Debian Weekly News - January 23rd, 2007

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Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Erinn Clark, co-founder and leader of Debian Women is selected one of the top 10 girl geeks who are influential in Open Source. Linux-Watch posted Chris Fearnley's rebuttal to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argument that Debian is in trouble.

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Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. [1]Erinn Clark, co-founder and leader of [2]Debian Women is [3]selected one of the top 10 girl geeks who are influential in Open Source. Linux-Watch posted Chris Fearnley's [4]rebuttal to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argument that Debian is in trouble.

1. http://erinn.org/about/ 2. http://women.debian.org/ 3. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/top-10-girl-geeks-13100 4. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9097794891.html

Debian and the one Laptop per Child Project. Michael Voigt [5]wondered if Debian is supporting the [6]One Laptop per Child project. It has been founded by the [7]MIT Media Laboratory and is about creating an cheap and affordable laptop for children in the third world and developing countries. Petter Reinholdtsen [8]explained that Debian is [9]participating with its [10]DebianEdu sub-project.

5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/12/msg00069.html 6. http://www.laptop.org/ 7. http://www.media.mit.edu/ 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/12/msg00073.html 9. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/OLPC 10. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu

French DebianEdu Developers Meeting. Mathieu Duploy [11]announced the [12]developers meeting especially for French the Debian-Edu developers sponsored by [13]Centre Européen de Transfert et de Recherche en Informatique Libre. It will take place on February 17th to 24th in Soissons (France). Transportation from Soissons to [14]FOSDEM in Brussels is included.

11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/12/msg00160.html 12. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/DevCampFrance2007 13. http://www.cetril.org/ 14. http://www.debian.org/events/2007/0224-fosdem

Debian's History 2006. Martin Zobel-Helas [15]reported that he and Ana Guerrero are creating an [16]review of all major Debian events in 2006. They are using different news channels like [17]Debian Weekly News, [18]Planet Debian and several [19]mailing lists as source for the review. Readers who find unmentioned events and thus want to contribute should write an email to the [20]debian-publicity mailing list. The review is planned to be published on several websites like [21]Linux Weekly News and [22]Linux.com.

15. http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2006/12/msg00035.html 16. http://times.debian.net/~zobel/2006 17. http://www.debian.org/news/weekly/ 18. http://planet.debian.org/ 19. http://lists.debian.org/ 20. http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/ 21. http://www.lwn.net/ 22. http://www.linux.com/

Debian-Installer for Sony PS3. Kenshi Muto [23]announced that his friend, Takeshi Yaegashi succeeded to install Debian on a Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), which is a 64-bit PowerPC architecture that some GNU/Linux distributions and NetBSD already have a port for. Yaegashi set up a Wiki [24]page that describes the installation using a customised version of the [25]debian-installer.

23. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/01/msg00049.html 24. http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Installer 25. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Adding Style Checks to lintian. Mikhail Gusarov [26]wondered if removing empty lines from the end of debian/copyright and debian/changelog together with the use of two spaces before Homepage: in the description would warrant a [27]lintian check. Nico Golde [28]pointed out that these are not backed up by [29]policy manual and hence shouldn't be included. Russ Allbery [30]reported that he intends to add a set of style checks to lintian that would be optional and would have to be explicitly requested.

26. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00001.html 27. http://packages.debian.org/lintian 28. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00003.html 29. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ 30. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00023.html

Woody Distribution archived. Florian Lohoff [31]noticed that the old stable release [32]woody has been removed from [33]mirror servers recently. Kevin Mark [34]explained that this happened because Debian only supports old distributions for a defined period of time by providing packages and security support. After this the old distribution won't be maintained anymore but kept on [35]archive.debian.org for historical reasons.

31. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00159.html 32. http://www.debian.org/releases/woody 33. http://www.debian.org/mirrors/ 34. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00166.html 35. http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/

Kernel Handbook updated. Jurij Smakov [36]announced that the [37]Debian Kernel Handbook has been updated to reflect changes to the kernel build process and architecture which were made for the upcoming release of [38]etch. The handbook covers several kernel-related topics and tasks like building kernel packages, module packages or the initial ram-disk system used in Debian. Any feedback, comments, or content proposals are welcome.

36. http://blog.wooyd.org/?p=9 37. http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ 38. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch

Anticipating the Release Date. [39]Debian Administration is conducting a [40]poll that allows readers to estimate the release date of [41]etch. 45 % of its readers assume that etch will be released whenever it is ready. [42]debianex stated that Debian is the most stable distribution and because of its stability, apt-get and a very helpful large community he is using the system and expects it to stay at No 1.

