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FREEZING HAMM (!)



It's come time to prepare for the freezing of Hamm.  The preliminary date
for this is Friday, March 20th.  Hopefully we can release before the end
of April.

As everybody should know, there is a huge number of bugs that must be fixed
before this can happen.  I'd like to encourage all developers to take a hand
in fixing them.  I've included a list of them at the end of this message
that is current as of last Friday.

Also, please avoid the upload of major changes if possible.  Testing of big
changes should really happen over the entire development cycle and not
just the "frozen" period.

*  Once the system is frozen, I _will_ be restricting what can be uploaded
*  to it.  Only bug fixes will be allowed.  No new code or upstream releases
*  that are anything more than bugfixes will be allowed, barring special
*  circumstances.  Thus, if you're planning to update your package before
*  the release, you have 4 weeks to do so!

Shortly before Hamm gets frozen, I will go through and move all packages
with critical, grave, or important bugs not essential to the operation of
Debian as a whole to the "project/orphaned" directory.  Uploads of those
packages to "frozen" will _not_ be allowed unless that release fixes all
of the release-necessary bugs.  The purpose of this is to keep unmaintained
packages from holding up the release of Debian 2.0.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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Bug #  Package Name       Bug Description [days old] (maintainer)
~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 1797: dpkg             - upgrade/downgrade dependency calculation problem [832]  (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
 4732: sdc              - sdc 1.0.6beta-1  docs only in source format [491]  (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
 5712: pine             - pine does not use liblockfile yet. [440]  (Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>)
10189: boot-floppies    - boot floppies should not force creation of a user account [260]  (Sven Rudolph <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>)
10576: slang0.99.34     - slang0.99.34: does not search /etc/terminfo [242]  (Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>)
10640: libgdbmg1-dev    - libgdbmg1-dev: Includes ndbm.h included in libc6-dev [240]  (Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>)
11559: ircii            - ircII has rc files, but they are not known as conffiles [199]  (Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>)
11763: groupkit         - groupkit: installation script security hole [195]  (Karl Sackett <krs@debian.org>)
11771: lynx             - installation script security hole [195]  (Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>)
11774: xbase            - installation script security hole [195]  (eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin))
11792: ftp.debian.org   - installation script security hole [195]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
11810: freefont         - installation script security hole [195]  (Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>)
11812: sharefont        - installation script security hole [195]  (Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>)
11857: hwtools          - hwtools: scsi-config temp file security hole [191]  (Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org>)
12230: ftp.debian.org   - radiusd-merit has non-free parts [174]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
12843: omirr            - installation script security hole [154]  (Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>)
13216: libc6            - fseek does not work properly in libc6 [145]  (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
13683: libgdbm1         - libgdbm1: depends on too old a version of libc5 [128]  (Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>)
13762: bash             - bash: New version 2.01.1 is out [125]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
13849: dpkg             - netstd should predepend on libreadlineg2 (?) [122]  (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
13896: libc6            - emacs 19.34-11 core dumps on a libc6 system. [120]  (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
14088: lesstifg         - xmcd can't dance [0]  (jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)))
14134: binutils         - binutils: strip --strip-unneeded segfaults [111]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
14295: pine             - Pine: delete doesn't work properly in composer [104]  (Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>)
14361: ftp.debian.org   - remind is not DFSG free [101]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14541: ftp.debian.org   - mpg123: should be in non-free [100]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14595: xserver-vga16    - xserver-vga16 should not recommend xlib6 [98]  (eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin))
14693: patch            - sigsegv _): [94]  (Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>)
14842: ftp.debian.org   - chord is not DFSG free [90]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14849: ftp.debian.org   - sniffit has no copyright file [90]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14851: ftp.debian.org   - gettyps is not free software [90]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14855: ftp.debian.org   - doc++ is not free software [90]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14859: ftp.debian.org   - nasm is not DFSG free [90]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14906: ftp.debian.org   - xinetd is not DFSG free [89]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14946: ftp.debian.org   - xsnow is not DFSG free [88]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14947: ftp.debian.org   - xtet42 lacks copyright information [88]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14952: ftp.debian.org   - cqcam is not DFSG free [88]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14953: ftp.debian.org   - elvis is not DFSG free [88]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
14956: ftp.debian.org   - spim is not DFSG free [88]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
15094: xserver-s3       - xserver-*: remove this line &quot;/dev/MAKEDEV tty0 console&quot; and depend on makedev. [83]  (eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin))
15112: pine             - pine: zombie external editor [83]  (Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>)
15125: ftp.debian.org   - picons-* is not DFSG free [83]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
15154: ftp.debian.org   - pari is not DFSG free [82]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
15163: grub             - grub: if /boot is on a umsdos filsystem, grub messes up [81]  (Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org>)
