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Debian Weekly News
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Debian Weekly News - September 5th, 2006
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Welcome to this year's 36th issue of DWN, the weekly
newsletter for
the Debian community. Alexander Sack [1]called for people to
test
upcoming security updates to the Mozilla packages for sarge.
Ben
Hutchings has managed to [2]upload the final files for
DebConf
session videos. Three documentary videos filmed by Biella
Coleman fill
follow later.
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00286.
html
2. http://womb
le2.livejournal.com/57100.html
Etch Release Advertisement. Gustavo Franco [3]suggested to
ask for
donations specific for a release advertisement. Joey Schulze
[4]raised some questions to find get a clearer picture. The
goal is
to publish advertisements in large newspapers and magazines
to get a
press coverage like the past Firefox [5]campaign.
3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2006/07/m
sg00049.html
4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2006/08/m
sg00092.html
5. http://www.spr
eadfirefox.com/node/4611
New Tcl/Tk Team. Chris Waters [6]announced the foundation of
the
Tcl/Tk team to co-maintain Tcl/Tk and some of it's add-ons.
To
accomplish this he has created a [7]project on [8]Alioth and
set up
a [9]mailing list for discussing Debian's Tcl/Tk
infrastructure and
policy.
6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce
/2006/08/msg00016.html
7. http://a
lioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-tcltk/
8. http://alioth.debian.org/
9. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/p
kg-tcltk-devel
Automatic Building of Packages. Matej Cepl [10]suggested to
delete all
developer-supplied binary packages and recompile the source
packages
by a [11]build daemon so that potentially build errors
caused by a
broken environment are avoided. Sven Luther [12]explained
that this
feature has been disabled because packages had been uploaded
that
hadn't even been compiled on the developer's machine.
10. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/08/msg00
301.html
11. http://www.debian
.org/devel/buildd/
12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/08/msg00
305.html
Swiss Bug Squashing Party. Martin Krafft [13]announced a
one-day bug
squashing [14]party in Zürich, Switzerland on Saturday,
September 9th,
sponsored by /ch/open, Google, and the Artificial
Intelligence
Laboratory of the University of Zürich. The second bug
squashing party
will take place on October 6th to 8th at the same location.
13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce
/2006/09/msg00001.html
14. http://wiki.de
bian.org/BSP/ch/Marathon
Permission for Quotes. Sebastian Wangnick [15]wondered if
citing small
portions of text or code is allowed without asking for
permission and
with ignoring a potential license and presumed that quoting
as an
illustration or explanation is allowed by German
[16]copyright but
using foreign code as a mandatory element in the software
would not be
OK. Michael Poole [17]added that including a section of code
containing creative expression for functional purposes
rather than
teaching, commentary, or similar purposes is not fair
practice.
15. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/09/msg00001.
html
16. http://w
ww.sakowski.de/skripte/urheber2.html
17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/09/msg00003.
html
Package Archive Improvements. Anthony Towns [18]explained
that future
improvements of the archive software will permit packages to
be
installed directly into the archive. This removes the
accepted queue
and allows more than one daily archive reorganisation and
mirror push.
However, this will also remove then chance to delete a
package from
the queue before it gets installed which was [19]necessary
four times
during past years.
18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00413.
html
19. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00425.
html
Bug Squashing Marathon. Martin Zobel-Helas sent a
[20]reminder about
the bug squashing [21]party in Vienna, Austria at September
8th to
10th and explained the process. The RC bug squashing
[22]howto by
Steve Langasek gives a good introduction and is probably a
must-read
for beginners. He also added a lot of tasks everybody could
do to help
Debian move forward with the release of [23]etch.
20. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce
/2006/09/msg00003.html
21. http://wiki.debian
.org/BSPMarathon
22. http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html
23. http://www.debia
n.org/releases/etch/
New CD Writing Tools. Jörg Jaspert [24]called for testers of
the new
cdrkit package and the new [25]wodim program. They will be
shipped
with [26]etch and replace the old cdrtools collection. This
[27]fork
is the result several nearly endless discussions about
incompatible
licenses used upstream which not only Debian suffered from.
Other
vendors are invited to participate in this [28]effort as
well.
24. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce
/2006/09/msg00002.html
25. http://packages.debi
an.org/wodim
26. http://www.debia
n.org/releases/etch/
27. http://svn.debian.
org/wsvn/debburn
28. http://svn.debian.
org/wsvn/debburn
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that
you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* DSA 1162: [29]libmusicbrainz -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 1163: [30]gtetrinet -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 1164: [31]sendmail -- Denial of service.
* DSA 1165: [32]capi4hylafax -- Arbitrary command
execution.
* DSA 1166: [33]cheesetracker -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 1167: [34]apache -- Several vulnerabilities.
* DSA 1168: [35]imagemagick -- Arbitrary code execution.
* DSA 1169: [36]mysql-dfsg-4.1 -- Several vulnerabilities.
29. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1162
30. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1163
31. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1164
32. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1165
33. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1166
34. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1167
35. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1168
36. http://w
ww.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1169
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]apt-mirror -- APT sources mirroring tool.
* [39]ccontrol -- Compilation controller.
* [40]cutecom -- Graphical serial terminal.
* [41]ddccontrol -- Program to control monitor parameters.
* [42]ffe -- Tool for parsing flat and CSV files and
converting them
to different formats.
* [43]fmit -- Free Music Instrument Tuner.
* [44]gaffitter -- File subsets extractor based on genetic
algorithms.
* [45]gmail-notify -- GMail Notifier.
* [46]gnoemoe -- GNOME MOO Client.
* [47]gnome-main-menu -- GNOME start menu applet.
* [48]indi -- Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface for
astronomical devices.
* [49]poa -- Partial Order Alignment for multiple sequence
alignment.
* [50]qemuctl -- Controlling GUI for qemu.
* [51]quicksynergy -- GUI for easily configuring Synergy.
* [52]ripit -- Textbased audio CD ripper.
* [53]softgun -- ARM system emulator.
* [54]xmmsctrl -- Small utility to control XMMS from the
command
line.
38. ht
tp://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/apt-mirror
39. ht
tp://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ccontrol
40. http
://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/cutecom
41.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/ddccontrol
42. http://p
ackages.debian.org/unstable/text/ffe
43. http:/
/packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/fmit
44. h
ttp://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/gaffitter
45. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/gmail-notify
46. htt
p://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnoemoe
47. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnome-main-me
nu
48. http
://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/indi
49. http:
//packages.debian.org/unstable/science/poa
50. http
://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/qemuctl
51.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/quicksynergy
52. http:
//packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ripit
53. http
://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/softgun
54. ht
tp://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/xmmsctrl
Orphaned Packages. 5 packages were orphaned this week and
require a
new maintainer. This makes a total of 322 orphaned packages.
Many
thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the
Free
Software community. Please see the [55]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. To find out which orphaned
packages are
installed on your system the wnpp-alert program from
devscripts may be
helpful.
55. http://www.debian.o
rg/devel/wnpp/
* [56]jedstate -- Extended mind for John E. Davis' text
editor jed.
([57]Bug#385744)
* [58]obconf -- Preferences manager for Openbox.
([59]Bug#385988)
* [60]picasm -- Assembler for the Microchip PIC-family
Microcontrollers. ([61]Bug#385135)
* [62]swish++ -- Simple Document Indexing System for
Humans: C++
version. ([63]Bug#385743)
* [64]xmms-liveice -- XMMS plugin that sends your audio to
a
shoutcast server. ([65]Bug#385965)
56.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/jedstate
57. http://bugs.debian.org/
385744
58. http:/
/packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/obconf
59. http://bugs.debian.org/
385988
60.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/picasm
61. http://bugs.debian.org/
385135
62. http:
//packages.debian.org/unstable/web/swish++
63. http://bugs.debian.org/
385743
64. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/xmms-liveice
65. http://bugs.debian.org/
385965
Removed Packages. 1 package has been [66]removed from the
Debian
archive during the past week:
66. http://ftp-
master.debian.org/removals.txt
* mediawiki -- math rendering plugin for MediaWiki
[67]Bug#381004: Request of maintainer, abandoned
upstream;
superseded by mediawiki1.
67. http://bugs.debian.org/
381004
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68. http:/
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69. mailto:dwndebian.org
This issue of Debian Weekly News was edited by Sebastian
Feltel,
Martin Krafft and Martin 'Joey' Schulze.
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