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Welcome to this year's 21st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Julien Danjou [1]reported that he has successfully installed NetBSD 3 inside the new Xen 3 virtual machine monitor available in Debian unstable. Eric Dorland [2]explained the creation of library packages with debugging capabilities. 1. http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/2006/04/07/259-netbsd-3-in-xen 2. http://ze-dinosaur.livejournal.com/7036.html Graphical Debian Installer Images. Frans Pop [3]reported that the graphical [4]installer is part of the regular daily built [5]images for the i386 platform with AMD and PowerPC following soon. To use the new installer the boot argument "installgui" or "expertgui" has to be used. Frans Pop [6]explained that the graphical installer could be the default in the release after [7]etch. 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg00734.html 4. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI 5. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/05/msg00503.html 7. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ Sun Java distributed by Debian. Jeroen van Wolffelaar [8]announced the availability of Sun's [9]Java package in the non-free section of Debian after Sun has [10]reworked their license. Debian still remains committed to supporting free runtime and development environments for Java, such as [11]Kaffe and [12]GCJ. Red Hat, however, [13]complained that this is not free enough and that Sun should free their virtual machine (JVM) at least. 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00010.html 9. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/sun-java5-jre 10. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060516.4.xml 11. http://packages.debian.org/kaffe 12. http://packages.debian.org/gcj 13. http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/05/18/red_hat_sun_java_license/ DebConf6 successfully finished. The 6th [14]Debian Conference, which was held last week in Mexico, has ended. Many thanks go to the [15]sponsors and the organisation team, who made this great Debian event possible. A lot of photos can be found [16]here and in about four weeks a DVD with all talks will be available. 14. http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0514-debconf 15. http://debconf6.debconf.org/ 16. https://gallery.debconf.org/debconf6 Splitting Changelog Files. Nico Golde [17]wondered about the proper way to handle large and old debian changelog files when they are edited quite often and grew very large. The predominant [18]opinion is to keep the entire file as it contains information about why and when bugs have been fixed. Since it is compressed in the package, the space consumption is usually acceptable. 17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg01098.html 18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg01144.html Project Leader Report. Anthony Towns [19]encouraged everybody to think about ways the Debian project could help organisations that would like to be partners to cooperate better with Debian. He pondered about a social contract for partners and is seeking input. He also reported about the large number of sponsors for this year's Debian Conference and the participation in Google's [20]Summer of Code. 19. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00009.html 20. http://code.google.com/soc/ Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update your systems if you have any of these packages installed. * DSA 1058: [21]awstats -- Arbitrary command execution. * DSA 1059: [22]quagga -- Several vulnerabilities. * DSA 1060: [23]kernel-patch-vserver -- Privilege escalation. * DSA 1061: [24]popfile -- Denial of service. * DSA 1062: [25]kphone -- Information disclosure. * DSA 1063: [26]phpgroupware -- Execution of arbitrary web script code. * DSA 1064: [27]cscope -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1065: [28]hostapd -- Denial of service. * DSA 1066: [29]phpbb2 -- Execution of arbitrary web script code. * DSA 1067: [30]Linux 2.4.16 -- Several vulnerabilities. * DSA 1068: [31]fbi -- Denial of service. * DSA 1069: [32]Linux 2.4.18 -- Several vulnerabilities. * DSA 1070: [33]Linux 2.4.19 -- Several vulnerabilities. * DSA 1071: [34]MySQL 3.23 -- Several vulnerabilities. * DSA 1072: [35]nagios -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1073: [36]MySQL 4.1 -- Several vulnerabilities. 21. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1058 22. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1059 23. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1060 24. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1061 25. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1062 26. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1063 27. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1064 28. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1065 29. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1066 30. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 31. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1068 32. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 33. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 34. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1071 35. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1072 36. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1073 New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive [37]recently or contain important updates. 37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main * [38]anjuta-dev -- GNOME development IDE, for C/C++ - development files. * [39]boinc -- Core client for the BOINC distributed computing infrastructure. * [40]kdevelop -- IDE for Unix/X11 - development version. * [41]tasksel-data -- Official tasks used for installation on Debian systems. 38. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/anjuta-dev 39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/boinc-client 40. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kdevelop 41. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/tasksel-data Orphaned Packages. 6 packages were orphaned this week and require a new maintainer. This makes a total of 298 orphaned packages. Many thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free Software community. Please see the [42]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. 42. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ * [43]aqsis -- Suite of applications implementing the RenderMan Interface. ([44]Bug#368070) * [45]cyrus-sasl2 -- Authentication abstraction library. ([46]Bug#368370) * [47]libsdl-erlang -- Erlang bindings to the Simple Direct Media Library. ([48]Bug#368073) * [49]websieve -- Web based Cyrus IMAP user admin client. ([50]Bug#368099) * [51]wings3d -- Nendo-inspired 3D polygon mesh modeller. ([52]Bug#368072) * [53]yaws -- High performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang. ([54]Bug#368071) 43. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/aqsis 44. http://bugs.debian.org/368070 45. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/sasl2-bin 46. http://bugs.debian.org/368370 47. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libsdl-erlang 48. http://bugs.debian.org/368073 49. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/websieve 50. http://bugs.debian.org/368099 51. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/wings3d 52. http://bugs.debian.org/368072 53. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/yaws 54. http://bugs.debian.org/368071 Want to continue reading DWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers who watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the [55]contributing page to find out how to help. 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