Debian 每週快訊 - 2006年07月11日

歡迎閲讀本年度第二十八期的 DWN，每週 Debian 社羣快訊。 Bruce Perens 提出警告，專利擁有者在對 Red Hat 興訟後，正準備對自由軟件開發人員提出訴訟。Steinar Gunderson 注意到 buildd 網絡在這幾天快的令人驚訝，一個小時之內套件已經被編譯成 8 種不同架構的版本。

【debian-devel 郵遞論壇】 Cesare Leonardi 想知道哪些人被認為是參與 debian-devel 郵遞論壇上的討論的一份子，因為一些信件表現出的態度給人一種非貢獻程式碼的參與者在郵遞論壇上只是次級的成員的印象。Matthew Garrett 表示，這僅僅意味著如果一個人如果沒有參與 Debian 的開發，那麼他並不被認為可以對這個計畫提出要求。

Hidden Files in Debian Packages. Klaus Ethgen noticed that several packages add hidden files inside of /usr. Linas 權irblis added that these files may confuse security scanners and Henrique de Moraes Holschuh stated that it is a bad form to have hidden files anywhere but under the user's home directories. Mike Hommey revealed that the mentioned file helps component registration on upgrade and Joey Hess explained that mooix uses dotfiles as a flag to mark objects.

【在 Debian Kernel 下使用 Bootsplash 圖形】 Paul van der Vlis 詢問在不自行編、譯直接使用 Debian kernel 的情形下，是否有辦法使用圖形化的開機畫面（boot graphic）。Paul Wise 指出，在 experimental 中的 splashy 套件可以達成這個目的，因為它是 user-land 的程式，不需要 kernel patch 即可運作。

【相依性處理】 Andreas Barth 表示，他們和 Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre（RMLL）的研究人員會面，並就 Debian 中的套件相依性處理進行交流。Debian 套件的相依關係可以被轉換成 Boolean satisfiability problem（SAT），之後用一般的處理程式即可判別。這樣的方式引導出一些有趣的應用，像是 Debian 天氣報指出目前套件可以正常安裝的程度，或是可以用 SAT temperature 來表示解決某組相依性的困難程度等。

【下一屆 Debian Conference 將在 Edinburgh 舉辦】 在漫長的討論後， Neil McGovern 宣佈下一屆 Debian Conference 將在英國的 Edinburgh 舉辦。此次爭取主辦的還有波希尼亞的 Sarajevo。兩地在會前都已經過評估，並且和當地的主辦團隊有充分的討論。

【安全更新】您知道該怎麼做。如果您安裝了下列任何套件，請務必更新系統。

DSA 1105: xine-lib -- Denial of service.
DSA 1106: ppp -- Privilege escalation.
DSA 1107: gnupg -- Denial of service.
DSA 1108: mutt -- Arbitrary code execution.

【新的或值得注意的軟件套件】 下列套件是最近被加到 unstable Debian 檔案庫或是有重大更新。

adept-installer — Simple user interface for application management.
bonfire — CD/DVD burning application.
buildbot — System to automate the compile/test cycle.
cl-launch — Uniform frontend to running Common Lisp code from the shell.
cl-soap — Open Source implementation of SOAP for Common Lisp.
codeine — Simple KDE video player.
collectd — Statistics collection daemon.
curlftpfs — Filesystem to access FTP hosts based on FUSE and cURL.
dchroot-dsa — Execute commands in a chroot environment.
facter — Library for retrieving facts from operating systems.
freetennis — Free Tennis - simulation game.
gadmintools — GTK+ server administration tools.
geany — Fast and lightweight IDE.
gnome-hearts — The classic hearts card game for the GNOME desktop.
gplanarity — Simple puzzle game involving untangling planar graphs.
haxml — Utilities for using XML documents with Haskell.
hpodder — Tool to scan and download podcasts (podcatcher).
icon-naming-utils — Script for maintaining backwards compatibility of Tango Project.
kbfx — Alternative to K-Menu for KDE.
khmerconverter — Converts between legacy Khmer encodings and Unicode.
kolabadmin — Administration tool for kolab groupware server.
kwlan — Wpasupplicant frontend for KDE.
lastmp — MPD client for lastfmsubmitd.
mailtextbody — Tool to return the body of an email message.
menhir — Parser generator for OCaml.
mg — Microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor.
mini-httpd — Small HTTP server.
openmpi-bin — High performance message passing library.
pengupop — Online multiplayer clone of Bust a Move.
picprog — Microchip PIC serial programmer software.
planet — Flexible feed aggregator.
pubtal — Template driven web site builder for small sites.
puppet — Centralised configuration management for networks.
sbaz — Scala Bazaars package-distribution system.
scala — Scala programming language.
tcpser — Emulate a Hayes compatible modem.
twolame — MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder (command line frontend).
uswsusp — Tools to use userspace software suspend provided by Linux.
vdrift — Open Source drift racing simulation.
vzctl — Server virtualisation solution.
wbrazilian — Brazilian Portuguese wordlist.
wikipediafs — View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files.
wmii2 — Lightweight tabbed and tiled X11 window manager, version 2.
wportuguese — European Portuguese wordlist.
xapian-tools — Basic tools for Xapian search engine library.

