Debian Weekly News - May 17th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - May 17th, 1999
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Welcome to the 20th issue of Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the
Debian developer community.
It seems that Apple is [8]planning to use dpkg as the package manager
for Darwin. "The Debian packaging system has been adopted for the
Darwin distribution, and should be fairly easily moved to Mac OS X
Server if someone were inclined to try." In fact, you can download
dpkg from this [9]page at Apple though oddly you have to get an
account to download it.
There was another [10]long discussion about how to switch to perl
5.005. There's still a fair amount of confusion about how to
accomplish this cleanly, though the maintainer thinks he has a viable
solution according to [11]this message.
A Debian Users Group has been [12]formed in Philadelphia. This seems
to be a growing trend.. Also, another chance to meet fellow Debianites
is coming up at Linux Expo; several developers will be there.
Stefan Gybas posted a [13]long message about the status of Linuxconf
and Debian. It's further along than one might think, and should be
moving out of experimental and into unstable soon. A lot of work
remains to be done to tie various parts of it into Debian.
The Debian JP project is working on an i18n framework that would let
the Description field of packages be translated. Details are available
[14]here (in Japanese).
[15]Here's a ZDNet article on Corel and Debian. It wavers between the
vaguely positive -- "For some users, in fact, Corel could be the
corporate face that Debian has always lacked.", and the disturbing --
"Corel's choice will certainly give Debian a bigger audience by
dispensing with some of Debian's political agenda.". What political
agenda? This was followed up by [16]another article, which theorizes
that the "GNU" in the name of Debian may be scaring off users. Again
he accuses Debian of being political: "those in our world who believe
in manipulating language for political means insist on the term
GNU/Linux".
Some quick notes about other architectures: New sparc bootdisks are
[17]available for testing thanks to Eric Delaunay. Martin Lucina has
written a new [18]TGA framebuffer driver for Alphas.
Help wanted:
* Nils Lohner [19]posted about a lot of debian-publicity related
things that need doing.
* Bob Hilliard is [20]compiling release notes for potato. If you
have information that would be useful to a user who is upgrading,
send it [21]to him.
Server news:
* Over the weekend, the Packages file for potato became a zero byte
file due to a problem with the archive. Here's [22]a note about
the cause of that and some other changes that have been made to
the ftp site. The problem with the Packages file impacted a lot of
people who track unstable, but it is fixed now. Unfortunately this
messed up the program Debian Weekly News uses to find new
packages, and so that report is not available this week.
* The introduction of the new non-us server caused a fair amount of
confusion about how to upload things to it and get them put in the
proper section. Guy Maor posted an [23]explanation.
Thanks to Katsura S. Yoshio and Christian Meder for [24]contributing.
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[26]Back issues of this newsletter are available.
Debian Weekly News is edited by [27]Joey Hess.
This newsletter is also available in [28]Swedish
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References
8. http://www.stepwise.com/SpecialCoverage/WWDC99/MondayAfternoon.html
9. http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/projects.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00788.html
11. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/20/mail#1
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00864.html
13. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/20/mail#2
14. http://www.debian.or.jp/Lists-Archives/debian-devel/199905/msg00187.html
15. http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/opinion/0,5954,2257226,00.html
16. http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/opinion/0,5954,2260109,00.html
17. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-9905/msg00104.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-alpha-9905/msg00081.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-publicity-9905/msg00002.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9905/msg00021.html
21. mailto:hilliard@flinet.com
22. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00963.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9905/msg00015.html
24. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
26. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
27. mailto:joeyh@debian.org
28. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/20/index.sv.html
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