Release-critical Bugreport for April 28, 2000
Bug stamp-out list for Apr 28 03:12 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 109
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 1
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Package: acroread (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
63054 acroread: segfault when loading a document
Package: aolserver-postgres (debian/main)
Maintainer: Brent A. Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org>
63151 testdb.adp not successfull
Package: apache (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
60257 apache-ssl: upgrade changes DocumentRoot!
62721 apache: Error in the default apache config. Apache will not run.
62741 Apache source cannot be extracted
Package: apache-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
62723 apache-perl: When replacing apache with apache-perl, apache is unable to run
Package: apache-ssl (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
62493 apache-ssl: /usr/sbin/apache-sslctl start: httpd could not be started
63116 Default config is invalid
Package: apcalc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Buck <mbuck@debian.org>
63177 apcalc: recompile against libreadline4
Package: apt (debian/main)
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
62945 dpkg: dselect hangs before or after install
Package: arla (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Gregory S. Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
61706 arla packages are horribly outdated
Package: balsa (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jules Bean <jules@debian.org>
62838 balsa complains about a fcntl lock timeout when trying to open a folder
Package: bash (debian/main)
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
62170 tetex-bin (alpha): fmtutil, texlinks segfault during setup
Package: blacs-lam-test (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org>
62862 blacs-lam-test recommends a nonexistant package
Package: boa (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jonathon D Nelson <jnelson@boa.org>
62660 boa: closes stderr for CGI childs
Package: cdrecord (debian/main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
62855 cdrecord: need to upgrade to 1.8.1a01 or integrate patch from it
Package: clisp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
62533 Clisp crashes when it looks for lisp.run in the wrong place.
Package: console-data (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
63172 Boot-floppies i18n needs br-latin1 keymap
Package: dconfig (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
62578 dconfig: /etc/menu-methods/dconfig has wrong permissions
Package: dlocate (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
61789 dlocate: significant breakage, does not function as per man page at all
[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr9)
61790 dlocate: cron job apparently doesn't run?
62023 dlocate: Error: can't open file at /usr/sbin/update-dlocatedb line 19, upon install
Package: dwww (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
62726 dwww: dwww is unable to find packages with documentation included in /usr/share/doc/ (patch provided)
Package: elvis-tiny (debian/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
62720 elvis-tiny has problems w/ 80x30 mode
62807 Signedness error on powerpc
Package: exim (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
61770 exim: exim 3.12-7 doesn't send mail
63055 Exim 3.12-7 vulnerable to DOS
Package: fdflush (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
63089 fdflush has no docs?
Package: festival (debian/main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
62133 package available for powerpc, simple patch.
Package: ftape (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
59502 raw ftape devices wrong
Package: gap4-doc-html (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder <hetzi@hetzi.at>
60703 gap4-doc-html depends on nonexistent package
Package: gcc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
62084 slink->potato upgrade fail
Package: gdb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
58450 gdb: Won't compile on PowerPC
62081 Looking for gdb-4.18-objc patches....
Package: general (pseudo)
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
63110 general: http-analyze 1.9e-4.3 is not Y2K compatible
Package: glide2-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
61171 glide2-base: test3Dfx linked to wrong library
Package: glimpse (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>
60852 glimpse: full of temp races
[WAITING] Maintainer has been contacted on April 11. (MH)
Package: gnome-session (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
61617 gnome-session: gome-wm fails
Package: gnome-think (debian/main)
Maintainer: Peter Teichman <pat@debian.org>
61608 gnome-think won't save files
Package: gnome-utils (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
62471 libglib1.2: Broken calc with french locale
Package: gnomeicu (debian/main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <edlang@debian.org>
63138 gnomeicu: gnomeicu-client segfaults
63139 gnomeicu: gnomeicu crashes on user addition
Package: gnuserv (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
61571 gnuserv: (void-function server-kill-buffer-query-function)
Package: gs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>
63163 ghostscript consumes all available memory on system
Package: i18ndata (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
62173 i18ndata: Contains non-free file.
Package: ibcs2.0.35 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
62818 ibcs2.0.35 recommends kernel-image-2.0.35 that is no longer available
Package: imlib-progs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
60052 imlib-progs: imlib_config segfaulting without /etc/imlib/imrc
[HELP] Should be fixed in 1.9.8-4; please someone verify
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Package: ippl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Hugo Haas <hugo@debian.org>
62784 ippl: from address subnet parsing is incorrect
Package: irda-tools (debian/main)
Maintainer: NOKUBI Takatsugu <knok@daionet.gr.jp>
61614 irda-tools: irattach says 'Are you using an old kernel?'
