Release-critical Bugreport for June 9, 2000
Bug stamp-out list for Jun 9 05:13 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 89
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 4
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Package: amanda-server (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
64864 Amanda package does not build correctly
Package: aptitude (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
64518 aptitude aborts when apting local files
[STRATEGY] Daniel Burrows made a patch
Package: autofs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
65077 autofs: Removable devices should be mounted with the sync option
65102 autofs: various problems with postrm, prerm, /etc/init.d/autofs [patch included]
Package: base-passwd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
63909 base-files: Base Files does not ensure the utmp group exists before trying to use it
[STRATEGY] Probably user-shot-himself problem
Package: bash (debian/main)
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
65053 Can't install tetex-bin 1.0.6-7
Package: boot-floppies (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
64500 subject boot-floppies don't want to install kernel & modules on ppc/apus.
64823 incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386
64840 boot-floppies: need PC keyboard types for SPARC install
Package: clisp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
64853 clisp_1999-07-22-5(frozen): test suite failure on m68k
Package: cocoon (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Julio Maia <julio@pobox.com>
65389 lib-fop-java required
Package: custom (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@debian.org>
65202 custom-init.el not included anymore
Package: cygnus-stylesheets (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
51878 cygnus-stylesheets: Invalid /etc/sgml.catalog entry
Package: darxite-control (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben C. Hendrickson <bhendrickson@usa.net>
64738 darxite-control: doesn't save its config when closed by wm
Package: debconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
65183 Use of uninitialized value
Package: dhttpd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
65141 dhttpd seems to die on startup
Package: dpkg (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
65318 dpkg: cdrom: problem with mounted and not mounted cdrom
Package: dpkg-multicd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
65317 dpkg-multicd: don't work with 'potato_test-cycle-1_nonUS'
Package: dvidvi (debian/main)
Maintainer: David van Leeuwen <david@ElseWare.cistron.nl>
65051 dvidvi: depends on libc6 but doesn't declare a dependency
65052 dvidvi: No copyright notive that it is allowed to use this program
Package: emacs20 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
63993 Unaligned traps in Emacs on Alpha (at least), memory corruption everywhere
64368 build from source broken
64645 emacs20: depends on unavailable emacsen-common >= 1.4.10 [potato]
64654 potato: emacs20 is not installable
64770 emacs20: depends on emacsen-common >=1.4.10 only version 1.4.9 is available
64986 build from source still fails
65208 Gnus broken by upgrade to 20.6-2
Package: epic (debian/main)
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
64731 [jnelson@hermes.acronet.net: Re: Ircii-epic: epic vulnerable?]
Package: freeamp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
56472 freeamp won't run on PowerPC
Package: gcc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
55263 [PATCH backported from 2.96 CVS] [alpha] can't compile ncurses 4.2
[HELP] Someone needs to check if this bug still applies. (RB)
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Package: gdb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
[HELP] Fix needed. (RB)
58450 gdb: Won't compile on PowerPC
62081 Looking for gdb-4.18-objc patches....
Package: glide2-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
61171 glide2-base: test3Dfx linked to wrong library
[HELP] glide2-base maintainer was going to fix it on March 27. (RB)
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Package: gnomba (debian/main)
Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
61096 gnomba 0.5.1-3 hangs X with already-mounted share
Package: gnome-napster (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
64901 gnome-napster: doesn't seem to work anymore
Package: gnome-pim (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
65119 gnome-pim: 61932 should not have been closed
Package: gnumeric (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
65371 gnumeric: repeateable programcrash
Package: horde (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
64792 horde: complains about DB_Sql after installation
Package: i18ndata (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
[HELP] Fix needed. (RB)
62173 i18ndata: Contains non-free file.
Package: jadetex (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
64001 jadetex: Cannot be installed. TeX capacity exceded when generating fmt file.
Package: libc6 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
64074 slink->potato: Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade does not work
Package: libcompress-zlib-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
65274 libcompress-zlib-perl: gzdopen_ leaks file descriptors
Package: libid31-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Pawel Wiecek <coven@debian.org>
65298 C header file contains C++ syntax.
Package: libpam-modules (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
65321 pam_unix.so: segfaults in obscure_msg() with NULL passwd
65401 old bug in libpam-modules resurrected?
Package: libssl09 (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
65368 libssl09 must go to non-US/non-free
Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
65374 libterm-readline-gnu-perl: occassional core dumps...
