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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070129-newsletter.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 29 January 2007.
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1. Gentoo News
==============

Xfce 4.4 released
-----------------

After several months of development, Xfce[1] released version 4.4 last week.
It was quickly added to the tree by Gentoo's Xfce team[2]. The panel plugins
and extra utilities have been updated, and some new applications have been
added for 4.4. Use xfce-base/xfce4-extras to get them all, or choose the
ones you want from the xfce-extra/ category.

1. http://www.xfce.org
2. xfce@gentoo.org

Also, Peter Weller[3] has been testing this release on Gentoo/FreeBSD and it
seems to work pretty well, except for some programs which need minor fixing.

3. welp@gentoo.org

Second anniversary of Gentoo Forum Netherlands
----------------------------------------------

On January 22nd, the Gentoo Forum Netherlands celebrated its 2nd
anniversary. Started on January 22nd, 2005, GFN has grown into a community
with more than 175 registred members. Forum questions are devotedly
investigated, replied and followed until they are resolved. It is not only
the advanced users' questions that are being answered, but questions from
newcomers and the-not-so-battle-hardened users are investigated with the
same amount of interest.

However, serious work must be enlightened by humour, games and chats. And
that is the other bright side of GFN. The high number of posts (4572) in the
Coffee Corner proves there are frequent sessions of chatting about
non-serious subjects. Also, since a few weeks ago, GFN has had its own
Unreal Tournament server, which is used often by the regular visitors. With
this balance we spread the Gentoo spirit within a linguistic area counting
20 million people.

To find out more about Gentoo Forum Netherlands or to join, visit
http://gentoo-forum.nl.

=========================
2. Heard in the community
=========================

planet.gentoo.org
-----------------

Gatt beta released

Arch testers' workload has been greatly eased, now that Matthias Langer[4]'s
gatt program has been released. gatt helps with handling stabilization and
keywording bugs. Interested people can always join an arch-team IRC channel
(such as #gentoo-x86) to help out as an arch tester. All arch-teams can be
found on the base project page[5].

4. mlangc@gmx.at
5. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/

* http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Christian.Faulhammer/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=159&Itemid=99999999

New PS3 stages on mirrors

This week, the Gentoo Linux for PS3 development team[6] released a new
stage4 tarball. It's available for download on the mirrors, as are the
snapshots used to build the stage4 repository.

6. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/ppc64/ps3/

* http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/ranger/2007/01/23/new_ps3_stages_on_mirrors

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3. Gentoo International
=======================

USA: SCALE 5x, Los Angeles, CA
------------------------------

That's right! SCALE 5x is coming up quickly. The event runs February 10
through February 11th. Don't miss out on two mini-conferences held on the
9th, Women in Open Source and Open Source Healthcare.

You can find Gentoo at booth #63[7]. Our development team is glad to present
you the following list of developers that will be attending:

7. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/gentoo.php

Name Nickname
Steve Arnold nerdboy
Christel Dahlskjaer christel
Steve Dibb beandog
Mike Doty kingtaco
Joshua Jackson tsunam
Peter Johanson latexer
Stephanie J. Lockwood-Childs wormo
Elfyn McBratney beu
Daniel Ostrow dostrow
Joshua Saddler nightmorph
David Shakaryan omp
Chris White chriswhite
Nicholas D. Wolfwood blackace

Some of the developers will also attending a live showing of Rocky Horror
Picture Show on Saturday night, February 10.

Questions? Mail scale@gentoo.org, or ask the developers in person at SCALE.
;)

* http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/

=========================
4. Gentoo developer moves
=========================

Moves
-----

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:

* Matthew Kennedy (mkennedy)

Adds
----

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:

* none this week

Changes
-------

The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:

* none this week

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5. Gentoo security
==================

Fetchmail: Denial of Service and password disclosure
----------------------------------------------------

Fetchmail has been found to have numerous vulnerabilities allowing for
Denial of Service and password disclosure.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[8]

8. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml

Mod_auth_kerb: Denial of Service
--------------------------------

Mod_auth_kerb is vulnerable to a buffer overflow possibly allowing a Denial
of Service.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]

9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-14.xml

Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilities
-------------------------------------

