Release-critical Bugreport for December 17, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Dec 17 04:46 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 316
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 62
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Package: acroread (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Adam Heath (netscape maintainer) plans to take this package.
51593 acroread: netscape crashes hard when acroread activated
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: apache (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
49887 apache: typo in config prevents startup
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50423 browsing the whole / directory
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: apache-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will have this fixed by Oct. 30.
45428 apache-common: mod_mime.so depends on /etc/apache/mime.types
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: apple2 (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <tom@trap.mountain-view.ca.us>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49597 apple2 breaks debconf breaks apt
[HELP] Can anyone reproduce this problem, or give more information?
Package: ascdc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
52846 ascdc: does not work correctly with 2.2 kernels
Package: asclock (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
52804 asclock ignores -geometry or -position
Package: autofs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Justin Maurer <justin@debian.org>
46638 autofs: /etc/init.d/autofs syntax error
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon crippled
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52716 sparc install is broken
Package: bash (debian/main)
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
34717 bash: contains /bin/sh link
45656 bash: need better way to handle /bin/sh symlink
52586 bash: popen(3) drops privileges if /bin/sh is bash 2.03-1
Package: bigloo (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
[HELP] Maintainer would not mind an NMU to fix these bugs.
46040 [PATCH] compilation on sparc, cleanup, etc
[STRATEGY] It appears that a new .diff.gz was uploaded, but it was never
recompiled on the original arch.
46586 depends on libgc4-dev, which is not installable
51583 bigloo: build failure on sparc
Package: boot-floppies (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
43057 bootdisk: rawrite uses 8.3 names
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52304 eject should be in m68k base
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52692 Old version of pcmcia-cs in base tarball cannot be removed
52757 boot-floppies: hangs with a DC-390
Package: calc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
50142 emacs20: wont install correctly.....
[HELP] Maintainer cannot reproduce it.
Package: cecilia (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>
[REMOVE] No source available, so we can't fix this. Also hasn't been updated
upstream in over a year it seems.
44747 cecilia: `Error: couldn't execute "/usr/lib/cecilia/files/csound_linux2.0.x"'
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: cern-httpd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49383 netstd is now a dummy package, please replace depends with a depends on the parts you need
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: clisp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
46059 package fails to build on sparc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: cln (debian/main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
51524 new upstream version available for a long time
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51564 current old version causes loop on well-defined input
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
45873 communicator: Bus error when getting mail
52541 Communicator won't collect pop mail
52554 Communicator won't download newsgroups
Package: communicator-dmotif-408 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
48163 Cannot coexist with current LessTif package.
Package: communicator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
42259 [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
43849 communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error
45154 communicator-smotif-461: dead keys no longer work with libc5 version
Package: communicator-smotif-47 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
47658 communicator-smotif-47: we need libc6 version
50068 communicator-smotif-47: 8-bit characters cannot be entered when using Xkb.
Package: console-data (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
52200 Bug in console-data : cannot find a keymap
Package: console-tools (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
52874 console-tools: /usr/bin/charset should use /bin/echo instead of builtin command.
Package: coolman (debian/main)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <tom@trap.mtview.ca.us>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51201 coolman: Broken sysstem
[HELP] Bug may be fixed; can anyone reproduce?
Package: courier-imap (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
52786 I can get it to work.
52799 the documention refers to links that do not exist (bugs, configuring a mail client, etc...)
Package: cron (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
50240 cron_3.0pl1-54 (dist=unstable)]: compile errors with strn*
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51480 crontab -e for root won't work with the following data
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51482 cron shows wrong info line on crontab -e
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: cruft (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51448 cruft: missing files from package?
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51617 cruft_0.9.6(unstable): freshly unpacked source cannot be cleaned
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52094 cruft: appears to be missing pieces & dirs
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: curl-ssl (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok <cavok@freemail.it>
49405 curl-ssl: Does not support ssl
52866 curl-ssl: curl-ssl has ssl disabled!
