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Contents:
Debian Weekly News - October 5th, 2004 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Guile 1.6.5 has been released. (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.1.6 Development Release (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANN: python-ldap-2.0.3 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Debian Weekly News - October 5th, 2004 (fwd)
Date: 6 Oct 2004 18:05:05 GMT
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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/39/
Debian Weekly News - October 5th, 2004
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Welcome to this year's 39th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Robert Millan [1]reported that GNOME basically
[2]works on kfreebsd-gnu. The AGNULA Team has [3]released version
1.2.0 of DeMuDi using the Debian installer and supporting Custom
Debian Distributions. Santiago Garcia Mantinan [4]noticed that
current Debian CDs don't provide the required files to start the
installer from within DOS.
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2004/09/msg00001.html
2. http://people.debian.org/~rmh/kfreebsd-gnu/gnome.png
3. http://lwn.net/Articles/104837/
4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/09/msg00128.html
Debian-Installer Testing Candidate 2. Joey Hess [5]announced the
testing candidate 2 alias pre-release-candidate 2 (rc2) of the
debian-installer has been released, with lots of fun new features. In
only one week, the installer people want to start the release process
for rc2 itself. Christian Perrier additionally [6]announced a string
freeze on October 6th.
5. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_pre-rc2-2004-10-01-00-18.html
6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg00075.html
Status of the non-US Archive. Andreas Barth [7]investigated the
non-US archive and discovered that it does only contain two valid
packages: one for main and one in non-free. While [8]vtun will be
uploaded into the main archive, [9]PGP 5i cannot and somebody is
[10]willing to maintain it as well.
7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/09/msg00409.html
8. http://packages.debian.org/vtun
9. http://packages.debian.org/pgp5i
10. http://bugs.debian.org/237370
Dropping real 80386 Support? Andres Solomon [11]reported that the
Debian kernel team is considering to drop support for real 80386
machines because the i486 emulation patch is unmaintained and said to
be [12]insecure. Current versions of GCC generate i486 code so for a
real i386 the kernel emulation is required. Debian sarge cannot be
installed on such a machine due to the memory requirements, but older
releases can and be upgraded after their installation.
11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/10/msg00027.html
12. http://bugs.debian.org/250468
Release Policy Updates? Andreas Barth, who recently became a release
assistant, [13]discussed whether recommends to packages out of main
are permitted for packages in main. Since some package managers handle
recommends similar to dependencies this is bound to break. He noted
that packages in sarge have to be buildable in sarge, since otherwise
security support won't work. He also asked if it is ok for a package
in main to provide binary packages in main and contrib.
13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/10/msg00043.html
DebConf5 Preparations. Lars Wirzenius [14]put together [15]minutes
from the recent IRC meeting to prepare the upcoming [16]Debian
Conference in Finland, taking place from Friday, July 1 through
Monday, July 18, 2005. The first week is meant for working on various
issues, the middle weekend for social stuff, and the second week is
meant for talks. Andreas Schuldei [17]announced the possibility of
sponsorship for the trip.
14. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/10/msg00009.html
15. http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebConf5Meeting20041003
16. http://www.debconf.org/
17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/10/msg00002.html
State of the graphical Installer. Martin 'Joey' Schulze [18]asked
about the status of the [19]graphical frontend to the [20]installer,
Michael Cardenas once started. Colin Watson [21]listed several issues
he is working on and reported that most of his time in [22]Oldenburg
was spent doing this. Bart Cornelis [23]added that a Spanish company
called Tuxum were in the process of changing their installer (GPL) to
be a Qt frontend for the Debian installer.
18. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01892.html
19. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/gtk-frontend
20. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
21. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01904.html
22. http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2004/
23. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01894.html
Debian GNU/Hurd K7 CDs released. Philip Charles [24]announced the
[25]seventh iteration of the K-series [26]Debian GNU/Hurd CDs. He said
that the main feature of the K7 set is its quality. The main addition
over previous CDs packages is XFree86 4.3. The installation
instructions for the Debian GNU/Hurd CDs are located [27]here.
24. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2004/09/msg00084.html
25. http://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/debian-cd/K7/
26. http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/
27. http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd
Missing Package Conflicts. Frank Lichtenheld [28]reported about 42
packages that lack a conflict definition but contain the same file as
a different package without replacing it. This usually renders either
package uninstallable when the other one is already installed. Petter
Reinholdtsen [29]suggested to use the [30]popularity contest database
to decide upon popularity which files should be renamed to resolve
such a conflict.
28. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/09/msg01658.html
29. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00013.html
30. http://popcon.debian.org/
Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.
* [31]freenet6 -- Potential Information leak.
* [32]netkit-telnet -- Arbitrary code execution.
* [33]rp-pppoe -- Potential root compromise.
31. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-555
32. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-556
33. http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-557
New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [34]recently or contain important updates.
34. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main
* [35]alexandria -- GNOME application for managing book collections.
* [36]ams -- Realtime modular synthesiser for ALSA.
* [37]amsynth -- Two oscillator software synthesiser.
* [38]caps -- C* Audio Plugin Suite.
* [39]creox -- Real-time guitar effects.
* [40]dirmngr -- Module that handles certificate revocation lists
for gpgsm.
* [41]dnsdoctor -- DNS (Domain Name System) checking tool.
* [42]fityk -- General-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data
analysis.
* [43]harbour -- Compiler for the xBase superset language often
referred to as Clipper.
* [44]jackeq -- Routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple
sources.
* [45]magma -- Magma cluster abstraction - tool.
* [46]onak -- OpenPGP Key Server.
* [47]tclmagick -- Tcl bindings for ImageMagick.
* [48]viewglob -- Graphical display of directories referenced at the
shell prompt.
* [49]wmdonkeymon -- Shows the status of edonkey's downloads in
progress.
* [50]wmmisc -- Dock app that monitors your system.
35. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/alexandria
36. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ams
37. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/amsynth
38. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/caps
39. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/creox
40. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/dirmngr
41. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/dnsdoctor
42. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/fityk
43. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/harbour
44. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/jackeq
45. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/magma
46. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/onak
47. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/tclmagick
48. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/viewglob
49. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/wmdonkeymon
50. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/wmmisc
Debian Packages introduced last Week. Every day, a different Debian
package is [51]featured from the testing distribution. If you know
about an obscure package you think others should also know about, send
it to [52]Andrew Sweger. Debian package a day introduced the following
packages last week.
51. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/
52. http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=debaday
* [53]busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems.
* [54]exmh -- X user interface for MH mail.
* [55]vpnc -- Cisco-compatible VPN client.
* [56]rblcheck -- Tool to query RBL servers.
* [57]vsound -- Virtual loopback sound recorder and real audio
converter.
53. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/35972.html
54. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/36126.html
55. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/36452.html
56. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/36696.html
57. http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/36958.html
Want to continue reading DWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
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58. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/contributing
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:05:54 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Guile 1.6.5 has been released. (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new Guile release.
This is the next maintenance release for the 1.6 stable series.
You can find it here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.6.5.tar.gz.
Guile is Project GNU's extension language library, an interpreter for
Scheme, packaged as a library that you can link into your applications
to give them their own scripting language. Guile should eventually
support other languages as well, giving users of Guile-based
applications a choice of languages.
This is primarily a bugfix release. Highlights include:
- Various architecture (and compiler optimization) related bugs have
been fixed: these changes should improve the situation on at least
ia64, arm, m68k, alpha, and powerpc.
- SRFI-31 has been added (special form `rec' for recursive
evaluation). Try (use-modules (srfi srfi-31)).
- SRFI-39 has been added (parameter objects)
- SRFI-19 has been fixed: date-week-number now correctly respects
the requested day of week starting the week.
- SRFI-4 has been overhauled. Bugs have been fixed, and performance
may be improved in certain situations. Among other things, large
values in 64-bit homogeneous vectors should print correctly now.
- In the srfi-1 module's delete and delete! functions, the order of
the arguments to the "=" procedure now matches the SRFI-1
specification.
- Bugs have been fixed that prevented the (re)generation of
psyntax.pp.
- The use of scm_must_realloc() for memory which is scanned by GC
could trigger a GC scan of a free()d block of memory. This has
been fixed.
- array-map! and array-map-in-order! now require at least one source
array. Previously a call without any source arrays like
(array-map! array proc) would cause a segfault. Now such calls
are properly rejected.
