Release-critical Bugreport for October 22, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Oct 22 00:05 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 300
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 28
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Package: adduser (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
45249 adduser breaks going from slink -> potato
47967 adduser: failure during telnetd postinst run on "use" line 73
Package: alsa-source (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
46515 missing files for alsa-source
Package: anacron (main)
Maintainer: Sean E. Perry <shaleh@debian.org>
47909 New "potato" crontab interferes with anacron
Package: apache-common (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
45428 apache-common: mod_mime.so depends on /etc/apache/mime.types
Package: apt (main)
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
46096 apt: pb upgrading libgtk-1.2.5
46537 apt-get update with apt-cdrom broken
46857 apt: If source URI contains password, the password is printed on the screen during fetches
47557 apt: internal error
Package: autofs (main)
Maintainer: Justin Maurer <justin@debian.org>
46638 autofs: /etc/init.d/autofs syntax error
Package: aview (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
47358 aview: needs to be linked against slang1 1.3.8
Package: base-passwd (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
36007 update-passwd did many stupid things
47264 base-passwd: Default home directory of postgres should be /var/lib/postgres
Package: bash (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
45161 bug: Test
45162 bug: bug script crashes on a "read -er" on Debian/PowerPC
45656 bash: /bin/sh link removed during `apt-get upgrade`
Package: berlin (main)
Maintainer: Aaron Van Couwenberghe <vanco@sonic.net>
47240 berlin: linked with wrong version of libomniORB
Package: bigloo (main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
46040 [PATCH] compilation on sparc, cleanup, etc
Package: boot-floppies (main)
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <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 [fixed in Incoming] 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 [fixed in Incoming] please recompile against libpopt0
43057 bootdisk: rawrite uses 8.3 names
44800 [fixed in Incoming] boot-floppies: apt can't install the boot-floppies package
47490 base: mke2fs makes unmountable filesystems; mount doesn't honor -o nocheck
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>
47568 horde: Security hole in horde bug reporting using "bug"
47824 bug: doesn't report bugs
Package: bugs.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Darren O. Benham <owner@bugs.debian.org>
42508 Maintainer for oo2c is wrong
Package: cdrecord (main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
46700 cdrecord does not build on Sparc64
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: cgi-scripts (main)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
47708 Serious security holes result from failure to quote variables
Package: clanlib0-display-fbdev-dev (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
46704 clanlib0-display-fbdev-dev: Depends: libgl1 but it is not installable
Package: clanlib0-display-ggi-dev (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
46702 clanlib0-display-ggi-dev depends on libgl1 but it is not installable
Package: clanlib0-display-svgalib-dev (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
46703 clanlib0-display-svgalib-dev: Depends: libgl1 but it is not installable
Package: clanlib0-display-x11-dev (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
46701 clanlib0-display-x11-dev depends on libgl1 but it is not installable
Package: clisp (main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
46059 package fails to build on sparc
Package: cmucl (main)
Maintainer: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>
46675 Problem with newer glibc's and CMUCL
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: communicator-smotif-47 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
47658 communicator-smotif-47: we need libc6 version
Package: console-data (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
42086 console-tools-data: Doesn't gracefully upgrade configuration
Package: crossfire-server (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
43614 crossfire-server: Creates logfile in /
Package: ddd-smotif (contrib)
Maintainer: Alexander Yukhimets <alexy@debian.org>
34802 ddd-smotif: Generate core-dumps after start
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: debroster (main)
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
47858 debroster: tries to use /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages
Package: dh-make (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
47152 dh-make: wrong policy version in dh_make
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.
46399 diald will not work with 2.2.10 + potato
Package: docbook (main)
Maintainer: Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
47375 docbook: docbook should check if install-sgmlcatalog is present before calling it.
