statistics as well as some hints on how to interpret these numbers.
Debian's Security Team recently released
advisories for these packages (among others):
libtasn1-3,
libxml2,
torque,
dokuwiki,
linux,
icedove,
wget,
quassel,
php5,
libxml-security-java,
qemu,
qemu-kvm,
konversation,
curl,
kfreebsd-9, and
nss.
Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.
The Debian team in charge of Squeeze Long Term Support released
security update announcements for these packages:
libtasn1-3,
torque,
dokuwiki,
libxml2,
openssl,
wget,
curl,
and
libxml-security-java.
Please read them 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 list) for announcements.
196 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. Among
many others are:
Currently 613 packages are orphaned and 140 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, Jean-Pierre Giraud, Donald Norwood, Justin B Rye and Thomas Vincent.