Release-critical Bugreport for October 1, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Oct 1 00:06 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 266
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 11
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Package: abiword (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
41980 abiword_0.7.3-1(unstable): m68k configuration missing
[STRATEGY] abiword and abi-fonts can be removed when abisuite is packaged
42778 abiword_0.7.4-1(unstable): build uses non-free unzip
Package: adduser (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
45249 adduser breaks going from slink -> potato
Package: apache-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
45478 Apache-ssl doesn't start because of missing /etc/apache/mime.types
45884 apache-ssl_1.3.9.5+1.37-1(unstable): source.unpack broken
Package: apt (main)
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
46096 apt: pb upgrading libgtk-1.2.5
Package: base (pseudo)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
45544 base: ll_rw_block: device 03:05: only 512-char blocks implemented (4096)
Package: base-passwd (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
36007 update-passwd did many stupid things
Package: bash (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
45161 bug: Test
45656 bash: /bin/sh link removed during `apt-get upgrade`
Package: bigloo (main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
46040 [PATCH] compilation on sparc, cleanup, etc
Package: bluefish (main)
Maintainer: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>
45747 bluefish does not compile on alphas
[STRATEGY] Waiting on new upstream release, which contains the fix.
Package: boot-floppies (main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
35729 rootdisk: Installation from 5.25" floppies seems to require resc1440.bin
[STRATEGY] 5.25" floppy support will probably be dropped in potato.
36947 boot-floppies: base.tgz not found - no error message
[HELP] There is not enough sanity checking during the phase where base.tgz
is unpacked. Should be fixed for slink, too.
41866 [potato only and fixed in CVS] please recompile against libpopt0
43057 bootdisk: rawrite uses 8.3 names
43058 bootdisk: root.bin gzipped on CDs.
43799 2.1r1 Install kills bsd- and other partitions
44800 boot-floppies: apt can't install the boot-floppies package
Package: bsdmainutils (main)
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
43413 gettext: While installing, got error on configure phase: "sh: tsort: command not found"
Package: bug (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
45162 bug: bug script crashes on a "read -er" on Debian/PowerPC
Package: bzip2 (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
43656 bzip2: bad shlibs file for libbz2
Package: cecilia (non-free)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>
44747 cecilia: `Error: couldn't execute "/usr/lib/cecilia/files/csound_linux2.0.x"'
Package: clisp (main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
46059 package fails to build on sparc
Package: colortail (main)
Maintainer: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
45852 colortail: colortail can't read /etc/clortail or $HOME/.colortail
Package: communicator (contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
45873 communicator: Bus error when getting mail
Package: communicator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
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: console-data (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
42086 console-tools-data: Doesn't gracefully upgrade configuration
Package: console-tools (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
46169 console-tools: Internationalization
Package: crossfire-server (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
43614 crossfire-server: Creates logfile in /
Package: dailyupdate (main)
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
46027 dailyupdate: new install, won't work at all
Package: debconf (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
46060 debconf: postinst 255 error
Package: debian-keyring (contrib)
Maintainer: James Troup <keyring-maint@debian.org>
43536 debian-keyring: Non self-signed keys
Package: debian-policy (main)
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
43529 debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
Package: debianutils (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
46162 savelog: bashisms [patch]
Package: dhcp (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
41974 dhcp: dhcp requires kernel 2.2??
Package: dhcp-client (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
45537 significant error in dhclient man pages
Package: diald (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
32592 diald: Problems with dynamic addressing and 2.2.1 kernel
[STRATEGY] There is a new upstream version that fixes this.
Package: disc-cover (main)
Maintainer: Bart Warmerdam <bartw@debian.org>
43693 disc-cover: disc-cover doesn't work at all
Package: doc++ (non-free)
Maintainer: Gordon Russell <gor@debian.org>
46097 doc++_3.3.14-1(unstable): gcc comnplains
Package: dpkg (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
28519 dpkg: creates circular symlinks [POSSIBLE WORKAROUND]
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity
41844 sgml-tools: creates invalid texinfo files
[STRATEGY] Ardo van Rangelrooij proposed converting internals.sgml to
debiandoc-sgml.