39. http://www.debian-administration.org/ 40. http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/88 41. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ 42. http://www.debian-administration.org/users/debianex

Abandon stable Releases? Joseph Smidt [43]suggested to only support unstable and testing so that maintaining is less stress and the testing distribution becomes even better. Several developers [44]disagreed on the [45]numbers backing up the assumption that 76 % of the users already run [46]testing. Wouter Verhelst [47]added that in a corporate world [48]stable is the prevailing Debian distribution.

43. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00269.html 44. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00280.html 45. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/56 46. http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ 47. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00293.html 48. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

Compatibility between Creative Commons 2.5 and Debian. Luis Matos [49]asked for feedback about the compatibility between [50]Creative Commons 2.5 licenses and Debian. Andrew Donnellan [51]pointed out that at this moment none of the Creative Common licenses are compatible with the [52]Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). However, some of the licenses of version 3.0 will most likely be compatible with the DFSG thanks to the effort of Debian people. Francesco Poli [53]added that the current drafts are not DFSG-free, though.

49. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/01/msg00020.html 50. http://www.creativecommons.org/ 51. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/01/msg00021.html 52. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines 53. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/01/msg00022.html

Mailman Upgrade Path from Etch to Lenny. Lionel Elie Mamane [54]reported that the current version 2.1.9 of [55]mailman in [56]etch will not have an upgrade path to version 2.2.x anticipated for lenny. This is because of a change in the file format. Mailman 2.1.10 will be able to export data into a neutral XML format which later versions are able to import. Lionel wondered if he was allowed to upload a newer version or include the export facility in the package for etch.

54. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/01/msg00758.html 55. http://packages.debian.org/mailman 56. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/

Measuring Development Progress. Lars Wirzenius [57]proposed a set of carefully selected statistics to measure progress of development in Debian. He suggested weekly reports on total numbers, median and maximum for all open bug reports, reports grouped by severity, response time, lifetime of bugs, and more, and would like to compare these with numbers from the week before.

57. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/01/msg00015.html

Status of the M68k Port. Ingo Jürgensmann [58]reported that the [59]m68k port is performing quite well after the GCC issues were finally solved by Roman Zippel. This port is currently in a better shape than [60]alpha and [61]arm. He wondered if m68k could be a release architecture now, given that [62]etch hasn't been released in December.

58. http://blog.windfluechter.net/?q=node/156 59. http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/ 60. http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/ 61. http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ 62. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/

Installing Debian over PPPoE Connections. Eddy Petrisor [63]reported that he has successfully installed Debian over a PPPoE (DSL) connection which was established by the [64]debian-installer. This demonstrates the comeback of native DSL installations directly from a [65]mirror server by using the boot argument install modules=ppp-udeb.

63. http://ramblingfoo.blogspot.com/2007/01/and-it-works-from-d-i-like-charm.html 64. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 65. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

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

* DSA 1242: [66]elog -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1243: [67]evince -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1244: [68]xine-lib -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1245: [69]proftpd -- Denial of service. * DSA 1246: [70]OpenOffice.org -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1247: [71]libapache-mod-auth-kerb -- Denial of service. * DSA 1248: [72]libsoup -- Denial of service. * DSA 1249: [73]xfree86 -- Privilege escalation. * DSA 1250: [74]cacti -- Arbitrary code execution. * DSA 1251: [75]netrik -- Arbitrary shell command execution.

66. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1242 67. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1243 68. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1244 69. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1245 70. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1246 71. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1247 72. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1248 73. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1249 74. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1250 75. http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1251

New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive [76]recently or contain important updates.