Package: cvs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@debian.org>
51234 cvs: pserver does not work
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51463 cvs: commit_prep has a security hole
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51464 cvs: another security hole
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: cyrus-imapd (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Michael-John Turner <mj@debian.org>
52857 cyrus-imapd uses imap2 instead of imap which is not recognized by inetd
Package: ddd-smotif (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Alexander Yukhimets <alexy@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package is no longer needed and can be removed.
34802 ddd-smotif: Generate core-dumps after start
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: dhelp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>
49793 dhelp erase files during install and removal
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: djtools (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
52712 djtools: uses -m486 in the build
52788 djtools_1.2(unstable): Uses non-portable -m486
Package: doc-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
48908 comerr-dev: package broken on sparc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: dpkg (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
52457 lprng: can't install if no daemon is running
52580 dpkg: start-stop-daemon: --oknodo with --pidfile doesn't work
Package: dpkg-multicd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
50204 dpkg-multicd does not use new non-US structure
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: dwww (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
49664 dwww unable to access docs in /usr/share/doc
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer expects to have fixes uploaded
"in the next week or so".
51206 dwww: update-menus doesn't work correctly with dwww
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer expects to have fixes uploaded
"in the next week or so"
Package: e2fsprogs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
51056 mke2fs / e2fsck produce errors on large HD's
Package: eeyes (debian/main)
Maintainer: Dan Nguyen <dnn@debian.org>
52236 eeyes: BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: elm-me+ (debian/main)
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
51535 elm-me+: pgp support is broken
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: emacs20 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't run emacs20
[STRATEGY] Maintainer promised to fix this.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
43249 Y2K problem in timezone.el
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
48997 emacs20_20.4-1(unstable): hardcoded i386 in debian/rules
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51112 emacs20: emacs20 cannot compile on powerpc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: eperl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
[HELP] Mail to maintainer bounced.
46906 ePerl SEGV's Apache
Package: esound (debian/main)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
52443 esound_0.2.15-12(unstable): build errors due to alsa again
[STRATEGY] Maintainer intends to fix it by 1999-12-17, and will
not mind an NMU if he doesn't make that date.
Package: exim (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
50435 exim_3.03-4(unstable): build problem with HAVE_IPV6 under glibc2.0
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer expects to fix this early next week.
Package: express (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49378 express: Can't build from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: festival (debian/main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
51614 festival_1.4.0-3(unstable): no config for m68k
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: fetchmail (debian/main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
48159 I had to downgrade to fetchmail_4.6.4-1.1 because I couldn't get my mail from the server! Fetchmail was able to query the IP of the server, but told me something about "file not found". After downgrading fetchmail it worked without problems. I haven't touched any fetchmail relevant scripts!
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never sent to local MTA
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52848 fetchmail: Russian .po file contains ? only
Package: fetchmailconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
51899 Syntax error in script prevents running at all.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: fml (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>
52108 fml contains non-free code
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: fweb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
48527 gcc [alpha]: error compiling fweb
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: g++ (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
48530 g++ [alpha]: internal compiler error building open-amulet
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gcc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
48338 [known problem with gcc-2.95.x on alpha] lapack (complex) does not build
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52033 __linux is not defined on powerpc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gconv-modules (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
48120 gconv-modules would not be loaded properly when setgid
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gdm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
51846 Locale setting C-locale missing
[INFO] Package was given to Ryan Murray, who is waiting for a new
upstream version.
Package: gensig (debian/main)
Maintainer: Andrew Feinberg <agf@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48071 gensig: binary name conflict
Package: ghc4 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Aaron Van Couwenberghe <aaronv@debian.org>
52794 ghc4_4.04.19990916-3(unstable): configure doesn't know m68k
Package: ghostview (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jens Ritter <grimaldi@debian.org>
52860 ghostview: Missing linefeed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ghostview.prerm.
