Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600 , BugScan reporter wrote:
> Bug stamp-out list for Mar 24 03:07 (CST)
>
> Total number of release-critical bugs: 190
> Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 5
>
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>
> Package: apache (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
> 59365 cron script kills itself
> 60257 apache-ssl: upgrade changes DocumentRoot!
> 60486 Apache doesn't show README* in dir listings
> 60575 /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
>
> Package: autofs (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Justin Maurer <justin@debian.org>
> 52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon crippled
> [STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream
>
> Package: bash (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
> 58404 bash: *ap++ == 0x55 , segmentation fault out of nowhere!
this one is likely to stay
> Package: bind (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
> 59649 bind: Gives core dump
fix in Incoming
> Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
> 60193 communicator: buss error when replying to message
normal communicator behaviour :(
> Package: communicator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
> 42259 [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
> 43849 communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error
see above
> Package: debconf (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> 60160 Finnish mirrors not included
this is RC?
> Package: dhelp (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>
> 60853 dhelp: uses glimpse insecurely
fix in Incoming
> Package: dotfile-bash (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
> 60060 dotfile-bash doesn't start
Joy said he will do an upload
> Package: exim (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
> 60871 exim_3.12-6.deb depends on libdb1.85, a non-existent package
fix installed some time ago
> 60988 general: problem with ssh install due to lack of gmp2 package in frozen
this one should be closed, because user had stable in non-US sources.list
> Package: gpm (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>
> 59793 gpm: gpm won't start from remote telnet session
should be fixed now
> Package: lsof (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>
> 57203 lsof does not build with 2.3 kernel headers [buildd@drow.res.cmu.edu: Log for failed build of lsof_4.48-1 (dist=frozen)]
this is a problem, but not RC (IMHO)
> Package: man-db (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
> 60339 How about testing packages before uploading them? 2.3.14 dies on unpack
new man-db installed, so maybe it fixes this
> Package: modconf (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Boot Floppies team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
> 60182 New screen is drawn on wrong tty if changing tty while module detection
RC?
> Package: netbase (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
> [STRATEGY] Maintainer has fixed upload ready, coordination with sysvinit
> is required.
> 59282 networking killed too early
this should be fixed in Incoming and maybe others
> 59377 netbase: can't build
> 60367 portmap isn't started on changing runlevels, breaking NIS/YP and NFS startup
> 60374 netbase: networking doesn't play well with NFS root
> 60517 prerm of netbase hangs
> 60770 netbase: inetd upgrade breaks services
>
> Package: netscape (debian/contrib)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
> 60619 netscape: Error message: 'Bus error' when trying to run netscape.
old story
> Package: python-base (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
> 61004 Python-base 1.5.2-9 still depends on libdb1.85
this is a SPARC build problem, on i386 it's OK
> Package: spamfilter (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
> 60704 spamfilter depends on nonexistent package
geez, filing 2 bug reports, because the previous had been tagged only as
normal, but grave? But yes, he's right about the wrong dependency.
> Package: tar (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
> 60824 tar: doesn't build from source (src/Makefile.in not up to date)
fix in Incoming
> Package: tetex-base (debian/main)
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
> 42698 tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken
fix should be in preparation
> Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
> [HELP] Christoph has set up a mailing list tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de
> to discuss work on these packages.
> 36671 tetex-bin: xdvi fails on gzipped files
Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
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