Debian Weekly News - October 26th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - October 26th, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community. With the freeze date quickly approaching, things are
heating up this week.
On the 30th a BugSquash party will be held, in which as many
developers as possible will work on fixing many release critical bugs.
Coordination will be via IRC. Previous BugSquash parties have been
sucessful at fixing lots of bugs, if you have free time this weekend
your [8]participation is encouraged.
The size of Debian continues to be a concern this week. Potato is too
big to fit on two CD's of binary packages, and [9]almost everyone
feels Debian is becoming unweildly. The 47MB package mentioned last
week was removed from the archive at the [10]request of its
maintainer, and other removals are being considered.
Work on the boot floppies continues, on many fronts, including
[11]hardware autodetection, work on [12]busybox, and [13]discussions
of how to make them use an initrd.
The dpkg bug list is now smaller and more organized. Dpkg has [14]less
than 200 bugs now. This amazing feat (dpkg used to have 500+ bugs) is
the result of lots of work on dpkg, as well as a [15]new section in
the BTS for upstream dpkg bugs.
A belated security note: A fixed apmd package was [16]released into
stable last week. It closes a buffer overflow security hole.
If you represent Debian in any way, Wichert wants to hear from you.
He's [17]compiling a list of people who represent Debian in LPI, LSB,
etc, to make it public on the web.
Lalo Martins made a [18]proposal to make Debian use package pools
starting as soon as potato is frozen. He intends to call for a vote in
two weeks. Package pools have been frequently discussed in the past,
but no action has ever been taken to implement them; perhaps this will
start the ball rolling, though it might be [19]difficult to implement
everything in time. Anthony Towns posted a [20]counterproposal that
has many of the nice features of package pools without requiring any
major changes to the archive.
As usual, Debian-JP news is [21]available.
New packages in Debian this week include the following, and [22]59
more:
* [23]irda-common: IrDA management utilities ([24]tools)
* [25]libiodbc2: iODBC Driver Manager ([26]dev)
* lsfcc: Linux Socket Filter Command Compiler
* [27]sawmill: a highly configurable window manager for X11
* [28]xapple2: Apple ][ Emulator
* [29]xviddetect: PCI X Server Detector/configurator
Debian at ALS through the eyes of Branden Robinson filters out some of
the [30]best webcam pictures from ALS with amusing commentary. If
that's not enough, here are [31]even more pictures.
Thanks to Randolph Chung and Katsura S. Yoshio for [32]contributing.
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8. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#1
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9910/msg01297.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9910/msg01242.html
11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9910/msg01245.html
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-boot-9910/msg00640.html
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-boot-9910/msg00532.html
14. http://bugs.debian.org/dpkg
15. http://bugs.debian.org/dpkg-iwj
16. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-changes-9910/msg00035.html
17. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9910/msg01449.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9910/msg00052.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9910/msg00070.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9910/msg00060.html
21. http://www.debian.or.jp/News/weekly/current/issue/
22. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-19991025.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/misc/irda-common.html
24. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/misc/irda-tools.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libiodbc2.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libiodbc2-dev.html
27. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/sawmill.html
28. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/otherosfs/xapple2.html
29. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/xviddetect.html
30. http://master.debian.org/~branden/99-10-15=12:35:04.html
31. http://netgod.net/als/
32. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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see shy jo
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