Debian Weekly News - September 7th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - September 7th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - September 7th, 1999
Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
The technical committee has [8]spoken: /usr/doc/<package> will be
provided as a symlink in FHS compliant packages. This started an
avalanche of updated, FHS compliant packages. For implementation
details, see [9]this message (debhelper will handle most of this
automatically).
The latest release of bind contains crypto code that is not DFSG free.
Thus the DNS server, a major component of Debian, or of any unix
system, has become non-free -- a very bad situation. It looks like
removing this code or maintaining the older, free version of bind
would be [10]very hard. One alternative that is being looked at is
using the new dents DNS server. Perhaps the biggest problem with dents
is that "it's not BIND" -- and so is not as trusted as the classic DNS
server.
Freeze watch: The freeze is just 7 weeks away, if we stick to the
planned schedule. Chris Lawrence posted a [11]nice list of things we
need to get done for release, and how close we are to accomplishing
them.
With GPG 1.0 released, many people will probably be switching to GPG
soon. Luckily, it turns out to have been [12]possible for some time to
sign packages with GPG and upload them into Debian, though few people
have done this yet.
What do Debian developers do when they're not working on Debian? A lot
of them write software for linux in general, or are the upstream
maintainers of existing software. Martin Schulze had the [13]idea that
a list of such work would be nice to have, and [14]123 such packages
were soon found, including such important software as ld.so, strace,
sysklogd, sysvinit, watchdog, and wvdial.
A bit of confusion has emerged recently about the purpose of
security.debian.org. It was originally [15]intended to be a way for
the security team to quickly get updated packages out without waiting
for the mirrors. But now people want to mirror it! There's also some
disagreement about how long packages should remain on
security.debian.org after they are merged into the distribution
proper.
As usual, [16]this week's Debian-JP news is available.
Thanks to Randolph Chung and Katsura S. Yoshio for [17]contributing.
References:
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9909/msg00023.html
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9909/msg00367.html
11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9909/msg00382.html
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9909/msg00123.html
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-www-9909/msg00004.html
14. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/34/mail#1
15. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg01924.html
16. http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~shishamo/debian/trans/djwn/wn090599.html
17. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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see shy jo
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