Debian Weekly News - August 10th, 2004
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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/31/
Debian Weekly News - August 10th, 2004
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Welcome to this year's 31st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Erinn Clark [1]reported that a bit of content is
on the [2]Debian Women website now. Steve Langasek [3]reminded
maintainers to rebuild their package if it depends on libtiff since
the new version has hit unstable already.
1. http://cytosine.org/~helix/lemonade/blog/dw_1.html
2. http://women.alioth.debian.org/
3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00000.html
Sarge Release Update. Colin Watson [4]reported that no base and
standard packages will be able to enter sarge via unstable. He said
that we need to be fixing release critical bugs as quickly as possible
from now on, and that these bugs should not be staying open for longer
than a week. Business card and network installation CD images of the
installer have been built, and full CD sets are building. The
installation manual is also refined and prepared for release.
4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/08/msg00003.html
Debian-Installer Retrospective. Joey Hess [5]summarised the events
that led to the current [6]debian-installer. The saga begun in 2000
in a club in New York city where he met Adam Di Carlo. He said that,
luckily, this project was never about coming in on time and under
budget, but about doing something "right". According to [7]sloccount
the installer contains about 51 thousand lines of code, or 12 person
years, which is quite amazing.
5. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_retrospective-2004-08-07-19-46.html
6. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
7. http://packages.debian.org/sloccount
Compatibility Problem with Bash 3.0. Blars Blarson [8]noticed that
bash 3.0, which was [9]supposed to go into sarge has a stronger
(POSIX compliant) syntax for the trap built-in command and [10]breaks
compatibility with other Bourne-compatible shells. At least [11]cnews
and [12]sendmail are affected by this. Steve Langasek [13]asserted
that the upload is too late for sarge anyway, so the problem only
needs to be fixed in unstable.
8. http://bugs.debian.org/261948
9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/07/msg00113.html
10. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/07/msg02126.html
11. http://packages.debian.org/cnews
12. http://packages.debian.org/sendmail
13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/07/msg02131.html
Debian-Installer Release Candidate 1. The Debian-Installer team
[14]announced the first release candidate of the Debian sarge
installer. Significant improvements in this release of the installer
include: support for all 11 architectures, support for installing with
the 2.6 kernel, support for firewire CD drives and firewire Ethernet,
translated into 40 languages, numerous bug fixes and improvements and
a lot more.
14. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/08/msg00004.html
Sarge Release Problems. Adrian Bunk [15]spotted a problem in the
libtiff transition for sarge. Unfortunately, a new version of
[16]libgpg-error0 was uploaded to unstable with a new shlibs file a
couple of days after the version in sarge was frozen as part of the
base freeze. Hence, packages not yet frozen that build against the new
version won't be able to enter sarge at all. This [17]affects GNOME,
Evolution at least.
15. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00507.html
16. http://packages.debian.org/libgpg-error0
17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00530.html
Call for Participation: Popularity Contest. Petter Reinholdtsen
[18]called for participation in the Debian [19]popularity contest. The
collected information is used as a measure to calculate the order of
packages for the official Debian CDs. To make sure this order reflects
our user base, it is important that as many as possible install and
participate in [20]popularity-contest.
18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00509.html
19. http://popcon.debian.org/
20. http://packages.debian.org/popularity-contest
Distributing Binary Blobs without building. Shaun Jackman [21]wondered
if it was ok to distribute a binary file as provided by upstream
instead of compiling it from the accompanied source. Roland Stigge
[22]mentioned the problems we run into if we need to patch the library
(e.g. for security updates).
21. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00593.html
22. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00634.html
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* [23]libpng -- Multiple vulnerabilities.
23. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-536
New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [24]recently or contain important updates.
24. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main
* [25]automake1.9 -- Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant
Makefiles.
* [26]cgiirc -- Web based IRC client.
* [27]cimg-dev -- Powerful image processing library.
* [28]flyspray -- Lightweight Bug Tracking System (BTS) in PHP.
* [29]gnubik -- 3D Rubik's cube game.
* [30]grub2 -- Next generation of GNU GRUB [EXPERIMENTAL].
* [31]kipina -- Training program to log physical activities of
athletes.
* [32]konserve -- KDE kicker applet that performs periodic backups.
* [33]qgo -- Go client and full featured SGF editor.
* [34]sibyl -- Boot loader for Broadcom SiByte MIPS boards.
* [35]sysfence -- System resources guard.
* [36]teapop-ldap -- Powerful and flexible RFC-compliant POP3
server.
* [37]traffic-vis -- Sniffer that can display reports in HTML,
Postscript and other formats.
* [38]utf8script -- Binfmt_misc plugin for UTF-8 scripts.
* [39]vserver-debiantools -- Tools to manage Debian virtual servers.
25. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/automake1.9
26. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/cgiirc
27. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/cimg-dev
28. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/flyspray
29. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/gnubik
30. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/grub2
31. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/kipina
32. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/konserve
33. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/qgo
34. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/sibyl
35. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/sysfence
36. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/teapop-ldap
37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/traffic-vis
38. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/utf8script
39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/vserver-debiantools
Debian Packages introduced last Week. Every day, a different Debian
package is [40]featured from the testing distribution. If you know
about an obscure package you think others should also know about, send
it to [41]Andrew Sweger. Debian package a day introduced the following
packages last week.
40. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/
41. http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=debaday
* [42]woody -- Hierarchic text editor.
* [43]ncftp -- User-friendly and well-featured FTP client.
* [44]tzwatch -- Displays time and date in specified time zones on
console.
* [45]hping2 -- Active Network Smashing Tool.
* [46]lftp -- Sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs.
* [47]console-tools -- Linux console and font utilities.
42. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/27410.html
43. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/27651.html
44. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/28144.html
45. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/28281.html
46. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/28656.html
47. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/28774.html
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48. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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