1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
|
#use wml::debian::weeklynews::header PAGENAME="1999-10-26" SUMMARY="The size of Debian a concern; package pools."
<p>
<b>Welcome</b> to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community. With the freeze date quickly approaching, things are heating up
this week.
</p>
<p>
<b>On the 30th a BugSquash party will be held</b>, in which as many developers
as possible will work on fixing many release critical bugs. Coordination will
be via IRC. Previous BugSquash parties have been successful at fixing lots
of bugs; if you have free time this weekend your
<a href="mail#mail1">participation</a> is encouraged.
</p>
<p>
<b>The size of Debian continues to be a concern this week.</b> Potato is too
big to fit on two CD's of binary packages, and
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9910/msg01297.html">almost</a>
everyone feels Debian is becoming unwieldy. The 47MB package mentioned last
week was removed from the archive at the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9910/msg01242.html">request</a>
of its maintainer, and other removals are being considered.
</p>
<p>
<b>Work on the boot floppies continues</b> on many fronts, including
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9910/msg01245.html">hardware
autodetection</a>, work on
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-9910/msg00640.html">busybox</a>,
and <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-9910/msg00532.html">\
discussions</a> of how to make them use an initrd.
</p>
<p>
<b>The dpkg bug list is now smaller and more organized.</b>
Dpkg has <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/dpkg">less than 200 bugs</a> now.
This amazing feat (dpkg used to have 500+ bugs) is the result of lots of
work on dpkg, as well as a <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/dpkg-iwj">new
section</a> in the BTS for upstream dpkg bugs.
</p>
<p>
<b>A belated security note</b>: A fixed apmd package was
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-changes-9910/msg00035.html">\
released</a> into stable last week. It closes a buffer overflow security hole.
</p>
<p>
<b>If you represent Debian in any way</b> Wichert wants to hear from you.
He's <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9910/msg01449.html">\
compiling a list</a> of people who represent Debian in LPI, LSB, etc, to make
it public on the web.
</p>
<p>
Lalo Martins made a
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project-9910/msg00052.html">\
proposal</a> to <b>make Debian use package pools starting as soon as potato is
frozen</b>. He intends to call for a vote in two weeks. Package pools have been
frequently discussed in the past, but no action has ever been taken to
implement them; perhaps this will start the ball rolling, though it might be
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project-9910/msg00070.html">\
difficult</a> to implement everything in time. Anthony Towns posted a
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-project-9910/msg00060.html">\
counterproposal</a> that has many of the nice features of package pools
without requiring any major changes to the archive.
</p>
<p>
As usual, Debian-JP news is
<a href="http://www.debian.or.jp/News/weekly/current/issue/">available</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>New packages</b> in Debian this week include the following, and 59 more:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/irda-common">irda-common</a>: IrDA
management utilities
(<a href="../../../../Packages/unstable/misc/irda-tools.html">tools</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libiodbc2">libiodbc2</a>: iODBC
Driver Manager
(<a href="../../../../Packages/unstable/devel/libiodbc2-dev.html">dev</a>)</li>
<li>lsfcc: Linux Socket Filter Command Compiler</li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/sawmill">sawmill</a>: a highly
configurable window manager for X11</li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/xapple2">xapple2</a>: Apple ][
Emulator</li>
<li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xviddetect">xviddetect</a>: PCI X
Server Detector/configurator</li>
</ul>
<p>
<b>Debian at ALS through the eyes of Branden Robinson</b> filters out some of
the <a href="../../oldurl?http://master.debian.org/~branden/99-10-15=12:35:04.html">best
webcam pictures</a> from ALS with amusing commentary. If that's not
enough, here are <a href="../../oldurl?http://netgod.net/als/">even more pictures</a>.
</p>
<p>
Thanks to Randolph Chung and Katsura S. Yoshio for
<a href="../../contributing">contributing</a>.
</p>
#use wml::debian::weeklynews::footer
|