Package: login.app (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
64555 login.app: login.app changes default init level without warning
Package: lpr (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
64224 lpr: can't remove first entry from queue, leaves droppings in spool directory
Package: mailx (debian/main)
Maintainer: Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>
64238 mailx: mail program say "Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied", when $MAIL environment set to /var/mail/username
Package: mesag3 (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
63826 pdl_2.005-2(frozen): still links with outdated -lMesaGL
Package: mule2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
[REMOVE] at next test cycle, if no fix is available. That will
take out a lot of other stuff. (RB)
65270 mule2: cannot input Japanese with Wnn
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>
60531 ncurses4.2: fails to build when entering the Ada95 examples
[HELP] Fix needed. (RB)
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Package: nscd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
58367 nscd: 'broken pipe' error causes entire box to be unusable
[HELP] Fix needed. (RB)
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Package: nvi-m17n (debian/main)
Maintainer: Susumu OSAWA <susumu-o@debian.or.jp>
[REMOVE] at next test cycle if no fix is available. (RB)
65329 nvi-m17n_2:1.79+19991117-2.1(frozen): build error
Package: openldapd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
63185 openldapd: unaligned traps in ber_getnint()
Package: opie-client (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
64740 opie-client should depend on libc6.1 not libc6 on Alpha
[STRATEGY] Adrian Bunk made an NMU, at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/nmus.html
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.2.15 (debian/main)
Maintainer:
65373 unresolved symbols
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 [2.005-4 should fix] 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>
[HELP] Someone please check if this can be avoided by having ARM install
with perl 5.005 by default. (RB)
62007 perl-5.004 does not include asm-arm
Package: perl-5.005 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
65224 perl5.005 gmtime/localtime have bugs in the time offset to GMT
Package: plplot (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>
65216 plplot: plplot not installable under Sparc
Package: postgresql (debian/main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
49580 postgresql: upgrade broken
Package: pump (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org>
64092 Pump fails when a second (static) interface is up
Package: qvwm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Shuichi OONO <jr5pdx@debian.or.jp>
[REMOVE] at next test cycle, if no fix is available. (RB)
64847 qvwm_1:1.1.7-1(frozen): error in build dependencies
Package: rpm2html (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
64414 rpm2html: no shared library librpm.so.1.0, current is librpm.so.0.0.0
Package: samba-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
65185 samba-common: Upgrading removes printing system
[STRATEGY] Needs to be recompiled with libcupsus-dev install (alpha only)
Package: splitvt (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
65227 does splitvt need to be installed setuid root?
Package: ssh (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
[HELP] Need fix. (RB)
51747 ssh: can't handle expired passwords
64424 ssh: ssh believes that xauth lives in /usr/openwin/bin
[STRATEGY] Needs to be recompiled for powerpc?
Package: ssh-askpass-gnome (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
64795 ssh-askpass-gnome: does not check error returns from server/keyboard/pointer grab
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>
[HELP] Need fix. (RB)
61227 Kernel panic/filesystem corruption if swapping started while software RAID resyncing
[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr 9)
Package: tgif (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed
65160 tgif: mktemp() holes galore
Package: tripwire (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
65264 tripwire postinst reads bad variable
Package: util-linux (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
[HELP] Need fix. (RB)
60734 util-linux: hwclock starts too late
62688 hwclock sets the time incorrectly if RTC is in local time
64079 util-linux: mkswap's -v[01] option is broken
Package: whois (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
65001 whois: ignores -h argument for gTLDs
Package: xfree86-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
64943 xfree86-common: system X resources are not loaded anymore
[STRATEGY] Branden has a fix in place and ready to go for -8.
Package: xfs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
64925 xfs: dies after serving fonts on Alpha
[HELP] Branden: "I need help reproducing this on any arch, including Alpha.
Please help. I'll check now to see if the Alpha autobuilder has gotten to X
yet; if not I'll build it on lully and make the unstripped xfs binary
available for download at the X Strike Force. gdb can be used to run xfs
and trace its execution path and hopefully track down the problem. I
suspect this isn't an upstream issue because we have done some things to our
xfs."
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Package: xlockmore (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
64848 xlockmore_4.15-7(frozen): error in build dependencies
Package: xproxy (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
65213 xproxy: dies with `open_unix_socket() mkdir error: File exists'
Package: xserver-mach64 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
64952 xserver-mach64: /dev/fb symlink created wrongly
[STRATEGY] Branden has a fix in place and ready to go for -8.
64957 xserver-mach64: ATI Rage Pro LT display flickers horribly [UPSTREAM] [PATCH]
[STRATEGY] Branden will be applying this patch to -8.
Package: xserver-xsun (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
65150 xserver-xsun: needs /dev/fb -> /dev/fb0 symlink
Package: xterm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
65228 xterm: vulnerable to DoS [UPSTREAM]
[STRATEGY] Branden has a fix in place and ready to go for -8.
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