Package: dpkg (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
28519 dpkg: creates circular symlinks [POSSIBLE WORKAROUND]
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
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>
47497 enlightenment: menus with eterm providing text terminal not working
47964 enlightenment: Segmentation Fault
Package: esh (main)
Maintainer: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
45185 missing file .dhelp prevents dpkg installation
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]
45750 fileutils: Doesn't build on Alpha
46988 fileutils: mv segfaults
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
46388 NO 2.1r3 M68K CDs: trn depends
Package: ftpd (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
47409 ftpd: unable to login
Package: fvwm (main)
Maintainer: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>
47021 fvwm: Preinst Hangs With No Files in /etc/X11/fvwm2
Package: g++ (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
44446 [m68k] mico compile fails because exception support appears broken
Package: genpower (main)
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
46818 Important bugfix for genpower-1.0.1-10 and minor additions
Package: gimp (main)
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
46942 gimp[1.0.4-2] & slang1[1.3.8-1] (version conflict)
47071 gimp: potato/unstable gimp depends on slang1<1.3, but 1.3.8-2 is installed
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-card-games (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
47429 gnome-card-games: post installation script of gnome-card-games fails
Package: gnome-media (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
45172 gnome-media: gtcd just dies
47083 gnome-media: Doesn't build on alpha
Package: gnome-network (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
47437 gnome-network: gmailman dies on startup
Package: gnome-same-gnome (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
46930 gnome-same-gnome: Stones are never removed
Package: gnomehack (main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
47598 gnomehack: needs to be recompiled to update libbz2 dependency
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>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43822 gnucash needs to declare a dependency on perl-5.005 and recompile
43823 gnucash: Unable to launch gnc-prices
47692 gnucash dependent on lesstifg, conflicts with xscreensaver
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: grep (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
47920 on UltraSparc, fails 99% of the time with "Bad Address" message
Package: grip (main)
Maintainer: Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org>
47908 Grip fails to MP3 encode using bladeenc
Package: grub (main)
Maintainer: Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@debian.org>
42705 grub: should install-info
47946 Grub: doesn't build correctly on potato
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: guile1.3 (main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
47959 gnucash: not working - scheme permissions error
Package: guitar (main)
Maintainer: Nathan E. Sandver <nsandver@debian.org>
47602 guitar: needs to be recompiled to update libbz2 dependency
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: imap (main)
Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
46940 imap unusable on sparc
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: 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: jed (main)
Maintainer: "Christian Hammers" <ch@debian.org>
47711 jed: Can't load (undefined symbol)
Package: kerberos4kth (non-US)
Maintainer: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
40025 kerberos4kth: won't compile on glibc2.1
Package: kernellab (main)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
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
47273 Debian/Sparc libapache-mod-perl Package Problems...
Package: libasound0 (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
46561 alsaplayer-alsa: Upgrading to libasound0 requires removal of alsaplayer-alsa
Package: libc-client4.5 (main)
Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
42390 libc-client4.5: shared lib contains non-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
47584 libc6.1: localtime() hangs on alpha
Package: libcgi-perl (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
47271 libcgi-perl: can not purge package to eliminate conflicts
Package: libg++272 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
47212 [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
Package: libgcj0 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
46062 [sparc] build fails 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
47257 libgimp-perl: libgimp-perl is impossible to build
Package: libglade-gnome0 (main)
Maintainer: Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
47269 libglade-gnome0: libglade-gnome.la in the wrong package
Package: libglade0 (main)
Maintainer: Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
47270 libglade0: libglade.la in the wrong package
Package: libgnome-dev (main)
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
46487 Subject: /usr/include/gnome.h doesn't find gnomesupport.h
Package: libjpeg62-dev (main)
Maintainer: Mark Mickan <mmickan@debian.org>
41795 libjpeg62: Wrong JPEG library version: library is 62, caller expects 61
Package: libmagick4g-lzw (non-free)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
