As the version number indicates, this is a major revision, representing a lot of work and discussion in debian-policy over the past few months. The two major changes are that policy now mandates FHS compliance , and that logrotate is now Debian's preferred log rotation tool . All these changes are summarized by Manoj here . The topic of niced cron jobs has come up again. It looks like both anacron and cron will soon default to nicing the jobs they run.
Slides are available here .
A debian-sgml mailing ist list has been created , for discussion of SGML and XML in Debian. Stephane Bortzmeyer has written a draft policy for java compilers and virtual machines in Debian . For a summary of what's been going on in the Debian-JP project lately, check out the Debian JP News . The LinuxTag convention was last weekend in Germany, here's a report of Debian related activities there. A subthread asks why contrib should be moved along with non-free.