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Debian Weekly News - March 14th, 2000
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
Another Bug Horizon has been set for March 27th. [8]115 packages are
in danger of being removed and once again some very important packages
are among them. Richard Braakman also [9]mentioned that he hopes to
start the first test cycle "right after that date", and only important
bugfixes are now allowed into frozen. Debian 2.1 has been out for a
year as of this week.
The new-maintainer process is beginning to reopen. Dale Scheetz
[10]posted a call for sponsors of prospective new maintainers to
submit them to the application process. This will be used to test the
identification process.
Deja vu: Important new releases of [11]X, the kernel, and apache are
out or looming on the horizon, and Debian is in the middle of a
freeze. What to do? Mainly [12]discuss the same issues we did last
time: package pools, changing release frequency, updates to stable,
etc.
Debian GNU/Linux For Dummies is due in May, according to [13]this web
page. With [14]7 Debian books already in print, in 3 languages, it's
clear we've reached the point where another Debian book is no big
deal. It's more interesting to consider how a "Dummies" book with
Debian on the cover may change our userbase..
Debian Project Leader elections [15]close on the 16th. Note that DWN
incorrectly reported they would close last week; the date on the
ballots was wrong. If you still haven't voted, a few days remain.
A security fix for mtr is [16]available.
New packages in Debian this week include the following and [17]6 more:
* [18]netscape-base-472: 4.72 base support for netscape
* [19]netscape-smotif-472: This installs a standard set of netscape
programs
* [20]netscape-smotif-472-libc5: This installs a standard set of
netscape programs (libc5 version)
* [21]netscape-java-472: Netscape Java support for version 4.72
* [22]communicator-base-472: Communicator base support for version
4.72 ([23]help, [24]static motif bin, [25]static motif bin
(libc5), [26]spell-check)
* [27]navigator-base-472: Navigator base support for version 4.72
([28]help, [29]static motif bin, [30]static motif bin (libc5))
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References
8.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-0003/msg00015.html
9.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-0003/msg00014.html
10.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-0003/msg00013.html
11.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0003/msg00534.html
12.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0003/msg00495.html
13. http://www.buy.com/books/product.asp?sku=30576349
14. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/distrib/books
15.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-0003/msg00011.html
16. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/security/2000/20000309
17. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-20000313.html
18.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-base-472.html
19.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-smotif-472.html
20.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-smotif-472-libc5.html
21.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape-java-472.html
22.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-base-472.html
23.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-nethelp-472.html
24.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-smotif-472.html
25.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-smotif-472-libc5.html
26.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/communicator-spellchk-472.html
27.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-base-472.html
28.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-nethelp-472.html
29.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-smotif-472.html
30.
http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/navigator-smotif-472-libc5.html
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