42559 update-alternatives does not handle cross-device move of links
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
43060 gcj-2.95.1-0pre1 triggers assertion
43834 dpkg does not build on sparc64
45599 dpkg: Fails to compile on Alpha
9771 install-info name conflict
[STRATEGY] Our texinfo doesn't install its install-info, so problem isn't
release critical
Package: dpkg-dev (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
25405 xpm: builds libc5 package on powerpc
[FIX] Patch is supplied in #26954.
44784 gch source cannot be extracted
45755 mc: Can't extract source
Package: dump (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
44061 dump: Appears to be unable to dump rev 1 ext2fses with sparse super
Package: dwww (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
38821 dwww: dwww-txt2html output is always empty
43094 dwww config chowns entire system to 'www-data'
45092 publib-dev: main_filter crashes dwww-txt2html
Package: emacs20 (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.
Package: enlightenment (main)
Maintainer: Laurence J. Lane <ljlane@debian.org>
44843 /etc/menu-methods/enlightenment needs to be made a conffile
Package: esh (main)
Maintainer: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
45185 missing file .dhelp prevents dpkg installation
Package: fakeroot (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
44447 fakeroot_0.4.3-3(unstable): doesn't compile
44543 fakeroot: Doesn't build on Alpha
45069 fakeroot: fakeroot - doesn't work with current glibc
Package: fetchmail (main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
Package: fileutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
26770 fileutils: ln does not work with dangling symlinks [PATCH]
39680 "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" still fails, it only suppresses the message
45750 fileutils: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: fortune-mod (main)
Maintainer: Brian Bassett <brianb@debian.org>
44682 doesn't work when /usr/local/share/games/fortunes is missing
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
38599 packages which should be moved to the base section
41274 Please remove the old netcdf packages
43889 An experimental version of gnus was uploaded by mistake into main
45690 ftp.debian.org: Please remove dailyupdate
Package: g++ (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
44446 mico-2.2.7_2.2.7-1(unstable): fails to compile due to disabled exceptions
Package: gdm (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <steve@arise.demon.co.uk>
45916 gdm: postinst failes if group is existing
Package: gedit (main)
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <stu@novare.net>
46351 gedit crashes on startup
Package: glibc-doc (main)
Maintainer: Debian GNU C Library Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
45903 glibc-doc: cannot find nodes
Package: gnome-apt (main)
Maintainer: Apt Packaging Team <apt@packages.debian.org>
44427 gnome-apt: Broken Package
45928 gnome-apt: gnome-apt depends on libapt-pkg2.5 when apt provides lib-apt-pkg2.6
Package: gnome-media (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
45172 gnome-media: gtcd just dies
Package: gnome-panel (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
46156 gnome-panel: does not start in Japanese LANG environment
Package: gnomeicu (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Crowley <crow@debian.org>
40805 gnomeicu: applet freezes panel when cannot connect to ICQ server
44487 gnomeicu: every contact listed as offline
Package: gnu-smalltalk (main)
Maintainer: Alexander Shinn <foof@debian.org>
45180 gnu-smalltalk: entry blox in window manager menu does not work
Package: gnucash (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
43822 gnucash needs to declare a dependency on perl-5.005 and recompile
43823 gnucash: Unable to launch gnc-prices
Package: gnupg (non-US)
Maintainer: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
44698 gnupg does not build on Sparc/Linux
Package: gpart (main)
Maintainer: David L. Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>
46101 gpart_0.1d-1(unstable): unnecessary arch switch; arch specific?
