Debian Project News - February 2nd, 2009

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Debian Project News - February 2nd, 2009
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Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community. Topics covered in this issue include:

  * Release update
  * Debian Summer of Code 08: Where are they now?
  * Dedicating Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" to Thiemo "ths" Seufer
  * Open Source study conducted by Heise Open
  * ... and much more.

Release update
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Adeodato Simó, on behalf of the release team, sent a release update [1]
about the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", which might
be released during the weekend of 14 February 2009.

   1 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/02/msg00000.html

With the recent second release candidate [2] of the debian-installer for
lenny, the archive has now gone into "deep freeze", which means that only
packages fixing release critical bugs will be allowed to enter "Lenny".
People wanting to help can fix these bugs, test the debian-installer, or
help with therelease notes [3].