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The Debian Project
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Debian Project News
debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
August 31st, 2018
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Welcome to this year's third 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: Upcoming and Reports
* Reports
* Help needed
* More than just code
* Quick Links from Debian Social Media
* Want to continue reading DPN?
Welcome to the Debian Project News!
-----------------------------------
We hope that you enjoy this edition of the DPN.
For other news, please read the official Debian blog Bits from
Debian [1], and follow
https://micronews.debian.org which feeds <(via
RSS) the @debian> profile on several social networks too.
1:
https://bits.debian.org
Debian's Security Team releases current advisories on a daily basis
(Security Advisories 2018 [2]). Please read them carefully and subscribe
to the security mailing list [3].
2:
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/
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
------------------------
Happy 25th Anniversary Debian!
This year's annual Debian birthday celebration, known as DebianDay [4],
was an even more special occasion as it marked a quarter century [5] of excellence, development, contributions, translations, software creation, advocacy, and all things Debian. Celebrations were held all over the
world and several Debian designers created some amazing artwork, logos, posters, and images which we shared online.
4:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay
5:
https://bits.debian.org/2018/08/debian-is-25.html
Debian 25 Years by Angelo Rosa [6]
6:
https://micronews.debian.org/images/Debian25years-AngeloRosa.png
Anniversary Logo by Mark Billings [7]
7:
https://micronews.debian.org/images/Debian25years-MarkBillings.png
Happy Birthday by Petrusko [8]
8:
https://micronews.debian.org/images/Debian25years-Petrusko.png
Artwork by Daniel Lenharo [9]
9:
https://micronews.debian.org/images/Debian25years-DanielLenharo.png
Posters by Valessio Brito [10]
10:
https://micronews.debian.org/images/Debian25years-ValessioBrito.png
Thank you Debian Developers and Contributors for all that you do!
Updated Debian 9 and Debian 8: 9.5 and 8.11 released
The Debian project announced [11] the fifth update of its stable
distribution Debian 9 (codename "Stretch") on 14 July 2018 to point
release 9.5.
11:
https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180714
The Debian project also announced [12] the eleventh and final update of
its oldstable distribution Debian 8 (codename "Jessie") on 23 June 2018
to point release 8.11.
12:
https://www.debian.org/News/2018/20180623
These point releases added corrections for security issues along with a
few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already
been published separately and are referenced where available. Upgrading
an existing installation to either revision can be achieved by pointing
the package management system at one of Debian's many HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:
https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Alioth Migration to Salsa
Debian Developers and projects should have already migrated over to the
new system; additional information on the migration is available [13].
13:
https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/AliothMigration
Debian Data Protection Team announced
Chris Lamb announced [14] the creation and delegation of the Debian Data Protection team. The team will serve as the centralized point for
queries regarding Debian's use and care of personal information across
the project and guidance on data protection principles.
14:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00000.html
Latest team features of Debian Package Tracker
Raphael Hertzog shared [15] the latest team features of the Debian
Package Tracker. New to the tracker are helpful attributes for email
address team identification, discussion subscriptions, and automatic
maintainer and uploader fields along with many other features.
15:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/07/msg00001.html
vmdebootstrap to be removed September 2018
Lars Wirzenius encouraged [16] users of the vmdebootstrap package to
switch to other available tools prior to its removal from the archive
September 2018. The package, used for automatically building system
images, is somewhat difficult to modify and test due to its
architecture. As other tools are available users are advised to change
now.
16:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
Debian Policy 4.2.0.0 released
Sean Whitton announced Debian Policy 4.2.0.0 being released and uploaded
to sid. The announcement details the changes from Policy 4.1.5. The
Debian Policy Manual [17] deals with the structure and contents of the
Debian archive, technical requirements each package must satisfy to be
included in the archive, and the package management system developers
have to be conversant with.
17:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
DebConf18 Videos are available
New and noteworthy packages
Among many other packages that were added to the unstable Debian
archive [18] in the past weeks, we can find:
* astroid (0.13-3) - Graphical notmuch email client [19]
* webext-debianbuttons (2.1-2) - Buttons for querying Debian-related
pages with Firefox [20]
* elpa-verbiste (0.1.45-4) - French and Italian conjugator - emacs extension [21]
18:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
19:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/astroid
20:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/webext-debianbuttons
21:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/elpa-verbiste
Events: Upcoming and Reports
----------------------------
Upcoming events
Debian/Xen microsprint, Cambridge, 10 September
There will be a microsprint [22] held on 10 September in Cambridge, UK,
to work on Debian Xen packages for "Buster".
22:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/08/msg00005.html
Debian Bug Squashing Party, Chemnitz, Germany 28th-30th September
There will be a Bug Squashing Party [23] on 28–30 September 2018 in Chemnitz, Germany.
23:
https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2018/09/de/Chemnitz
DebConf18 in Hsinshu
The annual Debian Project's Developer Conference, which includes
technical, social and policy talks and is known as DebConf [24], was
held this year in Hsinchu, Taiwan from 29 July through 5 August. DebConf18 [25] was the very first Debian Conference held in Asia. We
welcomed over 306 attendees from around the world, and held 137 events,
100 talks, 25 Birds of a Feather discussion sessions, 5 workshops and
many other activities.
24:
https://debconf.org/
25:
https://debconf18.debconf.org/
The schedule [26] of events and talks [27] were continually updated and shared on Debian micronews [28], and are still available.
26:
https://debconf18.debconf.org/schedule/
27:
https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/
28:
https://micronews.debian.org
DebConf19 in Curitiba
DebConf19 will be held in Curitiba, Brazil, from 21 to 28 July, 2019,
and will be the second DebConf held in Brazil.
Reports
-------
LTS Freexian Monthly Reports
Freexian issues monthly reports [29] about the work of paid contributors
to Debian Long Term Support.
29:
https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/
Reproducible Builds status update
Follow the Reproducible Builds blog [30] to get the weekly reports on
their work in the "Buster" cycle.
30:
https://reproducible-builds.org/blog/
Help needed
-----------
Teams needing help
Packages needing help:
Currently [31] 1298 packages are orphaned [32] and 173 packages are up
for adoption [33]: please visit the complete list of packages which need
your help [34].
31:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/08/msg00369.html
32:
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
33:
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa
34:
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 currently 203 [35] bugs available tagged "newcomer".
35:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=newcomer
More than just code
-------------------
Jonathan McDowell shared [36] a write-up entitled "Hooking up Home
Assistant to Alexa and Google Assistant" which details how to set up
home automation and required authentication, with a few critical
security steps to avoid being another insecure device on the IoT.
36:
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2018/06/alexa-assistant.html
Benjamin Mako Hill blogged [37] on "How markets coopted free software's
most powerful weapon" which highlights the methodology of current
business development models which use the same tools that enabled the
large scale development of free culture and free software. The talk was
also the keynote at LibrePlanet 2018.
37:
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/libreplanet-2018-keynote
Ana Guerrero Lopez introduced [38] us to debos [39], a versatile image generator. The tool, used to build software images, makes the task easy
by using recipe files in YAML to create highly customized images.
38:
https://ekaia.org/blog/2018/07/03/introducing-debos/
39:
https://github.com/go-debos/debos
Contributors
1,484 people and 19 teams are currently listed on the Debian
Contributors [40] page for 2018.
40:
https://contributors.debian.org/
Discussions
From the Debian-user mailing list serveral interesting questions were
asked:
HP Garcia asked about "Verifying Digital Signatures" [41]. Fellow Debian
users contributed to the discussion with pointers on how to check and
keep keys and signatures current.
41:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00239.html
Pierre Couderc asked "How to apt update from an USB key?" [42] Readers
can learn about other tried and proven methods to update sources and
packages for computer systems with limited access.
42:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/07/msg00420.html
Martin Drecher asked about "use of su vs sudo?" [43] Always a hot topic
for administrators, this question introduces best practices and includes
some of a history of how/when passwords are used during the initial
Debian system installation and the effects on the system afterward.
43:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00226.html
Richard Owlett asked about "Installing package NOT in repository" [44].
This longer discussion talks about the installation of.deb files,
install pathname arguments, dependency checking, dpkg, apt, and cached
personal survival notes.
44:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00595.html
Tips and Tricks
Petter Reinholdtsen shared a tip on doing a Debian APT upgrade without
enough free space [45] on the disk. The blog post includes a script and
other methods for upgrades when storage space is limited.
45:
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_APT_upgrade_without_enough_free_space_on_the_disk___.html
Arturo Borrero González highlights Things you can do with Debian,
Multimedia editing. [46] He covers many of the FLOSS software packages
and tools available in Debian for multimedia editing and production.
46:
http://ral-arturo.org/2018/07/19/multimedia.html
Once upon a time in Debian:
* 2014-08-27 Two new architectures (arm64 and ppc64el) bootstrapping
in unstable [47]
* 2010-08-31 Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop [48]
* 2007-09-02 packages.debian.org updated [49]
* 2005-09-03 bugs.d.o: usertags and user categories [50]
* 2009-09-04 grub package now based on GRUB2 [51]
47:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00012.html
48:
https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100831
49:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/09/msg00001.html
50:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00002.html
51:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/09/msg00002.html
Quick Links from Debian Social Media
------------------------------------
This is an extract from the micronews.debian.org [52] 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 provided unformatted in descending order by date (recent news at the top).
* Several Debian designers created artwork to celebrate #DebianDay #Debian25years
* The original announcement from Ian Murdock can be found here:
https://deb.li/ikd3y #DebianDay #Debian25years
* 25 years and counting
https://bits.debian.org/2018/08/debian-is-25.html #DebianDay #Debian25years
* If you want Debian Buster released in early 2019 (or like short
Debian freezes in general...) help fix RC bugs today!
https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/buster-is-headed-for-a-long-hard-freeze/
* #DebConf18 closes in Hsinchu and #DebConf19 dates announced
https://bits.debian.org/2018/08/debconf18-closes.html
* #DebConf18 ended with the introduction of #DebConf19 in Curitiba and
the Closing Ceremony. See you next year in Brazil!
52:
https://micronews.debian.org
* Debian joins KDE's Advisory Board
https://dot.kde.org/2018/07/12/debian-joins-kdes-advisory-board
* Report on Debian Edu sprint at MiniDebconf Hamburg, May 2018
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/07/msg00004.html
* "Report on the Debian Bug Squashing Party" (New York) by Elana
Hashman
https://hashman.ca/nyc-bsp-report/
* "Introducing debos, a versatile images generator" by Ana Beatriz
Guerrero Lopez
https://ekaia.org/blog/2018/07/03/introducing-debos/
June
* Bits from the Debian Project Leader (June 2018)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00006.html
* MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 - a brief report
http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/minidebconf-curitiba-2018-a-brief-report
* Debian Perl Sprint 2018
https://bits.debian.org/2018/06/debian-perl-sprint-2018.html
* Report from the recent "cryptsetup" sprint
https://blog.freesources.org//posts/2018/06/debian_cryptsetup_sprint_report/
* Civil Infrastructure Platform Announces Collaboration with the
Debian LTS Initiative
https://www.cip-project.org/announcement/2018/06/19/civil-infrastructure-platform-announces-collaboration-with-the-debian-lts-initiative-and-welcomes-cybertrust-as-a-new-member
* Debian Installer Buster Alpha 3 release
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00005.html
* Share your plans for DebCamp18
https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2018/06/msg00003.html
* Debian Artwork: Call for Proposals for Debian 10 (Buster)
https://bits.debian.org/2018/06/buster-artwork-cfp.html
* DebConf19 has a logo
http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/debconf19-has-a-logo
* "Looking for a new Raspberry Pi image maintainer" by Michael
Stapelberg
https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2018/06/03/raspi3-looking-for-maintainer.html
* Come join the #Debian #buster bug squashing party in Brooklyn, NYC
on June 24th
https://hashman.ca/nyc-bsp/
May
* Bits from the Debian Project Leader (May 2018)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html
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