Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2007

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Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2007
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Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
Debian community. In light of recent [1]attacks on SHA-1, the
[2]National Institute of Standards and Technology is preparing for a
[3]competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash
Standard. Rick Lehrbaum [4]reported that the installation of Debian
etch on an old ThinkPad notebook went pretty well and added a number
of screenshots.

 1. http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/20/1936257.shtml
 2. http://www.nist.gov/
 3. http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/nist_hash.html
 4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8143350649.html

Supporting Package Downgrade? Justin Pryzby [5]listed a couple of
reasons for not supporting package downgrades. They often work
nevertheless, except when package replacements and maintainer scripts
are involved. He wondered if there are any other reasons. Damyan
Ivanov [6]recommended the excellent documentation of [7]maintainer
scripts written by Margarita Manterola on the [8]Debian Women Wiki.

 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00241.html
 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00253.html
 7. http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts
 8. http://women.debian.org/wiki/