Package: gpasman (non-US)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
43061 gpasman segfaults when opening database
Package: grace (main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
41146 grace_5.0.1-1.1(unstable): doesn't build with newer t1lib
42115 grace: grace should conflict with xmgr
Package: gs (main)
Maintainer: Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>
41570 Can not handle kanji font PS
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
Package: gsl (main)
Maintainer: Michael J. Booth <booth@debian.org>
42116 gsl-histogram double counts last input
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
Package: gtksee (main)
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <stu@novare.net>
42077 core dump
[HELP] Can anyone reproduce this?
Package: hostname (main)
Maintainer: Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
44415 hostname: patch for hostnames/domainnames of arbitrary length
[STRAGETY] There is a patch in the report
Package: html2ps (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
46275 html2ps; html2ps does not work with new perl
Package: iceconf (main)
Maintainer: Jules Bean <jules@debian.org>
39251 iceconf: iceconf uses old workspace commands
[HELP] Could be fixed now...?
Package: imagemagick (main)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
43592 imagemagick: import segfaults
44490 imagemagick: convert segfaults
Package: inn (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
44656 INN 1.7.2-4.1 overwrites local access control files
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is packaging version 2.0.
Package: jadetex (main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
46339 jadetex: won't configure
Package: jdk1.1 (non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
37599 jdk1.1: no permission to distribute
Package: kerberos4kth (non-US)
Maintainer: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
40025 kerberos4kth: won't compile on glibc2.1
Package: kernel-image-2.0.36 (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
34328 Slink w. kernel 2.0.36 hangs during Adaptec 2940 init
Package: kernellab (main)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
43392 kernellab: Bad arguments to fakeroot
43393 kernellab: Fakeroot should be required
Package: libapache-mod-perl (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
45753 libapache-mod-perl: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: libc-client-dev (main)
Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
42390 libc-client-dev: c-client.a contains objects with PIC code
Package: libc6 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GNU C Library Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
21810 libc6: rexec call dumps core with user="string" and password=NULL
36584 nss' compat does not work with shadow nis
43549 libc6: system() call zombies process while using threads
45912 `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs
Package: libc6-dev (main)
Maintainer: Debian GNU C Library Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
44444 netkit-telnet_0.14-3(unstable): doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.1
Package: libc6.1 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GNU C Library Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
45693 Bizarre Multia clock behavior
Package: libg++272-dev (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
42443 libg++272-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev
42444 libg++272-dev conflicts with gcc
Package: libgcj0 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
46062 fails to build for sparc in all-target-boehm-gc
Package: libgd1g (main)
Maintainer: Dermot Bradley <bradley@debian.org>
45794 libgd1g: libgd fails a dpkg-buildpackage on powerpc
Package: libgimp-perl (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
44008 libgimp-perl: depends on nonexistent package
45124 libgimp-perl: perlcc eats all the memory
Package: libjpeg62-dev (main)
Maintainer: Mark Mickan <mmickan@debian.org>
41795 libjpeg62: Wrong JPEG library version: library is 62, caller expects 61
Package: libpam-modules (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
45310 gnu-pop3d: error with newest PAM
Package: libpam0g (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
45446 libpam0g: "You are required to change your password immediately" in cron output
Package: libpgjava (contrib)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
45549 libpgjava: doesn't work at all
Package: libssl09 (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
43196 SSL telnet sessions pause unexpectedly
Package: licq (contrib)
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
45990 licq crashes on login without killing itself
Package: linbot (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
41345 linbot: Remove versioned dependencies on python-net and python-misc
Package: login (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
45560 login: Users without passwords can no longer log in
Package: lpr (main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
45820 lpr; lpd dumps core and does not print
Package: lprng (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
42914 [3.5.2-1.3] lprng doesn't work with networked printer
44685 [sparc only] Dependency problem with LPRng
45857 lprng: Fails to configure
46239 lprng: Bug in postinst
Package: luxman (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
45754 luxman: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: lynx (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
46021 lynx on alpha exits immediately with interrupt 15, is useless
Package: lyx (contrib)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
46337 segfault when no colors free
Package: mailleds (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
37742 mailleds -x doesn't blink keyboard leds
[HELP] Any help is welcome, including proper NMUs.
