Debian Weekly News - August 24th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - August 24th, 1999
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Welcome to the 31st issue of Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the
Debian developer community.
Triggered by last week's bash breakage, a couple of [8]huge flame wars
erupted about making Debian less fragile by providing statically
linked versions of important binaries. Some people think Debian should
begin using them extensively so the system is more robust, others
disagree, or think they should be provided, but just as an option.
It's been a very busy week for security announcements for Debian, with
7 announcements made about updated packages. The reason for all the
activity is that the security team is preparing up to release Debian
1.2r3, which will have all the security updates from the past several
months in it. A fix was released for a serious root exploit in
[9]cfingerd, plus fixes for [10]smtp-refuser, [11]trn, and
[12]man2html that prevent overwriting and deletion of arbitrary files.
For termcap-compat, there is a [13]buffer overflow fix, although
Debian only provides termcap as an option and no Debian packages are
vunerable. Announcements were also made about an [14]old hole in
rsync, and an [15]unlikely problem with seyon.
One of the authors of Debian GNU/Linux Unleashed has posted a
[16]clarification about when that book will become available. As was
reported earlier in this newsletter, the book promises to include
Debian 2.2. They are aware of our release schedule and the book will
probably be held back until after potato is released. O'Reilly also
has a book in the works, due in October, according to [17]this web
page. No word yet about what animal will be on the cover..
Dpkgv2 has a new name, the "Herring Package Management Library"
(HPML). The [18]design specification is [19]mostly done and they are
moving into the development stage.
There is still no official release date for Debian/GNU Hurd but
development continues. A new version of GRUB (the GRand Unified
Bootloader) was [20]released, a password setting problem was found and
[21]patched, and new versions of [22]inetutils, syslogd and
[23]Midnight Commander have been built for the port.
New packages added to Debian this week include the following 14 and
[24]55 more:
* [25]eaudio: MP3, MOD, WAV, AU, and CD player
* [26]kcc: Kanji code filter
* [27]kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid: Drivers for 'new-style' RAID arrays
* [28]lam2: Enables parallel processing across multiple processors
([29]runtime and [30]dev)
* [31]libfox0.99: The FOX C++ GUI Toolkit ([32]dbg, [33]dev and
[34]doc)
* [35]libxml-dom-perl: Extension to XML::Parser to add DOM v1
interface
* [36]libxml-perl: Collection of Perl modules for working with XML
* [37]libxml1: GNOME XML library
* [38]oskit: A framework for Operating System design
Thanks to Simon Holgate and Randolph Chung for [39]contributing.
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7. http://www.debian.org/search
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00764.html
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00000.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00004.html
11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00007.html
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00006.html
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00003.html
14. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00002.html
15. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-security-announce-9908/msg00005.html
16. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg01178.html
17. http://www.ora.com/catalog/debian/
18. http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/hpml/
19. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00722.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9908/msg00054.html
21. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9908/msg00079.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9908/msg00069.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9908/msg00140.html
24. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-19990823.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/eaudio.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/kcc.html
27. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid.html
28. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/lam2.html
29. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/lam-runtime.html
30. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/lam2-dev.html
31. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libfox0.99.html
32. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libfox0.99-dbg.html
33. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libfox0.99-dev.html
34. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/doc/libfox0.99-doc.html
35. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libxml-dom-perl.html
36. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libxml-perl.html
37. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libxml1.html
38. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/oskit.html
39. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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see shy jo
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