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From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: gentoo-gwn@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 1
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 03:13:01
Message-Id: 20030106024828.GQ27256@mail.lieber.org
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2 Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
3 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030106-newsletter.xml
4 This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of January 6th, 2003.
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6
7 ==============
8 1. Gentoo News
9 ==============
10
11 Summary
12 -------
13
14 * Start the New Year with a Donation to the Gentoo Linux Project
15 * New Gentoo Linux Prelinking Guide
16 * Perl 5.8 and libperl
17 * Future improvements to Gentoo Linux in the works
18
19
20 Start the New Year with a Donation to the Gentoo Linux Project
21 --------------------------------------------------------------
22
23 As we enter the New Year, we invite everyone who has benefitted from their
24 use of Gentoo Linux to make a donation[1] to the Gentoo Project. Its
25 through your generous donations that the Gentoo Project is able to have a
26 presence at the upcoming LinuxWorld Expo[2]. Donations also help to
27 support other development efforts, such as sponsoring developers so they
28 can work full time on Gentoo Linux. Donations can be made via PayPal as
29 well as check.
30
31 1. http://www.gentoo.org
32 2. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
33
34 Additionally, if you know of a company that may be interested in
35 sponsoring the Gentoo Linux free software project through a regular
36 monthly donation, please email Daniel Robbins[3] directly. Among other
37 things, corporate sponsorships allow Gentoo developers to work full time
38 on Gentoo Linux.
39
40 3. drobbins@g.o
41
42
43 New Gentoo Linux Prelinking Guide
44 ---------------------------------
45
46 A new Gentoo Linux Prelinking Guide[4] has been posted. Prelinking can cut
47 the startup times of applications, especially larger ones such as KDE and
48 GNOME, by as much as 50% or more. Many Mandrake and RedHat users have sung
49 the praises of prelinking and its effect on overall system speed, so it is
50 certainly a welcome addition to Gentoo Linux.
51
52 4. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
53
54
55 Perl 5.8 and libperl
56 --------------------
57
58 Recently, an issue was raised among the developers about how to
59 effectively deal with Perl 5.8. Perl 5.8 uses a shared library (libperl)
60 that is incompatible with earlier versions of Perl, including Perl 5.6.1.
61 Users upgrading to Perl 5.8 could find any apps previously compiled with
62 Perl 5.6.1 to now be broken given the libperl incompatiblity. The solution
63 for Gentoo Linux is to numerate the various versions of libperl to allow
64 multiple versions to coincide with each other. So, as an example:
65
66 * perl-5.6 gets libperl.so.0.5.6
67 * perl-5.8 gets libperl.so.1.5.8
68 * perl-x.y gets libperl.so.2.x.y
69
70 This solution should allow the Perl 5.6.1 --> Perl 5.8 upgrade to proceed
71 smoothly, and it will also serve as a solution for future binary
72 compatibility problems.
73
74
75 Future improvements to Gentoo Linux in the works
76 ------------------------------------------------
77
78 While the current focus of the Gentoo developers is on getting Gentoo
79 Linux 1.4_final out the door, that doesn't mean future improvements aren't
80 also being discussed. In addition to the Gentoo Reference Platform, which
81 is designed to establish a stable baseline for Gentoo Linux, formal
82 in-house testing and approval of hardware may be on the horizon. This
83 process, which would provide users of Gentoo a set of components known to
84 work with Gentoo Linux, should help avid Gentoo users make future hardware
85 purchasing decisions. In addition to hardware testing, there are some
86 tantalizing improvements to Portage coming up as well, including:
87
88
89 * Caching of emerge messages for later display -- Anyone who has ever
90 emerged a list of packages has probably experienced the frustration of
91 seeing informational messages scroll past as Portage moves from package to
92 package. This feature will allow those messages to be cached in a safe
93 place so they can be displayed at a later time (such as at the end of an
94 entire 'emerge -u world'.
95 * Reverse dependency checking in Portage -- one of the most-often
96 requested Portage features, reverse dependency checking will warn you if
97 you try to unmerge a package that other installed packages depend upon.
98 * Dependency-based remerging -- this feature will allow certain packages
99 to be remerged if necessary, based on the dependencies of another package.
