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<toc-add-entry name="dpl">Debian project leader elected</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The Debian project has just reelected <a href="$(HOME)/News/2012/20120415">Stefano Zacchiroli
for a third year as Debian Project Leader</a>.  More than 80% of voters 
put him as their first choice (or equal first) on their ballot papers.
</p>

<p>
Stefano's large majority over his opponents shows how satisfied the Debian project is
with his work so far, and its wish for him to represent the project during one last
term — Stefano has already announced he won't be seeking reelection again next year.

Wouter Verhelst and Gergely Nagy also gained a lot of support from
Debian project members, both coming hundreds of votes ahead of the
"None of the above" ballot choice.
</p>



<toc-add-entry name="dc12">Registration open for DebConf12</toc-add-entry>
<p>
The Debian project is pleased to announce that 
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2012/20120412">registration is now open for the
DebConf12</a> conference, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, from Sunday 8
July to Saturday 14 July 2012.
The conference will be preceded as usual by a week-long DebCamp, from
Sunday 1 July to Saturday 7 July.
It will only be possible to apply for food and accommodation grants
and/or travel grants until 15 May.
</p>
<p>
Debian also invites 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00002.html">submissions
of proposals</a> for papers, presentations, discussion sessions
and tutorials for DebConf12 until 1 June 2012.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="permanentBSP">Personal BSP initiatives</toc-add-entry>
<p>
We usually give information about BSPs where a group of people meet over a weekend,
but today we'd like to mention two personal initiatives.  Gregor Herrmann has reported
<a href="http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-08T21_24_42.txt">every</a>
<a href="http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/04/#e2012-04-01T17_50_17.txt">week</a>
<a href="http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/03/#e2012-03-25T20_46_42.txt">over</a>
<a href="http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2012/03/#e2012-03-18T14_31_19.txt">ten</a>
Release-Critical bugs squashed.
Gerfried Fuchs also regularly reports on stable Release-Critical bugs
squashed, and has managed to squash
<a href="http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/04/02#squeeze-RCs-2012-3">over</a>
<a href="http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/02/08#squeeze-RCs-2012-2">thirty</a>
<a href="http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/01/19#squeeze-RCs-2012-1">bugs</a>
each month.
We would like to thank Gregor Herrmann, Gerfried Fuchs and all other RC
bug addicts who are constantly helping to make our distribution better.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="s390x">The state of Debian s390x</toc-add-entry>

<p>
Philipp Kern posted an update on the <a href="http://debblog.philkern.de/2012/04/state-of-debian-s390x.html">current
state of the Debian s390x port</a>. Work started on this port <a
href="http://blog.aurel32.net/59">last summer, during
DebConf11</a>, and in less than a month it already had almost 65% of
packages built. Unfortunately, a new GLib release created some problems
on this architecture; but recently a <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/glib2.0/news/20120330T073522Z.html">new
major release of GLib</a> fixed all the issues. The next steps for
this port will be to fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=s390x;users=debian-s390@lists.debian.org">open
bugs</a> and to make Iceweasel build successfully.
</p>


<toc-add-entry name="interviews">Interviews</toc-add-entry>

<p>Raphaël Hertzog published a <q>People behind Debian</q> interview with
<a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/04/06/people-behind-debian-francesca-ciceri-member-of-debian-press-publicity-teams/">Francesca
Ciceri</a>, a member of the Debian press and publicity teams, while
Petter Reinholdtsen interviewed
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html">Wolfgang
Schweer</a>,
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html">Justin
B Rye</a> and
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html">Andreas
Mundt</a> for his <q>Debian Edu interviews</q> series.
</p>


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

<p>Guido Günther sent out some
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/04/msg00000.html">bits
from the fifth Debian Groupware Meeting</a>,
which was held at the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany.
During the weekend the group fixed various issues and was able to
push new versions of <a href="http://packages.debian.org/icedove">icedove</a>
and <a href="http://packages.debian.org/d-push">d-push</a> to <q>unstable</q>
while <a href="http://packages.debian.org/iceowl">iceowl</a> (dead upstream)
remains in <q>experimental</q>.
Some work was also done on OpenChange, Zarafa ZCP and SOGo, and several
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=evolution;dist=unstable">evolution
bugs</a> were worked on.
</p>