Package: giftrans (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
52324 giftrans: giftrans should depend on libc6
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gimp-python (debian/main)
Maintainer: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>
52654 needs recompilation for libgimp1.1.13, and unresolvable symbols
Package: gnomba (debian/main)
Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
50399 XFree eat all the memory when i launch gnomba
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52727 gnomba: mount functions no longer working after smbfs upgrade (2.0.6)
Package: gnome-control-center (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
51514 selecting worm screen saver causes system hang
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51568 unexpected window-manager death
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gnome-help (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
49734 gnome-help-browser displays html forms incorrectly, crashes
Package: gnome-napster (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51969 gnome-napster: crashes often
Package: gnomehack (debian/main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49269 gnomehack: segmentation fault
52749 gnomehack: gnomehack has some man pages conflicting with nethack.
Package: gnotes (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
50088 Looses text
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is working on it; "should be fixed soon".
Package: gnu-smalltalk (debian/main)
Maintainer: Alexander Shinn <foof@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
45180 gnu-smalltalk: entry blox in window manager menu does not work
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51854 hardcoded dependance on tcl8.0 in blox/Makefile.body
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gpasman (non-US)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43061 gpasman segfaults when opening database
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51270 gpasman: scrambles database when a bad password used
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gpm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>
51322 gpm upgrade from slink to potato breaks X's mouse
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: grip (debian/main)
Maintainer: Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org>
51460 grip: Grip crashes on CDDB lookup.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52480 grip: default command lines for grip are broken
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: gs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>
52590 gs: GS fails to render some macintosh truetype fonts [PATCH]
Package: guile1.3 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
51363 gnucash: ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:*config-dir*
[STRATEGY] Craig Brozefsky is working with the gnucash maintainer
to get this fixed.
Package: gxedit (debian/main)
Maintainer: Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>
52325 gxedit: gxedit doesn't allow to enter 8-bit symbols.
[STRATEGY] Maintainer plans to have it fixed by Dec 19.
Package: happy (debian/main)
Maintainer: Aaron Van Couwenberghe <aaronv@debian.org>
52793 happy_1.6-8(unstable): configure doesn't like non-i386
Package: hns2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
52109 hns2 uses non-free software
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: horde (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51309 horde: postinst error
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: html2latex (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Nils Rennebarth <nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
[HELP] Nils would be happy to give the package away.
51926 html2latex is semi-broken and its description is inaccurate
Package: http-analyze (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Hanno Wagner <wagner@linux.de>
51714 http-analyze: undefined symbol: gdImageGif
Package: iceconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jules Bean <jules@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39251 iceconf: iceconf uses old workspace commands
[HELP] Could be fixed now...?
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: imagemagick (debian/main)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
[HELP] Maintainer has little time, and says a NMU or adoption is
fine by him.
49786 convert has bad references
[STRATEGY] Bringing the imagemagick-lzw libraries up to date
with the ones in main should fix this.
Package: imp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50057 Upon logging into a mailbox: Warning: Unable to find stream pointer in /usr/share/horde/imp/status.php3 on line 57
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52241 imp: Error message when saving drafts...
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: iptraf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
51801 iptraf: build tries to create /var/state/iptraf in live system
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52014 iptraf: NMU makes build fail
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: ircd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
52327 On a clean ircd package install, if no /etc/ircd directory exists, the package will not install.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: jdk1.1 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
51490 jdk1.1 requires a dependancy on xbase-clients
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: jwhois (debian/main)
Maintainer: Per Lundberg <plundis@debian.org>
51644 jwhois_2.2-1(unstable): build error (gai_strerror)
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: kerberos4kth (non-US)
Maintainer: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
40025 kerberos4kth: won't compile on glibc2.1
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is preparing a new release.
