release-notes/devel/en_US PackageNotes.xml,1.11,1.12

[Paul W. Frields (pfrields)]

Author: pfrields

Update of /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US
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	PackageNotes.xml 
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Index: PackageNotes.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US/PackageNotes.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.11 -r1.12
--- PackageNotes.xml	4 Apr 2007 11:53:57 -0000	1.11
+++ PackageNotes.xml	21 Apr 2007 21:42:59 -0000	1.12
@@ -11,18 +11,82 @@
     that are shown in the installation system.
   </para>
 
-  <section id="sn-Licensing-Audit">
-    <title>Licensing Audit</title>
-    <para>
-      The Fedora Project Board initiated a licensing audit to ensure all
-      software included in Fedora is compliant with the package licensing
-      guidelines.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      <ulink url='http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis'>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis</ulink>
-    </para>
+  <section id="sn-pc-speaker">
+    <title>PC Speaker Enabled</title>
+    <para>The PC speaker is enabled by default in this release, but can
+      be circumvented in a number of ways:</para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>Reduce its volume to a acceptable level or completely mute
+	  the PC speaker in <command>alsamixer</command> with the
+	  setting for <literal>PC Speak</literal>.</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+	  user, disable the PC speaker system-wide by runing the
+	  following command in a console.</para>
+	<screen><![CDATA[su -c '/sbin/modprobe -r pcspkr ; echo "install pcspkr :" >>/etc/modprobe.conf']]></screen>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-cdrkit">
+    <title><package>cdrtools</package> Replaced by <package>cdrkit</package></title>
+    <para>Recent versions of <package>cdrtools</package> intermix code
+      under the GPL and CDDL licenses, which are mutually incompatible.
+      To avoid this problem, in this release <package>cdrtools</package>
+      has been replaced by a fork called cdrkit. Thanks to Joerg Jaspert
+      (<email>joerg AT debian.org</email>) from Debian for initiating
+      development of this software and reaching out to us.</para>
+    <para><ulink url="http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/"/></para>
+    <para><ulink url="http://www.cdrkit.org/"/></para>
+    <para><ulink
+	url="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00409.html"/></para>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-em8300">
+    <title>EM8300 Drivers Default to ALSA</title>
+    <para>The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities
+      and kernel modules (<package>em8300</package> and
+      <package>kmod-em8300-*</package> packages) has changed from OSS to
+      ALSA to follow upstream. However, numerous applications that
+      support the em8300 still expect to find it in OSS mode. Users of
+      these applications can use the <option>audio_driver=oss</option>
+      option for the <systemitem>em8300</systemitem> module in
+      <filename>/etc/modprobe.conf</filename> to make the card use OSS
+      for audio.</para>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-pidgin">
+    <title><application>Gaim</application> Renamed to
+      <application>Pidgin</application></title>
+    <para>The <application>Gaim</application> instant messenger has been
+      renamed to <application>Pidgin</application> to avoid possible
+      trademark infringement issues.</para>
+    <para><ulink url="http://www.pidgin.im/index.php?id=177"/></para>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-fc6-tag">
+    <title>Packages with ".fc6" Tag</title>
+    <para>There have not been any major changes in the toolchain in
+      Fedora 7. Therefore, some packages in Fedora 7 might retain ".fc6"
+      in the release tag if they have been inherited from the previous
+      release without any changes. Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt
+      these packages for Fedora 7 to avoid making end users download the
+      packages for only a release tag change. This measure ensures that
+      the robustness is not affected by any potential changes evoked by
+      rebuilds. This naming of packages is merely cosmetic, and does not
+      in any way affect the functionality of the software. </para>
+  </section>
+  <section id="sn-perl-split">
+    <title>Perl Package Split</title>
+    <para>Development related files have been split up from Perl and are
+      now available in the <package>perl-devel</package> package. As a
+      temporary exception to the Fedora packaging guidelines,
+      <package>perl</package> requires <package>perl-devel</package> to
+      avoid rebuilding some <package>perl</package> dependent packages
+      late in the development cycle. During the next release cycle of
+      Fedora, maintainers will split up the rest of the dependent
+      packages.</para>
+    <para><ulink
+	url="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-April/msg00886.html"/></para>
   </section>
-
   <section id="sn-System-Tools">
     <title>System Tools</title>
     <section>