epel-devel June 2010

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Packages for EL-6 (or lack thereof)
by Mark Chappell 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Subsequent to the last EPEL meeting I've tried to pull out some info on which packages have and have not been built so far... Note: Originally there was no plan for an automated mass re-build Out of almost 3500 packages, about 500 have been built. A list of what's been built or not, who's packages haven't been built and what the latest builds are can be found at: http://tremble.fedorapeople.org/EPEL-Report The top 10 for unbuilt packages: spot : 197 lkundrak : 153 steve : 141 orphan : 126 thias : 88 rdieter : 80 lmacken : 67 rjones : 62 xulchris : 59 kwizart : 56 The 10 ten for packages built: ellert : 54 tremble : 50 remi : 49 robert : 43 ausil : 42 pghmcfc : 41 peter : 38 stevetraylen : 27 itamarjp : 25 sharkcz : 21 Mark

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EL6- missing requires for blt and wv
by Chitlesh GOORAH 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Hello there, EL-6 branch is missing some requires such as the following : Error: Package: blt-2.4-32.z.el6.i686 (epel) Requires: itcl Error: Package: lyx-1.6.6.1-1.el6.i686 (epel) Requires: wv chitlesh

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What if I want to maintain ALL my packages on EPEL as from now on ?
by Chitlesh GOORAH 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Hello there, It's been a while since I'm considering my commitment towards the FEL, since Fedora (this distribution) 's 6months development cycle is becoming a headache for me release after release. I simply don't have time to fix issues related with compiler updates. As a hardware engineer, this is not how I wish to spend my leisure time. More than 90% of my FEL development time was about compiler fixes than something related to its features. My current Fedora packages are mostly for the microelectronics engineering, which requires * a stable and long term support platform for the user * and less distraction for me (less software update compatibility nuisance) so that I have time to improve theses opensource EDA software by actually porting Semiconductor Physics to software. So here I am in front of the EPEL community, can I _only_ maintain my >50 mature packages for EPEL only (and no support for Fedora anymore) * which was developed more than 5 years ago and being currently used in the industry * which require few minor updates per year * which some of them are already within the EPEL repositories * which are in the fedora repositories for more than 3 years (for more than 5 fedora releases) and being used by many small companies and universities around the world. ------------ FROM http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Contributing_to_EPEL Is it possible to get a package only into EPEL and not Fedora? Simply go through the review process for Fedora and specify only EL targets for the initial import. But note that maintaining packages in Fedora has many advantages for you, you should consider maintaining the package in both Fedora and EPEL. ------------------------------ However since I simply don't have the time to spend on politics and a tight release cycle, my only options so that I can still improve the existing EDA tools myself (as upstream) would be: 1* provide EPEL support only and no support on Fedora or 2* stop maintaining all my fedora packages and wait till someone cares to take over Can a packager like me opt only option 1 ? If option 1 is possible for me, then if by the end of August noone wants to maintain my packages for fedora 12 and onwards, I would mark them all as dead packages and concentrate only for their respective EPEL branches. Cheers, Chitlesh Goorah

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EPEL Steering Committee
by Stephen Gallagher 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

I brought this up at the EPEL meeting today, but as we were running out of time, I was asked to raise the issue by email on the list. Currently, the EPEL Steering Committee does not exist in any strict form. It appears to be formed ad-hoc by those attending EPEL meetings. In general, interest in the management of EPEL is fairly limited as mentioned by smooge: "[W]e are also about 5 interested people and 95 people who just like make packages" My real question is whether we all feel that this is a sufficient form of governance for EPEL, or should we attempt to formalize a steering committee similar to Fedora? -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/

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New meeting time
by Stephen John Smoogen 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Best fit (6 out of 7) Monday at 1900 UTC Next best (5 out of 7) Monday at 1600 UTC Monday at 2000 UTC Wednesday at 1600 UTC Thursday at 1600 UTC Friday at 1600 UTC Before we settle on Monday 1900, is there anything in the 5 out of 7's that people would rather want. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines

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Requesting testers for libtalloc 2.0.1-7.el5
by Stephen Gallagher 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