【孤兒套件】本週又有 7 個套件變成孤兒啦！他們需要新的維護者照顧。這造成目前總共有 321 個孤兒套件。非常感謝那些前維護者對於自由軟件社羣的貢獻。請閲覽 WNPP 網頁查詢完整的列表。如果你有興趣接手任一個套件的話，請手加上一個臭蟲報告並把標題改成 ITA。devscripts 套件中的 wnpp-alert 程式可以幫您找出有哪些孤兒套件裝在您系統上。

encore — Core database for lambdamoo. (Bug#377620)
ghostcore — Core database for lambdamoo. (Bug#377621)
jhcore — Jay's House Core, an enhanced core database for lambdamoo. (Bug#377622)
lambdacore — Core database for lambdamoo. (Bug#377623)
lambdamoo — A server for an online multiuser virtual world. (Bug#377624)
lambdamoo-docs — LambdaMOO user and programmer manuals. (Bug#377625)
ratmenu — Creates X menus from the shell. (Bug#377626)

【被移除的套件】 過去一週內，有 86 個套件被移出 Debian 檔案庫了：

siptoolbox — Scilab image processing toolbox (SIP)
Bug#307365: Request of QA: orphaned, unbuildable, has never been part of a stable release.
okle — DVD player for KDE
Bug#333816: Request of QA, orphaned, superseded by kaffeine.
cvsbook — Open Source Development with CVS, the book
Bug#337849: Request of maintainer, outdated and new version unpackagable, long time RFAed.
mozilla-firefox-locale-ar — Mozilla Firefox Arabic Language/Region Package
Bug#348355: Request of maintainer, superseded by mozilla-firefox-locale-all.
skk — SKK Dictionary server
Bug#353627: Request of QA, orphaned, RC bug, out of date.
drsync — Wrapper for file synchronisation via rsync
Bug#354843: Request of maintainer, orphaned, RC bug, dead.
apcd — APC Smart UPS daemon
Bug#358513: Request of maintainer: obsolete, use apcupsd.
mozilla-firefox-locale-tr — Mozilla Firefox Turkish Language/Region Package
Bug#359202: Request of maintainer, superseded by mozilla-firefox-locale-all.
buildtool — Portable build infrastructure
Bug#359259: Request of maintainer, dead, no longer supported, rarely used.
vdradmin — Web-based administration tool for vdr
Bug#359951: Request of maintainer, superseded by vdradmin-am.
drbd — RAID 1 over TCP/IP for Linux utilities
Bug#361263: Request of maintainer, obsolete; replaced by drbd0.7 and drbd8.
kernel-patch-uml — User-mode Linux (kernel patch)
Bug#361607: Request of QA, obsolete.
eudc — Emacs Unified Directory Client
Bug#361895: Request of maintainer, merged in to emacs21.
xen — Patch to Linux for the Xen sub-architecture
Bug#362026: Request of QA: obsolete, superseded by xen-3.0.
worker-doc — Documentation for the Worker file manager
Bug#362212: Request of maintainer, dead upstream.
zope-cmf1.4 — Zope content management framework (CMF), 1.4 branch
Bug#362284: Request of maintainer, superseded by zipe-cmf1.
zope-i18nlayer — Fully transparent multilingual content solution for zope/plone
Bug#362286: Request of maintainer, low usage; better alternatives is zope-linguaplone.
zope-i18nfolder — Zope product for handling multilingual folders
Bug#362287: Request of maintainer, low usage; better alternatives is zope-linguaplone.
zope-portaltransport — Subscription service for cmf content types
Bug#362290: Request of maintainer, low usage; no rev-deps.
zope-zattachmentattribute — Simple attachment handler for zope products
Bug#362303: Request of maintainer, superseded by zope-attachmentfield.
zope-zaaplugins — Collection of ZAttachment plugins
Bug#362304: Request of maintainer, superseded by zope-attachmentfield.
kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27 — Build infrastructure for kernel version 2.4.27-apus
Bug#362319: Request of maintainer, obsolete.
liboil0.2 — Library of Optimized Inner Loops
Bug#362506: Request of maintainer, superseded by liboil0.3.
resmgr — Resource manager library [development files]
Bug#362822: Request of maintainer, security problems; largely obsoleted by udev.
koffice-i18n — Afrikaans (af) translations for KOffice
