Debian Weekly News - April 11th, 2006

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Debian Weekly News - April 11th, 2006
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Welcome to this year's 15th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Martin Zobel-Helas [1]sent out an update of the
[2]preparations for an updated [3]stable distribution. When this
newsletter is released, the Debian project has [4]elected a new
project leader. Congratulations.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/04/msg00023.html
 2. http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r2/
 3. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/
 4. http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_002

Internationalisation Collaboration Server. Jaldhar H. Vyas [5]asked
if it would be possible to set up a central website for coordinating
translation efforts within Debian. He suggested several tools which
were working like Ubuntu's proprietary Rosetta tool. Margarita
Manterola [6]added that such a website would encourage a lot of
people to contribute to Debian who were unable to do so with the
existing translation tools.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/03/msg00280.html
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/03/msg00282.html

Proposed General Resolution. Josselin Mouette [7]proposed a new
general solution to alter the [8]Debian Free Software Guidelines in
response to the [9]resolution that allows some documents licensed
under the [10]GNU Free Documentation License to go into the main
archive. Jacobo Tarrio [11]pointed out that the wording would allow
documents with strong [12]restrictions to go into main as well.

 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/04/msg00002.html
 8. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
 9. http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
 10. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
 11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/04/msg00008.html
 12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/04/msg00012.html

Debian-Installer for Linksys NSLU2. Martin Michlmayr [13]reported that
basic support for Linksys NSLU2 machines has been included in the
[14]debian-installer. This is a sub $100 ARM device with 32 MB RAM,
Ethernet and two USB ports on which one can attach a USB disk and run
a full Debian system. One reason why only few people are working on
the ARM port is probably the lack of a cheap platform, which has been
fixed now.

 13. http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/beta2-nslu2
 14. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Changes to su and sudo. Christian Perrier [15]announced changes to the
new su program. Arguments to executed scripts have to be quoted
together with the program name. Joey Schulze [16]announced that new
[17]sudo packages will still correct recently reported security
[18]vulnerabilities but be less strict in which environment variables
are passed to executed scripts.

 15. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00003.html
 16. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2006/msg00115.html
 17. http://packages.debian.org/sudo
 18. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946

Xen in Debian. Julien Danjou [19]reported that he has started a
[20]Xen packaging project on [21]Alioth to foster inclusion in Debian.
Functional and split packages of Xen 3 are also available from the
Subversion [22]repository.

 19. http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/2006/02/27/233-about-xen-in-debian
 20. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xen
 21. http://alioth.debian.org/
 22. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-xen

Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.

 * DSA 1022: [23]storebackup -- Several vulnerabilities.
 * DSA 1023: [24]kaffeine -- Arbitrary code execution.
 * DSA 1024: [25]clamav -- Several vulnerabilities.
 * DSA 1025: [26]dia -- Arbitrary code execution.
 * DSA 1026: [27]sash -- Potential arbitrary code execution.
 * DSA 1027: [28]mailman -- Denial of service.
 * DSA 1028: [29]libimager-perl -- Denial of service.
 * DSA 1029: [30]libphp-adodb -- Several vulnerabilities.
 * DSA 1030: [31]moodle -- Several vulnerabilities.
 * DSA 1031: [32]cacti -- Several vulnerabilities.

 23. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1022
 24. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1023
 25. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1024
 26. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1025
 27. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1026
 28. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1027
 29. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1028
 30. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1029
 31. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1030
 32. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1031

New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [33]recently or contain important updates.

 33. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main

 * [34]arno-iptables-firewall -- Single- and multi-homed firewall
   script with DSL/ADSL support.
 * [35]aspell-cs -- Czech dictionary for GNU Aspell.
 * [36]ecl -- Embeddable Common-Lisp: has an interpreter and can
   compile to C.
 * [37]enemylines7 -- First person 3D-shooter game.
 * [38]gammu -- Mobile phone management utility.
 * [39]gnome-commander -- Nice and fast file manager for the GNOME
   desktop.
 * [40]gnome-power-manager -- Frontend for gnome-powermanager.
 * [41]kasablanca -- Fast and free FTP client for KDE.
 * [42]kftpgrabber -- FTP client for KDE.
 * [43]kmflcomp -- KMFL Compiler.
 * [44]qpxtool -- CD/DVD quality checker.
 * [45]torrentflux -- Web based, feature-rich BitTorrent download
   manager.
 * [46]ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language.
 * [47]xarchive -- GTK frontend for most used compression tools.
 * [48]xarchiver -- GTK frontend for most used compression formats.

