Debian 2.2 Potato

[Pavol Lajciak]

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Teda Potato sa bude testovat v tretom cykle? Bude este dalsi? Neviem.

June 27th, 2000 Preparing for test cycle 3; upgrading from 1.3 to
frozen; AMIRIX and Embedded Debian
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Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community. 

Test Cycle 2 is over and the archive is being updated in preparation for
the next test cycle. The release manager and others
have been aggressively downgrading and fixing RC bugs, as well as
removing some packages, the result is less than 40 RC
bugs remain open, a record low. Of course, the big question is: Will the
third Test Cycle be the last? Only time will tell, but
confidence is on the rise. 

Upgrading from 1.3 to frozen. Many install and upgrade reports have been
posted in the past couple of weeks, but this one
stands out. It's an upgrade from a system running Debian 1.3 all the way
to frozen in one step, and it worked fine except one
small and documented glitch. "Thanks and big kudos to all Debian: it is
quite uncommon that an operating system may
upgrade like this (consider also that it passed from a libc5 to a libc6
arch... and it took just 45 minutes)" 

This week's security fixes: 

    An updated X was installed into frozen, fixing a denial of service
attack, a symlink attack, and 4 security holes in Xlib. 
    A remote root exploit in wu-ftpd has been fixed. Note that "the
default configuration in all current Debian packages
    prevents the currently available exploits in the case of anonymous
access, although local users could still possibly
    compromise the server." 
    A remote root exploit in dhcp-client-beta and dhcp-client has also
been fixed. 

More Debian-based distributions. AMIRIX Linux is a Debian-based
distribution aimed at the embedded Linux space.
AMIRIX is the principal sponsor of the Embedded Debian Project, which
aims to "make Debian GNU/Linux a natural
choice for embedded Linux." "This is an independent project, and is not
formally associated with Debian. We plan on
working closely with Debian, with the goal of our work eventually being
integrated into the mainstream. " The project
was announced to the debian-devel mailing list back in May, but Debian
Weekly News missed the announcement, which
gives some background information. 

Freshmeat will be hosting an unofficial .deb archive, called the Deb
Freshmeat Repository. The plans for this archive are
to provide a central location for unofficial packages. "With the recent
hubbub over KDE/QPL, the talk of removal of
non-free, multiple .deb using distributions and the multitude of
unofficial aptable and non-aptable sites with .debs the
time is ripe." Seth Cohn has provided a summary of the discussions on
the debian-freshmeat list.