Debian Weekly News - November 17th, 1999
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Debian Weekly News - November 17th, 1999
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
Wichert Akkerman [8]posted the Debian Machine Usage Policy, a
comprehensive description of what is and is not acceptable use of
Debian project machines by developers. It was greeted with mixed
feelings; some people feel this is an [9]unnecessary document, and
expect people to just do the right thing. Others think the project has
gotten too big to not have a usage policy of this sort in place, and
point out that it has in fact been [10]violated in the past.
Another bugsquash party will be held this weekend. [11]Participate on
Saturday and help us "splatter bug juice all over the dist!"
Three security fixes were released this week: A new version of BIND
has been [12]released that fixes a remote root exploit. The security
fixes were also [13]backported to stable. Also, a [14]new version of
proftpd for stable has been released, fixing a number of security
holes. And finally, a fix for a nfs-server buffer overflow has been
[15]released for stable.
Vincent Renardias has made [16]available a Y2K update for Slink, with
fixes for every known Y2K problem in Slink except a small Y2K problem
in nethack (which still has no known fix).
Corel Linux has been released. A few developers have looked at it and
given some initial opinions which range from "the feeling I get is not
of a new operating system, but of a stripped-down Debian with KDE, and
some more flashy graphics" to "it will make a great desktop to keep
users happy and debian under the bonet to keep us admins happy". The
important point is that is is a Debian system with [17]few modified
packages, and apt-get and dpkg continue to work.
A new "science" section has been added to the ftp site alongside the
existing sections like mail and games. Anyone who maintains packages
that belong in the new section should [18]contact James Troup.
The Bug Tracking System has [19]passed the 50,000 bug mark. A bit more
than 8 thousand of those bugs remain open, so Debian has fixed over 41
thousand bugs. Good work, everyone.
Some Debian merchandise is available at Copyleft. No shirts yet, but
they have nice [20]black and [21]white frisbees with the Debian logo
on them.
A [22]ton of new packages were added to Debian this week, with the new
larger archive maintainence team working hard to get new packages into
Debian in record time.
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References
8. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9911/msg00013.html
9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9911/msg00027.html
10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9911/msg00034.html
11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9911/msg00021.html
12. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-9911/msg02035.html
13. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#1
14. http://www.debian.org/security/1999/19991111a
15. http://www.debian.org/security/1999/19991111
16. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#2
17. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#3
18. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#4
19. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ix/summary.html
20. http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft/d001.pl
21. http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft/d002.pl
22. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs.html
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see shy jo
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