Bug#362841: Request of maintainer, superseded by koffice-l10n.
dacode — Powerful and full-featured news engine written in PHP
Bug#363063: Request of maintainer, unmaintained upstream; obsolete.
gnome2-user-docs — GNOME 2 User's Guide
Bug#363941: Request of maintainer, superseded by gnome-user-docs.
timecode — C++ hierarchy which controls and describes time code
Bug#364055: Request of QA, broken.
ucd-snmp — NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Library
Bug#364094: Request of maintainer, superseded by net-snmp; dead upstream.
nvidia-modules-i386 — NVIDIA binary kernel module
Bug#364218: Request of maintainer, superseded by nvidia-graphics-modules-i386.
cherrypy — Python-based tool for developing dynamic web sites
Bug#364432: Request of maintainer, obsolete; superseded by python-cherrypy.
xsim — X Simple Input Method
Bug#364618: Request of maintainer, dead upstream; alternatives exist.
kernel-patch-adamantix — Kernel patches introduced in Adamantix
Bug#364684: Request of maintainer, RC-buggy; unmaintained.
rsbac-admin — Rule Set Based Access Control administrative utilities
Bug#364685: Request of maintainer, RC-buggy; unmaintained.
mindi-partimagehack — Disk partition imaging utility for Mindi/Mondo
Bug#364701: Request of maintainer,superseded by ntfsclone; dead upstream.
libmysqlclient-lgpl — LGPL-licensed client library for MySQL databases
Bug#366590: Request of maintainer, obsolete.
libhonyaku-damashii-ruby — Honyakudamashii client library for Ruby
Bug#367676: Request of maintainer, obsolete.
liboptparse-ruby — Command line option parser class for Ruby 1.6
Bug#367896: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
drb — Distributed Ruby for Ruby 1.6
Bug#367898: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
libcsv-ruby — CSV data format parse module for ruby1.6
Bug#367899: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
aget — Multithreaded HTTP Download Accelerator
Bug#367900: Request of maintainer, dead upstream.
xmlrpc4r — XML-RPC support for Ruby 1.6
Bug#367902: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
webrick — Simple HTTP Server Toolkit for Ruby 1.6.x
Bug#367904: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
erb — Tiny eRuby for Ruby 1.6
Bug#367908: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
libopenssl-ruby — OpenSSL interface for Ruby
Bug#367917: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
libmutexm-ruby — Yet another mutex library for Ruby 1.6
Bug#367926: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
libnet-acl-ruby — Simple Access Control Class for Ruby 1.6
Bug#367927: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
ruby-eserver — Generic multi-threaded e-service server in Ruby 1.6.x
Bug#367928: Request of maintainer, ruby 1.6 removal.
alltraxclock2 — Analog clock plugin for GKrellM2
Bug#368123: Request of QA, orphaned; duplicate of alltraxclock.
moniwiki — MoniWiki is yet another WikiEngine written in PHP
Bug#368153: Request of QA, orphaned.
sdl-ttf1.2 — TrueType font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer
Bug#368621: Request of maintainer, obsolete.
jython — Python seamlessly integrated with Java
Bug#368791: Request of QA, orphaned, obsolete.
libcatalyst-model-dbic-perl — DBix::Class Model for Catalyst Framework
Bug#369558: Request of maintainer, superseded by libcatalyst-modules-perl.
spidermonkey — Development files for the SpiderMonkey JS library
Bug#369887: Request of maintainer, superseded by xulrunner.
xfce4-iconbox — Iconbox for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment
Bug#370001: Request of maintainer, superseded by xfce4-panel.
