Debian Weekly News - August 10th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - August 10th, 1999
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Welcome to the 30th issue of Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the
Debian developer community.
The freeze date for Potato has been set: We will [8]freeze on November
first, so long as some items like boot floppies and release critical
bug fixes are well under way at that point.
Wichert Akkerman, the Debian Project Leader, [9]addressed the FHS
/usr/share/doc issue: "I request all developers to NOT move to the FHS
right now. The Technical Committe is working to resolve the issue, and
packages already using /usr/share/doc will likely just need to be
changed again when they reach a resolution.
A [10]rumor is circulating that Debian may have stopped accepting new
maintainers until after potato is released. There has been no official
response to this rumor yet.
Stephane Bortzmeyer has put together a [11]web page that is the
"unofficial list of unofficial sources" for Debian packages. It is a
list of apt archives outside Debian proper, and anyone can add their
archive to the list. This promises to make it much easier to find apt
information. Combined with the rumors of a closed new maintainer
process mentioned above, some people think this is the beginning of a
[12]slippery slope that leads to a Red hat style contrib. However,
[13]others point out that these apt repositores are nothing new, and
many are in fact maintained by developers.
A warning to people using fakeroot: The current fakeroot and tar in
unstable [14]do not get along. Packages built with them will have
files owned by the user who built the package, not by root.
Two security items this week: New versions of [15]isdnutils and the
[16]cfingerd package in stable have been released to fix various
security holes.
As usual, a summary of news from the Debian-JP project is
[17]available.
New packages added to Debian this week include the following 30 and an
astonishing [18]56 more:
* [19]dconfig: dconfig - The Debian config collection tool
* [20]dog: Enhanced replacement for cat
* [21]genius: Command-line and gnome calculator ([22]dev)
* [23]kernellab: Manage kernel configs for many machines easily
* [24]kforth: Small Forth Interpreter Written in C++
* [25]lam1: A free, fast MPI implementation for cluster and SMP
parallel processing ([26]dev and [27]runtime)
* [28]lib-gnu.getopt-java: GNU getopt - Java port
* [29]lib-gnu.regexp-java: Regular Expressions for Java
* [30]lib-rxtx-java: native interface to serial ports in Java
* [31]lib-sax-java: A Java API for SAX XML parsing
* [32]lib-xp-java: An XML Parser in Java
* [33]libfile-tail-perl: File::Tail perl module
* [34]libgcj0: Java runtime library for use with gcj ([35]dev)
* [36]librxp1: Shared library for XML parsing and validating
([37]dev)
* [38]libucdsnmp3.6: UCD SNMP ([39]dev)
* [40]muffin: A personal and extensible Web proxy
* [41]osh: Operator's Shell
* [42]penguineyes: xeyes lookalike ([43]gnome version
* [44]phplib: PHP library for easy writting web applications
* [45]poc: Objective-C compiler
* [46]powertweak: Tool to tune system for optimal performace
* [47]raidtools2: Utilities to support 'new-style' RAID disks
* [48]toshutils: Toshiba laptop utilities
* [49]whowatch: Real-time user logins monitoring tool.
Server news:
* Jason Gunthorpe [50]brought Faure, Kubrick and Albert back to life
after the previously reported disk failure. However, the contents
of the home directory for these systems has been lost.
This issue is a little short because of LinuxWorld Expo. Randolph
Chung will be guest editing next week. Pre-expo reports from the show
floor indicate an interesting development: Debian is not alone. Four
Debian hardware and software vendors are also exhibiting at the expo,
including Kachina Tech and Stormix. This in contrast to last year's
booth which was an island of Debian, awash in a sea of Red Hat.
Thanks to Christian Meder, Randolph Chung, and Katsura S . Yoshio for
[51]contributing.
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References
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9908/msg00007.html
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9908/msg00005.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00245.html
11. http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00298.html
13. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00300.html
14. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00148.html
15. http://www.debian.org/security/1999/19990807
16. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-changes-9908/msg00019.html
17. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/30/mail#1
18. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-19990809.html
19. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/dconfig.html
20. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/dog.html
21. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/math/genius.html
22. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/math/genius-dev.html
23. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/misc/kernellab.html
24. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/kforth.html
25. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/lam1.html
26. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/lam1-dev.html
27. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/lam1-runtime.html
28. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/lib-gnu.getopt-java.html
29. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/lib-gnu.regexp-java.html
30. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/contrib/libs/lib-rxtx-java.html
31. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/lib-sax-java.html
32. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/lib-xp-java.html
33. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libfile-tail-perl.html
34. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libgcj0.html
35. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libgcj0-dev.html
36. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/librxp1.html
37. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/librxp1-dev.html
38. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libucdsnmp3.6.html
39. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libucdsnmp3.6-dev.html
40. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/muffin.html
41. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/shells/osh.html
42. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/penguineyes.html
43. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/penguineyes-gnome.html
44. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/phplib.html
45. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/poc.html
46. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/powertweak.html
47. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/raidtools2.html
48. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/toshutils.html
49. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/whowatch.html
50. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00185.html
51. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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see shy jo
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