Package: kernel (pseudo)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
52773 kernel bug allows users to crash system
Package: kernel-package (debian/main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
52708 kernel-package must have generated source packages require bzip2
Package: lapack (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48661 lapack: doesn't build from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: latex2html (debian/main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
50653 latex2html: eats all the memory if \usepackage{amsmath} and \title are used simultaneously
[STRATEGY] There's a new upstream release which may have solved the problem.
Package: libapache-mod-auth-pam (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
52653 libapache-mod-auth-pam: Needs recompilation
Package: libapache-mod-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
45753 libapache-mod-perl: Doesn't build on Alpha
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
47273 Debian/Sparc libapache-mod-perl Package Problems...
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libapache-mod-python (debian/main)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
[HELP] Gregor is looking for a new maintainer. Assistance in fixing
these bugs,or an NMU to fix them, would also be appreciated.
48804 mod-python crashes apache
50418 libapache-mod-python explodes now and then
Package: libc6 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
21810 libc6: rexec call dumps core with user="string" and password=NULL
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
36584 nss' compat does not work with shadow nis
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50167 libc6: Include ldd nad ldd man page, which are part of ldso.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50311 libc6: libc6 ships binary programs: please split.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52195 getaddrinfo() with PF_UNSPEC hints returns EAI_NODATA
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libc6-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
50083 libc6-dev: broken headers for sparc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libcgi-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
49189 cannot purge libcgi-perl
[STRATEGY] New version will do away with the root cause of this bug.
Package: libdb2.6-util (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
50647 libdb2.6-util: trying to overwrite db_archive from libc6
[INFO] This seems to be the result of an upstream conflict.
Package: libg++2.8.2-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian EGCS maintainers <egcs@packages.debian.org>
50048 libg++2.8.2-dev: empty package on sparc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libg++272 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
47212 [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libgcj0 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
46062 [sparc] build fails in all-target-boehm-gc
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libgcj0-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
48741 depends on a non-free package
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libgtk-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
51844 dumps core on Alpha
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libgtkmm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
51313 /usr/bin/gensig is also in gensig
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer will fix this in a few days.
Package: libguile6 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
52415 /usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0 is mode 777
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer is working on a fix and expects
to have one in a day or so.
Package: libguile6-slib (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
52465 libguile6-slib: Error during setup "ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.3.4" "/usr/share/guile" ".")
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer is working on a fix and expects to
have one in a day or so.
Package: liblockfile1 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
43491 liblockfile1: lockfile_create is _not_ NFS safe (fcntl() missing)
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libnss-ldap (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
48953 libnss-ldap: Doesn't search for groups correctly
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libopenldap-runtime (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
52747 libopenldap-runtime: postinst script error - bad chmod options
Package: libpam-ldap (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
52567 libpam-ldap: module segfaults
Package: librep5 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <dichro-debian@rcpt.to>
52587 librep5: overlap
Package: libsdl0.11 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
51174 smpeg_0.3.0-1(unstable): configuration of sdl fails
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libwrap0 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
52534 ugidd: ugidd started via rcS.d before /usr/lib is nfs mounted...
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: libwww-search-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
52873 Binaries are missing
Package: licq (debian/main)
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
52775 licq_0.71-4(unstable): Missing build dependencies
Package: lilo (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
49948 liloconfig makes bad lilo.conf when from scratch
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: lilypond (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
49314 lilypond: Can't build from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: listarchives (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
49888 listarchives: Links of glimpse search results not found (even older ones)
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: lletters (debian/main)
Maintainer: Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>
37660 lletters need to be recompiled with new libglib/libgtk
[HELP] NMU would be appreciated. If not, maintainer can do it one week
before the freeze.
Package: lockvc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
51619 lockvc: Segmentation Fault
[HELP] Maintainer says NMU would be appreciated.
Package: logcheck (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rene Mayrhofer <rmayr@vianova.at>
50994 logcheck: "["s in /etc/logcheck/logcheck.violations.ignore kill logcheck.
51342 logcheck: Completly borken after upgrade.
