Debian news

[Posted July 5, 2006 by ris]

Raphael Hertzog covers the status of the python policy transition. "I know some maintainers have decided to wait before converting their packages to the new Python policy since the Python infrastructure has been evolving at fast pace before the transition announce and even a few days after. This is now over, the infrastructure is in place and will even move to testing RSN. Once that is done the new python-defaults will be uploaded (hopefully by the end of this week) and will break packages not yet updated."

Steve McIntyre provides some Bits from the 2IC, with a look at Google Summer of Code projects, the irc.debian.org move, Debconf 6 in Mexico, a new Sarge release, and several other topics.