As you may have read on this list, there has been a lot of discussion on how to address libtalloc in EPEL5, since RHEL 5.5 was released with an earlier version. To summarize the problem briefly, libtalloc 2.0.1 (providing libtalloc.so.2) was released in EPEL5 during the lifetime of RHEL 5.4. At this time, no libtalloc existed in RHEL. However, when RHEL 5.5 was released, it included a subpackage of the samba3x SRPM that provided an earlier version of libtalloc (providing libtalloc.so.1). The problem is that since the two packages are named the same, and EPEL5 was carrying a newer version, RHEL users would be upgraded to the EPEL version. This would cause compatibility issues with RHEL5, as the samba3x package relied on libtalloc.so.1, while EPEL5 features such as SSSD relied on libtalloc.so.1. This was also in violation of the standard policy of EPEL not to upgrade standard RHEL packages. In the EPEL meeting today, it was decided that in order to resolve this issue for now, the following steps will be taken (as an exception to the currently-defined EPEL policy)* 1) libtalloc in EPEL will be updated to carry both libtalloc.so.2 and a compatible version of libtalloc.so.1 (built from the samba3x sources). 2) The libtalloc maintainer in EPEL (me) will work with the samba3x maintainer in RHEL5 to move libtalloc 2.x into RHEL proper for RHEL 5.6 (so this violation in policy will exist only during a single RHEL minor release) I would like this package to see extensive testing before it goes to stable, so I would request anyone who is (or might wish to be) running samba3x to please test this package for incompatibilities with samba3x: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libtalloc-2.0.1-7.el5 * Policy is being re-examined to handle similar issues in the future. -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/

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Fedora EPEL 4 updates-testing report
by updates＠fedoraproject.org 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

The following builds have been pushed to Fedora EPEL 4 updates-testing dcap-2.47.2-2.el4 memcached-1.2.8-2.el4 nrpe-2.12-13.el4 Details about builds: ================================================================================ dcap-2.47.2-2.el4 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2950) Client Tools for dCache -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes issues caused by inappropriate compiler flags. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jun 17 2010 Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert(a)fysast.uu.se> - 2.47.2-2 - Adjust CFLAGS so that the compiled program works correctly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ memcached-1.2.8-2.el4 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2945) High Performance, Distributed Memory Object Cache -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes problems with init script on EL-4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 15 2010 Paul Lindner <lindner(a)inuus.com> - 1.2.8-2 - Patch from Remi Collet - EL-4 does not have pidfile params * Thu Aug 13 2009 Paul Lindner <lindner(a)mirth.inuus.com> - 1.2.8-1 - Fix init script for EL-4, patch from Ingvar Hagelund -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #603810 - Init script is broken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603810 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ nrpe-2.12-13.el4 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2944) Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Various init-script enhancements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jun 18 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> - 2.12-13 - Init-script enhancements (see rhbz #247001, #567141 and #575544) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #247001 - Initscript Review https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247001 [ 2 ] Bug #567141 - nrpe initscript always returns 0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567141 [ 3 ] Bug #575544 - nrpe cannot remove it's pidfile https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575544 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fedora EPEL 5 updates-testing report
by updates＠fedoraproject.org 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

