Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 22, 1998
Welcome to the new Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List.
Since Richard Braakman is currently on vacation, I will be maintaining
this list for two weeks. Let's hope I learnt from my last post and didn't
make any weird errors this time.
Major changes:
- Fixes were uploaded for: a2ps, dosemu, libc6, metamail, python-dev and ssleay.
- non-i386 bugs for some packages were fixed
- lots ftp.debian.org bugs were closed
- bug-count is down from 92 on friday to 66: we're getting there!
There are now 66 release-critical bugs, 14 marked FIX. This leaves us
52 bugs. (actually quite a few bugs are already fixed and can be closed)
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Mon, 22 Jun 1998 21:33:55 GMT: 66 release-critical bugs in hamm.
Package: boot-floppies
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
23167 uncaught error in unpacking modules
[FIX] Fixed in boot-floppies 2.0.7, which will be uploaded soon.
23679 bootdisk: no boot from MBR
Package: bootdisk (pseudo)
Maintainer: Maintainer Group <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
23171 PCMCIA modules don't match kernel version on boot disks
[STRATEGY] Luis Francisco Gonzalez: "This bug is not in the
boot-floppies. The idea was to make sure we knew that there
is need to wait for the new pcmcia-packages but the bug is
in those packages as we only use the standard
kernel/pcmcia-modules."
Package: cwnn
Maintainer: Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>
20539 Overlap between cwnn, wnn, and kwnn
[FIX] wnn 4.2-4 has been installed, bug should be closed
Package: debian-policy
Maintainer: Debian QA <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
23661 Security issue when accessing documentation through an http
Package: dhcp
Maintainer: Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>
23087 dhcp stopped working after upgrade
[STRATEGY] Use the patch Eloy A. Paris submitted to the BTS.
Package: dhttpd
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>
23659 /var/www/doc symlink introduces a security weakness
This is probably the as bug 23661.
Package: dpkg
Maintainer: Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
1797 upgrade/downgrade dependency calculation problem
17381 dpkg: please add --force-overwrite-inexistant-files and def
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
20401 Problems updating bo -> hamm
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-config
23520 dpkg dumps core while reading /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: dpkg-dev
Maintainer: Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
20776 dpkg-dev: dpkg-dev does not use emacsen-commen method of in
21186 dpkg-dev: dpkg-dev has a file also provided in dpkg
Package: dpkg-python
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
23059 .py files must not install files into /usr/lib/python
[FIX] Fixing this would break other packages in hamm. Gregor Hoffleit
(python maintainer) said he would change the severity level of
the bug to 'normal'. Matthias Klose will fix it in slink.
Package: dwww
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
[FIX] Install dwww 1.4.3.2-0.1, NMU upload by Joost Kooy on June 18
16212 dwww: dwww tries to update-menus every day
Package: emacs19
Maintainer: eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin)
23742 emacs19 should probably be just "emacs"
Package: emacs20
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
22577 compile of pcl-cvs.el fails (cannot load "cookie")
Package: file-rc
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
23057 file-rc: rcS fails to complete startup
[HELP] "file-rc has one release critical bug. I can't reproduce this bug
on my systems that use file-rc. At the moment I don't think
that I'm able to track it down - mainly due time shortness. Could
somebody please review it and investigate the problem."
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
16652 javalex: bad dependencies
22832 ftp.debian.org: m68k Packages files not being updated
22946 We have two priority: standard emacs.
23327 Please remove javalex from hamm
Package: gstep-make (i386 contrib)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
22328 gstep-make configuration / gstep-* new versions
[FIX] This has been fixed by the gstep-* 0.5.0.980520-1 versions, which
have been installed in hamm.
Package: infocom
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
23563 infocom: /usr/doc/infocom/copyright doesn't include a licen
Package: kdebase (i386 contrib)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
23655 kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession
Package: kernel-image-2.0.34
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
23668 kernel-image-2.0.34: crc error
Package: libc5-dev (m68k main)
Maintainer: Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
19347 libc5-dev: no-copyright-file LI#82
[STRATEGY] libc5-dev can be removed from m68k once libc5 5.4.38-1.1 has
been compiled for it.
Package: libc6
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
20714 Current libc6 is a beta.
[FIX] Dale Scheetz uploaded 2.0.7 on June 20
20799 getgrnam does not return when group name does not exist
[FIX] Fixed in 2.0.7, which Dale Scheetz uploaded on June 20
22626 netbase: bugtraq says: RPC services are subject to Denial o
[FIX] Fixed in 2.0.7, which Dale Scheetz uploaded on June 20
22790 libc6: login(3) does not reuse dead entries
[FIX] Fixed in 2.0.7, which Dale Scheetz uploaded on June 20
23698 Linux-security says: Beware of dangerous enviroment (libc6)
[STRATEGY] Merge a patch from Ulrich Drepper which he posted on linux-security
a month ago.