Package: man-db (main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
46363 man-db postinst fails on initial install
Package: mc (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
45962 mc_4.5.38-4 (dist=unstable)]: /usr/man || /usr/share/man failure !?
46342 mc: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: menu (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
45738 menu_2.1.3-1.2(unstable): doesn't compile
45756 menu: Fails to build on Alpha
Package: mercury (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
42016 Mercury does not work on Potato
42934 mercury_0.8.1.rotd19990809-1(unstable): cannot unpack source
43028 Simple example does not work
Package: mesag-dev (main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
44489 mesag-dev: GLU_* constants incompatible with GLenum type
Package: midentd (main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
45344 midentd: needs a Conflicts: with other identd's available
Package: mime-support (main)
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
42022 mime-support: bzip2, whitespaced filenames
Package: mixviews (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
46165 mixviews_1.20-5(unstable): compile error
Package: muffin (main)
Maintainer: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>
43174 muffin: muffin fails with kaffe
Package: mutt (main)
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
40360 mutt_0.95.6-2(unstable): Compilation problem (no keymap_defs.h)
[FIX] Porters already did the NMU.
46153 mutt: mutt-1.0pre3 is out / security fix.
Package: mysql-server (non-free)
Maintainer: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>
45539 mysql-server: will not install
Package: navigator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43976 netscape 4.6 says 'bus error'
44094 Dynamically linked plugins don't load
Package: netbase (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
44090 netbase: portmap depends on /usr/lib but might be run before it exists
45515 [PATCH] slattach unix98 pty name parsing, and stdout line buffering
45860 Package unable to configure itself
45944 slattach fails to check many errors
Package: oo2c (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
45302 oo2c: Uninstallable, depends on unavailable package libgc5
Package: oskit (main)
Maintainer: Ed Boraas <ed@debian.org>
43872 oskit: i586-oskit-gcc forks endlessly
Package: pccts (main)
Maintainer: Ed Petron <epetron@leba.net>
45495 pccts_1.4 (dist=unstable): initializer not constant
Package: pd (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
43379 pd_0.26-1(unstable): Build error (dir obj/ missing)
Package: perl (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
44033 Perl exits with "Illegal instruction" when executing
Package: perl-5.004-base (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
46369 Perl cannot run after unpacking phase of dist-upgrade
Package: perl-5.005 (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
44067 telnetd: post-install script error
44375 perl-5.005: byteperl seems to be missing
Package: perl-5.005-base (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
45875 perl-5.005-base: /usr/bin/perl-5.005 is mode 600 (not 755) and dpkg -S doesn't find it.
45877 perl-5.005-base: /usr/bin/perl-5.005 is installed with wrong permissions; perl cannot run
45898 perl-5.005-base: symlink /usr/bin/perl points to a non executable file
46188 perl-5.005-base: odd binaries
Package: perl-5.005-doc (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
46257 perl-5.005-doc: contains files also in libcgi-perl
Package: pilot-link (main)
Maintainer: Dermot Bradley <bradley@debian.org>
46346 pilot-link: Doesn't work
Package: pingus (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
41768 ClanLib related pingus problem
Package: pipsecd (non-US)
Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>
45261 HMAC mismatch if /23 netmask is used
Package: pkglist (main)
Maintainer: Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <kamop@debian.org>
43201 pkglist: correct_packages.pl does not care pre-depends packages.
Package: pose (main)
Maintainer: Ben Darnell <bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu>
41288 pose_2.1d29-1(unstable): build error on m68k (union semun redefined)
[STRATEGY] New upstream version fixes it. If not, can revert to old one.
