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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 2 Dec 2008 17:21
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Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

 * "Etch-and-a-half" installation images updated
 * GNU Affero General Public License suitable for Debian "main"
 * Security Teams Meeting in Essen
 * ... and much more.

Etch-and-a-half installation images updated

As a result of the release of the first release candidate for Lenny of
Debian Installer (D-I RC1) on November 12th, the installer images for
[1]Etch-and-a-half have also been updated. A consequence of this
update is that during installation of Etch-and-a-half using the
currently available images, a newer kernel version (2.6.26) will be
used. However, the kernel used for the installed system remains
unchanged at version 2.6.24. In some cases this can mean that hardware
which is supported during the installation does not work after the
reboot into the installed system because support for it was added after
the 2.6.24 version.

  1: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf

Old Etch-and-a-half businesscard and netinst CD images remain usable.
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. | 2 Dec 2008 18:27
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Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar <at> debian.org> 
wrote about 'Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008':
>Popular packages in Ubuntu that are not in Debian "main"

[...]

>Many of tning packages many are multimedia related. 

What exactly is this sentence saying?  My brain can't parse it and I don't 
think "tning" is a word.
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Richard Hartmann | 2 Dec 2008 18:36
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Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 18:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss03 <at> volumehost.net> wrote:

>>Many of tning packages many are multimedia related.
>
> What exactly is this sentence saying?  My brain can't parse it and I don't
> think "tning" is a word.

s/tning/those/


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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 17 Dec 2008 21:45
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Debian Project News - December 17th, 2008

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Welcome to this year's 17th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:
 * Release Update
 * General Resolution: Project membership procedures
 * Better backports.org Support
 * ... and much more.

Release Update

Luk Claes [1]reported about the state of the upcoming stable release
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny". While there are still a lot of release
critical bugs open, he explained that there is only "a `short list' of
bugs that must absolutely be fixed for Lenny". At the moment the most
important blocking issue is the missing second release candidate for
the debian-installer, which is still [2]being worked on. Christian
Perrier [3]pointed out, that the best way to help the debian-installer
team is to test the so called "daily" builds of the installation
images, which are available from the [4]debian-installer website.

  1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg00006.html
  2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00209.html
  3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00228.html
  4: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl | 30 Dec 2008 00:38
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Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer

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Debian Project mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer

The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community.  Thiemo
Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident.

Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways.  He has maintained several
packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS
architectures.  He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a
member of the Debian Installer team.  His contributions reached far
beyond the Debian project.  He also worked on the MIPS port of the
Linux kernel, the MIPS emulation of qemu, and far too many smaller
projects to be named here.

Thiemo's work, dedication, broad technical knowledge and ability to
share this with others will be missed. The contributions of Thiemo will
not be forgotten.  The high standards of Thiemos work make it hard to
pick up.

To honour his contributions to Debian, the project decided to dedicate
the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" to Thiemo.

The funeral service will be held on Monday January 5th 2009, 13:30 at
the Dominikanerkirche in Bad Wimpfen.  If you want to express your
condolences please send mail to <ths-condolence <at> linutronix.de>. It will
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