Debian Weekly News - August 15th, 2006

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Debian Weekly News - August 15th, 2006
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Welcome to this year's 33rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Debian turns 13 this week, so make sure you find
a [1]party nearby. With enough time compose a melody before the new
release Julien Danjou [2]published his etch song. David Sugar
[3]wondered if the Free Software community should learn to write more
buggy code and invent reasons to reboot the system all the time after
a change has been made in order to be more attractive for the desktop.

 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Debian13th
 2. http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/2006/08/01/312-etch-song
 3. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1692

Distribution-wide Tracker Tool. Arnaud Fontaine [4]reported about the
status of Wotomae, the [5]distribution-wide tracker tool. The DWTT is
a tool to easily track changes affecting packages, like a library
transition, a switch of the default Python version or a policy change.
It is written during Google's [6]Summer of Code. A demo website is
also [7]available with most of the features up for testing.

 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/08/msg00039.html
 5. http://wiki.debian.org/DWTT
 6. http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
 7. http://netu.naquadah.org:8080/