100 With this feature, upgrading CUPS will force Ghostscript to be rebuilt as
101 well, even if no upgrade of Ghostscript is available. This feature will go
102 a long way towards resolving shared library incompatibilities.
103
104 Nick Jones (carpaski) is working on these Portage improvements as well as
105 others and is quickly catching up on the backlog of Portage feature
106 requests. While no firm timeline exists for delivery of these features,
107 the future of Portage certainly looks bright.
108
109 ==================
110 2. Gentoo Security
111 ==================
112
113 Summary
114 -------
115
116 * GLSA: leafnode
117 * GLSA: xpdf
118 * GLSA: cups
119 * New Security Bug Reports
120
121
122
123 GLSA: leafnode
124 --------------
125
126 The leafnode NNTP server can be forced into an unterminated and
127 unresponsive loop when a particular article is requested, causing the
128 client to reconnect, creating a new process. Repitition of this cycle can
129 make the entire system unresponsive.
130
131 * Severity: moderate - remote DOS (process spawning)
132 * Packages Affected: leafnode-1.9.24 and earlier
133 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge leafnode.
134 * GLSA Announcement[5]
135
136
137 5. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28343
138
139
140 GLSA: xpdf
141 ----------
142
143 The pdftops filter (included in Xpdf and CUPS) has an integer overflow bug
144 that can be exploited remotely to gain the privileges of the target user
145 or, in some circumstances, of the lp user.
146
147 * Severity: high - remote exploit in the wild
148 * Packages Affected: xpdf-1.01-r1 and earlier
149 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge xpdf.
150 * GLSA Announcement[6]
151 * Advisory[7]
152
153
154 6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28342
155 7. http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.23.02.txt
156
157
158 GLSA: cups
159 ----------
160
161 Several vulnerabilities in the CUPS printing package (including the
162 integer overflow noted above) permit a number of exploits, including an
163 exploit of multiple vulnerabilities that permits root access to the file
164 system. The exploits have been demonstrated and published.
165
166 * Severity: critical - remote root exploit in the wild
167 * Packages Affected: cups-1.1.17_pre20021025 and earlier
168 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge cups.
169 * GLSA Announcement[8]
170 * Advisory[9]
171
172
173 8. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27949
174 9. http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt
175
176
177 New Security Bug Reports
178 ------------------------
179
180 The last two weeks saw many of the outstanding security bugs cleared with
181 new releases of the affected packages. The following new security bugs
182 have been posted:
183
184 * mod_php[10]
185 * dhcpd[11]
186
187
188 10. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12811
189 11. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12988
190
191 =========================
192 3. Heard In The Community
193 =========================
194
195 Web Forums
196 ----------
197
198 Selective rsync strategies
199
200 This discussion raises its head every few months, meaning it probably has
201 a point. Some people wish to cut down on bandwidth usage when they
202 synchronize their portage tree by eliminating packages or classes they
203 definitely don't want, need or even imagine to install, ever. The
204 discussion and a few DIY ideas how to cope with the problem:
205
206 * a portage killfile[12]
207 * Selective emerge rsync to cut down on bandwidth usage[13]
208
209
210 12. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28044
211 13. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23607
212
213 PCMCIA Worries Anticipating Gentoo 1.4
214
215 A large number of forum regulars have begun expressing anxiety about the
216 missing pcmcia_cs and yenta_socket PCMCIA kernel modules in the second
217 release candidate, and by consequence, they fear, in the pending release
218 of Gentoo 1.4. A handful of threads are dominated by users of laptops and
219 notebooks without built-in NICs, who rely on PCMCIA for access to the
220 Internet (and eventually to a successful Gentoo installation). Their
221 worries are getting hard to overlook, and some appear to have given in and
222 use alternative install methods:
223
224 * yenta_socket on 1.4 rc2[14]
225 * Installing Gentoo on a laptop that needs yenta_socket[15]
226 * installing 1.4-rc1 and pcmcia_core[16]
227
228 It should be noted that the PCMCIA situation in linux in general is not
229 that great. With two sets of drivers (stock kernel drivers and pcmcia-cs
230 packages) that are incompatible with one another, ensuring support for all
231 PCMCIA devices is a challenge. Gentoo developers are working on including
232 support for both sets of drivers on the Gentoo Linux 1.4 LiveCD, which
233 should allow the widest range of compatiblity for all laptop users.
