Debian Weekly News - May 3rd, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - May 3rd, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
The [8]results are in for the vote on number of logos and licenses.
There will be two logos with different licenses. Voting on the actual
logo is [9]about to begin.
The long awaited new version of X has finally been [10]uploaded to
unstable. Some major changes have been made to the source packaging,
and of course it's a new upstream version of X as well. Also, the
contents of the GNOME staging area are ready for broader use and
testing and have been [11]copied to Incoming.
Should clients that can communicate only with non-free servers be
placed in contrib? James Troup raised this very contentious issue
issue when he [12]posted about his reason for rejecting the ICQ client
TiK from Incoming. One major objection is that this would imply that a
program that parses freshmeat or the dejagnus web pages must go in
contrib because the code that generates those web sites is not
published. If we decide to follow James's reasoning, a great deal of
software will be moved to contrib.
Joey Hess has [13]proposed large modifications of debhelper for
version 2.0. These modifications will require an environment variable
to be set to enable them, so backwards compatability is not broken by
default. The aim of the modifications is to make debhelper's interface
cleaner and easier to learn. After some discussion the changes to make
are [14]nearly agreed on. Debhelper has some new competition: Yet
Another Debianisation Aid (YADA) was [15]announced this week. It
centralizes all information needed to build a package into a single
file, similar to a RPM spec file.
A few problems with Debian Alpha: Attempting to upgrade a Debian Alpha
machine to glibc 2.1 is likely to [16]break the system unless apt is
used for the upgrade. And egcs is [17]producing invalid code when
optimizing with -O2.
News from Debian Sparc is brighter: Upgrading to glibc 2.1 is no
problem now if you have a 2.2.x kernel, and [18]new sparc bootdisks
will be ready soon.
Attention Finns: On May 15th there will be a Debian [19]meeting in
Finland.
Joey Hess has started posting weekly summaries of proposals on the
debian-policy list. The first summary is [20]here.
New packages added to Debian this week include the following and 13
[21]other packages:
* [22]birthday: Display information about pending events on login
* blacs: Basic Linear Algebra Communications Subprograms ([23]mpi
and [24]pvm versions)
* [25]dhis: allocates a hostname under dhis.org to your host
* [26]hugs98: A Haskell 98 interpreter
* [27]listar-cgi: CGI front-end for Listar
* [28]xserver-3dlabs: X server for 3DLabs GLINT and Permedia-based
graphics cards
Correction:
* Thanks to the several people who pointed out that the url to the
logrotate proposal was wrong -- the proposal is actually [29]here.
Thanks to Randolph Chung and Christian Meder for [30]contributing.
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[32]Back issues of this newsletter are available.
Debian Weekly News is edited by [33]Joey Hess.
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This newsletter is also available in the following languages:
[34]Swedish
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References
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9905/msg00001.html
9. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/18/mail#2
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-9904/msg02409.html
11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00022.html
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9905/msg00004.html
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01655.html
14. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00037.html
15. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01729.html
16. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-alpha-9905/msg00007.html
17. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-alpha-9904/msg00205.html
18. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-boot-9905/msg00006.html
19. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/18/mail#1
20. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9905/msg00000.html
21. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/misc/birthday.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/blacs-mpi.html
24. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/blacs-pvm.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/dhis.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/hugs98.html
27. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/mail/listar-cgi.html
28. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/xserver-3dlabs.html
29. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9904/msg01069.html
30. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing.html
32. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
33. mailto:joeyh@debian.org
34. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/18/index.sv.html
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