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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 3 April 2006. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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Gentoo/MIPS for Cobalt stages available |
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Stuart Longland[1] announced the availabity of stage 3 tarballs for Cobalt |
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servers[2]. This completes the 2006.0 release for the MIPS architecture to |
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include Cobalt Qubes and RaQs on top of the Silicon Graphics machine |
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support that was already pushed to the mirrors last month. If you own a |
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Cobalt server, please test the new stage 3 and report your findings back |
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to Stuart. |
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1. redhatter@g.o |
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2. http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/cobalt/about/ |
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2. Future zone |
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Kolab and Gentoo |
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Most of the current open-source groupware systems that are comparable to |
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the Microsoft Exchange Server are build out of a high number of |
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sub-services like LDAP, Apache, Postfix etc. Kolab is a typical example of |
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such an aggregated system. |
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A main feature of Kolab is the use of IMAP to store groupware information |
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like addresses, events, notes etc. This allows to reduce the main |
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components of the system to OpenLDAP, Postfix and Cyrus-Imapd. This makes |
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the server somewhat more lightweight than competitors such as |
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Open-Exchange. It is also one of the few groupware servers that has full |
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support for e-mail clients on Linux (Kontact) and Windows (Outlook) and |
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works together with a web client (Horde). Thus it can be easily employed |
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in an environment with mixed requirements. |
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The main obstacle for molding a multi-component system into an efficient |
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groupware server on Linux is obviously the configuration. The e-mail |
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service needs to work together with virus and spam scanning tools, sending |
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and receiving mail requires the setup of appropriate channels, each |
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service needs to use a central user database, etc. |
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One option of dealing with the configuration is to leave the configuration |
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of sub services in the state suggested by the distribution and provide a |
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lengthy document that describes all necessary tweaks and changes to get |
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the system up and running. This has the advantage that the groupware |
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server is rather distribution independent. |
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Kolab chose a different method and tries to fully automate the |
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configuration process. This is extremely nice for the end user since it |
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usually means that it is not necessary to have the manuals of Postfix, |
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Cyrus-Imap, Apache etc. at hand. But on the other hand it is a nightmare |
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for the developer if the goal is to enable the system for most |
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distributions. One would have to take all the small but important |
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differences between these distributions into account. So the companies |
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involved in creating Kolab selected one distribution (OpenPKG) and decided |
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to establish the system only for OpenPKG. In order to install Kolab on a |
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different distribution you would simply add a complete OpenPKG |
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installation resulting in a somewhat awkward "system in a system" |
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situation. |
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During the last three months several volunteers helped on converting Kolab |
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to tools such as autoconf and automake in order to have a build system |
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that allows the transfer of Kolab to other Linux distributions. This |
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finally allowed to get a native Kolab server environment in Gentoo. The |
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beta stage of the project can be found here[3]. It is expected to be fully |
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stabilized once Kolab-2.1 will be released upstream. |
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3. http://projects.gunnarwrobel.de/Kolab/wiki |
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What are the advantages of having Kolab available as a native Gentoo |
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system? First of all you get rid of the rpm system that you had to use for |
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the OpenPKG version. As a Gentoo user this feels more than awkward since |
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the choice to bear with compile times was not made without a reason. With |
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the independence of the OpenPKG distribution also comes a far greater |
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potential for extension of the system. You want telephony? Integrate it |
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with asterisk. You need a document management system? Why not activate the |
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LDAP features of knowledgetree in order to provide your mail users will a |
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full-blown DMS system. You need website access? DAV? SVN? Trac? Anything |
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on apache that requires authentication and can use LDAP should be no |
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problem. In essence, Gentoo is the optimal system to enhance some of the |
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existing ebuilds with a "kolab" USE flag in order to provide a groupware |
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server with exciting new features. While this is not yet available, work |
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is underway to achieve this. |
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3. Heard in the community |
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Web forums |
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Libexpat ABI change catches ~ARCH users by surprise |
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Major uproar in the Forums this past weekend: the application binary |
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interface of the expat library changed with the upgrade to 2.0.0, and as a |
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result a whole wave of system breakage washed over many Gentoo users who |
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hadn't seen the small print in the ebuild telling them to revdep-rebuild |
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everything that depended on libexpat.so.0. This sticky thread now makes |
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sure everybody knows what needs to be done: |
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* libexpat 2.0.0 ABI breakage[4] |
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4. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-448550.html |
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4. Gentoo international |
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USA: Gentoo at Boston Linux World Expo |
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Christian Fernandez of VoiceSignal Technologies, Inc. will hold a Birds of |
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Feather session[5] at this year's Boston LWE. Besides Christian's talk on |
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Portage and Gentoo scheduled for 6 April at 18:30, the project will again |
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be represented at the show with a booth of its own. Join them from 3 to 6 |
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April at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, MA. |
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5. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions//QMONYA04R2O6 |
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5. Gentoo developer moves |
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Moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: |
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* None this week |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: |
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* Thomas Cort (tcort) - Alpha, sound |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project: |
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6. Gentoo Security |
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OpenOffice.org: Heap overflow in included libcurl |
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OpenOffice.org contains a vulnerable version of libcurl that may cause a |
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heap overflow when parsing URLs. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[6] |
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6. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-25.xml |
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bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd |
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tetris-bsd is prone to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[7] |
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7. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-26.xml |
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7. Bugzilla |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[8]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 26 March 2006 and 02 April 2006, activity on the |
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site has resulted in: |
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8. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 869 new bugs during this period |
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* 392 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 18 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 9788 currently open bugs: 65 are labeled 'blocker', 152 are labeled |
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'critical', and 531 are labeled 'major'. |
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Closed bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period |
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are: |
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* Gentoo Games[9], with 34 closed bugs[10] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[11], with 26 closed bugs[12] |
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* Jeremy Huddleston[13], with 20 closed bugs[14] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[15], with 19 closed bugs[16] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[17], with 14 closed bugs[18] |
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* Gentoo Security[19], with 13 closed bugs[20] |
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* Netmon Herd[21], with 13 closed bugs[22] |
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* media-video herd[23], with 13 closed bugs[24] |
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9. games@g.o |
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10. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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11. x11@g.o |
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12. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=x11@g.o |
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13. eradicator@g.o |
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14. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@g.o |
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15. kde@g.o |
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16. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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17. gnome@g.o |
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18. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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19. security@g.o |
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20. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o |
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21. netmon@g.o |
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22. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@g.o |
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23. media-video@g.o |
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24. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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New bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during |
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this period are: |
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* Default Assignee for New Packages[25], with 34 new bugs[26] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[27], with 14 new bugs[28] |
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* X11 External Driver Maintainers[29], with 13 new bugs[30] |
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* AMD64 Project[31], with 11 new bugs[32] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[33], with 10 new bugs[34] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[35], with 9 new bugs[36] |
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* media-video herd[37], with 8 new bugs[38] |
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* Gentoo Games[39], with 7 new bugs[40] |
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25. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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26. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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27. x11@g.o |
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28. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=x11@g.o |
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29. x11-drivers@g.o |
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30. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=x11-drivers@g.o |
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31. amd64@g.o |
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32. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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33. sound@g.o |
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34. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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35. gnome@g.o |
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36. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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37. media-video@g.o |
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38. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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39. games@g.o |
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40. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-03-26&chfieldto=2006-04-02&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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