234
235 14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28281
236 15. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28413
237 16. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14894
238
239 If anyone has a spare laptop that they would be interested in donating to
240 the Gentoo Linux project, this would help greatly in improving PCMCIA
241 support on the LiveCDs. If you're interested in donating a laptop, please
242 contact Daniel Robbins[17] directly.
243
244 17. drobbins@g.o
245
246 Overclockers beware!
247
248 Forum moderator Phong pretty much sums it up: Overclocking is a bad idea
249 when all it does is break compilations for a mere 100 Mhz of performance
250 gain on the CPU, less than 5 percent on most of today's x86 PCs.
251
252 * Seg Fault Hell (thinking of dropping Gentoo)[18]
253
254
255 18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27564
256
257
258 gentoo-user
259 -----------
260
261 Round 689,554 of the Text Editor Holy War
262
263 There's nothing like starting off the New Year with a good flame war about
264 text editors, and gentoo-user has been having a great one over the past
265 few days. The festivities seem to have started with this post[19] and
266 proceeded from there. At last count, there were approximately 60
267 messages[20] in response to this post and the war continues on.
268
269 19. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104138315028463&w=2
270 20.
271 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&w=2&r=1&s=Vi%2FNano+flames&q=b
272
273 New Docbook eclass solves SGML problems
274
275 Recent updates to the Docbook/SGML system in Gentoo caused some problems
276 for some users. Matthew Turk (satai) posted a message[21] that explains
277 how to fix these issues, along with a link to a more detailed
278 explanation[22].
279
280 21. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104144948228162&w=2
281 22. http://www.gentoo.org/~satai/sgmlfix.html
282
283
284 Gentoo's supported hardware
285
286 Freeman Tan asked for a list of official 'gentoo supported hardware'.
287 Those more familar with linux would agree with Tom von Schwerdtner's
288 statement; "distro supported hardware is mostly a misconecption". The
289 linux kernel provides support for hardware, and it is up to the distro's
290 'installer' to detect and add support for the present devices. Gentoo is
291 unique in that it doesn't have a formal installer but rather aids the
292 installee through the intimate process of setting up a linux system from
293 scratch. Providing you're able to boot into this system, you'll be able to
294 add support for your devices later. A google search for "[hardware]
295 +linux" will generally send you in the right direction. The thread[23]
296 concludes that "no, there is no official gentoo supported hardware".
297 However, as we noted above, formal in-house testing of hardware may be in
298 the works for Gentoo Linux. Stay tuned.
299
300 23. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104135883514141&w=2
301
302 How do I telnet into my new Gentoo box?
303
304 First and foremost it should be known that telnet is "obsolete, broken,
305 insecure, and should never be used". If you still want to live on the wild
306 side, make sure netkit-telnetd has been emerged, and you have an inetd
307 server setup. This discussion[24] has detailed instructions. Secure Shell
308 (sshd) is the highly recommended alternative to telnet and much easier to
309 install.
310
311 24. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104105195014103&w=2
312
313
314 gentoo-dev
315 ----------
316
317 USE Aware Emerge. Martin Svenningsson posted a very nifty patch[25] to
318 allow emerge to display which USE flags affect the compilation of each
319 package!
320
321 25. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6303
322
323 Gentoo Stable Site Update.
324
325 Maik Schreiber posted an announcement[26] with the updates done on the
326 Gentoo Stable website[27]: "Hi, a few updates to the Gentoo Stable site
327 have been made: (1). The query page is now a little easier to use. For
328 example, you get selection boxes where possible (category, arch etc.).
329 (2). A new filter has been added: You can now filter on "Portage status on
330 {x86, ppc, sparc, alpha} {is, is not} {stable, unstable/testing, does not
331 work, unmarked}". (3). Various speed improvements regarding query have
332 been made. [...]". Joachim Blaabjerg chipped in[28] with "Are there any
333 tools available that scans the system for packages that are merged and
334 marked unstable (~), and submits those as "merged successfully on my
335 system"? I know I have a lot of unstable packages on my system, but I
336 haven't got the time to through all of them and submit them to the
337 Gentoo-stable site." and Peter Ruskin sent in a script[29] to do just
338 that!
