GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry (April 2010)

The recent GNU software releases:

bison-2.4.2 gnunet-0.9.0pre0 mit-scheme-9.0.1 cpio-2.11 gnupg-2.0.15 nano-2.2.4 cppi-1.15 gnutls-2.8.6 rottlog-0.72.2 ddrescue-1.12 grep-2.6.3 sipwitch-0.8.0 denemo-0.8.16 gsasl-1.4.4 solfege-3.16.1 dionysus-1.2.0 gsl-1.14 swbis-1.5 freedink-1.08.20100321 gss-1.0.0 tar-1.23 gcal-3.5.1 hello-2.6 tramp-2.1.18 gcc-4.5.0 icecat-3.6.3 ucommon-2.1.1 gdb-7.1 inetlib-1.1.2 wdiff-0.6.1 gecb-0.8.3 libextractor-0.6.1 xboard-4.4.3 gidfwizard-0.6.3 libgsasl-1.4.4 xorriso-0.5.2 global-5.8.2 libmicrohttpd-0.4.6 gnuedma-0.18.1 libtasn1-2.5

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Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.