Fwd: Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008

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From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar <at> debian.org>
Date: 2008/8/5
Subject: Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008
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Debian Project News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/08/
Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008
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Welcome to this year's 8th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
community.
Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

 * "Lenny" frozen
 * Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated to include support for newer hardware
 * Schedule for 8th annual Debian Conference announced
 * Debian Days around the world
 * ... and much more.

"Lenny" frozen

Marc Brockschmidt, a Release Manager, announced that "Lenny", the
upcoming new stable release, has been [1]frozen as [2]planned. The
automatic transition of new versions of packages from the development
branch ("sid" or "unstable") to the current testing branch ("lenny") has
been stopped and new versions of packages need manual approval. New
versions which fix release critical bugs, other important bugs, add