The following builds have been pushed to Fedora EPEL 5 updates-testing 389-ds-base-1.2.6-0.6.rc1.el5 389-ds-base-1.2.6-0.7.rc2.el5 dcap-2.47.2-2.el5 fedora-packager-0.4.2.1-1.el5 hct-0.7.60-2.el5 libtalloc-2.0.1-7.el5 nntpgrab-0.6.2-1.el5 nrpe-2.12-13.el5 openslide-3.2.2-1.el5 python-ipaddr-2.1.3-1.el5 Details about builds: ================================================================================ 389-ds-base-1.2.6-0.6.rc1.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2947) 389 Directory Server (base) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jun 14 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.6.rc1 - install replication session plugin header with devel package * Wed Jun 9 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.5.rc1 - 1.2.6 release candidate 1 * Wed May 26 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.4.a4 - 1.2.6.a4 release * Wed Apr 7 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.3.a3 - 1.2.6.a3 release - add managed entries plug-in - many bug fixes - moved selinux subpackage into base package * Tue Mar 2 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.2.a2 - 1.2.6.a2 release - add support for matching rules - many bug fixes * Fri Jan 15 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.1.a1 - 1.2.6.a1 release - Added SELinux policy and subpackages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #543590 - Tracking bug for 389 Directory Server 1.2.6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543590 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ 389-ds-base-1.2.6-0.7.rc2.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2949) 389 Directory Server (base) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jun 16 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.7.rc2 - 1.2.6 release candidate 2 * Mon Jun 14 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.6.rc1 - install replication session plugin header with devel package * Wed Jun 9 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.5.rc1 - 1.2.6 release candidate 1 * Wed May 26 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.4.a4 - 1.2.6.a4 release * Wed Apr 7 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.3.a3 - 1.2.6.a3 release - add managed entries plug-in - many bug fixes - moved selinux subpackage into base package * Tue Mar 2 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.2.a2 - 1.2.6.a2 release - add support for matching rules - many bug fixes * Fri Jan 15 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.1.a1 - 1.2.6.a1 release - Added SELinux policy and subpackages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #543590 - Tracking bug for 389 Directory Server 1.2.6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543590 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ dcap-2.47.2-2.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2951) Client Tools for dCache -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes issues caused by inappropriate compiler flags. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jun 17 2010 Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert(a)fysast.uu.se> - 2.47.2-2 - Adjust CFLAGS so that the compiled program works correctly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ fedora-packager-0.4.2.1-1.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2946) Tools for setting up a fedora maintainer environment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: point devel to F-14, send builds to koji.stg.fedoraproject.org for fedpkg, create git urls correctly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jun 14 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> - 0.4.2.1-1 - set devel for F-14 - point builds to koji.stg - correctly create a git url for koji -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ hct-0.7.60-2.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2942) A HDL complexity tool -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A Hardware Description Language complexity tool -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #592672 - Review Request: hct - A HDL complexity tool https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592672 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ libtalloc-2.0.1-7.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2845) The talloc library -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: * Thu May 27 2010 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-3 - Mark libtalloc as conflicting with samba3x - The custom version of libtalloc required by samba3x is custom and - incompatible with the compat lib. * Mon Jun 14 2010 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-7 - Rebuild libtalloc from the samba3x sources - Remove Conflicts: samba3x -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jun 14 2010 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-7 - Rebuild libtalloc from the samba3x sources - Remove Conflicts: samba3x * Thu May 27 2010 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-3 - Mark libtalloc as conflicting with samba3x - The custom version of libtalloc required by samba3x is custom and - incompatible with the compat lib. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #596841 - EPEL package libtalloc is incompatible with RHEL package samba3x https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596841 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ nntpgrab-0.6.2-1.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2913) Download files from the usenet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to the latest bugfix release. This fixes the following bugs: - When connecting to servers, keep the results of all DNS lookups in a cache so reconnecting can be done faster. This should also lower the possibility of the error message 'No hostname could be found for servername x' from occuring - Automatically retry connecting to usenet servers when a connection error has occured. This should fix a bug where the download queue could hang when the network connection is unstable - Very small files could get stuck in the download queue. Fixed - In a rare situation, the program could deadlock while trying to remove a file from the download queue. Fixed - Really disable activating the automatic import on Mac OS X - Don't use g_module_close() on Win32/Win64 as it causes a crash when the program is shut down - When a network disconnect is discovered by the NetworkManager plugin, the download queue would always get stopped, even when the download queue was inactive. Improved the handling of this situation - Don't wait for active decode actions to be completed before applying configuration changes. This fixes a temporary hang or a deadlock which could occur when changing something in the configuration while a file is being decoded - The download queue could get in an undefined state when applying multiple configuration changes very quick after each other. Fixed - When using collection names > 128 characters some error messages could pop up while adding files or performing a PAR2 repair or an unpack. Fixed - Renamed the configuration option 'Estimated end time' to 'Estimated time remaining' to avoid confusion. Fixes #31 - Added some more logging to improve the diagnosing of incomplete downloads - When a collection name contains the text '.par2', all files get marked as par2 recovery files by par2cmdline. This resulted in the automatic remove function to remove all files in the collection. Added a workaround for this bug -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Jun 5 2010 Erik van Pienbroek <info(a)nntpgrab.nl> - 0.6.2-1 - Update to 0.6.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ nrpe-2.12-13.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2948) Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Various init-script enhancements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jun 18 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> - 2.12-13 - Init-script enhancements (see rhbz #247001, #567141 and #575544) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #247001 - Initscript Review https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247001 [ 2 ] Bug #567141 - nrpe initscript always returns 0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567141 [ 3 ] Bug #575544 - nrpe cannot remove it's pidfile https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575544 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ openslide-3.2.2-1.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2952) C library for reading virtual slides -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: New upstream release * Add openslide-write-png * Support for VMU files * New error handling system -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jun 16 2010 Adam Goode <adam(a)spicenitz.org> - 3.2.2-1 - New upstream release + Add openslide-write-png + Support for VMU files + New error handling system -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ python-ipaddr-2.1.3-1.el5 (FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2943) A python library for working with IP addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: * fix for issue61, incorrect network containment * included releasenotes file -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 15 2010 L.S. Keijser <keijser(a)stone-it.com> - 2.1.3-1 - new version from upstream - added releasenotes file --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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epel beta report: 20100618 changes
by EPEL Beta Report 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Compose started at Fri Jun 18 15:59:25 UTC 2010 New package ejabberd A distributed, fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server New package glue-schema LDAP schema files for the GLUE Schema New package hct A HDL complexity tool New package perl-Apache-Session Persistence framework for session data New package perl-Cache-Simple-TimedExpiry A lightweight cache with timed expiration New package perl-Class-Accessor-Chained Make chained accessors New package perl-Class-Container Class::Container Perl module New package perl-Class-ReturnValue Class::ReturnValue Perl module New package perl-Email-Address RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation New package perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall Automatic install of dependencies via CPAN New package perl-FreezeThaw Convert Perl structures to strings and back New package perl-HTML-Scrubber Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html New package perl-HTTP-Server-Simple Very simple standalone HTTP daemon New package perl-IPC-ShareLite Lightweight interface to shared memory New package perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon Extract translatable strings from source New package perl-Module-Refresh Refresh %INC files when updated on disk New package perl-Module-Versions-Report Report versions of all modules in memory New package perl-Net-Server Extensible, general Perl server engine New package perl-Regexp-Common Regexp::Common Perl module New package perl-String-ShellQuote Perl module for quoting strings for passing through the shell New package perl-Test-LongString Perl module to test long strings New package perl-Text-Template Expand template text with embedded Perl New package perl-Text-WikiFormat Translate Wiki formatted text into other formats New package perl-Text-Wrapper Simple word wrapping perl module New package perl-Tree-Simple Tree::Simple Perl module New package perl-UNIVERSAL-require Require() modules from a variable New package perl-Want Perl module implementing a generalisation of wantarray New package perl-capitalization No capitalization on method names Updated Packages: bluefish-2.0.1-1.el6 -------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2010 Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> - 2.0.1-1 - Update to 2.0.1 - Drop upstreamed log10 linking patch - Drop redundant buildreqs pcre-devel and python-devel couchdb-0.10.2-14.el6 --------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> 0.10.2-13 - Remove ldconfig invocation (no system-wide shared libraries) - Removed icu-config requires * Fri Jun 18 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> 0.10.2-14 - Massive spec cleanup nrpe-2.12-13.el6 ---------------- * Fri Jun 18 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> - 2.12-13 - Init-script enhancements (see rhbz #247001, #567141 and #575544) Summary: Added Packages: 28 Removed Packages: 0 Modified Packages: 3

