Debian Weekly News - October 6th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - October 6th, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community. This is a very short issue of DWN; my apologies for not
covering more of what's been happening.
A free version of ssh has been found. It [8]turns out that an early
version of the program was free software. OpenBSD has been working on
updating that version, and it is hoped they have produced a usable
substitute for the current, non-free ssh. If so, it will of course
quickly be packaged for Debian.
It's been quite a week for crippling bugs in unstable.
* First was a package uploaded with a mispelled "Priority" control
line. This seemingly minor mistake was not caught before the
package was put on the ftp sites, and it made apt [9]refuse to
install anything at all. Though the problem was soon fixed, it
left behind questions about why dinstall doesn't do checks to
detect this type of problems, and why apt was so fragile. Apt at
least, has been [10]fixed so this won't happen again, and
hopefully dinstall will be fixed as well.
* Next was a broken menu package that [11]consumed all memory each
time anything that used menu was installed. It also has been
[12]fixed, though it may be a day before the fix reaches all the
mirrors.
Stephane Bortzmeyer [13]posted a Debian SGML/XML HOWTO. "The HOWTO is
task-oriented: you will see what Debian packages you will need for
various tasks, and how to use them."
As usual, a new edition of [14]Debian JP news is available.
New packages in Debian this week include the following 31 and [15]43
more:
* [16]aleph: The Aleph programming language - runtime ([17]dev,
[18]doc)
* [19]apt-move: Move cache of Debian packages into a mirror
hierarchy
* [20]apt-zip: Update a non-networked computer using apt and a
removable media
* [21]expect: A program that "talks" to other programs. ([22]dev)
* [23]gamix: Another graphical mixer for ALSA (4 days new)
* [24]geda-utils: GNU EDA -- Electronics design software --
utilities ([25]symbol checker)
* Linux Kernel 2.2 ([26]source, [27]doc, [28]headers, chrp,
[29]i386, pmac, prep, [30]patch-i386, [31]patch-powerpc,
[32]patch-sparc)
* [33]libcqcam-dev: Color QuickCam (PC/Parallel) control library
* Netscape version 4.7 (base packages pull in what you need)
([34]base, [35]java, [36]smotif bin, [37]communicator-base,
[38]communicator online help, [39]communication smotif bin,
[40]communicator spell check, [41]navigator-base, [42]navigator
online help, [43]navigator smotif bin)
Thanks to Randolph Chung and Katsura Yoshio for [44]contributing.
References
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9909/msg02346.html
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9909/msg03737.html
10. http://bugs.debian.org/46265
11. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#1
12. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#2
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9909/msg02331.html
14. http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~shishamo/debian/trans/djwn/wn100299.html
15. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-19991004.html
16. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/aleph.html
17. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/aleph-dev.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/doc/aleph-doc.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/apt-move.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/apt-zip.html
21. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/expect5.31.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/expect5.31-dev.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/gamix.html
24. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/electronics/geda-utils.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/electronics/geda-gsymcheck.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-source-2.2.12.html
27. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.12.html
28. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-headers-2.2.12.html
29. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/kernel-image-2.2.12-i386.html
30. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-patch-2.2.12-i386.html
31. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-patch-2.2.12-powerpc.html
32. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-patch-2.2.12-sparc.html
33. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/libcqcam-dev.html
34. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-base-47.html
35. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-java-47.html
36. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-smotif-47.html
37. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-base-47.html
38. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-nethelp-47.html
39. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-smotif-47.html
40. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-spellchk-47.html
41. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-base-47.html
42. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-nethelp-47.html
43. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-smotif-47.html
44. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
--
see shy jo
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