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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 Want to continue reading DWN? 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