Package: powertweak (main)
Maintainer: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>
43243 my SCSI system locks up whenever I run powertweak
46046 powertweak: powertweak 0.1.2 in package powertweak_0.1.2-3_i386.deb segfaults
46089 powertweak: /etc/init.d/powertweak: line 36: 25601 Segmentation fault
Package: ppp (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
43885 ppp: Dial-out now fails
Package: ppp-pam (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
38639 ppp-pam auth. security problem
Package: prc-tools (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
37923 prc-tools manpage collisions
39425 prc-tools: File overlap with binutils
Package: premail (contrib)
Maintainer: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@pacbell.net>
44518 premail doesn't work on potato
Package: qt2-dev (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
44844 /usr/bin/moc missing
Package: quake2 (non-free)
Maintainer: Michael Beattie <mike@omnic.dhis.org>
45985 quake2: After correcting mouse and mouse unconfig in vga.config, I get segfault loading ref_soft.so
Package: quota (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
41753 quota: repquota and quotacheck segfault
Package: rc (main)
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
41930 rc_1.6-2(unstable): build problem (undefined __va_copy)
Package: roxen (main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
46063 roxen is not stopped correctly by /etc/cron.weekly/roxen
Package: rsync (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
36179 directory specification is ignored
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
43912 rsync removes "directory qualifications" from include/exclude list
[STRATEGY] 36179 contains a patch.
Package: ruari-diff (main)
Maintainer: James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>
38952 ruari-diff glibc 2.1 patch
Package: ruby (main)
Maintainer: akira yamada <akira@debian.org>
46343 ruby: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: samba (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
40645 samba: build uses setresuid which doesn't work under 2.0.34 (does apparently under 2.2.x
[HELP] Incompatibility between glibc2.1/kernel2.2 and kernel2.0 ?
45931 samba: Samba dies with SIGILL on startup.
Package: sdr (main)
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@debian.org>
43755 sdr wont compile, still requires files not present on a Debian system
Package: sgml-base (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
28704 sgml-base: sgml entity handling should conform to Cees de Groot's proposed std
[HELP] Maintainer is away; NMU's shall be appreciated.
Package: sgml-tools (main)
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
44514 sgml-tools: can not convert Japanese characters with sgml2txt
44743 sgml-tools: unable to purge configuation files
Package: shellutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
43334 date dumps core with --file option
Package: slang1 (main)
Maintainer: Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>
44546 slang1: patch for GNU/Hurd
Package: slocate (main)
Maintainer: R Garth Wood <rgwood@itactics.com>
42560 slocate: chown: root.slocate: invalid group
Package: slrn (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
43477 slrn: Removes all subscribed groups when slrn thinks they're gone
Package: smbfs (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
42764 smbfs: smbmount dies
43671 bad owner for Sparc build
44130 smbfs: failed mount is still mounted
44131 smbfs: no longer possible to set file and directory-modes
45202 wrapper scripts use $* instead of "$@"
Package: smbwrapper (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
42566 smbsh segfaults after asking username and password
43122 smbwrapper: `ls' in an smb mounted directory leads to the error message: "error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/samba/smbwrapper.so: undefined symbol: real_readdir64"
Package: snarf (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
43858 snarf: snarf does not properly resume ftp transfers
Package: sox (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
43394 sox: The play and rec scripts are missing.
Package: stalin (main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
41073 [PATCH] enable compile on sparc
Package: swish++ (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
38173 swish++ segfaults with libc6 2.1
43417 swish++: Does not compile and is not up to date.
Package: sysvinit (main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
45164 sysvinit: Links are being set for hwclock when this is handled in util-linux already
Package: tao (non-free)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
35805 tao_idl fails to load shared libraries
[STRATEGY] The upgrade to forthcoming TAO 1.0 will correct the problem.
Package: telnet-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
45348 telnet-ssl: Cannot connect to telnetd of older ssl
Package: telnetd-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
45485 telnetd-ssl: Won't let me log in.
