[Dwn-trans-commit] CVS german/2008/12
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<p><strong>Bits from the DPL</p></strong>
<p>Steve McIntyre sent out another <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00009.html"><q>Bits
-from the DPL</q></a> mail. One of the topics he covers is the recently
+from the DPL</q></a> mail. His first topic was the recently
finished eighth Debian Conference in Argentina. Even though many developers
-and contributors could not travel there he considers it a successful
-conference. He especially thanks the video team, who <q>did an <a
+and contributors could not travel there he considered it to be a successful
+conference. He especially thanked the video team, who <q>did an <a
href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Videoteam/Thanks">amazing job this
year</a> making most of the sessions available via stream as well as forwarding
questions via Internet Relay Chat.</q> Steve is already looking forward to
next year's Debian Conference, which will take place in the Junta Extremadura
in Spain.</p>
-<p>He also summarizes the results of this year's <a
-href="http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008">Google Summer of Code</a> where
-students can work on specific free software projects and get paid by Google.
+<p>He then summarized the results of this year's <a
+href="http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008">Google Summer of Code</a>, a project in which
+students work on specific free software projects and get paid by Google.
Debian got thirteen project slots. Eleven of these projects were completed
-successfully (the rest needed to drop out due to unforeseen problems).</p>
+successfully (sadly, the rest had to drop out due to unforeseen problems).</p>
-<p>Steve closes with a short summary about the upcoming stable release
+<p>Steve closed with a short summary about the upcoming stable release
<q>Lenny</q>. Preparations for a release candidate of the debian-installer are
-on its way and the release notes are taking shape. But there are still a lot
+on their way and the release notes are taking shape. But there are still a lot
of release critical bugs left to be fixed.</p>
<p><strong>What you can do for <q>Lenny</q></p></strong>
-<p>Since the Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 <q>Lenny</q> hasn't been released yet,
-Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00000.html">explained
-the problems briefly</a> and listed some open issues which need to resolved
+<p>Unfortunatly, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 <q>Lenny</q> hasn't been released yet.
+Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00000.html">briefly explained
+the problems</a> and listed some open issues which need to resolved
before Lenny can be released. He points out that even a <q>simple user</q>
-(which he categorizes as <q>everyone</q>) can help.</p>
+(meaning <q>everyone</q>) can help.</p>
<p>While most release blockers and release goals have been dealt with —
including transitions to newer compilers, libraries and other tools — the
-development has reached the final phase, where the last release critical bugs
-need to be fixed, upgrade tests performed and the release notes are written
-out. He gave a brief overview on how to perform upgrade tests, which he later
+development has reached its final phase, where the last release critical bugs
+need to be fixed, upgrade tests need to be performed and the release notes need to be written.
+Alexander gave a brief overview on how to perform upgrade tests, which he later
<a href="http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-lenny">updated</a> in his
-blog and showed other ways to help, like writing and translating the release
+blog, also showed other ways to help such as writing and translating the release
notes.</p>
-<p>He later <a href="http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-lenny-2">categorized</a> the
+<p>He then <a href="http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-lenny-2">categorized</a> the
remaining bugs, while Lucas Nussbaum created a detailed list of the
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00072.html">remaining
-bugs</a>.</p>
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00072.html">bugs still remaining</a>.</p>
<p>In related news, Franklin Piat
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00043.html">created</a>
-created a <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/TestDebian">list of things</a> users
-could test in the long term.</p>
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00043.html">had created</a>
+a <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/TestDebian">list</a> of things</a>
+users could do in the long term to help test Debian.</p>
<p><strong>500,000th bug reported</p></strong>
<p>Christian Perrier
<a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/24#bug-500000-now">noted</a>
that the 500,000th <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/500000">bug</a> has been
-reported to Debian's bug tracking sytem. Nobuhiro Iwamatsu requested a feature
+reported to Debian's bug tracking sytem. In it, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu requested a feature
for the common debian build system, a tool used to create Debian packages, and
even provided a patch.</p>
<p>Lucas Nussbaum
-<a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=312">provided</a> some statistics.
+<a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=312">graciously provided</a> some statistics.
