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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter |
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 1 May 2006. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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Gentoo participation in Google "Summer of Code" |
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The "Summer of Code"[1] program sponsored by Google has accepted Gentoo as |
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a mentoring organization. From today until early September, around 90 |
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open-source projects will be working with students to implement |
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project-specific features. Participants are offered a financial reward for |
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their work. All interested students should refer to Google's Student |
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FAQ[2] to check whether they are eligible to participate in the Summer of |
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Code with Gentoo. |
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1. http://code.google.com/soc |
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2. http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html |
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If you wish to contribute feel free to contact us, either through email[3] |
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or IRC (#gentoo-soc on Freenode). Some project ideas can be found on our |
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website[4], but we are also open for student proposals -- if in doubt just |
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ask us! |
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3. gentoo-soc@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/summerofcode/index.xml |
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How to obtain meaningful backtraces |
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Diego Pettenò[5] has released a new Howto[6] that explains in great detail |
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how to generate useful debugging info with backtraces. The Howto describes |
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the needed steps with changing compiler flags and stripping with the new |
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splitdebug feature. A short intro to gdb, the GNU Debugger, and coredumps |
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as a post-mortem debugging tool give the interested reader all tools to |
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start their own work to either debug themselves or report meaningful |
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backtraces to developers. |
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5. flameeyes@g.o |
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6. http://http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml |
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User feedback helps brushing up ebuilds |
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Two months ago[7], the qmail herd[8] asked for comments on the current |
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state of their ebuilds and usage. While they have not yet taken advantage |
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of all of the suggestions that came from the discussions, the qmail herd |
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has already made some progress. They started by creating a new, cleaner |
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ebuild for netqmail[9], a version of qmail[10]. netqmail has additional |
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bug fixes and patches to help with compilation on modern systems. The |
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ebuild removes extraneous patches. The remaining patches can be controlled |
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by the user via USE flags. This change addresses the main criticism of the |
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old ebuild. The qmail herd looks forward to any of your comments, ideas, |
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or suggestions on their new netqmail ebuild. |
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7. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060220-newsletter.xml |
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8. qmail-bugs@g.o |
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9. http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/ |
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10. http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html |
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2. Heard in the community |
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gentoo-dev |
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Gentoo: State of the Union |
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As it happens every now and then another thread discussing perceived and |
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real problems in Gentoo got started. In this thread topics like |
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recruitment, policies, why cvs is bad and some others are discussed. |
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* Gentoo: State of the union [11] |
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11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/37638 |
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SHA256 digest issues |
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A bug in pycrypto caused a lot of digest and Manifest files to be created |
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with bogus SHA256 hashes. The source of the problem has been fixed, users |
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of portage 2.1 may still run into occasional digest failures. Upgrading to |
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pycrypto 2.0.1-r5 is highly recommended. |
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* SHA256 digest issues [12] |
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* Packages with bad SHA256 hash[13] |
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12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/37612 |
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13. http://bugs.gentoo.org/131396 |
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3. Gentoo in the press |
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Computer Partner (26 April 2006, in German) |
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"Netcleanse" is the name of an anti-spam and anti-virus product by a |
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German company. The announcement[14] of its new version 2.0 scheduled to |
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start shipping on 2 May claims it's based on "a hardened version of |
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Gentoo". Maybe somebody would like to check the 30-day-trial and find out |
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what's under the hood? |
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14. http://www.computerpartner.de/news/203647/ |
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4. 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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Adds |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: |
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* None this week |
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Changes |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project: |
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* None this week |
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5. Gentoo Security |
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xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities |
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Format string vulnerabilities in xine-ui may lead to the execution of |
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arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[15] |
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15. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-15.xml |
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xine-lib: Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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xine-lib contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which may lead to the |
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execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[16] |
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16. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-16.xml |
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Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors |
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Ethereal is vulnerable to numerous vulnerabilities, potentially resulting |
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in the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[17] |
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17. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-17.xml |
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Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Suite allow attacks ranging from script |
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execution with elevated privileges to information leaks. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18] |
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18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml |
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6. Bugzilla |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[19]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 23 April 2006 and 30 April 2006, activity on the |
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site has resulted in: |
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19. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 819 new bugs during this period |
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* 338 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 38 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 9907 currently open bugs: 61 are labeled 'blocker', 142 are labeled |
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'critical', and 524 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 KDE team[20], with 16 closed bugs[21] |
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* Portage team[22], with 16 closed bugs[23] |
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* mips team[24], with 14 closed bugs[25] |
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* Gentoo Security[26], with 12 closed bugs[27] |
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* Gentoo Games[28], with 12 closed bugs[29] |
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* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[30], with 9 closed bugs[31] |
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* Printing Team[32], with 9 closed bugs[33] |
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* Mozilla Gentoo Team[34], with 9 closed bugs[35] |
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20. kde@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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22. dev-portage@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@g.o |
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24. mips@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mips@g.o |
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26. security@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o |
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28. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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30. toolchain@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=toolchain@g.o |
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32. printing@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=printing@g.o |
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34. mozilla@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mozilla@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[36], with 31 new bugs[37] |
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* Gentoo Games[38], with 11 new bugs[39] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[40], with 10 new bugs[41] |
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* media-video herd[42], with 9 new bugs[43] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[44], with 8 new bugs[45] |
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* AMD64 Project[46], with 8 new bugs[47] |
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* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[48], with 7 new |
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bugs[49] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[50], with 6 new bugs[51] |
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36. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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38. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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40. sound@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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42. media-video@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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44. gnome@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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46. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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48. kernel@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-04-23&chfieldto=2006-04-30&assigned_to=kernel@g.o |
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50. x11@g.o |
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