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<p>Welcome to this year's fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:</p>
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<toc-add-entry name="gci">Debian and <q>Google Code-in 2010</q></toc-add-entry>

<p>After Debian has been successfully participated in the last <q>Google
Summer of Code</q>, where Google sponsored students during the summer
holidays to work on specific task for Open Source projects, a new
campaign for pre-university students is now started: the <a
href="http://code.google.com/intl/en/opensource/gci/2010-11/">Google Code-in
2010</a>.  In this new contest, pre-university students may work on
smaller tasks during one or two weeks, and in the end may win T-Shirts, money and other
prices.  Coordination is done again by <a
href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/msg00342.html">Obey
Arthur Liu</a>, who already started a <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/GoogleCodeIn2010">general wiki page</a> and
is now collecting <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/GoogleCodeIn2010/Tasks">tasks</a>.</p>



<toc-add-entry name="opensuse">Report from openSUSE Conference</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Gerfried Fuchs sent a <a
href="https://lists.debian.org/20101027075154.GA29575@anguilla.debian.or.at">report</a>
of the <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference">openSUSE
Conference</a> where she has been representing Debian through a
talk about <q>Debian - The Project and its Resources</q> whose
<a href="http://deb.li/DebSuSE">slides</a> are available.
One topic raised was about package naming schemes, sometimes diverting from
upstream for consistency reasons, so inter-distribution tools would require
some layer to map the package name from one distribution to another.
</p>



<toc-add-entry name="di">Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release</toc-add-entry>

<p>
The first beta release of the installer for Debian Squeeze has been
<a href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer/News/2010/20101030">released on
October 30th, 2010</a>.
This release is dedicated to Frans Pop, who was heavily involved in several
aspects of Debian Installer until he <a href="$(HOME)/News/2010/20100831">passed
away</a>, and whose loss is deeply regretted.
</p>
<p>
Many improvements are added in this release of the installer: new
platforms (Marvell GuruPlug and OpenRD-Ultimate for example),
isohybrid images, and 67 languages are supported, and many more.
The <a href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer/errata">errata</a>
gather details and a full list of known issues.
You are welcome to test the installer and report bugs;
media and other information are available on the <a
href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer">Debian Installer pages</a>.
Especially, the new Win32-Loader should be tested
on all Windows versions for all languages.
</p>



<toc-add-entry name="mdcparis">Minutes from mini-DebConf Paris</toc-add-entry>

<p>
The <a href="http://fr2010.mini.debconf.org/">first mini-DebConf Paris</a>
has just been held a week ago in the PPS laboratory of Universit&eacute; Paris 7.
According to Stefano Zacchiroli, it was a <a
href="http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/10/mini_debconf_paris_-_success/">complete
success</a> gathering about 150 people from all over Europe.
Stefano finalized the <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints">Debian Sprint
Program</a>, and <a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=593">Lucas
Nussbaum</a> worked on <a href="https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi">UDD</a> and <a
href="http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-qa/debcluster/scripts/tasks/instest.rb">his
piuparts replacement</a> between <a
href="http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/files/minidebconfparis2010-debian-ubuntu.pdf">two</a>
<a href="http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/files/minidebconfparis2010-debian-qa.pdf">talks</a>.
The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Paris">Bug Squashing Party</a>
also permitted to close (and fill) some bugs.
</p>



<toc-add-entry name="mdchcmc">Mini-DebConf in Ho Chi Minh City</toc-add-entry>

<p>
For the first time in Vietnam, the <a
href="$(HOME)/News/2010/20101102">fifth mini-DebConf in Asia</a> will be
held during FOSSASIA 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 12-14, 2010.
The mini-DebConf will feature talks from different Debian
Developers and contributers covering technical, social and policy
topics, as well as a translation workshop to foster the Vietnamese
translation community and to teach how to translate in Debian.
More information is available at the
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianVietnam/MiniDebConf2010">organisation
page</a>.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="website">Bits from the Website Team</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Gerfried Fuchs sent some <a 
href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/11/msg00001.html">Bits
from the Website Team</a> in which she summarized the recent activities of the
team. Besides announcing that www-master was recently moved to another host,
she reported the progress made in the website redesign process.
Since several months, in fact, Gerfried Fuchs and Martin Zobel-Helas are working
on implementing the <a href="http://kalleswork.net/projects/debian/">Kalle
S&ouml;derman's proposal</a> for the new website design across different sites and
there are already available several previews: 
<a href="http://www.deb.at/">www.deb.at</a>, 
<a href="http://debienna.at">debienna.at</a>, 
<a href="https://dsa.debian.org/">dsa.debian.org</a>, 
<a href="http://git.deb.at/">git.deb.at</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.deb.at/">lists.deb.at</a>, 
<a href="http://packages.deb.at/">packages.deb.at</a>, and
<a href="http://planet.deb.at/">planet.deb.at</a>.
You can follow the further progress on the related <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/KallesDesign">wiki page</a> and help the team
testing new design with different web browser.
The mail ends with a call for further contributors, which are always welcome.
A lot of different things need to get done, and not all of them require
specific skills.
</p>