<p>
Michael Larabel did some benchmarks <a
href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA4NTY">to compare
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD/PC-BSD
9.0</a> on a dual AMD Opteron 2384 system with 4 GB
of RAM and a 160 GB Western Digital SATA drive. 
It appears that Linux is generally 
faster than kFreeBSD for now, but kFreeBSD won on a few tests.
For more details, you can
consult the <a href="http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1202215-BY-FREEBSD9683">complete results page</a>.
</p>

<p>
Sebastian Harl called for
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2012/04/msg00000.html">help
with handling the Debian booth</a> at the Grazer Linuxtage.
If you are interested in helping out, please add yourself to
the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2012/GLT">wiki page</a>.
</p>

<p>
Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote a useful <a href="http://dunetna.probeta.net/doku.php/debian:non-dd_to_dd_steps">tutorial
for new Debian Developers</a> where she explained the
useful configuration changes people may want to apply just after
they become DDs.
</p>

<toc-add-entry name="events">Upcoming events</toc-add-entry>
<p>There are several upcoming Debian-related events:</p>
<ul>
 <li>April 19-20, San Francisco, USA &mdash; Debian table at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0419-openstack">OpenStack Conference</a></li>
 <li>April 28, Graz, Austria &mdash; Debian booth at <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0428-GLT12">Grazer Linuxtage</a></li>
 <li>April 29-30, Shanghai, China &mdash; <a href="$(HOME)/events/2012/0429-shangai-bsp">Debian Bug Squashing
 Party</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks
on the <a href="$(HOME)/events">events section</a> of the Debian web site,
or subscribe to one of our events mailing lists for different regions:
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu">Europe</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-nl">Netherlands</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-ha">Hispanic America</a>, 
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na">North America</a>.
</p>

<p>Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our
<a href="$(HOME)/events/talks">talks page</a>? 
Send an email to the <a href="mailto:events@debian.org">Debian Events Team</a>.
</p>

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

	<p>
Five people have <a href="http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi">started
        to maintain packages</a> since the previous issue of the Debian
	Project News. Please welcome
Mike Miller,
Elena Grandi,
Pierre Chambart,
Prach Pongpanich and
Corentin Labbe
	into our project!</p>


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

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## testing= number of bugs as defined by this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8k0 (for the not shortened url, look at webwml/english/template/debian/projectnews/boilerplates.wml on the webwml repository)
## tobefixed: number of bugs as defined byt this UDD query → http://ur1.ca/8p8lo
## example:
# <rcstats release="Wheezy"
# 	testing="613"
# 	tobefixed="410" />

<rcstats release="Wheezy"
	testing="726"
	tobefixed="517" />


<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="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2446">libpng</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2447">tiff</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2448">inspircd</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2449">sqlalchemy</a>,
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2450">samba</a> and
<a href="$(HOME)/security/2012/dsa-2451">puppet</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="http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/">security mailing
list</a> (and the separate <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/">backports
list</a>, and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/">stable updates
list</a>) for announcements.
</p>


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

<p>
282 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive
recently. <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg">Among
many others</a> are:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/0ad">0ad — real-time strategy game of ancient warfare</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dh-ada-library">dh-ada-library — Debian helper for Ada libraries</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/dwb">dwb — lightweight WebKit browser</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-dosis">fonts-dosis — very simple, rounded, sans serif font family</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/legit">legit — Git extension to assist in manipulating branches</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/openimageio-tools">openimageio-tools — library for reading and writing images - command line tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/shellinabox">shellinabox — publish command line shell through Ajax interface</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/sound-theme-freedesktop">sound-theme-freedesktop — freedesktop.org sound theme</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xbmc">xbmc — media center</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xbrlapi">xbrlapi — access software for a blind person using a braille display</a></li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xul-ext-automatic-save-folder">xul-ext-automatic-save-folder — download helper which automates the sorting and saving of files</a></li>
</ul>


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