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# FLOSS from Thomas Bliesener <nospam@melix.com.mx>
<p>Welcome to this year's 18th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. As a completion of the <a
href="http://floss1.infonomics.nl">FLOSS</a> survey last year the University
of Stanford is carrying out <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/">FLOSS-US</a>. Bruce Perens <a
href="http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2003-April/000825.html">\
mentioned</a> that he would like to see Debian-based efforts (such as Knoppix,
Trusted Debian, Libranet and others) work more closely with Debian.</p>
<p><strong>Experimenal APT with DDTP Support.</strong> The DDTP team and the
Debian-BR project <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0304/msg00015.html">\
announced</a> the first public release of APT including <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0210/msg00004.html">\
support</a> for translated package descriptions. This initial experimental
release was based upon the CVS version of APT. Complete sources and patches
are <a href="http://people.debian.org/~otavio/sid/apt/">available</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Automatic Merging of Configuration Files.</strong> Jarno Elonen <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02066.html">announced</a>
experimental <a href="http://elonen.iki.fi/code/dpkg-merge/">support</a> for
merging configuration files in <code>dpkg</code>. When the installed
configuration file differs from the file in the package <code>dpkg</code> will
offer a merge option. This should help when the configuration file is
upgraded and offers more options.</p>
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<p><strong>Dropping Support for i386?</strong> Nathanael Nerode <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02112.html">investigated</a>
the i386 problem and discovered that to maintain binary compatibility with C++
packages from other distributions, Debian needs to use the i486 version of
atomicity.h supplied by GCC. Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02134.html">wrote</a> a
small <a href="http://ilmari.org/sslcmp">script</a> that compares two the
speed of OpenSSL code for i386 vs i486 on a P-III Mobile.</p>
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<p><strong>Debian Package Tags.</strong> Enrico Zini <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02167.html">announced</a>
Debian Package Tags which were created in cooperation with Erich Schubert.
The tags (or better keywords or categories) can be <a
href="http://debian.vitavonni.de/packagebrowser/">edited</a> online. Tags can
be thought as the evolution of the package sections historically used in
Debian systems. Enrico sent in an <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02272.html">update</a> as
well.</p>
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<p><strong>Apt-get with Support for Suggests and Recommends?</strong>
Alexander Wirt <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02222.html">announced</a> a
<a href="http://www.formorer.de/code/aag/aag">wrapper</a> around
<code>apt-get</code> that makes it possible to install all recommended and/or
suggested packages for a given package. Graham Williams <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02234.html">mentioned</a>
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/wajig">wajig</a> which provides the same
functionality. Rene Engelhard <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02257.html">added</a> <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/aptitude">aptitude</a> which also supports
this interactively and could probably also provide this functionality on the
commandline.</p>
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<p><strong>Debian-Lex in Interview.</strong> The Age, an Australian newspaper,
published an <a
href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/02/1051382077620.html">\
interview</a> with Jeremy Malcolm, who started the <a
href="http://people.debian.org/~terminus/debian-lex/">debian-lex</a>
subproject. Apart from the input by all the developers involved in its parent
project, there are three qualified lawyers involved in the Debian-Lex project,
giving it a mix of expert legal and IT input into its development. Malcolm
also talks about interoperability problems with many proprietary software
packages designed for use in legal practice.</p>
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<p><strong>Improving Debian's Reliability.</strong> Rémi Perrot <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project-0305/msg00005.html">started</a> a
discussion on improving Debian reliability. In his opinion the policy on
improving stable release is too restrictive and don't give the opportunity to
improve Debian quality out of security fix. He believes that as the release
cycle is very long we have to accept fixes on all bugs in the stable release.</p>
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# From: Matt Black <matt@mattblack.cjb.net>
<p><strong>HP i2000 for Developer Use.</strong> James Troup <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00046.html">announced</a>
that thanks to the continuing support of <a
href="http://www.hp.com/">Hewlett-Packard</a>, caballero.debian.org - the
Debian ia64 build daemon - has recently been upgraded to an <a
href="http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/rackoptimized/rx2600/">rx2600</a>.
