Debian Project news

[Posted September 21, 2005 by ris]

In Bits from the New Maintainer Front Desk provides a look at changes to the New Maintainer process. "We have effectively put applicants on hold (or even removed their application) if they haven't contributed to Debian yet. This is now an official policy and we will check for this directly after an application is received from now on."

DVD videos of the Debconf5 sessions (plus Debian Day and some extras) are now available in PAL format. NTSC format discs and downloadable images will be coming soon.

If you have been having problems getting recently released security updates, you may just have to be patient. "The recently released security update of XFree86 in DSA 816 for sarge and woody has caused the host security.debian.org to saturate its 100MBit/s network connection entirely. Due to the large number of X packages, the gross size of these packages and the high number of users who need to install the update, the server is busy sending out updates which exhaust its total outgoing bandwidth."

There has been ongoing discussion of an architecture-specific release criteria. Some architectures will need to re-qualify to be included with 'etch'.

In essence, the requirements that are being established exist to ensure that the port is in good enough shape and sufficiently well-supported that:
* our users will benefit from the architecture's presence in a release,
* the architecture will give our users the same support and stability as any other architecture in the stable release,
* the architecture's inclusion doesn't negatively impact other architectures or the release process as a whole.