Debian Weekly News - April 26th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - April 26th, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
It's official -- Corel will base thier Linux distribution on Debian.
According to Corel's [8]press release "Corel will also build its
desktop Linux offering around the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, which
already has one of the largest installed bases in the Linux community,
and is known for its stability and security." Corel representatives
are already making their [9]first postings to the lists.
The Bug Tracking System went down on the 21st when the machine it
resides on was upgraded to Linux 2.2 (to work around a SCSI problem).
It seems Linux 2.2 doesn't completely support a.out binaries, and the
BTS uses an old a.out smail binary that the upgrade [10]broke. The BTS
was down for 4 days before it could be fixed to use exim as its
mailer. No data should have been lost, though some people submitting
bugs in the downtime may have received odd messages from
debbugs.debian.org.
Jason Gunthorpe, our very own BOFH, has been working on the long
anticipated LDAP-enabled developer database, and has merged in
everyone in the Debian keyring into it. The resulting database can be
queried in many useful ways. Jason's first uses of it were to generate
a [11]report of people who are in the keyring but lack an account on
master, and then to generate a [12]list of accounts that are for
people not in the Debian keyring. The BOFH element -- "All of these
are on the chopping block and will be terminated 'eventually'". If
you're on the list you should contact Jason.
Dale Scheetz has resigned from his post of Secretary of the the SPI
board, [13]citing scarce free time that he'd rather spend on the LSB
and other projects. Nils Lohner will probably become Secretary, and
the board is expected to seek a new Treasurer.
In case you've not noticed, Debian has a [14]web page listing y2k
status of our packages. Craig Small is maintaining this page, and he
has [15]requested for people to [16]mail him if you know of pages that
address the y2k compliance of other packages.
Rotation of logfiles has been the topic of some discussions this week.
There's been a [17]proposal to move from using savelog to using
logrotate (developed by Red Hat), since logrotate seems to be a more
flexible tool and savelog can even [18]lose data in some very rare
situations. Logrotate has been packaged and [19]uploaded.
All the new packages added to Debian this week are from the Hurd port:
* gnumach: The GNU version of the Mach microkernel and devel files
* hurd and hurd-dev: The GNU Hurd and associated development files
* libc0.2: The GNU C library version 2
Thanks to Randolph Chung for [20]contributing the new packages list
each week.
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[21]Back issues of this newsletter are available.
Debian Weekly News is edited by [22]Joey Hess.
References
8. http://www.corel.com/news/1999/april/april_21_1999.htm
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg03210.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9904/msg00024.html
11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01434.html
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01490.html
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01461.html
14. http://www.debian.org/y2k
15. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01121.html
16. mailto:csmall@debian.org
17. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01068.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01466.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-9904/msg02158.html
20. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing.html
21. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
22. mailto:joeyh@debian.org
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