 34. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/arno-iptables-firewall
 35. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/aspell-cs
 36. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ecl
 37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/enemylines7
 38. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/gammu
 39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnome-commander
 40. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnome-power-manager
 41. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kasablanca
 42. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kftpgrabber
 43. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/kmflcomp
 44. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/qpxtool
 45. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/torrentflux
 46. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-dzongkha
 47. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xarchive
 48. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xarchiver

Orphaned Packages. 21 packages were orphaned this week and require a
new maintainer. This makes a total of 293 orphaned packages. Many
thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free
Software community. Please see the [49]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.

 49. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

 * [50]achilles -- Artificial life and evolution simulator.
   ([51]Bug#361167)
 * [52]apple2 -- Apple ][ Emulator. ([53]Bug#361344)
 * [54]astrolog -- Customisable astrology chart calculation program.
   ([55]Bug#361346)
 * [56]bfr -- Nonblocking 8-bit-clean pipe buffer. ([57]Bug#360672)
 * [58]cfi -- Copyright finns inte, book about hacker culture..
   ([59]Bug#361294)
 * [60]cl-ftp -- Common Lisp FTP library. ([61]Bug#361169)
 * [62]cl-sdl -- Support for the SDL_ttf library in Common Lisp.
   ([63]Bug#361166)
 * [64]drawmap -- Draws customised maps, using raw USGS data files.
   ([65]Bug#361015)
 * [66]ipw2100 -- Source for the ipw2100 driver. ([67]Bug#360632)
 * [68]libapache-mod-lisp -- Apache module that interfaces with Lisp
   environments. ([69]Bug#361168)
 * [70]njbtools -- Tools for interfacing with libnjb.
   ([71]Bug#361002)
 * [72]ogle -- DVD player with support for DVD menus.
   ([73]Bug#361297)
 * [74]ogle-gui -- User interface to ogle (Gtk). ([75]Bug#361298)
 * [76]ploticus -- Script driven business graphics package.
   ([77]Bug#361016)
 * [78]ploticus-doc -- Documentation and gallery of examples for
   ploticus. ([79]Bug#361017)
 * [80]plotmtv -- Multipurpose X11 plotting program..
   ([81]Bug#361293)
 * [82]pmidi -- Command line midi player for ALSA. ([83]Bug#361299)
 * [84]sppc -- Simple Panel Plot Composer. ([85]Bug#361296)
 * [86]tela -- Interactive tensor language. ([87]Bug#361292)
 * [88]xml-resume-library -- Set of tools for writing a resume in
   XML. ([89]Bug#361013)
 * [90]zope-zshell -- Command line interface to Zope.
   ([91]Bug#361018)

 50. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/achilles
 51. http://bugs.debian.org/361167
 52. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/apple2
 53. http://bugs.debian.org/361344
 54. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/astrolog
 55. http://bugs.debian.org/361346
 56. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/bfr
 57. http://bugs.debian.org/360672
 58. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/cfi-sv
 59. http://bugs.debian.org/361294
 60. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/cl-ftp
 61. http://bugs.debian.org/361169
 62. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/cl-sdl
 63. http://bugs.debian.org/361166
 64. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/drawmap
 65. http://bugs.debian.org/361015
 66. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ipw2100-source
 67. http://bugs.debian.org/360632
 68. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/libapache-mod-lisp
 69. http://bugs.debian.org/361168
 70. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/njbtools
 71. http://bugs.debian.org/361002
 72. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/ogle
 73. http://bugs.debian.org/361297
 74. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/ogle-gui
 75. http://bugs.debian.org/361298
 76. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/ploticus
 77. http://bugs.debian.org/361016
 78. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/ploticus-doc
 79. http://bugs.debian.org/361017
 80. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/plotmtv
 81. http://bugs.debian.org/361293
 82. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/pmidi
 83. http://bugs.debian.org/361299
 84. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/sppc
 85. http://bugs.debian.org/361296
 86. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/tela
 87. http://bugs.debian.org/361292
 88. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/xml-resume-library
 89. http://bugs.debian.org/361013
 90. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/zope-zshell
 91. http://bugs.debian.org/361018

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 92. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
 93. mailto:dwn@debian.org

This issue of Debian Weekly News was edited by Sebastian Feltel
and Martin 'Joey' Schulze.


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