Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News for March 16, 2004 covers a proposed task for Ada development, a bug closed by spam, a new proposal to distribute non-free, and more.

The Debian popularity contest: As the Debian project drifts slowly toward its next stable release, it has a bit of a problem: this release looks like it will include over 13,000 packages on 13 binary CDs. The project is hoping to optimize downloads and installations by putting the most popular packages together on the low-numbered CDs. To make that happen, they must find out which packages are installed most often. So the call has gone out for Debian users to install the "popularity-contest" package and allow it to phone home with information on what they have installed. The results end up on the Debian Popularity Contest page.

The second call for votes is out, for the general resolution concerning non-free. Votes must be received by Sunday, March 21 23:59:59 UTC 2004.

The platforms for the candidates for the project leader are available on the on the web. There will be no IRC debate this year as the debian-vote mailing list has been extremely active with both election and non-free issues.

There will be a Bug Squashing Party this weekend, March 19 - 21, to help fix the release critical bugs in sarge.

The third beta release of the Debian sarge installer is now available for testing.

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