[STRATEGY] Fixed with logcheck 1.1.1-4; expect upload soon.
Package: login (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
52917 No non-pam version
Package: login.app (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
52612 login.app: should use xauth not xhost
Package: lpr (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
48642 lpr; lpr does not print on a remote printer
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
[HELP] Should be fixed by now, someone should doublecheck
Package: lprng (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
52509 lprng: lprng destroy my old printcaap and doesn't print
Package: lynx (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
46021 lynx on alpha exits immediately with interrupt 15, is useless
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: makepasswd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
50885 no longer allows specification of cleartext from command line
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: mc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski <mc-debian@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
50891 destruction of file system integrity
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: mercury (debian/main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
[FIXED] Newest version is fixed, just awaiting testing.
49160 Patch for Sparc compilation
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: mico-2.2.7 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
[REMOVE] This package should be removed, according to its maintainer.
(superseded by mico-3.3.0)
44446 [m68k] mico compile fails because exception support appears broken
Package: midentd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
49570 Postrm should not fail when config file and log file do not exist
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
49574 pidentd: dependencies not in sync with midentd
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: modconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
51015 package is absurdly out of date for 2.2
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: mp3blaster (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
52798 mp3blaster_2-0b12-1(unstable): syntax errors in big endian code
Package: navigator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
43976 netscape 4.6 says 'bus error'
44094 Dynamically linked plugins don't load
Package: navigator-smotif-47 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
50887 navigator-smotif-47: Navigator dies (bus error)
51534 navigator-smotif-47: Distributed binary is different from the original
Package: ndtpd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Susumu OSAWA <susumu-o@debian.or.jp>
52675 ndtpd: can't be upgraded
Package: netatalk (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
52830 netatalk fails to start
Package: newscache (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
52583 newscache: Newscache corrupts its own database
Package: nis (debian/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
49923 yp tries to start before portmapper is ready
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: nowebm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
51874 syntax error in src/Makefile
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: parted (debian/main)
Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
52205 parted: unmet dependency
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
44033 Perl exits with "Illegal instruction" when executing
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: perl-5.004 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
49669 perl-5.004: pos($a)-information lost after { local($a) }
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: perl-5.005 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
49907 In installing Horde it reports, "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188".
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50151 perl-5.005: suidperl doesn't check permissions on modules
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: perl-5.005-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
41436 New Perl should get rid of old Perl if the corresponding package isn't installed
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
48544 libc6: search path for shared libraries includes current directory
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50242 perl-5.005-base missing autosplit module
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50552 perl-5.005-base: Parts of Data::Dumper are missing
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50937 perl-5.005-base: Important modules to add for debconf
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51289 Need link: /usr/bin/perl5.005
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: perl-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
50773 Should have Pre-Depends: perl5-base
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: php4 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
51623 php4_4.0b3-1(unstable): rm misses -f
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is working on this, plans to fix it "before the holidays".
Package: pingus (debian/main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
51726 pingus: pingus fails to load
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: pkglist (debian/main)
Maintainer: Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <kamop@debian.org>
43201 pkglist: correct_packages.pl does not care pre-depends packages.
[STRATEGY] Maintainer intends to fix it this month.
Package: plotutils (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
52723 No shlibs
Package: plugger (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
[STRATEGY] Adam will deal with netscape during winter holidays (Dec 24 - Jan 2)
47397 plugger: Plugger don't work
49409 plugger: plugger uses xloadimage for png
Package: postgresql (debian/main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
48340 postgresql: Doesn't build on Alpha
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
49580 postgresql: upgrade broken
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: postgresql-client (debian/main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
52410 postgresql-client: createuser also belongs to postgresql
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
52411 postgresql-client: overlap with postgresql
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: ppp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
43885 ppp: Dial-out now fails
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: premail (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@pacbell.net>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
[HELP] Mail to maintainer bounced.