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been identified in Sun Java
Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]

10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-15.xml

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
----------------------------------------------

Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution, Denial of
Service, and cross-site scripting attacks.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]

11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-16.xml

libgtop: Privilege escalation
-----------------------------

libgtop improperly handles filenames, possibly allowing for the execution of
arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]

12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-17.xml

xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities
--------------------------------------

xine-ui improperly handles format strings, possibly allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[13]

13. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-18.xml

OpenLDAP: Insecure usage of /tmp during installation
----------------------------------------------------

A shell script commonly released with OpenLDAP makes insecure usage of files
in /tmp during the emerge process.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[14]

14. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-19.xml

Centericq: Remote buffer overflow in LiveJournal handling
---------------------------------------------------------

Centericq does not properly handle communications with the LiveJournal
service, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[15]

15. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-20.xml

MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution
-----------------------------------------------

Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in the
execution of arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[16]

16. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml

Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
-------------------------------------------------

Two vulnerabilities have been found in Squid which make it susceptible to
Denial of Service attacks.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[17]

17. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-22.xml

Cacti: Command execution and SQL injection
------------------------------------------

Cacti has three vulnerabilities that could allow shell command execution or
SQL injection.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18]

18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-23.xml

VLC media player: Format string vulnerability
---------------------------------------------

VLC media player improperly handles format strings, allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]

19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-24.xml

X.Org X server: Multiple vulnerabilities
----------------------------------------

Sean Larsson from iDefense Labs has found multiple vulnerabilities in the
DBE and Render extensions.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]

20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-25.xml

=======================
6. Gentoo package moves
=======================

This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree
and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be
removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations,
including the Treecleaners[21] and various developers. Most packages which
are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care
and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.

21. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners

Removals:
---------

Package: Removal date: Contact:
net-misc/bcm4400 23 Jan 2007 Daniel Drake[22]
dev-lang/cm3 24 Jan 2007 Mike Frysinger[23]
sys-apps/pcsc-ase-iiie-drv 24 Jan 2007 Alon Bar-Lev[24]
media-libs/libmusepack 25 Jan 2007 Diego Pettenò[25]
x11-themes/bmpx-themes 27 Jan 2007 Patrick McLean[26]
media-libs/swfdec 27 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[27]
dev-java/jakarta-tomcat-jasper 27 Jan 2007 William Thomson[28]
app-emulation/i8086emu 28 Jan 2007 Denis Dupeyron[29]
dev-ada/asis 28 Jan 2007 George Shapovalov[30]
net-im/mercury-bin 28 Jan 2007 Gustavo Felisberto[31]

22. dsd@gentoo.org
23. vapier@gentoo.org
24. alonbl@gentoo.org
25. flameeyes@gentoo.org
26. chutzpah@gentoo.org
27. armin76@gentoo.org
28. wltjr@gentoo.org
29. calchan@gentoo.org
30. george@gentoo.org
31. humpback@gentoo.org

Additions:
----------

Package: Addition date: Contact:
app-text/gnochm[32] 22 Jan 2007 Ryan Hill[33]
app-portage/gatt-svn[34] 23 Jan 2007 Christian Faulhammer[35]
dev-perl/Sys-Statistics-Linux[36] 23 Jan 2007 Michael Cummings[37]
xfce-extra/xfce4-timer[38] 23 Jan 2007 Peter Weller[3]
dev-java/fontbox[39] 24 Jan 2007 Petteri Räty[40]
dev-scheme/scm[41] 24 Jan 2007 Marijn Schouten[42]
app-admin/pprocm[43] 25 Jan 2007 Michael Cummings[37]
dev-perl/GD-Barcode[44] 25 Jan 2007 Christian Hartmann[45]
dev-java/rundoc[46] 25 Jan 2007 Petteri Räty[40]
net-p2p/bitstormlite[47] 26 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[27]
dev-java/snip[48] 26 Jan 2007 Petteri Räty[40]
app-doc/linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell[49] 26 Jan 2007 Mike Frysinger[23]
net-p2p/dbhub[50] 26 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[27]
net-misc/tipcutils[51] 26 Jan 2007 Gustavo Zacarias[52]
dev-lang/xsb[53] 28 Jan 2007 Keri Harris[54]
x11-plugins/compiz-extra[55] 28 Jan 2007 Hanno Boeck[56]
media-libs/wxsvg[57] 28 Jan 2007 Ryan Hill[33]
app-text/searchmonkey[58] 28 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[27]
sys-fs/davl[59] 28 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[27]