<toc-add-entry name="twid">Further <q>This week in Debian</q> interviews</toc-add-entry>

<p>Since the last issue of the Debian Project News, four new issues of the
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian"><q>This week in
Debian</q> podcast</a> have been published: with <a
href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-5">Axel
Beckert</a>, member of the kFreeBSD Project; with <a
href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-6">Samuel
Thibault</a>, member of Debian's accessibility team; with <a
href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-7">Moritz
Muehlenhoff</a>, member of the Security Team from the Debian Project; and with <a
href="http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/this-week-in-debian-episode-8">Niels
Thykier</a>, maintainer of the Eclipse Package and Java Package.</p>



<toc-add-entry name="other">Other news</toc-add-entry>

<p>The twenty-fourth issue of the 
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/11/msg00002.html">miscellaneous
news for developers</a> has been released and covers the following topics:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Screenshots on packages.d.o</li>
  <li>BTS version tracking explained</li>
  <li>Latest features of dpkg-dev</li>
  <li>Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database</li>
  <li>Re-evaluate the state of backported packages</li>
</ul>


<p>Beside the already announced Bug Squashing Parties in <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Paris">Paris</a> (just ended a week ago)
and <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Bern">Bern</a> (27th and 28th
November), there will also be a real live BSP on the 13th and 14th November in
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Manchester">Manchester</a>.</p>

<p>Rapha&euml;l Hertzog created a nice <a
href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/29/nice-openoffice-org-template-for-debian-presentations/">presentation
template for OpenOffice.org</a>.</p>

<p>
Debian decided to <a href="$(HOME)/News/2010/20101019">officially welcome non-packaging
contributors</a> via a <a href="$(HOME)/vote/2010/vote_002">General Resolution</a>.
Enrico Zini, on behalf of the Debian Account Managers team, already sent some <a
href="https://lists.debian.org/20101103095926.GA14829@enricozini.org">guidelines
for applying as non-uploading DD</a>.
</p>



<toc-add-entry name="newcontributors">New Debian Contributors</toc-add-entry>

	<p>
6 people <a href="https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
        to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
	Project News. Please welcome
Daniele Napolitano, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, Roy Marples, Dipankar Patro, Deepak Tripathi, Bilal Akhtar and Etienne Millon
	into our project!</p>



<toc-add-entry name="rcstats">Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release</toc-add-entry>

	<p>According to the <a href="https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi">Bugs Search
        interface of the Ultimate Debian Database</a>, the upcoming release,
	Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q>, is currently affected by
284 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved
	or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about
126 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the
	release to happen.</p>

	<p>There are also <a
href="http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/#2010-43">more detailed
	statistics</a> as well as some <a
	href="https://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats">hints on how to
	interpret</a> these numbers.</p>



<toc-add-entry name="dsa">Important Debian Security Advisories</toc-add-entry>

	<p>Debian's Security Team recently released
	advisories for these packages (among others):
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2121">TYPO3</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2122">glibc</a>,
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2123">NSS</a>, and
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124">Xulrunner</a>.
	Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

        <p>Debian's Backports Team releases advisories for these packages:
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/01010221226.20261.waja@cyconet.org">mailscanner</a>, and
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/201010221319.31927.waja@cyconet.org">pidgin</a>.
        Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.</p>

<p>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 <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
list</a> (and the separate <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
list</a>) for announcements.</p>



<toc-add-entry name="nnwp">New and noteworthy packages</toc-add-entry>

<p>The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently (<a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">among
others</a>):</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pithos">pithos &mdash; Pandora Radio client for the GNOME desktop</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/salome-extras">salome-extras &mdash; numerical simulation pre- and post-processor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wesnoth-1.9">wesnoth-1.9 &mdash; fantasy turn-based strategy game - complete suite (branch 1.9)</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Please note that due to the <a
href="http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806">freeze of the upcoming
Debian 6.0 <q>Squeeze</q></a> acceptance of new packages has almost ceased.</p>



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