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epel beta report: 20100617 changes
by EPEL Beta Report 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Compose started at Thu Jun 17 21:45:01 UTC 2010 New package dcap Client Tools for dCache New package libgee GObject collection library New package php-feedcreator Create RSS feeds New package php-geshi Generic syntax highlighter Updated Packages: 389-ds-base-1.2.6-0.7.rc2.el6 ----------------------------- * Wed Jun 16 2010 Rich Megginson <rmeggins(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.7.rc2 - 1.2.6 release candidate 2 * Mon Jun 14 2010 Nathan Kinder <nkinder(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-0.6.rc1 - install replication session plugin header with devel package GitPython-0.2.0-0.1.beta1.el6 ----------------------------- * Mon May 24 2010 Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin(a)rm-rf.ca> - 0.2.0-0.1-beta1 - Updating for 0.2.0-beta1. couchdb-0.10.2-12.el6 --------------------- * Tue Jun 15 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> 0.10.2-12 - Narrow explicit requires * Tue Jun 08 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> 0.10.2-11 - Remove bundled ibrowse library (see rhbz #581282). * Mon Jun 07 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> 0.10.2-10 - Use system-wide erlang-mochiweb instead of bundled copy (rhbz #581284) - Added %check target and necessary BuildRequires - etap, oauth, mochiweb * Wed Jun 02 2010 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> 0.10.2-9 - Remove pid-file after stopping CouchDB kicad-2010.05.27-6.rev2363.el6 ------------------------------ * Tue Jun 15 2010 Alain Portal <alain.portal[AT]univ-montp2[DOT]fr> 2010.05.27-6 - Fix some module edition issues (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/593546, https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/593547) znc-0.090-2.el6 --------------- * Wed Jun 16 2010 Nick Bebout <nb(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.090-2 - Backport r2026 of ZNC subversion repo to fix bug 603915 - NULL pointer dereference flaw leads to segfault under certain conditions Summary: Added Packages: 4 Removed Packages: 0 Modified Packages: 5

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