事情发生已经一段时间了，很遗憾我刚知道。
原文地址如下：http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20081229
Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer December 29th, 2008
Debian哀悼Thiemo Seufer的离去
The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community.
Debian失去一个活跃的成员。
Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident.
Thiemo Seufer去逝于12月6日的一个车祸。
Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways.
Thiemo在Debian项目中有很多不同的工作。
He has maintained several packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures.
他维护几个软件包，并且是MIPS构架的主要支持者。
He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a member of the Debian Installer team.
他也是kernel team的成员，并且也是intaller team的成员。
His contributions reached far beyond the Debian project.
他的贡献不仅限于Debian。
He also worked on the MIPS port of the Linux kernel, the MIPS emulation of qemu, and far too many smaller projects to be named here.
他还为帮助linux kernel进行MIPS构架的移植工作，例如MIPS的qemu模拟器以及一下难以列出的小项目。
Thiemo's work, dedication, broad technical knowledge and ability to share this with others will be missed.
Thiemo的工作、专注、广泛的技术知识以及分享这些的能力将被我们怀念。
The contributions of Thiemo will not be forgotten.
Thiemo的贡献不会被忘记。
The high standards of Thiemos work make it hard to pick up.
Thiemo高标准的工作降很难被超越。
To honour his contributions to Debian, the project decided to dedicate the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny to Thiemo.
出于对他对Debian做出的贡献，debian项目讲用即将来临的5.0Lenny来纪念他。
The funeral service will be held on Monday January 5th 2009, 13:30 at the Dominikanerkirche in Bad Wimpfen.
葬礼将在2009年1月5日星期一13：30举行，地点在Dominikanerkirche in Bad Wimpfen。
If you want to express your condolences please send mail to ths-condolence@linutronix.de .
如果你想表示哀悼请使用下述邮件地址，ths-condolence@linutronix.de
It will be passed on to Thiemo's family.
邮件会被发送到Thiemo的家里。
（fender0107401翻译）
Debian发起签名活动向一位已故的开发者致敬(截止时间为国际标准时2009年2月12日零时)：
- 下载 http://people.debian.org/~myon/dedication-5.0.txt，并请进行md5校验，确保md5校验值为 ba8e595994b3891ebad55f16badf28af
- 使用命令 gpg -bao Your_Name dedication-5.0.txt 生成一个文本格式的 gpg 签名文件
- 将签名文件发送给 dedication@qa.debian.org
一个从debian中得到快乐时光的朋友祝Thiemo Seufer走好。