15484: cvs              - cvs in bo is still vulnerable [75]  (Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>)
15736: kernel           - Pentium (tm) f00f bug^H^H^Herratum [66]  (Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>)
15875: kbd              - /etc/init.d and /etc/rcS.d do not use the same name [62]  (Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>)
15985: cron             - crontab -e doesn't think the file has been changed [58]  (Steve Greenland <stevegr@master.debian.org>)
16004: pgp-i            - pgp-i: coredumps when adding debian keyring [58]  (Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>)
16028: ftp.debian.org   - chinese-big5 is not free software [58]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
16032: ftp.debian.org   - vic-cqcam is not DFSG free and has a bad copyright file [58]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
16178: xserver-svga     - xserver-svga: xserver thinks my monitor is 390mm x 305mm [53]  (eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin))
16222: mime-support     - install-mime does not work properly (?). [52]  (Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>)
16287: aout-xpm         - aout-xpm has no source package [48]  (Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>)
16290: aout-gcc         - aout-gcc has no source package [48]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
16291: aout-binutils    - aout-binutils has no source package [48]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
16391: patch            - Patching the kernel leads to segmentation fault [43]  (Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>)
16635: qps              - qps: qps seems to be statically linked with QT and is in the wrong section [37]  (Hanno Wagner <wagner@linux.de>)
16883: sendmail         - offline systems [34]  (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
16908: smail            - error in smail config file (with solution) [33]  (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
17273: ftp.debian.org   - xinvaders is not DFSG free software [24]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
17305: grub             - grub: says S, then hangs [23]  (Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org>)
17307: cpp              - cpp no longer predefines architecture, breaking imake [23]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
17371: smail            - unfortunate new sender check [21]  (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
17389: dosfstools       - dosfsck: reports/corrects no-problems ! [21]  (Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>)
17393: perl             - perl: simple script dumps core [21]  (Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>)
17476: newt0.21         - Overlap between newt0.10 and newt0.21 [18]  (Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@molec1.dfis.ull.es>)
17477: newt0.21-dev     - Overlap between newt0.10-dev and newt0.21-dev [18]  (Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@molec1.dfis.ull.es>)
17564: cron             - cron: scripts do not execute under cron [15]  (Steve Greenland <stevegr@master.debian.org>)
17574: hwtools          - hwtools: scsidev copyright problem [15]  (Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org>)
17575: lesstifg         - nedit: NEdit locks the X display [0]  (jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)))
17579: sgml-tools       - sgml-tools: fails to process mutt's manual properly. [15]  (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
17595: ftp.debian.org   - tcpquota depends on non-free packages [15]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
17664: wmaker           - wmaker: /etc/menu-methods/wmaker is not a conffile! [13]  (nar5@po.cwru.edu (Neil A. Rubin))
17671: bind             - BIND 8 package does not preserve local configuration on upgrade [12]  (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
17672: lesstifg         - ddd locks up XFree86 when the gdb window is selected [12]  (jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)))
17687: xlib6            - xlib6 does not include the symlinks [12]  (eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin))
17695: kon2             - kon2: several packaging bugs [12]  (Yoshiaki Yanagihara <yochi@linux.or.jp>)
17702: ftp.debian.org   - pgplot: it's non-free [11]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
17768: libc6            - libc6 bug in mathematical functions [9]  (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
17852: ftp.debian.org   - ftpwatch in stable belongs to contrib [7]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
17873: libc6            - libc6: modfl prints wrong results ... [0]  (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
17892: procps           - procps: source for binary doesn't exist, source which does exist is FUBAR [0]  (Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>)
17939: dhcp-client-beta - dhclient-script prints error message from 'route' [0]  (Christoph Lameter <clameter@fuller.edu>)
17953: ftp.debian.org   - withdrawn of hello-debmake [0]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
17963: g77              - g77 fails under libc6-p [0]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
17971: binutils         - binutils: Strip aborts dumping core during netscape3 installation [0]  (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
17975: smail            - smail places log files in /var/adm/smail/ [0]  (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
17999: samba            - new samba package incorrectly includes manpage for smbmount, I think [0]  (peloy@debian.org (Eloy A. Paris))
18002: xemacs20         - wrong dependency in xemacs [0]  (James LewisMoss <dres@dimensional.com>)
18016: smail            - smail: smail uses /var/adm/smail instead of /var/log/smail [0]  (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
18026: gv               - gv and ghostscript need to depend on gsfonts [0]  (karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom))
18038: svgatextmode     - svgatexmode: contains non-free parts? [0]  (Igor Grobman <igor@debian.org>)
18056: majordomo        - TMPDIR defaults to /usr/tmp [0]  (Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>)
18092: smail            - smail does not write logs! [0]  (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
18097: apache           - apache: insecure version in bo ! [0]  (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
18107: dwww             - security problem: dwww allows arbitrary command to be executed [0]  (Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>)
18112: lesstifg         - nedit locks under lesstiff when creating new document [0]  (jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)))
18132: passwd           - passwd: gpasswd doesn't work as expected -- security hole and lost of functionality [0]  (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)



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