Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:20:16 -0800 From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> To: debian-news@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Weekly News - February 16th, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Weekly News http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ Debian Weekly News - February 16th, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer community. The candidates for Debian Project Leader participated on a debate on IRC. Issues discussed included new-maintainer, dealing with Debian's growth, ports to other OS's, the infamous Debian cabal, and the future of Debian. [8]A transcript is available, and the [9]debate web site also has speeches and platforms to help you get to know the candidates. Elections start in one week. Speaking as release manager, Richard Braakman outlined his [10]new plan for cutting down on the number of [11]release critical bugs. The plan centers around the "Bug Horizon", which is now set for the 28th. Any package that passes through the bug horizon with release critical bugs that have been unchanged for 2 weeks will be removed from Debian. This is rather draconian, but seems likely to be quite effective at motivating people to fix release critical bugs! Version 2.2.7 of the boot floppies has been released, and as usual anyone can help the boot floppies team by [12]testing the new release. Security fixes this week included fixed versions of [13]make and [14]ntop, and minor fixes to [15]mirrormagic and [16]slrn. Lots of Roxen modules were uploaded to unstable this week. The following packages are also brand-new to Debian, along with [17]121 more. * [18]cadaver: command-line client for WebDAV server * [19]dclock: Digital clock for X Windows with flexible display. * [20]epplets: Epplets for the Enlightenment Window Manager ([21]dev, [22]lib) * [23]ewipe: Yet another presentation tool based on Tcl/Tk * [24]libcdk4: Curses Development Kit ([25]dev, [26]examples, [27]perl interface, [28]perl examples, [29]perl widgets) * [30]palbart: An enhanced version of the PAL PDP8 assembler * [31]sporum: a powerful Web-based discussion forum. Followups to last week's news: * The Debian for kids project that started last week has been renamed Debian Jr., and now has a [32]website listing the goals of the project. * The reorganized new-maintainer team has spent the past week working on a [33]procedure for processing new maintainers. Interested parties can follow the team's discussions on the [34]nm-discuss mailing list. _________________________________________________________________ References 8. http://www.debian.org/~treacy/debate/transcript.html 9. http://www.debian.org/~treacy/debate/ 10. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-0002/msg00011.html 11. http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/ 12. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-testing-0002/msg00056.html 13. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-0002/msg01361.html 14. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-0002/msg01367.html 15. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-0002/msg01364.html 16. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-0002/msg00920.html 17. http://master.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-20000116.html 18. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/cadaver.html 19. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/dclock.html 20. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/epplets.html 21. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/libepplet-dev.html 22. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/libepplet0.html 23. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/ewipe.html 24. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/libs/libcdk4.html 25. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libcdk-dev.html 26. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/libcdk-examples.html 27. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libcdk-perl.html 28. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libcdk-perl-examples.html 29. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/interpreters/libcurses-widgets-perl.html 30. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/otherosfs/palbart.html 31. http://master.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/sporum.html 32. http://www.debian.org/~synrg/debian-kids/ 33. http://cipsa.physik.uni-freiburg.de/pipermail/nm-discuss/2000-February/000003.html 34. http://cipsa.physik.uni-freiburg.de/mailman/listinfo/nm-discuss -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-news-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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