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Congratulations to Andreas Tille our newly elected Debian Project Leader. #debian

MiniDebConf in Berlin is coming up in four weeks! Registering now will guarantee that you'll get a t-shirt. We are still looking for presentations, as well as sponsors for the event. More information at https://berlin2024.mini.debconf.org/

As Debian Backports do not offer Long Term Support (LTS), buster-backports is soon to be removed from the Debian Archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html #debian

As Debian Backports do not support Long Term Support, buster-backports is soon to be removed from the Debian Archive. https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html #debian

Registration and the Call for Proposals are now open for DebConf24. This year's event will be held in Busan, Korea, and will offer Talks, Hacking sessions, activites, discussions, and of course a legendary cheese party! https://debconf24.debconf.org/news/2024-04-15-dc24-registration-cfp-open/ #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea

MiniDebConf Belo Horizonte 2024 with presentations on Debian and Free Software, mostly in Brazilian Portuguese, is about to start in 2 weeks. Registation is still possible and volunteers are very welcome; the schedule is now available. See https://bh.mini.debconf.org/en/

Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics (Bug# 970021). Join the discussion and effort at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/msg00311.html

The Debian Policy Manual has been updated to version 4.7.0.0. Highlights include: The addition of the non-free-firmware archive, hard links now permitted in source packages, addressing autobuild network permissions, and systemd requirements for packages that automatically start or stop system services. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/index.html

MiniDebconfBerlin 24 registration and CfP are open. The conference will take place Tue May 14th till Tue May 21st at c-base.org in Germany. See https://lists.debian.org/6183020.4L0H4hUvkO@tomato#1

Although no Debian stable versions are known to be affected by CVE-2024-3094 the next point release for 12.6 has been postponed while we investigate the effects of this CVE on the Archive. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html