3. welp@gentoo.org
23. vapier@gentoo.org
27. armin76@gentoo.org
32. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-text;name=gnochm
33. dirtyepic@gentoo.org
34. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-portage;name=gatt-svn
35. opfer@gentoo.org
36. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Sys-Statistics-Linux
37. mcummings@gentoo.org
38. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=xfce4-timer
39. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=fontbox
40. betelgeuse@gentoo.org
41. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-scheme;name=scm
42. hkbst@gentoo.org
43. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-admin;name=pprocm
44. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=GD-Barcode
45. ian@gentoo.org
46. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=rundoc
47. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-p2p;name=bitstormlite
48. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=snip
49. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-doc;name=linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell
50. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-p2p;name=dbhub
51. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-misc;name=tipcutils
52. gustavoz@gentoo.org
53. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-lang;name=xsb
54. keri@gentoo.org
55. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=x11-plugins;name=compiz-extra
56. hanno@gentoo.org
57. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-libs;name=wxsvg
58. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-text;name=searchmonkey
59. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-fs;name=davl

Last Rites:
-----------

Package: Removal date: Contact:
mail-client/ximian-connector[60] 24 Feb 07 Daniel Gryniewicz[61]
net-misc/e100[62] 24 Mar 07 Alec Warner[63]

60. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=mail-client;name=ximian-connector
61. dang@gentoo.org
62. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-misc;name=e100
63. antarus@gentoo.org

===========
7. Bugzilla
===========

Summary
-------

* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings

Statistics
----------

The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[64]) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development
team. Between 21 January 2007 and 28 January 2007, activity on the site has
resulted in:

64. http://bugs.gentoo.org

* 754 new bugs during this period
* 455 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 31 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
* 170 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this
period
* 137 bugs marked as duplicates during this period

Of the 10729 currently open bugs: 19 are labeled 'blocker', 106 are labeled
'critical', and 454 are labeled 'major'.

Closed bug rankings
-------------------

The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:

* XFCE Team[2], with 30 closed bugs[65]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[66], with 30 closed bugs[67]
* AMD64 Project[68], with 20 closed bugs[69]
* Gentoo Security[70], with 18 closed bugs[71]
* Gentoo KDE team[72], with 15 closed bugs[73]
* Java team[74], with 15 closed bugs[75]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[76], with 13 closed bugs[77]
* udev maintainers[78], with 11 closed bugs[79]

2. xfce@gentoo.org
65. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=xfce@gentoo.org
66. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
67. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
68. amd64@gentoo.org
69. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
70. security@gentoo.org
71. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@gentoo.org
72. kde@gentoo.org
73. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
74. java@gentoo.org
75. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
76. base-system@gentoo.org
77. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
78. udev-bugs@gentoo.org
79. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=udev-bugs@gentoo.org

New bug rankings
----------------

The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:

* Default Assignee for New Packages[80], with 44 new bugs[81]
* Netmon Herd[82], with 17 new bugs[83]
* Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers[84], with 13 new
bugs[85]
* Java team[74], with 10 new bugs[86]
* udev maintainers[78], with 9 new bugs[87]
* AMD64 Project[68], with 7 new bugs[88]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[89], with 6 new bugs[90]
* Robin Johnson[91], with 6 new bugs[92]

68. amd64@gentoo.org
74. java@gentoo.org
78. udev-bugs@gentoo.org
80. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
81. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
82. netmon@gentoo.org
83. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
84. web-apps@gentoo.org
85. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=web-apps@gentoo.org
86. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
87. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=udev-bugs@gentoo.org
88. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
89. x11@gentoo.org
90. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
91. robbat2@gentoo.org
92. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-21&chfieldto=2007-01-28&assigned_to=robbat2@gentoo.org

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93. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org

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