weekly news - 20050408

[maintainer at lunar-linux.org]

Hi!

Here's the latest weekly news edition!

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Yet another week has passed! Fridays are my favorite weekdays (see our
poll) but it looks like we'll get a weekend of snow and hail, while
the tulips are already starting to bloom over here in the Netherlands.

I have been working on a daily list of updates similar to the weekly
ones, they just list the table and nothing more. If people are interested
in receiving a daily e-mail with updates then they should contact me so
I can put them on the list. Given enough attention I will make a ML
for these announcements.

The list of updates isn't spectacular this week, but that's pretty hard
considering that we had the major three desktops all bumped to newer
versions. Even so the list is substantial and lists a lot of important
updates. I bet you guys are still catching up from last week so make
sure you don't forget to update rsync, postfix and a few other crucial
packages on your servers.

Some discussion has been made about a proposed change from CVS to SVN
on our servers. Most of the projects hosted on espresso are already 
converted to SVN but there has been more resistance against subversion
and a final conclusion hasn't been established yet. 

I would like to apologise to those who fell for our well-orchestrated
april fools joke. People know that the lunar and sourcemage people
are relatively on good terms and communicate on development level a lot,
but a merge between lunar and sourcemage is certainly out of the
question at the moment. This is not due to personal problems, but again
I would like to stress that both teams have made certain design and
organisation decisions that make it hard- to impossible to join
forces. Most of us developers however are not against cooperation. 
Only the future can tell.

/sofar


Meanwhile in #lunar:
<dem> setup a pay pal donation, on the lunar page: "get nestu laid"
<sofar> I'm not gonna tell you my backdoors ;^)
<Hittis> And I started hoping that we could re-implement Lunar/Sourcemage in Haskell aswell.....
<sofar> it's a good thing I'm anal
<Moe> uhhh .. the peanut is strong in this one
<nestu> <rms>what? what did he say?</rms>
<cmak> pissible :)
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New modules: (3)
        blam-1.6.1: Blam is a RSS Feed Reader for Gnome
      opencv-0.9.6: Open Source Computer Vision Library
        putty-0.57: PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH

New versions: (52)
  abiword                 :           2.2.5 ->           2.2.7
  avidemux                :          2.0.30 ->          2.0.36
  avifile                 :          0.7.41 ->          0.7.43
  cgdb                    :           0.5.0 ->           0.5.1
  curl                    :          7.13.1 ->          7.13.2
  cvs                     :         1.11.17 ->         1.11.19
  dhcp                    :           3.0.1 ->           3.0.2
  easytag                 :             1.0 ->             1.1
  eclipse-bin             :           3.0.1 ->           3.0.2
  eog                     :           2.9.0 ->          2.10.0
  f-spot                  :           0.0.2 ->          0.0.12
  file-roller             :          2.10.0 ->          2.10.1
  filer                   :           0.0.8 ->          0.0.10
  fortune-meanwhile-in-lunar:        20050325 ->        20050401
  gaim                    :           1.2.0 ->           1.2.1
  gedit                   :          2.10.0 ->          2.10.2
  gnome-blog              :             0.7 ->             0.9
  gnome-panel             :          2.10.0 ->          2.10.1
  gnome-volume-manager    :           1.2.0 ->           1.2.1
  gthumb                  :         2.6.0.1 ->           2.6.4
  gwenview                :           1.1.0 ->           1.2.0
  hal                     :          0.2.98 ->           0.4.7
  iproute2                :   2.6.11-050314 ->   2.6.11-050330
  ircservices             :          5.0.50 ->          5.0.51
  lftp                    :           3.1.1 ->           3.1.2
  libgnomeprint           :          2.10.0 ->          2.10.3
  libgnomeprintui         :        2.10.0.1 ->          2.10.2
  libxml2                 :          2.6.18 ->          2.6.19
  libxslt                 :          1.1.13 ->          1.1.14
  linux-2.6-mm            :  2.6.12-rc1-mm3 ->  2.6.12-rc1-mm4
  linux-2.6-prepatch      :      2.6.12-rc1 ->      2.6.12-rc2
  linux_logo              :            4.09 ->            4.10
  lunar                   :        20050401 ->        20050408
  lvm2                    :         2.01.08 ->         2.01.09
  maradns                 :          1.0.23 ->          1.0.26
  mousepad                :           0.2.1 ->           0.2.2
  ncftp                   :           3.1.8 ->           3.1.9
  php                     :          4.3.10 ->          4.3.11
  php5                    :           5.0.3 ->           5.0.4
  postfix                 :           2.2.1 ->           2.2.2
  qstat                   :             2.7 ->             2.8
  scite                   :             162 ->             163
  sound-juicer            :          2.10.0 ->          2.10.1
  subversion              :           1.1.3 ->           1.1.4
  sudo                    :         1.6.8p7 ->         1.6.8p8
  theedge                 :        20050401 ->        20050408
  unrar                   :           3.4.3 ->           3.5.1
  xmame                   :            0.94 ->            0.95
  xqf                     :           1.0.2 ->           1.0.3
  zile                    :           2.0.2 ->           2.0.3
  zsh                     :           4.2.4 ->           4.2.5
  zvbi                    :           0.2.8 ->          0.2.15


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The Lunar-Linux team