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

* [77]alpine -- Text-based email client, friendly for novices but powerful. * [78]bzr-svn -- Bazaar plugin providing Subversion integration. * [79]ccd2iso -- Converter from CloneCD disc image format to standard ISO. * [80]context -- Powerful TeX format. * [81]dnsproxy -- Proxy for DNS queries. * [82]drupal-4.7 -- Fully-featured content management framework. * [83]gaia -- Interface to the planet. * [84]gambas2 -- Complete visual development environment for Gambas. * [85]ginspector -- GTK+ object/class inspector. * [86]hedgewars -- Worms style game. * [87]idjc -- Graphical shoutcast/icecast client. * [88]imsniff -- Simple program to log Instant Messaging activity on the network. * [89]jlha-utils -- Command-line lzh archiver written in Java. * [90]ltspfs -- Fuse based remote filesystem for LTSP thin clients. * [91]neko -- High-level dynamically typed programming language. * [92]olsrd -- Optimised link-state routing daemon (unik-olsrd). * [93]openarena -- Fast-paced 3D Ego-Shooter. * [94]otf2bdf -- Generate BDF bitmap fonts from OpenType outline fonts. * [95]pangzero -- Action game that involves popping balloons with a harpoon. * [96]photon -- Static HTML gallery generator. * [97]pnputils -- Plug and Play BIOS utilities. * [98]pokerth -- Texas hold'em game. * [99]pommed -- Apple laptops hot-keys event handler. * [100]pychess -- Chess graphical user interface for several chess engines. * [101]qantenna -- Qt based program for viewing antennas as described by NEC files. * [102]utf8-migration-tool -- UTF-8 migration wizard. * [103]xwatchwin -- Watch a window on another X server.

77. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/alpine 78. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/bzr-svn 79. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/ccd2iso 80. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/context 81. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/dnsproxy 82. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/drupal-4.7 83. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/gaia 84. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/gambas2 85. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ginspector 86. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/hedgewars 87. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/idjc 88. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/imsniff 89. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/jlha-utils 90. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ltspfs 91. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/neko 92. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/olsrd 93. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/openarena 94. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/otf2bdf 95. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/pangzero 96. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/photon 97. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pnputils 98. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/pokerth 99. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pommed 100. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/pychess 101. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/qantenna 102. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/utf8-migration-tool 103. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xwatchwin

Orphaned Packages. 47 packages were orphaned since the last issue and require a new maintainer. This makes a total of 377 orphaned packages. Many thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free Software community. Please see the [104]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.

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

* [105]adplay -- Console-based OPL2 audio player. ([106]Bug#407626) * [107]adplug -- Free AdLib sound library. ([108]Bug#407624) * [109]adplug-xmms -- Free AdLib sound library (xmms-plugin). ([110]Bug#407625) * [111]agrep -- Text search tool with support for approximate patterns. ([112]Bug#407649) * [113]apt-spy -- Writes a sources.list file based on bandwidth tests. ([114]Bug#405297) * [115]cadubi -- Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian. ([116]Bug#406350) * [117]dcd -- Simple command-line CD player. ([118]Bug#407630) * [119]deco -- Demos Commander. ([120]Bug#406625) * [121]dmalloc -- Debug memory allocation library. ([122]Bug#407637) * [123]firedns -- Runtime binaries for firedns, an asynch. dns resolver library. ([124]Bug#407545) * [125]firestring -- String handling library. ([126]Bug#407546) * [127]flac123 -- Command-line flac player. ([128]Bug#407547) * [129]gtk-imonc -- Monitor and control 'fli4l' one-diskette routers. ([130]Bug#406448) * [131]html2ps -- HTML to PostScript converter. ([132]Bug#407652) * [133]jered -- Simple full screen text editor. ([134]Bug#406622) * [135]kiss -- Karel's Interactive Simple Shell. ([136]Bug#407426) * [137]knl -- Query/set kernel image parameters. ([138]Bug#407632) * [139]leakbug -- GNUpdate leakbug tracer library. ([140]Bug#407638) * [141]libapache-mod-auth-mysql -- Apache module for MySQL authentication. ([142]Bug#407360) * [143]libbinio -- Binary I/O stream class library. ([144]Bug#407622) * [145]micro-httpd -- Really small HTTP server. ([146]Bug#407661) * [147]micro-inetd -- Simple network service spawner. ([148]Bug#407660) * [149]micro-proxy -- Really small HTTP/HTTPS proxy. ([150]Bug#407659) * [151]minit -- Small but powerful init system. ([152]Bug#407656) * [153]mkrboot -- Make a kernel + root image bootable from one disk or from DOS. ([154]Bug#405527) * [155]nget -- Auto-resuming command line NNTP file grabber. ([156]Bug#407631) * [157]nwall -- Version of wall that uses GNU readline. ([158]Bug#407633) * [159]nwrite -- Enhanced replacement for the write command. ([160]Bug#407636) * [161]ogre-contrib -- Ogre plugin: CgProgramManager. ([162]Bug#405768) * [163]pxe -- Free PXE daemon. ([164]Bug#407907) * [165]randtype -- Semi-random text typer. ([166]Bug#406623) * [167]setcd -- Control the behaviour of your CD-ROM device. ([168]Bug#406134) * [169]sgrep -- Tool to search a file for structured pattern. ([170]Bug#407648) * [171]slidentd -- Minimal ident (RfC 1413) daemon. ([172]Bug#407654) * [173]smarteiffel -- GNU Eiffel compiler, version 1. ([174]Bug#406255) * [175]snack -- Sound functionality extension to the Tcl/Tk language. ([176]Bug#406132) * [177]softbeep -- System bell replacement. ([178]Bug#407646) * [179]tclex -- Lexical analyser generator for Tcl. ([180]Bug#406135) * [181]transcalc -- Microwave and RF transmission line calculator. ([182]Bug#405730) * [183]transcriber -- Transcribe speech data using an integrated editor. ([184]Bug#406133) * [185]ttf-dustin -- Various TrueType fonts from dustismo.com. ([186]Bug#407706) * [187]ttf-thryomanes -- Unicode font covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA. ([188]Bug#407711) * [189]wip -- Interactive graphic plotting package for high quality output. ([190]Bug#405731) * [191]xed -- The standard text editor, for X. ([192]Bug#407640) * [193]xmake -- Powerful project making make program. ([194]Bug#407500) * [195]xmem -- Visual indicator of amount of memory/swap usage. ([196]Bug#407639) * [197]yacas -- Computer Algebra System. ([198]Bug#405734)

105. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/adplay 106. http://bugs.debian.org/407626 107. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libadplug0c2a 108. http://bugs.debian.org/407624 109. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/xmms-adplug 110. http://bugs.debian.org/407625 111. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/agrep 112. http://bugs.debian.org/407649 113. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/apt-spy 114. http://bugs.debian.org/405297 115. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/cadubi 116. http://bugs.debian.org/406350 117. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/dcd 118. http://bugs.debian.org/407630 119. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/deco 120. http://bugs.debian.org/406625 121. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libdmalloc4 122. http://bugs.debian.org/407637 123. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/firedns 124. http://bugs.debian.org/407545 125. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libfirestring0.9 126. http://bugs.debian.org/407546 127. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/flac123 128. http://bugs.debian.org/407547 129. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/gtk-imonc 130. http://bugs.debian.org/406448 131. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/html2ps 132. http://bugs.debian.org/407652 133. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/jered 134. http://bugs.debian.org/406622 135. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/shells/kiss 136. http://bugs.debian.org/407426 137. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/knl 138. http://bugs.debian.org/407632 139. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libleakbug1 140. http://bugs.debian.org/407638 141. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/libapache-mod-auth-mysql 142. http://bugs.debian.org/407360 143. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libbinio1c2 144. http://bugs.debian.org/407622 145. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/micro-httpd 146. http://bugs.debian.org/407661 147. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/micro-inetd 148. http://bugs.debian.org/407660 149. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/micro-proxy 150. http://bugs.debian.org/407659 151. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/minit 152. http://bugs.debian.org/407656 153. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/mkrboot 154. http://bugs.debian.org/405527 155. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/news/nget 156. http://bugs.debian.org/407631 157. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/nwall 158. http://bugs.debian.org/407633 159. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/nwrite 160. http://bugs.debian.org/407636 161. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager 162. http://bugs.debian.org/405768 163. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/pxe 164. http://bugs.debian.org/407907 165. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/randtype 166. http://bugs.debian.org/406623 167. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/setcd 168. http://bugs.debian.org/406134 169. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/sgrep 170. http://bugs.debian.org/407648 171. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/slidentd 172. http://bugs.debian.org/407654 173. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/smarteiffel 174. http://bugs.debian.org/406255 175. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libsnack2 176. http://bugs.debian.org/406132 177. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/softbeep 178. http://bugs.debian.org/407646 179. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/tclex 180. http://bugs.debian.org/406135 181. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/transcalc 182. http://bugs.debian.org/405730 183. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/transcriber 184. http://bugs.debian.org/406133 185. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-dustin 186. http://bugs.debian.org/407706 187. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-thryomanes 188. http://bugs.debian.org/407711 189. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/wip 190. http://bugs.debian.org/405731 191. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/xed 192. http://bugs.debian.org/407640 193. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/xmake 194. http://bugs.debian.org/407500 195. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xmem 196. http://bugs.debian.org/407639 197. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/yacas 198. http://bugs.debian.org/405734