Package: libc6-dev
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
[HELP] Dale Scheetz: "I have not had a chance to even read these
reports yet. Some outside help determining what should, or
shouldn't change would be helpful here."
(My translation: send him patches :-)
19797 libc6-dev: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion
[FIX] Fixed in 2.0.7, which Dale Scheetz uploaded on June 20
21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs
23458 cdwrite: unable to build from source
[STRATEGY] Dale is investigating this and will contact the upstream author.
Package: libdb1-dev (alpha main)
Maintainer: Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
[FIX] Handle bug#23245 to ftp.debian.org, which requests removal of libdb
from hamm.
19351 libdb1-dev: no-copyright-file LI#86
Package: libpaperg
Maintainer: Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>
23636 libpaperg: cant upgrade
[HELP] Marco Pistore could not reprodduce this one, he needs someone
to help him with this one.
Package: libreadline2
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
22941 libreadline2 depends on libc6
Package: libreadlineg2
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
23035 bash: Not 8-bit clean.
Package: login
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore
[NOTE] This was recently discussed on debian-devel.
Package: modutils
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
22612 modutils package is difficult to upgrade from bo
[HELP] Need people to upgrade from bo machines, try to reproduce.
Wichert: "I can't reproduce that one. I found a glitch in the
postinst though which I fixed. I guess I have to wait for some
people to upgrade more bo machines to check if it works."
Update: 1 success report received.
Package: mtools
Maintainer: Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
23604 mtools: insecure use of /tmp
Package: nonus.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
This is being maintained by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>.
18572 nonus.debian.org: remove des-solnet_1.03-5.deb
18785 nonus.debian.org: incoming backlog
20773 nonus.debian.org: please remove gnupg from frozen
21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions
[HELP] Yann Dirson: "This used to work until some date I don't know
exactly. I guess that non-us has changed the paths they use
in the Packages file." (more info, and workaround, in the bug
entry itself)
(Bug has been reassigned from dpkg-ftp to nonus.debian.org)
22287 nonus.debian.org with incorrect layout
Package: passwd
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
21275 passwd: useradd violates base-passwd's rules
Package: ppp-pam
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
23784 ppp logins shows up as a_ppp
Package: sendmail
Maintainer: Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
23774 sendmail: segfaults on -v -q
[STRATEGY] Problem has been localized and reported uptream. Currently
waiting for an upstream fix.
Package: smail
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
23717 smail: smtp entry in inetd.conf gone after smail upgrade
Package: ssh (i386 non-us)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
[FIX] Philip Hands uploaded 1.2.25-1 on June 18, which fixes both the debug
message and the security fix.
22470 ssh: ssh spits out debugging messages because of socks4
[FIX] "I just uploaded 1.2.23-1 without socks support. I'll wait for
the problem to be resolved in libsocks before putting it back
in again."
Package: svgalib-bin
Maintainer: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com>
23601 svgalib-bin: insecure use of /tmp
[FIX] Install 1.2.13-3.3
Package: wu-ftpd-academ
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
17401 netstd overwrites ftpd.8.gz
20355 wu-ftpd: contains ftpd.8.gz which is also present in netstd
Package: xbase
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
[HELP] See http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html for detailed
discussion of these problems and ways you can help.
22329 Patch for #20685 prevents talk working
[HELP] Please see the XSF page for more information.
22668 TERM=xterm meaning has changed incompatibly
[STRATEGY] "Coordinate with ncurses-base maintainer to use XFree86's xterm
entry for xterm, put our modified version into a new terminal type
called xterm-debian, and change XTerm's app-defaults file to use
xterm-debian by default. See the XSF page for more information."
22877 xbase: xdm port, and X applications
[HELP] "These have been forwarded upstream but I haven't heard anything
from XFree86 about them to date. Fixing them is beyond my knowledge."
22928 New upstream security fix release
[STRATEGY] The patches have been applied, but a build has not yet been done.
23002 Problem With Fresh Install
[HELP] "I need some advice on this one."
(The rest is too long to quote. See Branden's mail at
http://http://www.nl.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9806/msg00733.html)
Package: xlib6g
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
23122 typo in debian/rules
[STRATEGY] "Already applied to the source tree, but no package has been built
yet."
23274 xlib6g: Upgrading to 3.3.2.1-1 breaks keyboard
[STRATEGY] "I think I have already fixed it. I'll find out when I do
another build."
23441 xlib6g is not thread-safe
[STRATEGY] "I think I have already fixed it. I'll find out when I do
another build. Probably the same bug as #23274"
Package: xviewg-dev
Maintainer: Martin Buck <mbuck@debian.org>
23598 xviewg-dev (cv2xview): insecure use of /tmp
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