- gethost no longer causes an exception when trying to throw an
exception.
- call-with-output-string won't segv on a closed port. Now an
exception is raised.
- open-pipe, open-input-pipe and open-output-pipe used to leave an
extra copy of their pipe file descriptor in the child, which was
normally harmless, but could prevent the parent seeing eof or a
broken pipe immediately. This has been fixed.
- Properties set with set-source-properties! can now be read back
correctly with source-properties.
- Guile is now compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing when gcc is
detected.
- The --enable-htmldoc option has been removed from 'configure',
because support for translating the documentation into HTML is now
always provided. Use 'make html'.
The Guile WWW page is located at
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
It contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists,
among other things.
Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix
releases numbered 1.6.*. The next stable Guile release with
significant functional improvements will be version 1.8.0.
In between 1.6.x and 1.8.x, you can follow Guile development in CVS
and in the Guile mailing lists (see ANON-CVS and HACKING). Guile
builds from the development branch of CVS will have version number
1.7.0.
Guile versions with an odd middle number, i.e. 1.5.* are unstable
development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions.
This has been the case since the 1.3.* series.
Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
--
Rob Browning
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:06:04 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.1.6 Development Release (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hi,
a new development snapshot of GIMP 2.1 is now available from
ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:
http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors
Actually we wanted to have the first pre-release for 2.2 out by now
but there are still a couple of minor API and UI changes that need to
be done. So this is another development snapshot on the road to GIMP
2.2. Hopefully the next release will be called 2.2-pre1 then.
This also means that we need to freeze the UI, translatable strings
and the APIs very soon now. So if you have any patches pending, make
sure you tell us about it. We will soon have to reject further changes
for 2.2. I still hope that we will at least be very close to the 2.2
release by the end of this month.
Please note that you cannot install gimp-2.1 side-by-side with
gimp-2.0 into the same prefix. A number of files will clash, so please
use a separate prefix to install this development version! For
details, please read the file INSTALL.
Here's an overview of the changes since 2.1.6 was released:
Overview of Changes in GIMP 2.1.6
=================================
- Added more drawable previews (Color Exchange, DOG, Deinterlace,
Engrave, Oilify, Ripple, Shift).
- Added new preview widget that shows a scaled view of the full
drawable. Use it for Apply Lens, Blinds, Channel Mixer, Destripe,
Emboss, Illusion, Map Color, Max RGB, Plasma, Polar, Solid Noise,
Supernova, Whirl and Pinch.
- Added "Open as Layer" functionality to the menus.
- Implemented the recent-file-spec for shared storage of a list of
recently used files (really URIs).
- Cleaned up plug-in procedure handling. Added the possibility to let
plug-ins and scripts run using a private GimpContext.
- Added multi-line text entries for Script-Fu and Gimp-Python.
- Cleaned up PDB API for brushes, gradients, palettes and patterns.
Deprecated lots of functions and added saner replacements. Added
gimp-context-* PDB namespace with replacements for some of the
deprecated stuff.
- Let GimpView handle pixbuf previews. Added a (themable) drop shadow
to image-file previews.
- Cleaned up the dbbrowser and plugindetails code and GUI and factored
out common code. Renamed both executables and menu entries.
- Made tools cancelable with <Escape>.
- Let GimpDialog add a help button to give easier access to the help pages.
Contributors:
Michael Natterer, Sven Neumann, David Odin, Maurits Rijk, Dave Neary,
Manish Singh, Robert Oegren, Kevin Cozens, Kevin Turner, Dov Grobgeld,
Joao S. O. Bueno, Michael Schumacher, Jonathan Levi, Daniel Egger
Happy GIMPing
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.python.announce,comp.lang.python
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:21:09 +0200
Subject: ANN: python-ldap-2.0.3
Reply-To: python-list@python.org,
Find a new pre-release of python-ldap:
http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/
python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory
servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for
that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related
stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema).
================================================================
Released 2.0.3 2004-10-06
Changes since 2.0.2:
* Added support for LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation
(see RFC 3062)
Demo/:
* Added passwd_ext_op.py
Modules/:
* Added l_ldap_passwd() in LDAPObject.c
Lib/:
* Added methods passwd() and passwd_s() to
ldap.ldapobject.LDAPObject
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