Ben Collins (DPL) dies after accident with slapd

[Brian Russo]

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Newly elected Debian Project Leader Ben Collins, age 28, family man
and also esteemed OpenLDAP developer was involved in a fatal accident
with slapd earlier today.

The newly elected Debian Project Leader, family man, and longtime developer of
OpenLDAP, died at 3:48am US EST, after suffering massive internal 
inconsistencies. Ben apparently was testing out some experimental CVS code for
a new hashing algorithm to increase efficiency of LDAP operations by 8-12%
under normal use, when a fatal signal was received by slapd and core was
dumped. COPs (Cabal OPeratives) appeared on the scene roughly 20 minutes after
the incident and began the process of sifting through the core for traces of
Collins. A frustrated Adam Heath cried "He must be here somewhere".
However, after several hours of debugging, Micheal Beattie proclaimed that the
search was being called off. Adam Heath was heard shouting "Damn it Ben, I 
told you gdb doesn't work properly on sparc". When the COPs were later
searched out for further comment on possible chances of the core being 
cryogenically preserved for future resurrection when gdb on sparc improves,
Branden Robinson, X maintainer, calmly responded "There is no cabal" and was
seen leaving the area with Demonishi in his tentacles.

Quality Assurance team member Martin Michlmayr was flown in from England to
assist with service preparations and refused comment. Nils Lohner and Richard
Braakman jointly expressed their sympathy to the family of Collins but later
were heard crying "Screw this DFSG-free stuff, if only we'd had a commercial
quality debugger for sparc!".

Kurt Zeilenga, chief architect of the OpenLDAP project was seen gripping a foam
stress ball and pacing furiously. The OpenLDAP project has not released a
statement at press time. When the Debian Press Team was polled for commentary,
this reporter was only able to receive comments regarding libdb and how "he
had it coming".

Service will be held in #debian-devel on April 3rd, 2001 10:00am UTC on the
openprojects network, at which time BenC's core will be tarred, gzipped, and
layed to rest on a new RAID array on auric.debian.org. Jason Gunthorpe, author
of APT and senior DSA for the Debian Project, who is responsible for the RAID
array and all arrangements regarding the tarring, was mostly unavailable for
comment and only quoted as saying "Moo, Moo, Ben Collins, moo moo"

Ben Collins will be sorely missed by both the Debian and OpenLDAP community.

Courtesy of Debian Planet
http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=158

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Preparing 2.2r3

[Martin Schulze]

Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3
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Up-to-date version on http://master.debian.org/~joey/2.2r3/

I'm currently preparing 2.2r3 and will send reports so people can
actually comment on it.  I'm sortof responsible for this release,
however Anthony Towns has to give the final approval for each package.
I, however, can and will try to make his work as easy as possible in
the hope to get the next release out real soon now.

My requirements for packages to go into stable:

 1. The package fixes a security problem.  Quite helpful would be an
advisory issued by the Security Team already.

 2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead into data loss,
data corruption or an overly broken system.

 3. The stable version of the package is not installable at all due to
broken or unmet dependencies or broken installation scripts

 4. The package gets all architectures in stable in sync.

 5. All released architectures have to be in sync.

Packages that I probably reject:

  . Package that fixes non-critical bugs

  . Misplaced uploads, i.e. packages that were uploaded to 'stable unstable'

  . Packages that are out of sync

Accepted packages
-

These packages should make it into stable.

acroreadupdates   4.05-3  i386

Anthony Fok says: Since multiple users have filed bugs against
the NLS problem, it is safe to assume that this problem
affects a significant minority of all users,.  (PDF files
often undisplayable or unprintable without the fix unless they
manually set LANG=C or something like that...)  So 4.05-3 does
indeed: fix an "important" bug that inconvenience quite a
few users; or for newbie users, they don't even know how to
fix it with LANG=C...

Changelog says:

* Added a line in /usr/lib/mime/packages/acroread to force Netscape
  use the Acroread PDF plugin.  Thanks to Thibaut Cousin for
  reporting the bug and and to fellow Debian developer Ryan Murray
  for providing the fix.  Closes: Bug#79333

* Acroread has some NLS issues that broke viewing and printing for
  international users when the decimal separator is not a dot.
  A patch is applied to the acroread wrapper script to set LC_NUMERIC.
  Thanks to Mirek, Serge Gavrilov, Sebastien Cabot for their bug 
reports,
  and special thanks to Florian Siegesmund for providing a patch ported
  from the netscape wrapper script written by H. Peter Anvin et al.
  Closes: Bug#66586, #66593, #76840, #86473.

* Moved /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread back to /usr/bin/acroread.  :-)

* Added menu hints="PDF".  Thanks, Arthur Korn!  Closes: Bug#82321.

* Acroread 4.05 does support type-in fields for fill-in forms.
  Closes: Bug#36451.

analog  updates   1:4.01-1potato1  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc

Security Update

apache  updates   1.3.9-13.2  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc

Security Update

apache-ssl  stable1.3.9.13-2  alpha, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
apache-ssl  updates   1.3.9.13-2  arm

Get architectures in sync.

This is non-US.

aview   updates   1.2-8.1.1   m68k

Fix unmet dependency in potato

bind updates   1:8.2.3-0.potato.1  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, 
sparc
bind-dev updates   1:8.2.3-0.potato.1  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, 
sparc
bind-doc updates   1:8.2.3-0.potato.1  all
dnsutils updates   1:8.2.3-0.potato.1  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, 
sparc
task-dns-server  updates   1:8.2.3-0.potato.1  all

Security Update

console-apt  stable0.7.7.2potato2  i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
console-apt  updates   0.7.7.2potato2  alpha, arm

Get stable packages in sync

cronupdates   3.0pl1-57.2  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc

Security Update

cslatex updates   1.2.2   all

Showstopper

Fixed cslatex stops installation (closes: #67214, #69224)

cupsys-bsd  updates   1.0.4-9 i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
cupsys  updates   1.0.4-9 i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
libcupsys1-dev  updates   1.0.4-9 i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
libcupsys1  updates   1.0.4-9 i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc

Security upload

Packages compiled for alpha and arm uploaded.

No advisory yet, due to audit in progress

dedit   stable0.5.11  alpha, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
dedit   stable0.5.9   arm
dedit   updates   0.5.11  arm

Get stable in sync

dialog  updates   0.9a-2118-3bis  alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc

Security Update

distributed-net updates   2.8012-potato3  alpha, i386, powerpc, sparc

aj: It's actually non-free, not contrib.  The maintainer says
that we ought to be doing this in order to be allowed to
dis