Package: termcap-compat (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
45363 termcap-compat: termcap-compat is linked against libc6 instead of libc5
Package: textutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
43610 textutils: tsort behaves unexpectedly
Package: tkchooser (main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
44751 tkchooser: will not mount
Package: tkfont (main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
45971 tkfont: uses files in /tmp insecurely
Package: tkstep4.2 (main)
Maintainer: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
45798 tkdesk no longer works; can't find ``libjpeg.so.6a''
Package: tkvnc (main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
45866 tkvnc: Missing depends
45878 tkvnc: does not depend on perl-tk, as it should
Package: ucbmpeg-play (non-free)
Maintainer: Malc Arnold <malc@thing.demon.co.uk>
39845 diff needed to compile on powerpc
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
Package: util-linux (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
37657 util-linux: hwclock --systohc dangerous
41263 hwclock --adjust doesn't work (temporary fix included)
42556 util-linux: hwclock: Continually messes up my clock
43793 Support for both GMT and UTC default/rc.S setting is wrong
Package: vchkpw (contrib)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
43200 vchkpw: Problem in init.d script
Package: vim (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
46087 vim: Vim fails to load due to libgtk1.2 not being installed
Package: vim-perl (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
41978 gview.1.gz in vim-perl 5.4-1 and vim-rt-5.3. Update vim-perl fails
Package: vim-rt (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
41958 vim-rt: vim-rt installs files into /usr/share/vim/vim54 instead of /usr/share/vim
Package: vrweb (main)
Maintainer: Fabien Ninoles <fab@tzone.org>
39580 vrweb does not start at all
[HELP] If this isn't fixable, we'll have to pull it out.
Package: vtwm (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
43474 vtwm: vtwm does not source system.vtwmrc on startup
Package: watchdog (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
46082 watchdog: watchdog - unexpected shutdowns
Package: wget (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
43857 wget: wget does not properly resume ftp transfers
Package: wmaker (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
41434 Window Maker 0.60.0 "assertion failed"
[HELP] Any help is welcome, preferably patches.
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.
45936 wmaker assertion failed in RCreateImageFromXImage
Package: wmakerconf (main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
44464 wmakerconf: Segmentation fault
Package: wml (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
45748 depends on perl5.004 and only perl5.004
Package: wmmail (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
44569 wmmail: wmmail: defaults domain HC!@HC!@card/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail corrupted
Package: wn (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
42143 wn: cron.daily/wn recurses infinitely and gives a segment violation
[STRATEGY] Maintainer promised to fix this.
Package: wsoundserver (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
42647 wsoundserver: segfault in PLIsArray
Package: wwwoffle (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>
45795 wwwoffle: upgrade process should chown -R proxy:proxy
Package: xamixer (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
42935 xamixer: There are no widgets in the window
Package: xaw3dg (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
3857 listres dumps core
[STRATEGY] fix xaw3d to use xaw-wrappers just like other Xaw replacements
Package: xfmix (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.
Package: xldlas (contrib)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39524 GPL is incompatible with XForms
Package: xloadimage (main)
Maintainer: Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>
45665 xloadimage: xloadimage depends on obsolete libjpegg6a
Package: xmcd (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
45494 xmcd: xmcdconfig uses incorrect path for cddbcmd
Package: xmysql (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.
Package: xserver-fbdev (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
43574 xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl don't appear to work (but do)
Package: xserver-svga (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
44990 xserver-svga: fonts corrupted with ViRGE/DX card
44995 xserver-svga: XF86_SVGA Hungs in Apm_Sync()
45744 xserver-svga: Crashes console system with trio3d
Package: xserver-xsun (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
45654 Xsun crashing
Package: xt (main)
Maintainer: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>
37899 xt: xt: Depends: gtkglarea but it is not installable
Package: xwave (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
45816 xwave: can't compile!
Package: yasgml (main)
Maintainer: Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org>
46016 50yasgml.el code uses `make-variable-buffer-local' and breaks `outline-level' variable
Package: zope (main)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
46261 zope: Security Bug Compromises Some Sites
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