Debian GNU/Linux news [LWN.net]

The release team is seeking new release assistants. "the development cycle for etch just started off. We would like to bring new people into the loop for etch now to better distribute the workload, and look out for new release assistants."

Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters provides a status update for the Debian GNU/Hurd port. "While the port was limping along for a couple of years, it has picked up speed again. The current state is still far from being on par with Debian's established Linux ports, but it is mostly up to date and reasonably usable."

Version tracking has been added to bug tracking system. "A frequently requested feature for the bug tracking system in recent years has been the ability to track which bugs apply to which distributions, so that, eg, maintainers and others can tell which bugs that have been fixed in unstable still apply to packages in testing or stable. This has now been implemented."

Joachim Breitner has announced the formation of the Utnubu team and a a newly formatted repository of Ubuntu patches.

The Quality Assurance group is holding a Debian-QA-MiniConf at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, from September 9 - 11, 2005.

Here are some reminders on the procedure for updating a lib package for a C++ ABI change. "Also, for those who aren't aware, the new xorg packages now in unstable are also implicated in the C++ transition, because libGLU is implemented in C++. Particularly if you have packages that are involved in other transitions that are happening right now, it may not necessarily be a good idea to rebuild against xorg just yet unless you're already part of the C++ transition."

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