Changes

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system is a moving target. Even though the book is primarily based on Debian sarge, it is my intention to keep you up to speed with pertinent changes in the system (or the project). Should you be tracking testing or unstable, or by the time that the next release, etch, comes out, several points raised and techniques described in this book will be improved or replaced with better implementations. The following are such changes which have happened since the official release of the book in June 2005, sorted by chapter and page number. Click on the short description to see the details.

If you notice any change not listed here, please do not hesitate to let me know!

To stay up-to-date on changes to the Debian system, you may want to consider subscribring to the changes  feed, or the  feed which aggregates the changes and the errata.

Chapter 1. Introduction

p. 18

Debian still fastest growing distro

2006-01-10

Chapter 2. The Debian Project

p. 46	Dissertation chapter on social aspects of the Debian community	2005-08-28
p. 61	Alioth project initscripts-ng started	2005-11-21

Chapter 4. Debian releases and archives

p. 116	amd64 architecture added to official archive	2006-03-16
p. 122	Debian adds security support for amd64	2005-08-11

Chapter 5. The Debian package management system

p. 181	Prefer aptitude over apt-get (for dist-upgrades)	2005-07-18
p. 208	postfix-tls integrated into postfix post-sarge	2005-07-25
p. 239	debedit integrated into devscripts as deb-reversion	2005-08-09
p. 256	Future popularity-contest can also use HTTP	2005-07-25
p. 260	Linux kernel packages for 2.6.12 and up are named linux-*.	2005-07-26

Chapter 7. Security of the Debian system

p. 359	Document about the workings of the security team	2005-06-27
p. 363	Debian adds security support for the testing release	2005-09-25
p. 373	New Wiki page detailing Secure APT	2006-01-07

Chapter 8. Advanced concepts

p. 382

Debian Linux Kernel Handbook released

2006-01-06

Chapter 9. Creating Debian packages

p. 437

New dpkg source package format

2005-06-25

Chapter 10. Documentation and resources

p. 517	New Wiki went live	2005-09-02
p. 520	Debian Bible: official title has 3.1, not 3.X	2005-06-21
p. 520	Debian Bible: Jaldhar H. Vyas is third author	2005-06-21
p. 532	Debian bug tracker adds per-user tags	2005-09-02
p. 532	Debian bug tracker adds dependencies	2005-08-12
p. 532	Versioned bug reports	2005-07-19
p. 553	Subscribing to single bugs now possible	2005-07-22

Chapter C. Miscellaneous

p. 574

New ftpmaster key for 2006

2006-01-04