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#use wml::debian::weeklynews::header PAGENAME="November 16th, 1999" SUMMARY=""
<p>
<b>Welcome</b> to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian developer
community.
</p>
<p>
Wichert Akkerman posted the Debian Machine Usage Policy. () ***TODO: expand
***
</p>
<p>
Another bugsquash patry will be held this weekend. Participate
(19991115223949.A1285@xs4all.nl) on Saturday and help us
"<i>splatter bug juice all over the dist!</i>"
</p>
<p>
In security news, a new version of BIND has been released that fixes a
remote root exploit. (19991111195309.19070.qmail@master.debian.org). The
security fixes were also backported to stable
(199911162219.XAA28974@soil08.soil.nl). Also, a
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/1999/19991111a">new version of
proftpd</a> for stable has been released, fixing a number of security holes.
And finally, a fix for a nfs-server buffer overflow has been
<a href="http://www.debian.org/security/1999/19991111">released for stable.
</p>
<p>
A new "<i>science</i>" section has been added to the ftp site along side the
existing sections like mail and games. Anyone who maintains packages that
belong in the new section should contact James Troup.
(87pux94z1f.fsf@nocrew.org)
</p>
<p>
Some Debian merchandize(***SP**) is available at Copyleft. No shirts yet, but they
have nice <a href="http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft/d001.pl">black</a>
and <a href="http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft/d002.pl">white</a>
frisbees with the Debian logo on them.
</p>
<p>
Thanks to *** for
<a href="../../contributing">contributing</a>.
</p>
#use wml::debian::weeklynews::footer
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