As a result the old caballero, an <a
href="http://www.hp.com/techservers/products/workstations/i2000/summary.html">\
i2000</a>, is looking for a new home. The machine will be loaned to somebody
helping out debian-installer, the toolchain (gcc, binutils, glibc), the kernel
or some other worthy cause. Interested developers should live in the UK (or
possibly Europe) and will need to supply some proof of previous work or
genuine potential for future work on a worthy cause.</p>
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# From: Bartosz Zapalowski <bartek@klepisko.eu.org>
<p><strong>New Translation Effort in Poland.</strong> Bartosz Fenski
<a href="http://7thguard.net/news.php?id=2990">announced</a> (in Polish
only) a new translation effort called <a href="http://debian.linux.org.pl/">Polish
Debian Documentation Project</a> (PDDP). There are no Debian developers
in PDDP yet, but this is likely to change. The main goal of
this group is to translate Debian documentation into Polish as well as to help
translating DWN. Currently, they are translating the <a
href="$(HOME)/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference">Debian Reference</a>.</p>
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# From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
<p><strong>Debate over Credits in Free Software.</strong> After the <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg01295.html">long
discussion</a> on debian-devel about stripping the output of ReiserFS tools
started by a posting from Hans Reiser, i.e. removing sponsor credits (as we <a
href="$(HOME)/News/weekly/2003/16/">reported</a>), this discussion now
continues on NewsForge. Reiser posted an <a
href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244">article</a> about
his position and why he believes that credits in Free Software should be
better protected and enforced by license requirements. <a
href="http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/02/1825247.shtml">Responses</a> to
his view were mostly negative.</p>
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<p><strong>Software Patents Conference in Bruxelles.</strong> Jama Poulsen <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu-0305/msg00000.html">\
mentioned</a> the two-day interdisciplinary <a
href="http://swpat.ffii.org/termine/2003/europarl/05/">conference</a> in
Bruxelles on May 7th and 8th, that will bring together programmers, engineers,
entrepreneurs, law scholars, economists and politicians to explore the whole
chain of causality from proposed patent law regulations to European policy
goals.</p>
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<p><strong>Debian Subversion Server.</strong> Wichert Akkerman <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0305/msg00000.html">\
introduced</a> the Debian subversion server on <a
href="http://svn.debian.org/">svn.debian.org</a>. Commit access is maintained
through <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a>. If you want to
maintain a subversion repository please register a project for it on Alioth.
Once the project has been approved please submit a support request asking for
a repository to be created. Adding someone to the Alioth project will
automatically give him write access to the repository as well.</p>
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# From: Jonathan Oxer <jon@ivt.com.au>
<p><strong>Debian Miniconf3 announced.</strong> The Debian Miniconf run in
conjunction with <a href="http://lca2004.linux.org.au/">Linux Conference
Australia</a> (LCA) is becoming quite a tradition, and with the schedule for
LCA2004 now being finalised Jonathan Oxer <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0304/msg02160.html">announced</a>
that <a href="http://www.debconf.org/miniconf3/">Debian Miniconf3</a> will
take place on January 10th and 11th, 2004 in Adelaide, Australia. He also
asked for anyone interested in presenting at the Miniconf to submit a <a
href="http://www.debconf.org/miniconf3/cfp/">proposal</a> for a talk.</p>
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<p><strong>Sun Ultra 30 available for Developer.</strong> Nathan Norman <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00114.html">announced</a>
that he's going to make his current desktop machine, a Sun Ultra 30, available
to the Debian project if anyone can use it. Martin Michlmayr <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00142.html">added</a> that
Debian will pay for shipping if somebody in the United States would like to
use this machine for porting the debian-installer to the sparc architecture,
something which Ben Collins has already <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00144.html">done</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Packages scheduled for Removal.</strong> Petter Reinholdtsen was <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00135.html">surprised</a>
to learn that some maintainers did not notice that their packages were <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0305/msg00001.html">\
scheduled</a> for removal. Michael Banck <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00138.html">noted</a> that
the BugScan mail is sent to the debian-devel-announce list, which is mandatory
to read for all Debian developers, though.</p>
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<p><strong>Speaker for Conference in India sought.</strong> Martin Michlmayr
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0305/msg00139.html">seeks</a> a
speaker to talk about Debian at a conference in India. The conference will
take place in Mumbai on June 12th and 13th and Debian has been invited to
deliver a talk. Anybody interested in giving a talk about Debian in Mumbai
should get in touch with Martin.</p>
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<p><strong>Debian at Conferences in Italy and Austria.</strong> The Debian project
<a href="$(HOME)/News/2003/20030505">announced</a> that it has been invited to
participate in two conferences that are taking place during the next couple of
days. At the <a href="$(HOME)/events/2003/0509-webbit">Webb.it</a> in Padova,
Italy, Debian will be present with a booth and several developers will help
visitors install Free Software. At the <a
href="$(HOME)/events/2003/0509-ifit">IFIT</a> in Innsbruck, Austria, the
project will be present with a booth and several talks.</p>
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<p><strong>Security Updates.</strong> You know the drill. Please make sure
that you update your systems if you have any of these packages installed.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2003/dsa-295">pptpd</a> --
Remote root exploit.