38649 libmagick4g-lzw: is version 4.0.4-3, while libmagick4g 4.2.2-0.0
Package: libpam-modules (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
47288 libpam-modules: PAM_INCOMPLETE support in pam_ftp
Package: libpgjava (contrib)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
45549 libpgjava: doesn't work at all
Package: libpgsql2 (main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
46690 pgl seg faults
Package: libreadlineg2 (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
47732 bc dumps core (because libreadlineg2 has wrong shlibs)
Package: libwrap0-dev (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
44542 libwrap0-dev: Missing symbols
Package: licq (contrib)
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
47652 licq should depend on libqtX instead of old qtX
Package: linbot (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
41345 linbot: Remove versioned dependencies on python-net and python-misc
46526 linbot conflicting with python
Package: linuxconf (main)
Maintainer: Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org>
46625 Linuxconf conflicts with gdm
Package: lpr (main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
45820 lpr; lpd dumps core and does not print
47006 lpr doesn't send files to remote printer
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
Package: lynx (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
46021 lynx on alpha exits immediately with interrupt 15, is useless
Package: manpages-dev (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
46792 setreuid(2) contains invalid security information
Package: mawk (main)
Maintainer: James Troup <awkmaint@nocrew.org>
47082 mawk: Doesn't 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: mgetty-fax (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
47439 pre-removal script fails
Package: mh (main)
Maintainer: Edward Brocklesby <ejb@debian.org>
46647 Copyright of JP patch
Package: midentd (main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
45344 midentd: needs a Conflicts: with other identd's available
46950 midentd fails with perl error
Package: mime-support (main)
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
42022 mime-support: bzip2, whitespaced filenames
Package: modutils (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
47550 modutils: Much breakage with new modutils (see #47501, #47511)
Package: moodss (main)
Maintainer: Lars Steinke <lss@debian.org>
47205 moodss_9.0-1(unstable): can't build
Package: most (main)
Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>
47357 most: needs to be linked against slang1 1.3.8
47883 most: depends: slang1 (< 1.3) but 1.3.9-1 is installed
Package: muffin (main)
Maintainer: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>
43174 muffin: muffin fails with kaffe
Package: navigator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
43976 netscape 4.6 says 'bus error'
44094 Dynamically linked plugins don't load
Package: netatalk (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
47767 /etc/init.d/netatalk: 'modprobe appletalk.o' does not work
Package: netbase (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
46642 [jim@jimpick.com: netbase (ping6) and kernel bitops]
47084 netbase: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: netdiag (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
16598 netdiag: written in i386 assembler
Package: netscape (contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
47610 general: Netscape updates without correcting /etc/alternatives/netscape
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: perl (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
44033 Perl exits with "Illegal instruction" when executing
Package: perl-5.005-base (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
41436 New Perl should get rid of old Perl if the corresponding package isn't installed
Package: peruser (main)
Maintainer: Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>
46794 peruser_4b33-3(unstable): build fails
Package: picon-misc (contrib)
Maintainer: Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>
47757 picon-misc: Why is this in contrib?
Package: pingus (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
41768 ClanLib related pingus problem
Package: pkglist (main)
Maintainer: Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <kamop@debian.org>
43201 pkglist: correct_packages.pl does not care pre-depends packages.
Package: plugger (contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
47397 plugger: Plugger don't work
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.
47805 pose: Doesn't build on alpha
Package: powertweak (main)
Maintainer: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>
43243 my SCSI system locks up whenever I run powertweak
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
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
47563 ppp-pam: must depend on libpam-modules for authentication to work
Package: prc-tools (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
37923 prc-tools manpage collisions
Package: premail (contrib)
Maintainer: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@pacbell.net>
44518 premail doesn't work on potato
Package: proftpd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
46407 proftpd: <Limit LOGIN> refuses all connections
46695 proftpd: Still configured anonymous access when I answered "no" to the debconf dialog.
