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Martin Schulze | 3 Jun 2003 21:58
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Debian Weekly News - June 3rd, 2003

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Welcome to this year's 22nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Petter Reinholdtsen [1]announced a new
Skolelinux CD [2]image a while ago that fixes many bugs and uses the
debian-installer already. Mario Lang urgently needs [3]help fixing
bugs in the speakup kernel packages, otherwise the package has to be
abandoned.

 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-0305/msg00000.html
 2. ftp://developer.skolelinux.no/skolelinux-cd/
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility-0305/msg00015.html

Discussion about Debian on the Mac. This Slashdot [4]posting
complains about the difficulty of installing Debian on an iBook and
says: "Knoppix has certainly made it easier to put Debian on x86
machines, but does such a thing exist for Macs?" In the discussion,
some readers argued that installing Debian is not that difficult
(possibly even easier on a Mac) and that package management is more
important, given that you only want to install once. Others mentioned
[5]Gentoo's live [6]CD for PowerPC.

 4. http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/05/25/2217237.shtml?tid=106&tid=185
 5. http://gentoo.org/
 6. http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc4/ppc/livecd/allstages/
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Martin Schulze | 10 Jun 2003 21:19
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Debian Weekly News - June 10th, 2003

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Welcome to this year's 23rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. There is a nice little [1]quiz up at BBspot
which correlates your personality with an operating system. Amazingly
enough, Debian is one of the possible outcomes. Find out if you are a
true Debian user! Unfortunately, the result is printed as a graphics,
lynx and w3m users are kept out apparently.

 1. http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php

Debian X Strike Force Subversion Repository. Branden Robinson
[2]announced that Debian's XFree86 packages are becoming
team-maintained. In practice they have always been to some extent,
thanks to contributions large and small from many people. As another
improvement Branden has established a Subversion [3]repository. With
the Debian XFree86 packages under version control, he expects the
quality and pace of the work to increase.

 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-x-0306/msg00039.html
 3. http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/

Freedesktop Menu System. Chris Cheney [4]asked what was going to
happen to plans for the Debian menu system to migrate to the
[5]desktop menu specification from freedesktop.org. Bill Allombert,
the menu system maintainer, [6]replied that he wasn't sure what the
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Martin Schulze | 17 Jun 2003 22:28
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Debian Weekly News - June 17th, 2003

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Welcome to this year's 24th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. A [1]survey demonstrated a high level of
[2]interest in PCs preloaded with GNU/Linux across the world. Antonio
Trueba Gayol [3]discovered a [4]picture taken by the Kernel
developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which explains the [5]story of Tux and
is believed to originate from the Bristol Zoo (or the Canberra
National Zoo and Aquarium).

 1. http://www.wewantlinux.org/pickcountry.php
 2. http://www.wewantlinux.org/responsereport.php
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa-0306/msg00012.html
 4. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/penguin_sign.jpg
 5. http://penguin.uk.linux.org/

Removing Automake 1.5. Eric Dorland would like to [6]remove automake
1.5 from Debian. It is said to contain a lot of bugs and is
unsupported upstream. Newer versions (1.6 and 1.7) can generally work
with Makefile.am files written for 1.5. Debian already ships
automake1.4 automake1.5, automake1.6 and automake1.7. Eric would like
to get rid of automake1.5 before automake1.8 comes out. However, 28
packages still define a dependency to this package.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0306/msg00006.html
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Martin Schulze | 25 Jun 2003 12:41
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Debian Weekly News - June 24th, 2003

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Welcome to this year's 25th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Debian 3.0 has been on the [1]cover of the
Australian [2]Australian Personal Computer magazine for the first
time ever. Rob Savoye [3]reported an interesting experience of
bringing up a rack of 20 dual processor Itanium II machines (HP
zx6000s), over a 48 hour period. All of them are now running Debian.

 1. http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/node.php?id=972
 2. http://www.apcmag.com/
 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64-0305/msg00008.html

Security Update Procedure. Matt Zimmerman [4]noticed that many
package maintainers are not aware of the recommended methods for
handling security issues in their packages. Therefore he urges anyone
who participates in package maintenance to read the relevant
[5]section in the [6]Developer's Reference which documents the
current recommended procedures. It has recently been updated with
additional details and clarifications.

 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0306/msg00010.html
 5. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-security
 6. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/

Freeze Date Estimate. Drew Scott Daniels [7]talked about freeze date
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Martin Schulze | 1 Jul 2003 23:40
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Debian Weekly News - July 1st, 2003

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Welcome to this year's 26th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. The South Australian government [1]discusses a
[2]bill that requires government departments to use Free Software
where practicable. British scientists found out that [3]debugging in
open source projects is always faster than in closed source projects.
Eben Moglen, legal advisor of the [4]Free Software Foundation
released a [5]paper in which he tries to correct confusing use of the
term "Linux".

 1. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6651968%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 2. http://www.linuxsa.org.au/oss-bill/open-source-bill.pdf
 3. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306511
 4. http://www.fsf.org/
 5. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/sco-statement.html

Abuse of Changelog Entries. Gerfried Fuchs [6]explained in detail how
changelog entries should not be abused by package maintainers and how
bugs should be closed instead. The general rule is that if there has
been no change made to close a bug, don't close it with a changelog
entry. If a new upstream version fixes some bugs, details should be
written as well.

 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0306/msg00016.html
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