<li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2003/dsa-296">kdebase</a> --
Arbitrary command execution.
<li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2003/dsa-297">Snort</a> --
Remote root exploits.
<li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2003/dsa-298">EPIC4</a> --
DoS and arbitrary code execution.
<li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2003/dsa-299">leksbot</a> --
Improper setuid-root execution.
<li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2003/dsa-300">Balsa</a> --
Buffer overflow.
</ul>
<p><strong>New or Noteworthy Packages.</strong> The following packages were
added to the unstable Debian archive recently or contain important updates.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/agistudio.html">agistudio</a>
-- IDE for creating early Sierra style AGI games.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/apt-listbugs.html">apt-listbugs</a>
-- Lists critical bugs before each apt installation.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/atop.html">atop</a>
-- Monitor for system resources and process activity.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/battfink.html">battfink</a>
-- GNOME Power Management Configuration.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/cstream.html">cstream</a>
-- General-purpose stream-handling tool similar to dd.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/dirvish.html">dirvish</a>
-- Filesystem based backup system using rsync.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/epstool.html">epstool</a>
-- Edit preview images and fix bounding boxes in EPS files.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/fcitx.html">fcitx</a>
-- Free Chinese Input Toy for X (XIM).
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/foomatic-gui.html">foomatic-gui</a>
-- GNOME interface for configuring the Foomatic printer filter system.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/gap-core.html">gap-core</a>
-- GAP computer algebra system, core components.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/gpredict.html">gpredict</a>
-- Satellite tracking program for GNOME.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/gtkpod.html">gtkpod</a>
-- Software using GTK2 for managing songs and playlists on an Apple iPod.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/icukrell.html">icukrell</a>
-- GKrellm plugin which shows the status of GnomeICU.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/imhangul.html">imhangul</a>
-- Hangul (Korean) input module for GTK+.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/jailer.html">jailer</a>
-- Build and maintain chrooted environments.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/nagi.html">nagi</a>
-- Game interpreter for Sierra Online (tm) AGI games.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/netrik.html">netrik</a>
-- Text mode WWW browser with vi like keybindings.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/ptkei.html">ptkei</a>
-- Python TK Empire Interface.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/putty.html">putty</a>
-- Telnet/SSH client for X.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/slicker.html">slicker</a>
-- Alternative for the KDE Kicker.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/slptool.html">slptool</a>
-- SLP command line tool.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/tagcoll.html">tagcoll</a>
-- Commandline tool to perform operations on tagged collections.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/vlogger.html">vlogger</a>
-- Virtual web logfile rotater/parser.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/webhttrack.html">webhttrack</a>
-- Copy websites to your computer, httrack with a Web GUI.
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/wmcliphist.html">wmcliphist</a>
-- Dockapp which provides a history for X11 selections.
</ul>
<p><strong>Orphaned Packages.</strong> 2 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 <a href="$(HOME)/devel/wnpp/">WNPP pages</a> 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.</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/arpd.html">arpd</a>
-- User-space ARP daemon.
(<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/191870">Bug#191870</a>)</li>
<li> <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/ide-smart.html">ide-smart</a>
-- S.M.A.R.T. status checking tool for IDE hard disks.
(<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/191686">Bug#191686</a>)</li>
</ul>
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<author>Joey</author>
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