Debian Weekly News - 2 to 8 Feb 1999
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Debian Weekly News - 2 to 8 Feb 1999
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Welcome to the sixth edition of Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for
the Debian developer community.
Debian's new Project Leader is Wichert Akkerman. Election results
[8]here. Congratulations are in order for Wichert, but also thanks to
Ian Jackson for guiding Debian through the past year, and thanks to
all the other candidates who volunteered for such a demanding job.
Progress toward release continues: the number of release critical bugs
is down to 22 as of today. For more up to date info, you can always
check [9]Wichert's report. Beta CD images of slink are also now
[10]available as well. Note that all of Debian takes up 4 CD's now.
A [11]buffer overflow security hole that can lead to root access is
present in proftpd and wu-ftpd. The proftpd package in frozen and
unstable is already fixed, and fixed wu-ftpd-academ packages are in
Incoming.
Slashdot is running a poll of favorite distributions, and Debian is
currently in second place. Go [12]vote.
Lars Wirzenius has written up an [13]excellent list of lessens about
project management we've learned developing Debian.
Christian Hammers [14]proposed the idea of having a simple config file
for networking setup, rather than the current /etc/init.d/network
script. The idea was enthusiastically welcomed with lots of people
coming forward with code and ideas. It looks like a small part of
Debian is going to get easier to set up.
Gordan Matzigkeit, Roland McGrath, and grub's author, Erich Boleyn,
had a very fruitful thread going about grub, the Hurd, and Debian.
They [15]discussed how to work together and features the Hurd project
needs. In other Hurd news, emacs20 is now available.
Debhelper is now in use by 50% of the source packages in Debian.
[16]Here is a graph showing how Debhelper has grown in popularity over
the years.
New packages added to Debian this week include:
* Many Window Maker dock apps, including [17]pclock, [18]wmcpu,
[19]wmdate, [20]wmpinboard, [21]wmspaceweather, [22]wmsysmon, and
[23]wmweather.
* [24]xtet42 has been added back into Debian. It was removed earlier
because of copyright problems which are now fixed.
* [25]x11amp, a fine X based mp3 player.
Server news
* www.debian.org had some trouble early in the week (or more
accurately part of the network near to it did) and the site was
[26]difficult to reach. Of course, one of the many mirrors can
always be used if you cannot connect to the main server.
Followups to previous news items:
* Coverage on slashdot of our hunt for a new logo can be found
[27]here and current submissions can be found [28]here. There have
been [29]some complaints about the requirement that logos in the
gimp contest "MUST be manipulated entirely in the GIMP". One
problem with that is the gimp doesn't yet support vector graphics.
References
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9902/msg00002.html
9. http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/report.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9902/msg00289.html
11. http://www.netect.com/advisory_0209.html
12. http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=99/02/09/1042222
13. http://www.iki.fi/liw/texts/debian-lessons.html
14. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9902/msg00172.html
15. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9902/msg00003.html
16. http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/stats/
17. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/pclock.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/wmcpu.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/wmdate.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/wmpinboard.html
21. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/wmspaceweather.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/wmsysmon.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/wmweather.html
24. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/games/xtet42.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/x11amp.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9902/msg00581.html
27. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/02/03/2050245.shtml
28. http://contest.gimp.org/view.cgi?month=1999-02
29. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9902/msg00408.html
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