339
340 26. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6350
341 27. http://gentoo-stable.iq-computing.de
342 28. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6361
343 29. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6362
344
345 =======================
346 4. Gentoo International
347 =======================
348
349 Gentoo UK Being Constituted
350
351 They're not exactly out of the starting blocks yet, but a handful of
352 British Gentoo users seems determined to follow their French, German,
353 Korean and Japanese counterparts' example in creating a more formal
354 support network for Gentooistsn their country. The thread[30] has just
355 begun to gain momentum. In particular, they are looking for a catchy
356 domain name, feel free to make suggestions...
357
358 30. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28246
359
360
361 Iberian Peninsula Tops Spanish community
362
363 If a forum poll[31] is anything to go by, the vast majority of
364 Spanish-speaking Gentooist comes from Spain. They're being followed by
365 users in Argentina and Urugay, a few Mexicans and Spanish-speaking US
366 citizens, but a rather large proportion of people lives in a place oddly
367 called "other"...
368
369 31. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=11939
370
371
372 More Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere: ZetaGrid
373
374 A Gentoo team[32] has been formed for ZetaGrid[33] , a distributed
375 computing project sponsored by IBM Germany whose distinguishing technical
376 feature is the secure Java kernel it provides, preventing access from
377 outside and securing its communications. The current project is the
378 verification of Riemann's Hypothesis[34] : about 2500 computers are
379 working on it, calculating about 2 billion zeroes of the Riemann zeta
380 function each day. Sebastian Wedeniwski, the scientist who created
381 ZetaGrid, hopes to use ZetaGrid's results to come up with a proof for the
382 hypothesis. If he succeeds, he'll split the $1,000,000 prize from the Clay
383 Mathematics Institute[35] with the top 100 users; there are other prizes,
384 including one awarded to the user whose computer finds a result disproving
385 the hypothesis, if that happens instead. Tantive[36] has made an ebuild
386 for the client but it's still masked, for more information see Zetagrid -
387 team: Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere[37].
388
389 32. http://www.zetagrid.net/servlet/service/
390 teammembers?team=Gentoo+Linux+Users+Everywhere
391 33. http://www.zetagrid.net/
392 34. http://www.zetagrid.net/zeta/rh.html
393 35. http://www.claymath.org/
394 36. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1326
395 37. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28511
396
397 ================
398 5. Portage Watch
399 ================
400
401 Security Updates (see above)
402 ----------------------------
403
404 * cups - fixed in cups-1.1.18
405 * xpdf - fixed in xpdf-2.01
406 * leafnode - fixed in leafnode 1.9.31
407
408
409
410 The following stable packages were added to portage this week
411 -------------------------------------------------------------
412
413 * app-emulation/blight_input : An input plugin for the mupen64 N64
414 emulator http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
415 * app-emulation/mupen64 : A Nintendo 64 (N64) emulator
416 http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
417 * app-emulation/nestra : NES Emulator http://nestra.linuxgames.com
418 * app-games/c++robots : ongoing 'King of the Hill' (KotH) tournament
419 http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/
420 * app-games/emilia-pinball : SDL OpenGL pinball game
421 http://pinball.sourceforge.net/
422 * app-games/gxmame : GXMame is a frontend for XMame using the GTK
423 library, the goal is to provide the same GUI as mame32.
424 http://gxmame.sourceforge.net/
425 * app-misc/gcolor : A simple color selector.
