Debian Weekly News - December 6th, 2005
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Debian Weekly News
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Debian Weekly News - December 6th, 2005
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Welcome to this year's 49th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Roland Stigge [1]planned to file bugs against
packages that provide no pristine source package, but are not native
Debian packages either. Andreas Barth [2]announced that the LDAP
gateway to the [3]bug tracking system has been moved to a new host
with a configurable address.
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00364.html
2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00604.html
3. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
General Resolution: Opening the Archive. Manoj Srivastava
[4]announced the discussion period for the general resolution about
the [5]Declassification of debian-private list archives. Anthony
Towns has proposed this resolution in accordance with principles of
openness and transparency to declassify and publish posts of
historical or ongoing significance made to the private mailing list.
4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/11/msg00070.html
5. http://www.debian.org/vote/2005/vote_002
Final Debian Conference 5 Report. Fabian Fagerholm [6]announced the
final [7]report about this year's [8]Debian Conference in Helsinki.
The document is intended for those who attended the conference and the
general public. It includes impressions and facts from the conference.
A more detailed financial report will be available later.
6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/12/msg00001.html
7. http://media.debconf.org/dc5/FinalReport.pdf
8. http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0710-debconf
Temporary Directories per User? Noah Meyerhans [9]reported about a
discussion within the security team to push the use of per-user
temporary directories as default. With proper code this is only a
question of an adjusted PAM configuration. However, some programs
hardcode the /tmp directory.
9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00297.html
C++ Transition Status Update. Nathanael Nerode [10]reported about the
transition of C++ libraries due to the [11]use of a different memory
allocator in the standard C++ library. Two libraries are still linked
to an older library version and can be [12]ignored, five packages
still need to be [13]transitioned regularly, five other packages
haven't been built on all architectures yet and a large number of
libraries still need to be transitioned.
10. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/12/msg00000.html
11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00010.html
12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/12/msg00003.html
13. http://people.debian.org/~djpig/gcc-transition/
Device Nodes with udev. Miles Bader [14]noticed that several old-style
device nodes were created after booting a Debian kernel with [15]udev
also installed. Marco d'Itri [16]explained that they result from the
kernel configuration. However their creation can easily be prevented
with a proper configuration file for udev.
14. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00507.html
15. http://packages.debian.org/udev
16. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00511.html
New Kernel Package. Manoj Srivastava [17]announced new features in the
new [18]kernel-package package which has undergone a major
restructuring. Ramdisk generation has been improved and can now be
controlled via a configuration variable. The kernel image maintainer
scripts now use [19]debconf and the post-installation script has
become less verbose by that.
17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00590.html
18. http://packages.debian.org/kernel-package
19. http://packages.debian.org/debconf
Determining the intended Debian Version. Christopher Crammond
[20]wondered if there is a way to determine which version of Debian a
given package belongs to. Marc Brockschmidt [21]explained that almost
all packages in stable have been uploaded to unstable before, were
migrated to testing and then were released as stable.
20. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00684.html
21. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00693.html
Dropping Kerberos 4 Packages? Andreas Barth [22]noticed that the
[23]krb4 packages accumulate several release-critical bugs that are
difficult to fix and that their [24]upstream doesn't seem to be active
anymore. Russ Allbery [25]added that MIT Kerberos is also going to
drop Kerberos v4 support as of May of 2006.
22. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00803.html
23. http://packages.debian.org/src:krb4
24. http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/
25. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00808.html
Dropping Support for GCC 2.95? Thiemo Seufer [26]wondered how many
users GCC 2.95 still has. Since only 9 packages declare build
dependencies on it, he proposed to remove this compiler version from
etch before its release.
26. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00999.html
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* DSA 912: [27]centericq -- Denial of service.
* DSA 913: [28]gdk-pixbuf -- Several vulnerabilities.
* DSA 914: [29]horde2 -- Cross-site scripting.
* DSA 915: [30]helix-player -- Arbitrary code execution.
27. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-912
28. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-913
29. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-914
30. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-915
New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [31]recently or contain important updates.
31. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main
* [32]culmus-fancy -- Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11.
* [33]eclipse -- Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE.
* [34]gdhcpd -- GTK+ configuration tool for dhcpd3-server.
* [35]gproftpd -- GTK+ configuration tool for proftpd.
* [36]irmp3 -- Multimedia Audio Jukebox application.
* [37]kalgebra -- Calculator based on the MathML language.
* [38]linuxdcpp -- Linux port of the famous dc++ client.
* [39]mazeofgalious -- Maze of Galious.
* [40]remctl-client -- Client for Kerberos-authenticated command
execution.
* [41]remctl-server -- Server for Kerberos-authenticated command
execution.
* [42]uim-qt -- Qt 4.x immodule for uim.
32. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/culmus-fancy
33. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/eclipse
34. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/gdhcpd
35. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/gproftpd
36. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/irmp3
37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kalgebra
38. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/linuxdcpp
39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/mazeofgalious
40. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/remctl-client
41. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/remctl-server
42. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/uim-qt
Orphaned Packages. 4 packages were orphaned this week and require a
new maintainer. This makes a total of 192 orphaned packages. Many
thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free
Software community. Please see the [43]WNPP pages for the full list,
and please add a note to the bug report and retitle it to ITA: if you
plan to take over a package.
43. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
* [44]cpbk -- Mirroring utility for backing up your files.
([45]Bug#341724)
* [46]elvis -- Powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor.
([47]Bug#341821)
* [48]procmeter -- X based system status monitor, older version.
([49]Bug#341505)
* [50]qps -- Qt based process status. ([51]Bug#341907)
44. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/cpbk
45. http://bugs.debian.org/341724
46. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/elvis
47. http://bugs.debian.org/341821
48. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/procmeter
49. http://bugs.debian.org/341505
50. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/qps
51. http://bugs.debian.org/341907
Removed Packages. 24 packages have been [52]removed from the Debian
archive during the past week:
52. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt
* macrosystem -- Text file template system for C++
[53]Bug#263871: Request of QA, orphaned, RC bug, no upstream
* regexx -- C++ wrapper to the GNU regex functions
[54]Bug#263873: Request of QA, orphaned, RC bug, no upstream
* zope-callprofiler -- Profile your Zope website
[55]Bug#310675: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-cmfpgforum -- CMFpgForum is a CMF forum that uses a
PostgreSQL database
[56]Bug#310676: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-dtmlcalendar -- Calendar DTML Tag - Zope
[57]Bug#310677: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-kinterbasdbda -- Zope Database Adapter for Interbase/Firebird
[58]Bug#310680: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-lockablefolder -- Variant of the standard Folder that can
restrict access to its contents
[59]Bug#310681: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-cmfldap -- Zope CMF LDAP membership management tools
[60]Bug#312854: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-ldapuserfolder -- Zope LDAP user folder
[61]Bug#312855: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-cmfworkflow -- Zope CMF workflow module
[62]Bug#312856: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-parsedxml -- ParsedXML Zope Product
[63]Bug#312857: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-emarket -- Simple e-commerce system for Zope
[64]Bug#312858: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-ldap -- Driver for connecting Zope with LDAP system
[65]Bug#312860: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-cmf -- Zope Content Management Framework (CMF)
[66]Bug#312861: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-znavigator -- Zope product for creating navigation bars
[67]Bug#312862: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-xmlmethods -- XMLMethods Zope Product
[68]Bug#312863: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zopectl -- Zope instances controlling utility
[69]Bug#312865: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* zope-mysqlda -- Zope Database Adapter for MySQL
[70]Bug#312877: Request of maintainer, outdated, not many users
* xlander -- Lunar landing simulation for X
[71]Bug#327672: Request of QA, orphaned, unplayable
* kernel-patch-2.4.19-arm -- Diffs to the Linux kernel source 2.4.19
for ARM
[72]Bug#340281: Request of maintainer, obsolete
* zodb3.4 -- set of tools for using the Zope Object Database (ZODB)
[73]Bug#340617: Request of maintainer, superseded by zodb
* zope2.7-archetypes -- framework for developing and deploying new
content types
[74]Bug#340618: Request of maintainer, superseded by
zope-archetypes
* automake1.6 -- Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant
Makefiles.
[75]Bug#340921: Request of maintainer, superseded by
automake1.{7,8,9}
* hitop -- High-level website description language
[76]Bug#340700: Request of maintainer, old, unmaintained upstream
53. http://bugs.debian.org/263871
54. http://bugs.debian.org/263873
55. http://bugs.debian.org/310675
56. http://bugs.debian.org/310676
57. http://bugs.debian.org/310677
58. http://bugs.debian.org/310680
59. http://bugs.debian.org/310681
60. http://bugs.debian.org/312854
61. http://bugs.debian.org/312855
62. http://bugs.debian.org/312856
63. http://bugs.debian.org/312857
64. http://bugs.debian.org/312858
65. http://bugs.debian.org/312860
66. http://bugs.debian.org/312861
67. http://bugs.debian.org/312862
68. http://bugs.debian.org/312863
69. http://bugs.debian.org/312865
70. http://bugs.debian.org/312877
71. http://bugs.debian.org/327672
72. http://bugs.debian.org/340281
73. http://bugs.debian.org/340617
74. http://bugs.debian.org/340618
75. http://bugs.debian.org/340921
76. http://bugs.debian.org/340700
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