From these 500,000 bugs, nearly 410,000 have already been solved.</p>
-<p>Christian notes that the vitality of the Debian Bug Tracking system is a
-proof of the vitality of development in Debian (the current bug report rate is
+<p>Christian also noted that the vitality of the Debian Bug Tracking system is an
+indicator of the vitality of development in Debian (the current bug report rate is
about 60,000 bugs per year for a total of 24,000 packages in the distribution,
-so only 2.5 bugs per year and package).</p>
+only 2.5 bugs per year, per package).</p>
-<p>Therefore, Debian developers are proud that they had 500,000 occasions to
-interact with their users. Of course, they are also proud that 410,000 of these
-bugs are currently closed and only 250 are release critical for the upcoming
-Debian lenny release.</p>
+<p>Thus, Debian developers are proud that they have had 500,000 occasions to
+interact with their users. Of course, they are also proud that 410,000 of
+thesve already closed 410,000 of these bugs and and only 250 of the remaining
+bugs are release critical for the upcoming Debian lenny release.</p>
<p><strong>Valid-Until field in Release files</p></strong>
<p>While the current archive structure prevents injection of malicious packages
-(e.g. at a "bad" mirror) through a digital trust path, it still had a small
-flaw. A potential attacker could use outdated release information and force
+through a digital trust path (e.g. at a <q>bad mirror</q>), it still has a small
+flaw. A potential attacker could use outdated release information to force
people to use an outdated mirror, leaving out the latest security updates. To
-address this problem, Jörg Jaspert <a href="http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/23/valid-until-field-in-release-f.html">added
+address this problem, Jörg Jaspert <a href="http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/23/valid-until-field-in-release-f.html">has added
a <q>valid until</q></a> field to the release information. APT (or another
package manager) can then check if the data available on the mirror is up to
-date. Work has already begun to integrate such a feature in the apt package
+date. Work has already begun to integrate this feature into the apt package
manager and tools based upon it; however,
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/499897">some questions</a> are still open.</p>
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/499897">some questions</a> remain unresolved.</p>
-<p><strong>Choosing language during NAS installations</p></strong>
+<p><strong>Choosing a language during NAS installations</p></strong>
<p>Martin Michlmayr <a href="http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/nas-localechooser">reported</a> that
due to changes of the internal structure of the debian-installer, it is now
-possible to choose the language of the installation (and the resulting system).
-Installations on headless NAS devices are typically done remotely via SSH and
-up until now the network was started after the language had been chosen, so
-this feature was completely disabled for such devices. Due to changes in the
-component responsible for choosing the locale, this feature could now be
-enabled for these kinds of devices as well.</p>
+it is now possible to choose the language (and the resulting
+system) for installations on NAS machines. Installations on headless NAS devices
+are typically done remotely via SSH and up until now, the network had been started
+after the language had already been chosen, thus the ability to choose a language
+interactively was completely disabled for such devices. Due to changes in the
+component responsible for choosing the locale, this feature can now be enabled
+for these kinds of devices.</p>
<p><strong>m68k moved to debian-ports</p></strong>
-<p>After missing release criteria for Etch and Lenny, the m68k port made the
+<p>After missing release criteria for both Etch and Lenny, the m68k port made the
switch from using the wanna-build instance on Debian infrastructure to the one
on <a href="http://www.debian-ports.org/">Debian-Ports</a>. This is a necessary
-step before m68k will be removed from the Debian archive. <a
+step before m68k can be removed from the Debian archive. <a
href="http://unstable.buildd.net/index-m68k.html">Buildd.Net</a> still supports
the m68k architecture and has already adopted the change. The m68k port was
one of two official ports in the first Debian release, Debian 2.0 (the other
@@ -151,15 +151,15 @@
<p>Christian Perrier <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/21#di-freeze-lenny-final">released</a>
the final number of languages which will be supported in the debian-installer
-of the upcoming release. All in all 63 languages will be supported, which is 5
+of the upcoming release. All-in-all 63 languages will be supported, which is 5
more than in the current release.</p>
-<p>A long term goal, the move from documentation in /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc as recommended in
-the Filesystem hierarchy standard, has been <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/322762#1225 completed">recently</a>.</p>
+<p>A long term goal, the move from documentation in <tt>/usr/doc</tt> to <tt>/usr/share/doc</tt> as recommended in
+the Filesystem hierarchy standard, has finally been <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/322762#1225">completed</a>.</p>
-<p>Christian Perrier <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/30#apt-maintenance">noted</a>
-that the team working on apt, the core package manager of Debian and Debian
-based distributions, is lacking manpower and could use some help.</p>
+<p>Christian Perrier <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/30#apt-maintenance">also noted</a>
+that the team working on apt, the core package manager of Debian and Debian-based
+distributions, is lacking manpower and in need of help.</p>
<p><strong>Linux Kongress 2008</p></strong>
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