44518 premail doesn't work on potato
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: proftpd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will have this fixed by Oct. 30.
46695 proftpd: Still configured anonymous access when I answered "no" to the debconf dialog.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
49170 proftpd_1.2.0pre9-1(unstable): compile error with have_sendfile
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: qmail-src (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Jon Marler <jmarler@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48720 qmail-src: Generated qmail package's preinst script deletes aliases
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-13) Maintainer will upload a patch soon.
Package: quota (debian/main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
[HELP] Mail to maintainer bounced.
41753 quota: repquota and quotacheck segfault
47222 quota: edquota - confusing
47718 edquota will not allow soft or hard limits above 4194303 blocks
51551 powerpc needs -fsigned-char to build
Package: revtex (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Michael A. Miller <mmiller@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48691 revtex: /usr/share/texmf/doc in revtex conflicts with tetex-base_1.0-5_all
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: roxen (debian/main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
46063 roxen is not stopped correctly by /etc/cron.weekly/roxen
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50313 start script starts continously spawning new pikes to restart roxen
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: rrdtool (debian/main)
Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@csh.rit.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50728 rrdtool: needs to run "perl Makefile.PL" in perl-shared and perl-pipe
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: rscheme (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51728 rscheme_0.7.2-3(unstable): Syntax errors in m68k code
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: rsync (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
51705 Rsync segfaults
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: samba (debian/main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
52698 samba gets internal errors
Package: sane (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
50927 sane: no dependancies to libsane?
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: sawmill (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <dichro-debian@rcpt.to>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49654 missing sawmill sawmill-client sawmill-ui binary files (PowerPC only?)
[STRATEGY] This can be fixed by listing build dependencies explicitly,
and refusing to build empty packages when they are not met.
52849 sawmill options in gnome-cc freeze gnome-cc
52854 sawmill focus handling and capplets broken
Package: sciplot (debian/main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49490 sciplot: can't build from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: scm (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
52434 scm_5d2-1(unstable): build error
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is investigating.
Package: screen (debian/main)
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
51088 screen doesn't work if home dirs are nfs-mounted
[STRATEGY] Maintainer intends to fix this in one week.
Package: sdr (debian/main)
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43755 sdr wont compile, still requires files not present on a Debian system
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
50089 sdr: does not compile from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: sgml-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
28704 sgml-base: sgml entity handling should conform to Cees de Groot's proposed std
Package: shhmsg (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ole J. Tetlie <olet@debian.org>
52761 /usr/lib/libshhmsg* owned by 1000.1000
Package: slashem (debian/main)
Maintainer: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
52384 slashem: Invalid code in preinst
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-13) Maintainer intends to fix it before Friday.
Package: smail (debian/main)
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
48614 smail: postinst leaves MTA broken if xinetd is in use
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: snmptraplogd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher <Bernd_Schumacher@hp.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50364 snmptraplogd: missing dependency (libsnmp3.6)
[STRATEGY] Maintainer claims this will be fixed on December 31st.
Package: ssh (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
49902 ssh and pam conspire to deny logins
50607 openssh looks in /usr/lib/ssh for ssh-askpass, but not /usr/bin
50847 ssh: forwarded ports are opened as root
51306 Problems with clients connecting to the OpenSSH daemon; I get several esoteric replies.
51393 Connecting to known hosts fails
51747 ssh: can't handle expired passwords
52298 ssh: Executing ssh-askpass failed
52317 ssh: mistakenly tries to hang on to ttys
52511 Latest openssh breaks ssh-add
Package: ssh-askpass (non-US/non-free)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
50967 ssh-askpass: Incorrectly hard-coded path to ssh-askpass
Package: ssh-nonfree (non-US/non-free)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
48439 root cannot scp
Package: ssh2 (non-US/non-free)
Maintainer: Edward Brocklesby <ejb@debian.org>
51767 ssh2: installation script runs through one question
Package: strace (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
51648 strace_4.1-1(unstable): Wrong condition for IPv6
[STRATEGY] Maintainer has fix ready in CVS; expect release sometime
in the week of December 13.