47147 proftpd: please link to mysql and postgres libraries dynamically
Package: psgml (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
47730 psgml 1.1.7-1 doesn't install
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
47222 quota: edquota - confusing
47718 edquota will not allow soft or hard limits above 4194303 blocks
Package: roxen (main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
46063 roxen is not stopped correctly by /etc/cron.weekly/roxen
Package: rpm (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
47601 rpm: needs to be recompiled to update libbz2 dependency
Package: rscheme (main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
47774 rscheme_0.7.2-2(unstable): Syntax error in m68k specific code
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: 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: screen (main)
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
45628 screen: does not correctly free ptys
Package: sdr (main)
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@debian.org>
43755 sdr wont compile, still requires files not present on a Debian system
Package: sendmail (main)
Maintainer: Rick <Nelson>
46387 NO 2.1r3 ALPHA CDs: sendmail depends
47715 sendmail: sendmail: can't restart with nonempty queue
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: shhopt (main)
Maintainer: Ole J. Tetlie <olet@debian.org>
47200 shhopt_1.1.4-1(unstable): doesn't remove debian/files
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 $* instead of "$@"
46992 smbmount-2.2.x manpage wrong
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: svgalibg1 (main)
Maintainer: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>
47512 zgv (or svgalib, or whoever) disturbs SCSI by PCI probing
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: 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: taper (main)
Maintainer: Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>
46928 taper_6.9ra-4(unstable): typo in debian/rules
Package: telnetd-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
43196 SSL telnet sessions pause unexpectedly
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: terraform (main)
Maintainer: Sean E. Perry <shaleh@debian.org>
47707 terraform should be relinked with gtk--
Package: tetex-nonfree (non-free)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
46445 tetex-nonfree: copyright issues :(
47900 tetex-nonfree does not have foils
Package: textutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
43610 textutils: tsort behaves unexpectedly
Package: tin (non-free)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
46570 tin: rtin crashes
Package: tix41 (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
47825 tix41: Doesn't work with Tcl/Tk 8.2
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: tksmb (main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
46724 TkSmb missing depencies...
46731 Segfault at start..
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: transcriber (main)
Maintainer: David A. van Leeuwen <david@tm.tno.nl>
47810 transcriber: doesn't build on alpha
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: ultra (main)
Maintainer: Martin Soto <masoto@uniandes.edu.co>
47966 ultra: ultra should use /etc/modules.conf
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
47219 util-linux: errors compiling on sparc
Package: vchkpw (contrib)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
43200 vchkpw: Problem in init.d script
Package: vgacardgames (main)
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <stu@novare.net>
47080 vgacardgames: doesn't build on alpha
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.
47808 vrweb: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: vtun (main)
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
47368 vtun: complains about `char-major-108'
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: wdg-html-reference (non-free)
Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
46517 wdg-html-reference: Many links should be internalised.
Package: wmaker (main)
Maintainer: Chris McKillop <cdm@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: 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: xamixer (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
42935 xamixer: There are no widgets in the window
Package: xbel (main)
Maintainer: Rob Tillotson <robt@debian.org>
47376 xbel: xbel should check if install-sgmlcatalog is present before removing it.
Package: xemacs20-support (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
47476 new gnus tries to read .newrc-new.eld
Package: xemacs21 (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39816 xemacs21: problems in post.inst
42505 xemacs21: strange path search
Package: xemacs21-mule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39768 xemacs21-mule: bad paths in binary
43740 xemacs21-mule: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
47994 xemacs21-mule: XEmacs21.1 japanese auto detection
Package: xemacs21-nomule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39774 xemacs21-nomule: Post-installation script fails - bad path hardcoded
43153 xemacs21-nomule: Unable to purge
43160 xemacs21-nomule: Missing dependency on emacsen-common
46725 xemacs21-nomule: Dumps core
47770 xemacs21-nomule: update-alternatives called with bad args in postinst
Package: xemacs21-support (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39806 xemacs21-support: missing /usr/share/xemacs21 skeleton
Package: xemacs21-supportel (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
44423 xemacs21-supportel: doesn't include the language subdir.
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: xkbsel (main)
Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <pdm@debian.org>
47750 xkbsel: xkbseldb -R dumps core during installation
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: 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
47741 xserver-svga: gmc root icons in wmaker crash the X server
Package: xserver-xsun (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
45654 Xsun crashing
Package: xxgdb (main)
Maintainer: Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
47452 xxgdb: does not work (Cannot perform malloc)
Package: zicq (main)
Maintainer: Mark Ng <ng@debian.org>
47081 zicq: Doesn't build on Alpha
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