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Welcome to this year's 42nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Flavio Villanustre [1]reviewed Elive 0.3, a live CD based on Debian and Morphix that features Enlightenment 0.17. Steve Langasek [2]announced that the [3]m68k port is being ignored for the propagation of packages from unstable into testing. 1. http://flaviostechnotalk.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/09/04/elive-03-review/ 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/10/msg00079.html 3. http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/ Debian Installer Beta Preparation. Joey Hess [4]reported about his trial building the [5]debian-installer with the build daemon network. A few of the [6]issues [7]include building on HPPA, reducing the size of boot images on sparc and mipsel, and creating CD image builds. 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/10/msg00227.html 5. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 6. http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianInstallerToday 7. http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianInstallerEtchBeta1Prep GNOME 1 Transition. Thomas Bushnell [8]reported on the state of GNOME 1 since libpng10 has been removed and thus a number of GNOME packages don't build anymore. New core libraries that depend on a newer library have been uploaded already. Packages that link against those core libraries need to be rebuilt as well. He asked maintainers of related packages to upload new versions that will be linked against the newer libraries. 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/10/msg00279.html Installing Debian Sarge. Edd Dumbill wrote an [9]introduction for the new Debian installer and walks through the Debian installation [10]process. Partitioning the hard disk is described in detail and some selectable targets are shown. In case of hardware problems Ed proposes to use [11]Knoppix for hardware detection. 9. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/09/29/installing_debian.html 10. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/installmanual 11. http://www.knoppix.org/ Message ID Lookup. Andrew Suffield [12]announced a web page that provides a special search feature over the Debian [13]lists archive. Using a specially composed URL it is now possible to search the lists archives for a particular message ID. The index is updated roughly every five minutes and covers the entire public archive. 12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/10/msg00043.html 13. http://lists.debian.org/ Debian OpenSolaris. Alex Ross [14]announced that he has compiled large chunks of Debian packages for a system based on the open Solaris kernel from [15]Sun Microsystems. These packages already run on the [16]GNU/Solaris server that will provide ISO images and packages for download soon. 14. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/click.jspa?searchID=5860&messageID=11119 15. http://www.sun.com/ 16. http://www.gnusolaris.org/ Debian Security Update. Branden Robinson [17]reported about the modified security [18]infrastructure that was implemented faster than anticipated after discussions at the Oldenburg developers [19]meeting and now consists of three public machines combined in a DNS rotation. He also mentioned the ongoing process of updating the kernel in the Debian's releases that will probably lead to new packages soon. 17. http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/~branden/blog/exuberance/Debian/dpl_security_snapshot_2005.10.12.html 18. http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20051004 19. http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2005/ Licensing Pictures inside of Applications. Christian Jodar [20]wondered if it is possible to distribute a package that contains software released under the [21]GNU GPL and pictures or movies released under the [22]Creative Commons BY-SA license. MJ Ray [23]asserted that the result cannot be distributed under the GPL alone and proposed to use the [24]MIT/X11 license instead. 20. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/msg00558.html 21. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 22. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ 23. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/msg00559.html 24. http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html Dependency on GNU Binary Utilities. Camm Maguire [25]wondered if there will be a stable binary interface to the GNU binary utilities that can be used by other packages. Daniel Jacobowitz [26]asserted that the included libraries are subject to change and that other packages would have to link to them statically instead. 25. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00928.html 26. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00927.html License for Debian Wiki Content. John Dowland [27]requested a clear [28]license statement to be added to the new [29]Debian Wiki. Francesco Poli [30]proposed to use the [31]Expat, [32]MIT/X11, [33]BSD license or the [34]GNU GPL for the Wiki content. 27. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/msg00565.html 28. http://wiki.debian.org/WikiLicencingTerms 29. http://wiki.debian.org/ 30. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00001.html 31. http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt 32. http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html 33. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_2Clause.html 34. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt Firewall Support at Startup. Samuel Jean [35]wrote a script to load and activate firewall rules during the system boot process. Matthew Palmer [36]suggested looking at the existing [37]shorewall package instead. Steve Langasek [38]pointed out the current [39]proposal. Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [40]added a note about the [41]Adding firewall capabilities section of the Securing Debian Manual. 35. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00952.html 36. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00959.html 37. http://packages.debian.org/shorewall 38. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00970.html 39. http://wiki.debian.org/FirewallByDefault 40. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg00999.html 41. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services#s-firewall-setup Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update your systems if you have any of these packages installed. * DSA 863: [42]xine-lib -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 864: [43]ruby1.8 -- Safety bypass. * DSA 865: [44]hylafax -- Insecure temporary files. 42. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-863 43. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-864 44. http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-865 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]acidbase -- Basic Analysis and Security Engine. * [47]aldo -- Portable Morse code trainer. * [48]amule-daemon -- aMule daemon. * [49]aptsh -- APT interactive shell. * [50]asymptote -- Script-based vector graphics language inspired by MetaPost. * [51]aylet -- Ncurses-based player for Spectrum '.ay' music files. * [52]bsdtar -- tar(1) from FreeBSD, using libarchive. * [53]gcolor2 -- GTK2 colour selector and picker. * [54]gspot -- GNOME applet to query the network. * [55]krita -- Pixel-based image manipulation program for the KDE Office Suite. * [56]orpheus -- Light-weight text mode menu- and window-driven audio player. * [57]peercast -- P2P audio and video streaming server metapackage. * [58]shanty -- Creates Postscript file from an image and some text. 46. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/acidbase 47. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/aldo 48. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/amule-daemon 49. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aptsh 50. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/asymptote 51. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/aylet 52. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/bsdtar 53. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gcolor2 54. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gspot 55. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/krita 56. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/orpheus 57. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/peercast 58. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/shanty Orphaned Packages. 5 packages were orphaned this week and require a new maintainer. This makes a total of 205 orphaned packages. Many thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free Software community. Please see the [59]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. 59. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ * [60]bibcursed -- Interactive program to edit BibTeX bibliographies. ([61]Bug#334244) * [62]juke -- Curses-based jukebox program. ([63]Bug#334375) * [64]okle -- DVD player for KDE. ([65]Bug#333816) * [66]r-cran-xml -- XML package for the R language. ([67]Bug#334323) * [68]statdataml -- XML-based data exchange format StatDataML. ([69]Bug#333683) 60. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/bibcursed 61. http://bugs.debian.org/334244 62. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/juke 63. http://bugs.debian.org/334375 64. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/okle 65. http://bugs.debian.org/333816 66. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/r-cran-xml 67. http://bugs.debian.org/334323 68. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/octave-statdataml 69. http://bugs.debian.org/333683 Removed Packages. 37 packages have been [70]removed from the Debian archive during the past week: 70. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt * libapache-mod-witch -- Apache module to log the access_log via syslog [71]Bug#328537: Request of QA, old, RC buggy * elastic -- High-level object-oriented interpreted language [72]Bug#328540: Request of QA, old, RC buggy * gman -- Small man(1) front-end for X [73]Bug#328541: Request of QA, old, RC buggy * brahms -- Graphical music editor and MIDI sequencer [74]Bug#328543: Request of QA, old, RC buggy * spip-eva -- User Friendly but powerful Content Management System build in PHP [75]Bug#328544: Request of maintainer, old, RC buggy * glimmer -- Programmer's editor with multiple windows and syntax highlighting [76]Bug#328546: Request of QA, old, RC buggy * libopengl-dylan -- Support for OpenGL in Gwydion Dylan [77]Bug#328547: Request of QA, old, RC buggy * xa+cv -- XCIN Anywhere +CV wrapper for Chinese input in X applications [78]Bug#328583: Request of QA, rc-buggy, unused, very old * gfont -- Create GIF image rendered with TeX-available Font [79]Bug#328594: Request of QA, unused, non-free * perl2html -- Highlight perl sources for WWW presentation [80]Bug#328600: Request of QA, unused, old, alternatives available * libsoap-perl -- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation in Perl [81]Bug#328592: Request of QA, unused, out of date * tkirc -- Tcl/Tk based client to the Internet Relay Chat [82]Bug#328601: Request of QA, unused, out of date, alternatives available * libdebconf-ruby -- Uses debconf from Ruby [83]Bug#328662: Request of QA, unused, out of date, useless * ctklight -- Light compiler toolkit in Haskell [84]Bug#328663: Request of maintainer, old, out of date, unused * bnlib -- Multiple precision mathematics library. [85]Bug#328669: Request of QA, unused, upstream dead, old * lexmark7000linux -- Printer driver for Lexmark 7000 "GDI" printers [86]Bug#328792: Request of QA, unused, useless, old * lxtools -- Allows file management on HP100/200LX palmtops [87]Bug#328800: Request of QA, unused, upstream dead, old * scandetd -- Portscan detector for Linux [88]Bug#328803: Request of QA, unused, rc-buggy, old, upstream dead * nonlock -- Thai (and other) Keyboard switcher using XKB [89]Bug#328796: Request of QA, unused, old, upstream dead, alternatives available * userlink -- BSD IP Tunnelling Driver for Linux [90]Bug#328804: Request of QA, unused, deprecated * ayuda -- Help for Spanish speakers [91]Bug#328805: Request of QA, unused, buggy, old * acidwarp -- Linux port of the popular DOS program Acidwarp [92]Bug#328807: Request of QA, unused, buggy, old * zone-file-check -- Syntax-checker for BIND zone files [93]Bug#328808: Request of QA, unused, old, alternatives available * escm -- Embedded Scheme Processor [94]Bug#328809: Request of QA, unused, buggy, old, upstream dead * xodo -- Odometer tracking the distance travelled by your mouse [95]Bug#328810: Request of QA, unused, old, upstream dead * doc-linux-ko -- Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in Korean [96]Bug#328812: Request of QA, unused, old, deprecated * gmgaclock -- Matrox G400 graphics card overclocking tool [97]Bug#328815: Request of QA, unused, buggy, old * tik -- Tcl/Tk client for the AOL Instant Messenger service [98]Bug#328820: Request of QA, unused, buggy, old, alternatives available * emwin -- Weather Data processing [99]Bug#328821: Request of QA, unused, old * camlp4-doc -- Documentation for camlp4 in ps and html format [100]Bug#328838: Request of QA, unused, old * pc532down -- Downloader for pc532 monitor ROM. [101]Bug#328840: Request of maintainer, old, few users * tag-types -- Utilities for handling 'tagged' files [102]Bug#328853: Request of QA, unused, old, upstream dead * nwutil -- Netwinder hardware utilities [103]Bug#328854: Request of QA, unused, old, buggy * samba-doc-ja -- Japanised Samba documentation. [104]Bug#328856: Request of QA, unused, old * libfloat -- Soft floating point library [105]Bug#328857: Request of QA, unused, old * opennap -- Open Source Napster server. [106]Bug#328866: Request of maintainer, unused, old * qssl -- QSSL development files [107]Bug#333527: Request of maintainer, not used; no upload in ~2 years 71. http://bugs.debian.org/328537 72. http://bugs.debian.org/328540 73. http://bugs.debian.org/328541 74. http://bugs.debian.org/328543 75. http://bugs.debian.org/328544 76. http://bugs.debian.org/328546 77. http://bugs.debian.org/328547 78. http://bugs.debian.org/328583 79. http://bugs.debian.org/328594 80. http://bugs.debian.org/328600 81. http://bugs.debian.org/328592 82. http://bugs.debian.org/328601 83. http://bugs.debian.org/328662 84. http://bugs.debian.org/328663 85. http://bugs.debian.org/328669 86. http://bugs.debian.org/328792 87. http://bugs.debian.org/328800 88. http://bugs.debian.org/328803 89. http://bugs.debian.org/328796 90. http://bugs.debian.org/328804 91. http://bugs.debian.org/328805 92. http://bugs.debian.org/328807 93. http://bugs.debian.org/328808 94. http://bugs.debian.org/328809 95. http://bugs.debian.org/328810 96. http://bugs.debian.org/328812 97. http://bugs.debian.org/328815 98. http://bugs.debian.org/328820 99. http://bugs.debian.org/328821 100. http://bugs.debian.org/328838 101. http://bugs.debian.org/328840 102. http://bugs.debian.org/328853 103. http://bugs.debian.org/328854 104. http://bugs.debian.org/328856 105. http://bugs.debian.org/328857 106. http://bugs.debian.org/328866 107. http://bugs.debian.org/333527 Want to continue reading DWN? 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