xfce4-toys — Eyes plugin for Xfce4 panel and xfce4-tips
Bug#370003: Request of maintainer, superseded by xfce4-session.
xfcalendar — Time-managing application for the Xfce desktop environment
Bug#370004: Request of maintainer, superseded by orage.
xfce4-systray — Systray panel plugin for Xfce4 panel
Bug#370000: Request of maintainer, superseded by xfce4-panel.
xfce4-showdesktop-plugin — Show desktop button for the Xfce4 panel
Bug#370005: Request of maintainer, superseded by xfce4-panel.
xfce4-trigger-launcher — Panel plugin to start/stop programs
Bug#370109: Request of maintainer, superseded by xfce4-panel.
netsaint-statd — Netsaint_statd plugins
Bug#370334: Request of maintainer, superseded by nagios-statd packages.
prelude-nids — Hybrid Intrusion Detection System [ Network sensor ]
Bug#370662: Request of maintainer, old; RC-buggy; dead upstream.
xffm4 — File manager for the Xfce4 desktop environment
Bug#370749: Request of maintainer, superseded by thunar.
xffm4-icons — Icons for xffm4, the FM of XFce4
Bug#373262: Request of maintainer, superseded by thunar.
wims-modules-fr — French modules for WIMS
Bug#370798: Request of maintainer, replaced by wims-modules.
gngeogui — GUI Frontend for gngeo
Bug#372202: Request of maintainer, front-end for already removed gngeo.
systemimager-ssh — SystemImager boot binaries for i386 client nodes
Bug#372793: Request of maintainer, superseded by systemimager.
libsem — Portable, pthread-based semaphore library, development files
Bug#373088: Request of maintainer, old, unused, RC-buggy.
pike-crypto-build — Build only package for building pike-crypto binary package
Bug#373114: Request of maintainer, obsolete, uninstallable.
libattribute-handlers-perl — Simple definition of attribute handlers
Bug#373715: Request of maintainer, obsolete.
libdwarf — Debugging Information Format library and documentation
Bug#373773: Request of maintainer, obsolete; no rev-deps.
gnome-pim — Calendar and address book for GNOME
Bug#373799: Request of maintainer, dead upstream; broken.
eli-doc — HTML and PostScript documentation for Eli
Bug#374368: Request of maintainer, documentation for already removed eli package.
abc2ps — Translates ABC music description files to PostScript
Bug#374449: Request of maintainer, dead upstream; security issues; superseded by abcm2ps.
sslwrap — Simple TCP service encryption using TLS/SSL
Bug#374521: Request of maintainer, dead upstream; obsolete.
gal — G App Libs (development files)
Bug#374953: Request of QA, unmaintained; obsolete; no rev-deps.
ipodder — Podcast receiver
Bug#375355: Request of maintainer, license issues.
kernel-patch-gcov — Linux Kernel Coverage patch
Bug#376093: Request of maintainer, superseded by linux-patch-gcov.
librcov-ruby — Code coverage tool for Ruby 1.8
Bug#376453: Request of maintainer, superseded by rcov.
gtksourceview-sharp — CLI binding for the gtksourceview library
Bug#376475: Request of maintainer, upstream unsupported, obsolete.
pgmonitor — Tcl/Tk script for examining the status of PostgreSQL backends
Bug#376725: Request of maintainer, merged in to PostgreSQL.
rgtk — GNU R binding for Gtk
Bug#376738: Request of maintainer, obsolete; dead upstream; no rev-deps.
callgrind — Call-graph skin for valgrind
Bug#376950: Request of maintainer, superseded by valgrind.
ifenslave-2.4 — Attach and detach slave interfaces to a bonding device
Bug#377114: Request of maintainer: outdated.
leo — English-German dictionary using dict.leo.org
Bug#362016: Request of maintainer: infringes web site license.
linux-kernel-di-powerpc — Amiga filesystem support (udeb)
Bug#362318: Request of maintainer: unused.

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