Package: swi-prolog (debian/main)
Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <pdm@debian.org>
52161 swi-prolog: incorrect compilation on sparc
[STRATEGY] This is fixed in a new upstream version, which is still beta.
Expect resolution before Dec 25.
Package: sxid (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48193 crashes when it is running from root
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: syslog-ng (debian/main)
Maintainer: SZALAY Attila <sasa@debian.org>
52887 syslog-ng: -r behaviour disabled with no warning to the user
Package: tcsh (debian/main)
Maintainer: Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>
49531 new dircolors breaks tcsh
51603 tcsh: segfaults due to bad $LS_COLORS 'do' option
Package: tela (debian/main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48079 unusable because of shared library problems
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: telnet-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
52622 telnet-ssl: cant upgrade ok: doesnt remove diversion
Package: telnetd-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
52624 telnetd-ssl: cant upgrade ok: doesnt remove diversion
Package: termcap-compat (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
[REMOVE] It may be time to drop termcap-compat; no-one uses it anymore.
48747 termcap-compat: doesn't build from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: tix41 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
47825 tix41: Doesn't work with Tcl/Tk 8.2
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: tkrat (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
51900 tkrat: Hangs while quiting
[HELP] Mark no longer uses tkrat himself, he'd appreciate someone
tracking down the bug. Reproducing it would help, too.
[INFO] "The thing he mentions about the lock is expected, because he's killing
it before it has removed the lock. The lock mechanism ought to have
timeout so this isn't too much of a problem if clients only
occasionally die, but it is a problem if he has to do it every time."
Package: tksmb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
51745 tksmb: nmblookup format changed, can't parse it correctly
[STRATEGY] Maintainer has a fix, is waiting for a nicer fix from
upstream.
Package: tkstep4.2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
[REMOVE] Obsoleted by tkstep8.0 anyway?
45798 tkdesk no longer works; can't find ``libjpeg.so.6a''
[STRATEGY] Simple recompile against libjpeg.so.62 should fix it.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: typist (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
51634 typist: sparc does not define SIGCLD
Package: ultra (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Soto <masoto@uniandes.edu.co>
[REMOVE] Doesn't support current modutils setup, doesn't work with 2.2 kernels
and last upload is over a year ago....
47966 ultra: ultra should use /etc/modules.conf
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: util-linux (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
37657 util-linux: hwclock --systohc dangerous
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
41263 hwclock --adjust doesn't work (temporary fix included)
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
42556 util-linux: hwclock: Continually messes up my clock
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51805 /etc/adjtime
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51936 util-linux: cfdisk can't handle a new disk
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
51937 util-linux: fdisk creates invalid partitions
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: vflib2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>
52776 vflib2 has unmet Recommends fields in slink
Package: vrwave (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49095 vrwave: It doesn't even start. Java gives fatal error and exits!
[HELP] Javi would like advice from debian-java people that might point
at the source of the problem.
Package: watchdog (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will have this fixed by Oct. 30.
46082 watchdog: watchdog - unexpected shutdowns
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: wget (debian/main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
50627 wget: fails in preremove
[STRATEGY] (1999-12-12) Maintainer promised to fix this.
Package: wmaker (debian/main)
Maintainer: Chris McKillop <cdm@debian.org>
41671 wmaker: WMaker segfaults when using gnome-pager to switch to other workspace and show (unminimize) window from other desktop
[HELP] Any help is welcome, preferably patches.
52556 WindowMaker doesn't let emacs see ALT key when using windows
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: wmmail (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
44569 wmmail: wmmail: defaults domain HC!@HC!@card/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail corrupted
Package: wn (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
42143 wn: cron.daily/wn recurses infinitely and gives a segment violation
[STRATEGY] New version fixes this; upload is on the way.
