Debian Weekly News - May 30th, 2000

["Ravikant K.Rao" <ravikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

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>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Joey> Debian Weekly News
    Joey> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ Debian
    Joey> Weekly News - May 30th, 2000
                                    
    Joey> Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian
    Joey> developer community.

    Joey> "The second test cycle starts now", [8]writes Richard
    Joey> Braakman. No more package uploads will be accepted except
    Joey> those essential to the boot floppies and CD image
    Joey> creation. Richard earlier removed a [9]bunch of packages
    Joey> with release critical bugs. Of the 80 or so RC bugs that

    Joey> according to Wichert Akkerman. Debian's security team needs
    Joey> to find a few more people they can trust to add to the

    Joey> With that said, security fixes in frozen this week include a
    Joey> remote shell exploit in [12]qpopper, an archiver security
    Joey> problem in [13]mailman, a SSL certificate security problem
    Joey> in [14]netscape, and two denial of services fixes in [15]X.

    Joey> And speaking of X, Branden Robinson [16]explained why he has
    Joey> no plans to make .debs for X 4.0.0. He cited instability
    Joey> problems, lack of support for the sparc architecture, and
    Joey> lots of fixes upstream. "Over two hundred distinct patches
    Joey> have been applied to the upstream CVS tree to date." Branden
    Joey> hopes to instead package X 4.0.1 when it is released in
    Joey> mid-June.

    Joey> Another Debian-based distribution has appeared. [17]TimeSys
    Joey> is a distribution targeted at hard real time
    Joey> applications. Read more in [18]this Upside article. Judging
    Joey> by [19]this page, the actual distribution seems to be a
    Joey> fairly standard Debian plus some additional "TimeSys
    Joey> Linux/RT modules".

    Joey> References
    Joey> 8. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#2
    Joey> 9. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-0005/msg00012.html
    Joey> 10. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0005/msg01889.html
    Joey> 11. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0005/msg01856.html
    Joey> 12. http://bugs.debian.org/64649
    Joey> 13. http://bugs.debian.org/64841
    Joey> 14. http://bugs.debian.org/64650
    Joey> 15. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/mail#1
    Joey> 16. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0005/msg01828.html
    Joey> 17. http://timesys.com/products/linux.html
    Joey> 18. http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3922f93b0
    Joey> 19. http://www.timesys.com/products/linuxoptions.html


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