426 http://gcolor.sourceforge.net/
427 * dev-libs/libhtmlparse : libhtmlparse is a HTML parsing library. It
428 takes HTML tags, text, etc and calls callbacks you define for each type of
429 token in the document. http://msalem.translator.cx/libhtmlparse.html
430 * dev-util/jam : jam (Just Another Make) - advanced make replacement
431 http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html
432 * dev-util/fenris : Fenris is a tracer, GUI debugger, analyzer, partial
433 decompiler and much more http://razor.bindview.com/tools/fenris/
434 * media-libs/libexif : Library for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data
435 http://libexif.sf.net/
436 * media-sound/jack-cvs : A low-latency audio server - cvs version
437 http://jackit.sourceforge.net/
438 * net-dialup/mingetty : A compact getty program for virtual consoles
439 only. [38]
440 * net-misc/udhcp : udhcp Server/Client Package http://udhcp.busybox.net/
441 * net-misc/ksambaplugin : KSambaPlugin is a KDE 3 plugin for configuring
442 a SAMBA server. http://ksambakdeplugin.sourceforge.net
443 * net-news/sn : Hassle-free Usenet news system for small sites
444 http://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/sn/
445 * net-p2p/giftoxic : A GTK+2 giFT frontend
446 http://giftoxic.sourceforge.net/
447 * net-www/fetch : Fetch is a simple, fast, and flexible HTTP download
448 tool built on the HTTP Fetcher library. http://cs.nmu.edu/~lhanson/fetch/
449 * net-www/http-fetcher : HTTP Fetcher is a small, robust, flexible
450 library for downloading files via HTTP using the GET method.
451 http://cs.nmu.edu/~lhanson/http_fetcher/
452 * sys-apps/hfsplusutils : HFS+ Filesystem Access Utilities (PPC Only)
453 http://ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi/
454 * sys-apps/tinylogin : worlds smallest login/passwd/getty/etc
455 http://tinylogin.busybox.net/
456 * sys-devel/prelink : Modifies executables so runtime libraries load
457 faster ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink
458 * sys-devel/kgcc : Modern GCC C compiler for building kernels
459 http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
460
461
462
463 Updates to notable packages
464 ---------------------------
465
466 * sys-apps/portage - portage-2.0.46-r3.ebuild; portage-2.0.46-r4.ebuild;
467 portage-2.0.46-r5.ebuild;
468 * sys-libs/glibc - glibc-2.3.1-r3.ebuild;
469 * sys-kernel/* - aa-sources-2.4.21_pre2-r2.ebuild;
470 development-sources-2.5.54.ebuild; lolo-sources-2.4.20.1_pre9.ebuild;
471 lolo-sources-2.4.20.1_rc1.ebuild; lolo-sources-2.4.20.1_rc2.ebuild;
472 * dev-php/php - php-4.3.0.ebuild;
473 * dev-db/postgresql - postgresql-7.3.1.ebuild;
474
475
476
477 New USE variables
478 -----------------
479
480 * ev6 - Assume Alpha processor is EV6 or better
481
482
483 ===========
484 6. Bugzilla
485 ===========
486
487
488 Summary
489 -------
490
491 * Statistics
492 * Bugs of Note
493
494
495
496 Statistics
497 ----------
498
499 The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[39]) to record and
500 track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
501 development team. In the last 7 days, activity on the site has resulted
502 in:
503
504 * 269 new bugs this week
505 * 1322 total bugs currently marked 'new'
506 * 524 total bugs curently assigned to developers
507 * 47 bugs that were previously closed have been reopened.
508
509 There are currently 1893 bugs open in bugzilla. Of these: 40 are labelled
510 'blocker', 74 are labelled 'critical', and 113 are labelled 'major'.
511
512 39. http://bugs.gentoo.org
513
514 The developers and teams with the highest apparent bug-related workload
515 are:
516
517 * Nicholas Jones[40], with 271 open bugs
518 * Martin Schlemmer[41], with 133 open bugs
519 * Brandon Low[42], with 107 open bugs
520 * The KDE Team[43], with 105 open bugs
521 * Daniel Robbins[44], with 83 open bugs
522
523 Please lend them (and the entire development team) your good thoughts,
524 left-over turkey, and ongoing support.
525
526 40. mailto://carpaski@g.o
527 41. mailto://azarah@g.o
528 42. mailto://lostlogic@g.o
529 43. mailto://kde@g.o
530 44. mailto://drobbins@g.o
531
532
533 Bugs of Note
534 ------------
535
536 Each week, we will single out a few bugs for special mention, because they
537 have been provoking significant discussions, they are particularly
538 problematic, they are amusing or simply because they struck our fancy.