50086 wn: does not build from source
[STRATEGY] New version fixes this; upload is on the way.
Package: xaw95g (debian/main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
[HELP] Package is up for adption.
51451 package ruins perms on ld.so.conf
[HELP] Maintainer says NMU is welcome.
Package: xawtv (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
52850 xawtv_3.02-7(unstable): rebuilding webcam still doesn't work
Package: xblast (debian/main)
Maintainer: Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
52149 xblast: Segfaults
52693 cannot install package; dpkg barfs
Package: xcal (debian/main)
Maintainer: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
52790 xcal_4.1-5(unstable): debian/conffiles missing
Package: xcircuit (debian/main)
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
50573 xcircuit: tries to install outside of build tree during compilation
[STRATEGY] Fix is known, maintainer will have time for it before the freeze
Package: xemacs21 (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
49162 gnus: Refuses to start up
[STRATEGY] Maintainer: "Know what the problem is. Working on it."
Package: xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
52167 xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn: Ignoring emacs-install's error return is Evil and Rude
[STRATEGY] Maintainer: "Should be fixed shortly."
Package: xevil (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Ben C. Hendrickson <bhendrickson@usa.net>
50409 xevil: gratuitous removal from debian
[STRATEGY] Newest license will be GPL again. New package expected
before the freeze.
Package: xfmix (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <lear@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39521 GPL is incompatible with XForms
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is trying to reach upstream authors.
[HELP] He found one person who might be the author, but has received
no response.
Package: xfs-xtt (debian/main)
Maintainer: ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51084 xfs-xtt dies on reset and reload signals
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: xfstt (debian/main)
Maintainer: Stephen J. Carpenter <sjc@debian.org>
49526 xfstt --encoding broken!
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: xftp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
49389 netstd is now a dummy package, please depend on the individual packages you need
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: xirc (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Igor Grobman <igor@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
52446 xirc: xirc depends on absent package
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: xlib6g-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
51076 [PATCH] tmp race in imake
[STRATEGY] Branden: "This has been fixed upstream, is in the current
pre-release versions, is expected to be in XFree86 3.3.6, and I can
apply this patch to a 3.3.5 .deb release if for some reason 3.3.6
is delayed past our freeze."
Package: xmcpustate (debian/main)
Maintainer: Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49492 xmcpustate: Doesn't build from source
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: xmysql (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39522 GPL is incompatible with XForms
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is talking to upstream authors about the
license addition.
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: xserver-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
50209 XF86Config moved and config is broken
[HELP] Branden: "This appears to be a bug in XF86Setup. I think it is
unlinking its target (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, which for us
is a symlink to /etc/X11/XF86Config) before writing to it. I need
a Tcl person to help analyze the code."
Package: xserver-fbdev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
43574 xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl don't appear to work (but do)
[HELP] Anyone brave enough to help hack on it is welcome to.
Package: xserver-svga (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
44995 xserver-svga: XF86_SVGA Hungs in Apm_Sync()
[STRATEGY] This may be fixed in 3.3.6.
[HELP] Please try the 3.3.6 pre-release packages (http://www.debian.org/~branden/)
45744 xserver-svga: Crashes console system with trio3d
[INFO] Branden: "I think the problem is that this person is not using
xserver-fbdev with fbcon."
47741 xserver-svga: gmc root icons in wmaker crash the X server
[HELP] An strace of this would be helpful.
50624 xserver-svga: Hangs when switching to graphic mode
[HELP] Branden: "I need the output from the X server on this bug."
Package: xwave (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48569 xwave: broken event handling
[WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
Package: zsh (debian/main)
Maintainer: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
52432 zsh_3.1.6.pws11-1(unstable): build problem with config.cache again
52542 zsh: Job control broken since pws9 on Alpha
[HELP] Allegedly this only occurs in autobuilt packages, and manually-rebuilt
packages work fine. Thus I need help tracking this down.
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