Removed Packages. 144 packages have been [199]removed from the Debian archive since the last issue:

199. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt

* lsbappchk -- Linux Standard Base application compliance checking tool [200]Bug#398874: Request of maintainer, superseded by lsb-appchk. * ipmasqadm -- Utility for configuring extra masquerading functionality [201]Bug#399399: Request of maintainer, obsolete. * alsa-modules-i386 -- ALSA modules for kernel 2.4 on 386 [202]Bug#394769: Request of maintainer, obsolete, 2.4 kernel only. * gnuradio-core -- Software Defined Radio [203]Bug#400513: Request of maintainer, renamed to gnuradio. * affix-kernel -- Common files of the Affix Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux [204]Bug#234346: Request of maintainer, only for 2.4 kernels. * affix -- User space utilities for the Affix Bluetooth protocol stack [205]Bug#393884: Request of maintainer, affix-kernel is 2.4 only. * bluez-pin -- Bluetooth PIN helper with D-BUS support [206]Bug#378427: Request of QA, superseded by bluez-utils. * netkit-base -- The Internet Superserver [207]Bug#383960: Request of QA, request of maintainer, obsolete. * fst -- Enables VST plugins on GNU/Linux [208]Bug#402945: Request of QA, GPL/contrib, non-redistributable. * relay-ctrl -- SMTP Relaying Control for qmail & tcpserver [209]Bug#237446: Request of QA, orphaned, out-of-date. * peacock -- HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME [210]Bug#262440: Request of QA, unmaintained, buggy. * dbmail -- Fast and scalable SQL based IMAP and POP mailserver [211]Bug#384386: Request of QA, RC-buggy, unreleased, next version NEW anyway. * lightlab -- Experiment with the OpenGL lighting model [212]Bug#384237: Request of maintainer, buggy, unused. * roy -- Utility and data structure library (development files) [213]Bug#384181: Request of QA, unmaintained, unused. * slsc -- S-Language port of the classic SC spreadsheet [214]Bug#315641: Request of maintainer, unused. * webmin-ldap-user-simple -- LDAP users control module for webmin [215]Bug#384017: Request of maintainer, depends on webmin which is gone. * libvpopmail-perl -- Vpopmail support for Perl [216]Bug#382944: Request of QA, contrib, vpopmail is buggy and appears unmaintained. * august -- Tcl/Tk HTML editor [217]Bug#381499: Request of QA, orphaned, unmaintained upstream. * zpkg -- Build software distributions based on the Python distutils package [218]Bug#381174: Request of maintainer, unmaintained upstream, obsoleted. * localeconf -- Debconf interface to locale configuration [219]Bug#381056: Request of QA, orphaned, buggy. * libgnujaxp-java -- Free implementation of the jaxp API [220]Bug#381014: Request of maintainer, libgnujaxp-java obsoleted by classpath. * gtk-industrial-engine -- Flat-looking GTK+ 1.x engine from Ximian [221]Bug#380684: Request of maintainer, superseded by gtk2-engines. * passivetex -- Macros to process XSL formatting objects [222]Bug#380575: Request of maintainer, buggy, few users. * toolchain-source -- The GNU binutils and gcc source code [223]Bug#380250: Request of QA, orphaned, obsoleted by real toolchain. * kernel-patch-quota -- Netfilter QUOTA support patch [224]Bug#379327: Request of QA, obsolete, apparently unmaintained. * ida -- Image viewer & editor [225]Bug#379257: Request of QA, orphaned, contrib, few users. * aptconf -- Debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources [226]Bug#379037: Request of QA, orphaned, RC-buggy, unchanged since sarge. * timezoneconf -- Debconf interface to system timezone, date, and time [227]Bug#379035: Request of QA, orphaned, unsupportable buggy. * lambdacore -- Core database for lambdamoo [228]Bug#377623: Request of QA, orphaned, copyright issues. * rsplib -- Development package for rsplib1 [229]Bug#340940: Request of QA, orphaned, out-of-date. * vaiostat -- Sony Vaio status and control kernel module [230]Bug#321693: Request of QA, request of maintainer, orphaned, inactive upstream. * radiuscontext -- RADIUS log parser and report generator [231]Bug#279592: Request of QA, orphaned, obsolete according to upstream. * fsh -- Fast remote command execution over rsh/ssh/lsh [232]Bug#396039: Request