539 This week's featured bugs are (in no particular order):
540
541 * Bug 13055[45] describes problems with portage wanting to uninstall
542 newer versions of packages, probably because of an issue with counter
543 values in /var/db/pkg/. Maik Schrieber provides a script to fix the issue.
544 * Bug 13074[46] discusses a problem with emerging xmms, possibly because
545 of the xmms ebuild depending on an incompatible autoconf/automake version.
546 An excellent example of reporter/developer interaction.
547 * Bug 8539[47] discusses a frequently cross-reported problem of
548 OpenOffice emerges destroying fonts on affected systems. The bug report
549 includes two workarounds and remains open.
550 * Bug 5152[48] provides a fix to the mysql start script that provides
551 for user modifications to the default data directory. This is a nice
552 example of community members providing patches via the bugzilla interface.
553 * Bug 9849[49] describes ebuild failures when cdroms are mounted or
554 directories (like /home) are NFS mounts.
555
556
557 45. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13055
558 46. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13074
559 47. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8539
560 48. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5152
561 49. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9849
562
563 ==================
564 7. Tips and Tricks
565 ==================
566
567
568 Updating a Gentoo system
569
570 Most Gentoo users are familiar with the Portage system used to install
571 software. One of the features that you may not be familiar with is that
572 Portage can also update your entire system at once. This is known as an
573 'update world'.
574 To run an update world, use the following command:
575
576 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
577 | Code Listing 7.1: |
578 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
579 | |
580 |# emerge --update world |
581 | |
582 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
583
584 Sometimes that doesn't get everything though. To make the upgrade even
585 more complete, use the --deep option.
586
587 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
588 | Code Listing 7.2: |
589 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
590 | |
591 |# emerge --update --deep world |
592 | |
593 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
594
595 This option calculates the dependencies of the dependencies to ensure that
596 everything on your system is brought up to date.
597
598 ==========================
599 8. Moves, Adds and Changes
600 ==========================
601
602
603 Moves
604 -----
605
606 The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
607
608 * none this week
609
610
611
612 Adds
613 ----
614
615 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo team:
616
617 * Nicholas Wourms (dragon) -- MIPS
618 * Tobias Eichert (viz) -- xfs-sources
619 * Matthew J. Fanto (mattjf) -- secure-gentoo, kernels
620 * Yannik Koehler (ykoehler) -- KDE
621 * Luca Barbato (lu_zero) -- ATI, LiveCD
622
623
624
625 Changes
626 -------
627
628 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project.
629
630 * Jared Hudson (jhhudso) -- Gentoo Linux 1.4 QA Testing Coordinator
631
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662 Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> - Editor
663 AJ Armstrong <aja@×××××××××××××.com> - Contributor
664 Brice Burgess <nesta@×××××××.net> - Contributor
665 Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@××××××××.net> - Contributor
666 Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Contributor
667 David Narayan <david@×××××××.net> - Contributor
668 Ulrich Plate <plate@×××.com> - Contributor
669 Peter Sharp <mail@××××××××××××××.net> - Contributor
670 Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@×××××××.be> - Dutch Translation
671 Tom Van Laerhoven <tom.vanlaerhoven@××××××.be> - Dutch Translation
672 Nicolas Ledez <nicolas.ledez@××××.fr> - French Translation
673 Guillaume Plessis <gui@×××××××××.com> - French Translation
674 Eric St-Georges <thevedge@××××××××.net> - French Translation
675 John Berry <anfini@××××.fr> - French Translation
676 Martin Prieto <riverdale@×××××××××.org> - French Translation
677 Michael Kohl <citizen428@××××××.org> - German Translation
678 Steffan Lassahn <lassahn@×××.de> - German Translation
679 Matthias Brandstetter <haim@××××.at> - German Translation
680 Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@g.o> - German Translation
681 Marco Mascherpa <mush@××××××.net> - Italian Translation
682 Claudio Merloni <paper@×××××××.it> - Italian Translation
683 Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@××××××.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
684 Translation
685 Lanark <lanark@××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation
686 Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Spanish Translation