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The Debian Weekly News for July 20, 2004 is out. Topics this week include the University of Zaragoza in Spain which plans to distribute 50,000 copies of its Debian/GNOME based distribution; the General Resolution to force AMD64 into Sarge; Debian's increasing market share; GNUstep policy violation; GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 in unstable; and more.

The Debian-Installer team met on IRC on July 17. Here are the minutes of that meeting.

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This week's Front page contains an analysis of the General Resolution to force AMD64 in Sarge. We'll just add a post from Martin Michlmayr, Debian Project Leader, on the steps he has taken to resolve this issue.

Ian Lynagh has made two new package status web pages available. One gives you the status of all your packages (or an arbitrary list of packages) on all arches, the other gives you the information in the buildd status text files.