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Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 3-1 http://www.debian.org/
debian-release@lists.debian.org Philipp Kern
March 14th, 2011
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Upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 Update (6.0.1)
An update to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 is scheduled for Saturday, March 19th,
2011. As of now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be
found in `squeeze-proposed-updates', which is carried by all official
mirrors.
Please note that packages published through security.debian.org are not
listed, but will be included if possible.
Testing and feedback would be appreciated. Bugs should be filed in the
BTS, but please make the Release Team aware of them by copying `debian-
release@lists.debian.org'.
The point release will also include a rebuild of debian-installer.
Miscellaneous Bugfixes
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This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following
packages:
Package Reason
apt-dater Correct syntax of default configuration file
base-files Update /etc/debian_version for the point release
cdebconf Allow the GTK frontend to be used in a window managed environment
clive Adapt for youtube.com changes
cmake Rebuild upstream tarball to remove undistributable Windows build systems files
console-setup Fix Swiss German, Bulgarian and Swedish keymaps in the installer
cryptsetup Install cryptkeyctl initramfs hook; lukadmin: avoid possible race conditions by invoking udevadm settle
dbconfig-common Fix version sorting logic bug on upgrade files in postinst
debian-reference Refer to squeeze-updates rather than volatile; fix URL for Debian Mirror Checker
debootstrap Fix --private-key and ar usage
deluge Fix hang on quit
desktop-base Fix plymouth output in dual-screen configurations
devscripts Make squeeze the default backports target; add wheezy{,-ignore} tags
eclipse Fix XSS in help browser application
exuberant-ctags Use memmove rather than strcpy on overlapping strings
ganeti Don't break permissions of /var/lock when running "gnt-node add"
gdm3 Handle del{group,user} failures gracefully; fix grep usage; use correct names for UTF-8 locales
gedit Fix important mistake in the Brazilian Portugese translation
git Fix escaping in gitweb, new add.ignoreErrors variable
gnome-screensaver Disable non-functional libnotify support
gnumed-client Install translations to the correct location
ia32-libs Refresh packages from stable and proposed-updates.
ia32-libs-core Refresh packages from stable and proposed-updates.
ia32-libs-gtk Refresh packages from stable and proposed-updates.
installation-guide Update content for squeeze
katoob Fix crash when setting tooltips
kde4libs Add a kconf_update script to migrate away from old KDE3 icon themes
kdebase-workspace Fix random but common krunner crashes
kernel-wedge Add hid-cherry and sdhci_pci modules
kfreebsd-8 Fix local DoS in TCP stack; emulate Catalan's middle-dot l/L characters by ASCII l/L
kgb-bot Fix version check to allow possible future security updates
krusader Properly fix problems terminating the application
libapache-mod-jk Ease upgrades from lenny by disabling SOCK_CLOEXEC use
libdebian-installer Add support for new Buffalo Linkstation devices
libemail-mime-createhtml-perl Add missing dependency on libfile-policy-perl
libvirt Make init script "status" target exit statuses LSB-compliant to assist monitoring
linux-2.6 Several fixes
magpierss Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2011-0740)
mcabber Fix crash, segfault, command-line corruption and FD leaks
mediawiki Fix a CSS injection vulnerability
mediawiki-extensions PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes for the confirmedit plugin
nautilus Fix crash in nautilus_file_peek_display_name()
network-manager Only comment out exact matches in /etc/network/interfaces; normalise keys in ifupdown parser; correctly handle device removal
ocrodjvu Fix upside-down generation of hocr data
ocsigen Add missing dependencies on lib{lwt-ssl,ocsigen-xhtml}-ocaml-dev
pdftk Support prompting for both owner and user passwords; allow filenames to start with "odd", "even" or "end"
pulseaudio Fix pacmd hanging in poll() when reading from stdin very early
python-defaults Use full path to python interpreters in pycompile to ease lenny to squeeze upgrades
samba Missing input sanisiting
sobby Ensure session files are writable by the sobby user
sudo Resolve interoperability issues between -H and HOME in env_keep
sun-java6 Several security fixes
ttf-liberation Correctly flag Liberation Mono as monospaced
tzdata New upstream release; update Chilean DST
usb-modeswitch-data Fix modeswitching lines for Huawei devices; add support for more devices
why Mark Squeeze's coq version as a compatible prover
xorg-server Fix crashes with MCE remotes; fix rotation [nvidia]; drop support for XF86Config-4
xserver-xorg-video-intel Fix null pointer dereference and SDL-related issues
A complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with
rationale is on the preparation page for this revision:
<http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html>
If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the
Debian Release Team at `debian-release@lists.debian.org'.
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