Debian Weekly News - May 10th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - May 10th, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
Richard Braakman [8]posted about plans for the next release of Debian.
He listed several possible goals for the next release, including no
[9]release critical bugs, working disk sets for all architectures, PAM
support, perl 5.005, and FHS complience. "The freeze is at least one
month away, and possibly a lot more than that."
Dave Neil of Corel [10]posted about what Corel's planning to do with
Debian. He discusses how Corel plans to modify the Debian install
procedure for their distribution -- including an X based installation.
They seem very open to feedback from the Debian community.
In security news, rsync has a security hole that can be triggered in
rare cases. A fix has been [11]uploaded to stable and unstable. A
security hole has also been [12]fixed in zmailer.
Anthony Towns [13]posted about IPv6 and Debian. A debian-ipv6 mailing
list has been created. There is some minimal support for IPv6 in
potato's netbase, and several other packages have been built with IPv6
support and are available at locations listed in the message.
The Debian JP project [14]released slink-JP this week, which consists
of over 200 Japanese related Debian packages. According to [15]this
mail, the members of Debian JP are interested in becoming Debian
developers as well and merging their work into the Debian project.
The debian-policy mailing list has been heating up lately, and a lot
of proposals are now in the pipeline. These include adopting the FHS,
creating a utmp group, adding libtool .la files to -dev packages, and
using logrotate instead of savelog. For details, read the [16]weekly
policy summary.
If you're using Debian Sparc, beware -- the glibc2.1 uploaded last
week is still not [17]completely there yet and tends to hose systems.
For now the brave are advised to run at least a 2.2.7 kernel before
upgrading to glibc2.1.1.
Unofficial packages of the latest version of KDE are now [18]available
for i386 and alpha. Ivan E. Moore has CVS access to the KDE source
code and will be making the KDE source be able to build .deb's out of
the box with no modifications. Of course, KDE remains out of Debian
due to the license issues.
New packages added to Debian this week include the following and 17
[19]more:
* [20]gnujsp: A free implementation of Sun's Java Server Pages
* [21]libxml-parser-perl:A Perl extension interface to James Clark's
XML parser
* [22]nvi-m17n: Multilingualized nvi ( [23]with Canna, and
[24]common files)
* [25]openldap-gateways: OpenLDAP Gateways
* [26]systune: Kernel tuning through the /proc filesystem
Server news:
* The long-awaited new non-US master server, pandora.debian.org, is
[27]up and running and non-us.debian.org will soon point to it in
the DNS. The new machine will end the problems we've been having
with non-us for a long time. Perhaps the most important change is
that non-us is now split into main, contrib, and non-free just
like the rest of Debian. All developers have accounts on the new
machine. Any uploads made to non-us in the past month need to be
redone.
* Ben Collins and Ward Deng have [28]set up a sparc build daemon on
xia01, which started work this week.
Thanks to Randolph Chung and Christian Meder for [29]contributing.
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[31]Back issues of this newsletter are available.
Debian Weekly News is edited by [32]Joey Hess.
This newsletter is also available in the following languages:
[33]Swedish
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8. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#1
9. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#2
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00256.html
11. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#3
12. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#7
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9905/msg00010.html
14. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-announce-99/msg00022.html
15. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#4
16. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9905/msg00004.html
17. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#5
18. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/mail#6
19. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/gnujsp.html
21. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libxml-parser-perl.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/editors/nvi-m17n.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/editors/nvi-m17n-canna.html
24. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/editors/nvi-m17n-common.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/openldap-gateways.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/systune.html
27. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9905/msg00011.html
28. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-9905/msg00056.html
29. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
31. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
32. mailto:joeyh@debian.org
33. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/19/index.sv.html
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