of maintainer obsoleted by openssh. * clutils -- Development files needed to compile programs that use clutils. [233]Bug#403389: Request of maintainer, obsoleted by ghdl. * xearth -- Show a rotating earth on your X root window [234]Bug#400948: Request of QA, orphaned, non-free, replaced by xplanet. * mediawiki1.5 -- math rendering plugin for MediaWiki [235]Bug#390491: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, superseded by mediawiki1.7. * gnome-think -- Hierarchical organiser and outliner [236]Bug#302261: Request of QA, orphaned, out-of-date, GNOME 1. * mozilla-locale-zh-cn -- Mozilla Simplified Chinese (China) language/region pack [237]Bug#378751: Request of QA, orphaned, Mozilla is obsolete. * mozilla-locale-zh-tw -- Mozilla Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) language/region pack [238]Bug#378752: Request of QA, orphaned, Mozilla is obsolete. * mozilla-locale-hu -- Hungarian menus for Mozilla [239]Bug#382906: Request of maintainer, Mozilla is obsolete. * gnome-presence-applet -- GNOME presence applet for Galago [240]Bug#384343: Request of maintainer, obsolete, abandoned upstream. * aca -- The Advanced nCurses API [241]Bug#384780: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, unused. * gwrapguile -- Development package for libgwrapguile1 [242]Bug#385417: Request of QA, orphaned, obsolete library. * ocaml-sha1 -- SHA1 library for OCaml [243]Bug#385916: Request of maintainer, superseded by libsha-ocaml. * amavis-ng -- AMaViS "Next Generation" helper program for Milter [244]Bug#386888: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, broken. * convertfs -- In-place filesystem conversion [245]Bug#386967: Request of maintainer, orphaned, unsuitable for release. * libconfigfile-perl -- Parses simple configuration files [246]Bug#387023: Request of maintainer, superseded by libconfig-file-perl. * gnoise -- GTK+ based wave file editor [247]Bug#387130: Request of maintainer, out-of-date. * guikachu -- Graphical PalmOS resource editor [248]Bug#387499: Request of QA, RC-buggy, uninstallable, unmaintained. * kudzu -- The Red Hat Linux hardware probing tool. [249]Bug#387638: Request of maintainer, FTBFS, not in etch, obsolete. * typo3-quickstart -- Typo3 Quickstart package with example pagetree [250]Bug#388764: Request of maintainer, obsolete. * typo3-testsite -- Site package to show the abilities of Typo3 [251]Bug#388767: Request of QA, obsolete. * grubconf -- GNOME2 based GNU GRUB configuration editor [252]Bug#389090: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, RC-buggy. * libtk-png-perl -- Perl5 module with PNG loader for Tk::Photo [253]Bug#389676: Request of maintainer, superseded by perl-tk, no rev-deps. * slate -- Virtual machine for Slate, a high-level programming language [254]Bug#389883: Request of maintainer, practically abandoned upstream, RC-buggy. * libpolyxmass -- Mass spectrometry library - development files [255]Bug#390640: Request of maintainer, obsolete. * kimdaba -- KDE tool for indexing, searching and viewing images by keywords [256]Bug#391252: Request of QA, superseded by kphotoalbum. * gxmms -- Simple GNOME applet to control the basic functions of BMP [257]Bug#391415: Request of QA, superseded by playground. * boson-base -- OpenGL wargame for KDE [258]Bug#391444: Request of maintainer, superseded by boson. * bamboo -- Website creation tool with wiki-like features [259]Bug#391652: Request of maintainer, out-of-date. * odontolinux -- Dental office management software (PHP4 + PostgreSQL) [260]Bug#391889: Request of QA, RC-buggy, no users, unmaintained, abandoned upstream. * bricolage -- Virtual Package to install full Bricolage CMS [261]Bug#392206: Request of maintainer, orphaned, shouldn't be released. * libapache2-mod-layout -- Apache2 web page content wrapper [262]Bug#392229: Request of maintainer, orphaned, buggy. * gnome-keyring-sharp -- C# bindings for the GNOME Keyring API [263]Bug#392427: Request of maintainer, obsolete. * tarcust -- Tarball filter [264]Bug#392868: Request of maintainer, superseded by tardy. * statdataml -- GNU Octave package for XML-based data exchange [265]Bug#392896: Request of QA, orphaned, better solutions exist. * gtkdevice -- GNU R Gtk device driver package [266]Bug#392898: Request of maintainer, superseded by r-cran-cairodevice. * honyaku-el -- Honyaku-damashii client for emacsen [267]Bug#392901: Request of QA, essentially useless. * wmbio -- Dockapp for windowmaker, which shows biorhythms [268]Bug#393028: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, very few users. * libsaxpath-java -- Java XPath engine for use on a variety of XML object models [269]Bug#393639: Request of maintainer, obsolete, abandoned upstream, superseded by libjaxen-java. * openoffice.org-soikko -- Finnish spell checking and hyphenation for OpenOffice.org [270]Bug#394862: Request of maintainer, unmaintained upstream, buggy, non-free, superseded by -voikko. * alicq -- Flexible ICQ client in pure Tcl/Tk [271]Bug#394968: Request of QA, abandoned upstream, orphaned, broken. * rsjog -- Handler for Sony Vaio "Jog Dial" [272]Bug#394969: Request of QA, abandoned upstream, orphaned, out-of-date. * rageircd -- Versatile and flexible IRC Server daemon [273]Bug#395345: Request of maintainer, unsuitable for unstable. * hubcot -- USB Hub mascot - utility [274]Bug#395502: Request of QA, RC-buggy, 2.4 kernel only. * wftk -- WorldForge Toolkit - a C++ widget toolkit [275]Bug#395914: Request of maintainer, RC-buggy. * felt -- Package for introductory level finite element analysis [276]Bug#395937: Request of QA, RC-buggy, unmaintained. * linpac -- Terminal for packet radio with mail client [277]Bug#395957: Request of QA, RC-buggy, unmaintained. * raccess -- Security Tool to audit remote systems [278]Bug#396202: Request of QA, obsolete, RC-buggy; abandoned upstream. * db2latex-xsl -- Stylesheets for processing DocBook XML files to LaTeX2e [279]Bug#396238: Request of QA, RC-buggy, abandoned upstream, replacement exists. * preview-latex -- Render LaTeX environments within Emacs [280]Bug#396602: Request of QA, obsolete. * chetcpasswd -- Change passwords using the browser [281]Bug#397241: Request of maintainer, RC-buggy, security issues. * zinc-compiler -- Compiler of Zinc, a functional logic programming language [282]Bug#397687: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, RC-buggy. * wildmenus.bundle -- Bundle for GNUstep applications to have a horizontal main menu [283]Bug#398389: Request of maintainer, superseded by etoile. * typo3-site-installer -- Typo3 site installer [284]Bug#398576: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, broken. * vdrift-data -- Data files for vdrift, a racing simulation [285]Bug#398678: Request of maintainer, superseded by vdrift. * dmenu -- Dynamic menu [286]Bug#398828: Request of maintainer, superseded by dwm-tools. * gecko-sharp -- CLI binding for the GtkMozEmbed library [287]Bug#400084: Request of maintainer, superseded by gecko-sharp2, RC-buggy. * lukemftpd -- Enhanced FTP daemon from NetBSD. [288]Bug#400281: Request of QA, unmaintained. * tfm-arphic -- Arphic "AR PL KaitiM Big5" TrueType font TeX font metric data [289]Bug#400282: Request of QA, superseded by latex-cjk-chinese-arphic. * dbbalancer -- PostgreSQL connection pool, load balancer and write-repl [290]Bug#400680: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream, superseded by pgpool. * zope-docfindereverywhere -- Find documentation for a Zope product using a doc tab [291]Bug#400729: Request of maintainer, unmaintained upstream, superseded by zope-docfindertab. * kernel-image-speakup-i386 -- Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.4.27-speakup [292]Bug#400845: Request of maintainer, out-of-date, broken with 2.6 kernels. * zope-cmfforum -- Forum module for the Zope content management framework [293]Bug#400864: Request of maintainer, unmaintained, does not work current version of Plone in unstable. * xnap-snapshot -- Powerful Java filesharing client [294]Bug#401139: Request of QA, RC-buggy, unmaintained. * xnap -- Plugin-based filesharing client [295]Bug#401140: Request of QA, RC-buggy, unmaintained. * python2.3-doc -- Documentation for the high-level object-oriented language Python [296]Bug#401406: Request of maintainer, obsolete. * sodipodi -- Vector based drawing program [297]Bug#402037: Request of maintainer, superseded by inkscape. * hula -- integrated mail & calendar system with simple interface [298]Bug#402125: Request of maintainer, RC-buggy and potentially abandoned upstream. * pftp -- Fast file transfer program [299]Bug#402554: Request of maintainer, not useful anymore. * libadabindx -- Ada binding to the X Window System and *tif [300]Bug#402587: Request of maintainer, orphaned, unmaintained upstream, RC-buggy, unused. * motifnls -- Files needed to run some Motif applications. [301]Bug#402774: Request of maintainer, RC-buggy, obsolete. * mozilla-locale-sl -- Mozilla Slovenian Language/Region Pack [302]Bug#384179: Request of maintainer, depends on obsolete Mozilla. * tktable -- Table extension for Tcl/Tk [303]Bug#387714: Request of maintainer, superseded by tktable2.9. * mozilla-locale-no-nb -- Mozilla Norwegian bokmål language add-on [304]Bug#388530: Request of maintainer, Mozilla is obsolete. * lodju -- Photo organiser and web gallery maker [305]Bug#390735: Request of maintainer, unused. * initrd-netboot -- Net-bootable kernel for use with diskless systems [306]Bug#393091: Request of QA, unusable, broken. * initrd-tools -- Tools to create initrd image for prepackaged Linux kernel [307]Bug#393092: Request of maintainer, out-of-date, unusable. * libmal -- Library of the functions in malsync [308]Bug#394544: Request of maintainer, abandoned upstream. * libpfm2 -- IA-64 Performance Monitor (PMU) -- run-time libraries [309]Bug#394564: Request of maintainer, deprecated, 2.4 kernels only. * zope-localizer -- Help build multilingual web sites and multilingual Zope products [310]Bug#396720: Request of maintainer, superseded by zope-cps-localizer. * zope-translationservice -- Location-aware translation service for Zope [311]Bug#396723: Request of maintainer, obsolete, superseded by zope-cps-translationservice. * zope-cmf1.5 -- Zope content management framework (CMF), 1.5 branch [312]Bug#396780: Request of maintainer, obsolete, superseded by zope-cmf1.6. * libgtk-mozembed-ruby -- Ruby 1.8 binding of GtkMozEmbed, gecko renderer [313]Bug#396952: Request of maintainer, superseded by ruby-gnome2. * pdfkit.framework -- GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content (library files) [314]Bug#398857: Request of maintainer, unused, superseded by popplerkit.framework. * mozilla-locale-es -- Mozilla Spanish Language/Region Package (dummy package) [315]Bug#401141: Request of QA, Mozilla has gone away. * mozilla-locale-es-es -- Mozilla Spanish Language/Region Package. [316]Bug#401142: Request of QA, Mozilla has gone away. * scripturechecks -- Bible translation tool - checker [317]Bug#401890: Request of maintainer, superseded by bibledit * fvwm95 -- Win95 lookalike Window Manager for X [318]Bug#404462: Request of QA, request of maintainer, unmaintained, abandoned upstream. * m17n-env -- Set up multilingual X environment [319]Bug#405034: Request of maintainer, unneeded. * iceweasel-locale-uk -- Iceweasel Ukrainian language/region package [320]Bug#402913: Request of maintainer, superseded by iceweasel-l10n. * libgdgeda -- GNU EDA -- Electronics design software -- gd development files [321]Bug#404545: Request of maintainer, obsolete. * python2.3 -- Interactive high-level object-oriented language [322]Bug#401407: Request of maintainer, superseded by python2.4. * python-iconvcodec -- Python universal Unicode codec, using iconv() [323]Bug#401634: Request of maintainer, superseded by python2.4. * python-cjkcodecs -- Python Unicode Codecs Collection for CJK Encodings [324]Bug#401675: Request of QA, superseded by python2.4. * socketapi -- Development package for socketapi1 [325]Bug#340939: Request of QA, superseded by kernel-implementation. * qla2x00 -- Source for the qla2x00 driver for kernel version 2.4 [326]Bug#366743: Request of QA, now part of linux-2.6. * kernel-patch-2.4-lowlatency -- Reduce the latency of the Linux kernel [327]Bug#384003: Request of QA, obsolete, 2.4 kernel only. * python-japanese-codecs -- Japanese Codecs for Python [328]Bug#406010: Request of QA, superseded by python2.4. * python-korean-codecs -- Korean Codecs for Python [329]Bug#406011: Request of QA, superseded by python2.4.

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