Debian Weekly News - July 12th, 2005
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Debian Weekly News
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Debian Weekly News - July 12th, 2005
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Welcome to this year's 28th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Bill Allombert [1]called for arm porters to
support the [2]ARM port of Debian. As this year's [3]Debian
conference is taking place now, [4]Debian Planet carries a lot of
content from the attending developers.
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02112.html
2. http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
3. http://www.debian.org/events/2005/0710-debconf
4. http://planet.debian.org/
LSB Version to support? Andreas Barth [5]wondered which version of
the Linux Standard Base (LSB) standard the upcoming etch release
should support. Matt Taggart would like to [6]support LSB 3.0 which
requires a newer glibc and may also need some tweaks to X.Org, but
both are needed anyway. To get the work done, Dave Neil started a
[7]discussion on who is working on which part.
5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/06/msg00309.html
6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/06/msg00310.html
7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb/2005/06/msg00020.html
GCC 4.0 and C++ ABI Change. Matthias Klose [8]announced the start of
the GCC and C++ transition. GCC 4.0 is now the default compiler in
unstable, developers are required to upgrade their build environment
accordingly. Developers are advised not to upload any C++ code, that
build-depends on a library written in C++ which is not yet converted
to the new C++ ABI (Application binary interface).
8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00001.html
Debian Consultants List Update. Thomas Huriaux [9]pointed out that
several Debian [10]consultants have not yet answered a "ping" message
via mail, even though they are required to respond within four weeks
according to the new Debian consultants [11]policy. They will be
removed from the list if they don't answer.
9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/07/msg00038.html
10. http://www.debian.org/consultants/
11. http://www.debian.org/consultants/#policy
State of Ada in Debian. Ludovic Brenta [12]reported about his 18 month
of maintainership of many Ada and related packages in Debian and that
he's looking for a new sponsor. He has also written a draft [13]policy
for Ada packages which should ensure that all Ada packages use the
same ABI (binary interface), and work well together, especially
libraries.
12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg01586.html
13. http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html
Dummy Transition Packages and the Replaces Field. Margarita Manterola
[14]wondered what to do to avoid dummy packages. These help upgrading
packages to a different package. The [15]alternative means [16]using
Replaces and Conflicts settings. Simon Richter [17]explained how this
mechanism is supposed to work on a dist-upgrade.
14. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02045.html
15. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02052.html
16. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.5.2
17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02085.html
Circular Dependencies. Bill Allombert [18]wanted to remove circular
dependencies as they cause [19]problems during an upgrade. Robert
Lemmen created a [20]summary of current circular dependencies. Colin
Watson [21]added that [22]dpkg will break loops and that pre-depends
mitigate the problems.
18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02111.html
19. http://bugs.debian.org/310490
20. http://debian.semistable.com/debgraph.out
21. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00062.html
22. http://packages.debian.org/dpkg
Removing old orphaned Packages? Frank Lichtenheld [23]prepared a
[24]list of packages that have been orphaned more than one year ago
with nobody taking over maintainership. Many of these packages aren't
used at all. Martin Michlmayr [25]added more orphaned packages to the
list. They are all planned to be [26]removed from the distribution
soon.
23. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/06/msg00040.html
24. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/06/msg00041.html
25. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/06/msg00052.html
26. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/06/msg00042.html
Removing non-free Documentation. Frank Lichtenheld [27]planned to
organise the removal of [28]non-free documentation from Debian. There
is not yet a timeline for when he will file bug reports, though. He
also proposed to use a special subject line in which the used license
is decoded for easier recognition of such bugs.
27. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02150.html
28. http://packages.debian.net/non-free-docs.html
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* DSA 737: [29]clamav -- Remote denial of service.
* DSA 738: [30]razor -- Remote denial of service.
* DSA 739: [31]trac -- Upload/download vulnerability.
* DSA 740: [32]zlib -- Denial of service.
* DSA 741: [33]bzip2 -- Decompression bomb.
* DSA 742: [34]cvs -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 743: [35]ht -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 744: [36]fuse -- Information disclosure.
* DSA 745: [37]drupal -- Multiple vulnerabilities.
* DSA 747: [38]egroupware -- Remote command execution.
* DSA 748: [39]ruby1.8 -- Arbitrary command execution.
* DSA 749: [40]ettercap -- Arbitrary command execution.
* DSA 750: [41]dhcpcd -- Denial of service.
* DSA 751: [42]squid -- IP spoofing vulnerability.
* DSA 752: [43]gzip -- Several vulnerabilities.
* DSA 753: [44]gedit -- Denial of service.
29. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-737
30. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-738
31. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-739
32. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-740
33. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-741
34. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-742
35. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-743
36. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-744
37. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-745
38. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-747
39. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-748
40. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-749
41. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-750
42. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-751
43. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-752
44. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-753
New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [45]recently or contain important updates.
45. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main
* [46]gfortran -- GNU Fortran 95 compiler.
* [47]imapcopy -- IMAP backup, copy and migration tool.
* [48]jackbeat -- Drum-machine-like audio sequencer with JACK
support.
* [49]mksh -- Enhanced version of the Korn shell.
* [50]scheme48 -- Simple, modular, and lightweight Scheme
implementation.
* [51]sgt-puzzles -- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection -
1-player puzzle games.
* [52]tdsodbc -- ODBC driver for connecting to MS SQL and Sybase SQL
servers.
* [53]tthsum -- Generates or checks TTH message digests.
* [54]yaird -- Yet Another mkInitRD.
* [55]ysm -- Powerful ICQ console client.
46. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/gfortran
47. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/imapcopy
48. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/jackbeat
49. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/shells/mksh
50. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/scheme48
51. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/sgt-puzzles
52. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/tdsodbc
53. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/tthsum
54. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/yaird
55. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ysm
Orphaned Packages. 7 packages were orphaned this week and require a
new maintainer. This makes a total of 222 orphaned packages. Many
thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free
Software community. Please see the [56]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.
56. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
* [57]libapache-template-perl -- Apache/mod_perl interface to the
Template Toolkit. ([58]Bug#317274)
* [59]libclass-prototyped-perl -- Fast prototype-based OO
programming in Perl. ([60]Bug#317272)
* [61]libcrypt-unixcrypt-perl -- Perl-only implementation of the
crypt(3) function. ([62]Bug#316936)
* [63]libio-stty-perl -- Interface to secure pseudo ttys.
([64]Bug#317273)
* [65]mysql-navigator -- GUI client program for MySQL database
server. ([66]Bug#316938)
* [67]pornview -- Image and movie viewer/manager. ([68]Bug#316934)
* [69]secpanel -- Graphical user interface for SSH and SCP.
([70]Bug#317063)
57. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libapache-template-perl
58. http://bugs.debian.org/317274
59. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libclass-prototyped-perl
60. http://bugs.debian.org/317272
61. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libcrypt-unixcrypt-perl
62. http://bugs.debian.org/316936
63. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libio-stty-perl
64. http://bugs.debian.org/317273
65. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/mysql-navigator
66. http://bugs.debian.org/316938
67. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pornview
68. http://bugs.debian.org/316934
69. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/secpanel
70. http://bugs.debian.org/317063
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