Manoj Srivastava has uploaded reference policy packages to Debian. If you're going to setup a SELinux system with Debian, I'd recommend you to use the new policy packages (which are currently named "selinux-policy-refpolicy-*", but that might be shortened to selinux-policy-* or so sometime, I guess)

This is basically the only SELinux policy tree actively maintained.

The old policy, packages as selinux-policy-default, is discontinued upstream.

To those who missed the move: irc.debian.org is now pointing to OFTC (which is also a SPI project) and not to Freenode anymore.

By now, #debian-devel has more users on OFTC than on Freenode, but is still pretty busy on Freenode. Since many of use are involved with other projects on Freenode, I guess most will continue to hang around there. #debian.de is still larger on Freenode. It will be interesting to see how the channels develop over time. The one on OFTC used to be more of a german-language developers hangout, whereas the Freenode one was frequently visited by "unexperienced end users" searching for help, and trolls pretending to search for help, but actually just trying to start some flamewar. I wonder if that means the "good old times" are over. ;-)

Life: I'm having my final oral exams the next weeks. Starting on Tuesday with the exam on Databases, Index Structures (R-Trees, X-Trees, ...), Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining. 30 Minutes. Should be okay, though I have been doing way too little reading.

This also implies that I'm missing most of the Worldcup fun. I watched the first game, and it's hard to not read about results. But I won't be going to soccer partys every day. I don't care much about watching sports, and I should spend my time studying for the exams.