Package: jdk1.1 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
60857 Bad path to java-jdk11.1.gz in update-alternatives-jdk1.1
Package: jdk1.1-dev (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
60504 jdk1.1-dev: one more crufty old alternative to clean up
Package: kernel-image-2.2.13-powerpc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@debian.org>
61032 kernel-source: when compiling 68K KERNELMAP_NOCACHE_SER doesn't exist. (is in ppc)
Package: kernel-package (debian/main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
62836 Bad default version number, apt will try to upgrade custom kernel
Package: lam2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
63084 lam2 uses several Conflicts:+Replaces: which depends on a fixed dpkg
Package: latex2html (debian/main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
63191 latex2html: missing dependence for netpbm
Package: ld.so (debian/main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
63183 [PATCH] 'struct dynamic' is actually ELF32 specific, breaks ldconfig
Package: less (debian/main)
Maintainer: Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>
62979 less has problems w/ 80x30 fb mode
Package: libapache-mod-ssl (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
62872 New version of apache
Package: libc6-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
57914 libc6-dev: sys/io.h doesn't work with g++
Package: libdb2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
63188 [PATCH] db: fix and enable spinlocks (and thus DB_THREAD) on Alpha
Package: libdb2++ (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
63034 libdb2++: will not configure as libdb2 version is wrong
Package: libdb2-util (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
63035 libdb2-util: will not configure as libdb2 version is wrong
Package: libggi (debian/main)
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
61177 libggi: svgalib target should not be built for all archs
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is talking with the submitter about how to fix it. (Apr12MH)
Package: libpam-modules (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
61644 a few problems since upgrading to potato
61724 logging password changes
61942 pam_unix logs unknown usernames to syslog
Package: lilo (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
62942 lilo and serial console problems
63095 lilo installs rescue disk in boot sector, clobbering Windows
Package: login (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
61480 su seg´faults after update from slink to frozen potato
[HELP] can't be reproduced
</FONT> 61643 a few problems since upgrading to potato
Package: lynx (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
59191 Have these buffer over flows in lynx been fixed?
[STRATEGY] should be fixed in latest lynx development versions
Package: maildrop (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
62465 maildrop can't dotlock files
Package: mesag-widgets-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
62674 mesag-widgets-dev: Building no longer works, neither do the demos
Package: mesag3+ggi (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
61705 Must pass --prefix to GGIMesa configure
Package: midentd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
[HELP] Maintainer requested help solving byte-swapping (big/little endian)
problems. (Apr11MH)
60271 midentd: Default installation, improper permissions on logfile. daemon != identd user.
Package: mule2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
55261 mule2: can't build from source
Package: navigator-smotif-472-libc5 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
60523 Can't run netscape: 'Bus error'
Package: ncurses4.2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <ncurses-maint@debian.org>
55263 [PATCH backported from 2.96 CVS] [alpha] can't compile ncurses 4.2
60531 ncurses4.2: fails to build when entering the Ada95 examples
Package: netatalk (debian/main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
60926 netatalk + lpr package higher than lpr_1%3a0.33-3_i386.deb
Package: nscd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
58367 nscd: 'broken pipe' error causes entire box to be unusable
Package: octave (debian/main)
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
62825 octave: should depend on debianutils >= 1.6
Package: passwd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
62237 passwd: paswd segfault
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.2.14 (debian/main)
Maintainer:
61544 Missing Dependencies for pcmcia modules
Package: pcmcia-source (debian/main)
Maintainer: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
62363 pcmcia-source: frozen version contains serious bug in smc91c92_cs; fixed in unstable
Package: pdl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
55268 [Strategy: alpha doesn't need <nan.h>, and comment out failed gaussian test] PDL fails to compile on alpha
[HELP] someone needs to upload that older version for alpha already!
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Package: perl-5.004 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
62007 perl-5.004 does not include asm-arm
Package: perl-5.005-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
61765 perl-5.005-base: crash with mhonarc
Package: postfix-tls (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
61733 postfix-tls: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/905279.954: Permission denied
Package: postgresql (debian/main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
62845 postinst dies deleting /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf
Package: qmail (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Jon Marler <jmarler@debian.org>
60665 qmail: Can't start QMail-POP3-Server
Package: qvwm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Shuichi OONO <jr5pdx@debian.or.jp>
62479 qvwm: QVWM uses images from Windows, copied at the "dot level"
Package: rplay-client (debian/main)
Maintainer: lantz moore <lmoore@debian.org>
63176 rplay-client: recompile against libreadline4
Package: scalapack (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org>
58386 scalapack_1.6-12(frozen): build error (undefined symbols)
[STRATEGY] Upload recompiled blacs-mpi and blacs-pvm. (Apr19MH)
Package: sced (debian/main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
62971 sced: Segfaults when exporting CSG
Package: ssh (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
62746 sshd doesn't close inherited file descriptors, causing debconf to hang
62876 ssh hangs on installation
Package: ssh-nonfree (non-US/non-free)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
[HELP] Please NMU. (with extreme care)
63018 ssh-nonfree: Invalid default ssh_config file
Package: sysvinit (debian/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
61227 Kernel panic/filesystem corruption if swapping started while software RAID resyncing
[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr 9)
Package: tar (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
63161 tar deletes symlink on extract
Package: util-linux (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
60734 util-linux: hwclock starts too late
62688 hwclock sets the time incorrectly if RTC is in local time
Package: xemacs20 (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
55278 xemacs20: can't build from source
[STRATEGY] dres requested removal of xemacs20 from unstable (#61494);
perhaps it should be removed from frozen, too?
Package: xfree86-1 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
63069 xfree86-1: xsun* servers need to try /dev/sunmouse first
Package: xfree86-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
62851 xfree86-common: SECURITY: Xsession has /tmp bug. please use tempfile.
Package: xpvm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
59816 xpvm_1.2.5-4(frozen): build fails due to root-owned files
61476 xpvm: can't build
Package: xserver-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
61021 [typo] xserver-configure doesn't call XF86Setup
[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr 9)
Package: zope (debian/main)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
62978 zope's DateTime module has bad problems with CEST (daylight saving in Europe)
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