Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for July 2, 1998
Welcome to the new Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List.
Richard Braakman is back from vacation and passed maintainership of this
list over to me.
Major changes:
- Security uploads for: mailx, netstd
- New release-critical bugs: 24184(bugs.debian.org), 18322 & 19767,
(dhcp-client-beta), 24124(fakeroot), 19437 & 21488 & 23877 (ftp.debian.org),
24156(ldso), 24066(libc6), 24022(libssl08), 24187(netbase),
23642 (nonus.debian.org), 24180(passwd), 24157(pcmcia-modules-2.0.34),
24115(proftpd), 24119(qpopper), 24126(screen), 24120(slang0.99.38),
24058(xbase)
- Closed release-critical bugs: 23059(dpkg-python), 19347(libc5-dev),
23995(netbase)
There are 9 bugreports marked FIX, leaving us 34 to work on.
That is 14 more then last time!
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Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:29:34 GMT: 54 release-critical bugs in hamm.
Package: boot-floppies
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
[FIX] 2.0.8 has been installed, which fixes these bugs.
23842 install.html missing from boot-floppies
24073 cannot install laptop from CD
Package: bugs.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <owner@bugs.debian.org>
24184 The bug system has become crazy (?)
Package: cvs-pcl
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
22577 compile of pcl-cvs.el fails (cannot load "cookie")
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: dhcp-client-beta (alpha main)
Maintainer: Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>
[FIX] Handle bug#22757 ("remove dhcp-client-beta from hamm") reported to
ftp.debian.org.
18322 dhclient-script problem with "EXPIRE"
19767 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory
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
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: elib
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
23810 Emacsen add-on packages must depend on emacsen, not emacsen
Package: fakeroot
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
24124 fakeroot: breaks with libc6_2.0.7r3
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
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.
21488 p3nfs: still linked with libc5
[STRATEGY] Copy the version in slink to hamm, or remove the one in hamm.
(Or try to backpatch the one in hamm)
23877 please include apt and autoup in hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/
Package: general (pseudo)
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
23867 Critical permissions bug on /lib and /tmp
[STRATEGY] This might be a result of someone unpacking a package using
/lib or /tmp as installation root. Being investigated.
Package: infocom
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
23563 infocom: /usr/doc/infocom/copyright doesn't include a licen
Package: ircd
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
23951 ircd: postisnt does not check for errors
[STRATEGY] Johnie will upload a new package with the fixes already made
for slink.
Package: kdebase (i386 contrib)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
23655 kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession
[STRATEGY] David Engel: "Remove kdebase from hamm or move the beta4 slink
packages from slink to hamm."
Package: ldso
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
24156 ldso: doesn't know PowerPC
Package: libc6
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
23893 libc6: "env LD_PRELOAD= ls" core dump
24066 libc6: rsh segfaults as a result of new libc 2.0.7r2
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.
[STRATEGY] Guy proposed a simple set-statement for a .bashrc to fix this
Package: libssl08 (i386 non-us)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
24022 libssl: Upstream security fix available
Package: libtool
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
23884 libtool: Insecure use of /tmp (?)
Package: mailx
Maintainer: Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>
23880 [alvaro@lander.es: [linux-security] security hole in mailx]
[FIX] Roberto Lumbreras uploaded a fixed package on June 28.
Package: nas
Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
23841 nas: init.d script fails to start au because of missing pat
[FIX] Steve McIntyre uploaded a fixed package on July 2.
Package: netbase
Maintainer: Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
24187 netbase: wrong radius entry in /etc /services breaks radius
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
23642 Packages
Package: passwd
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
21275 passwd: useradd violates base-passwd's rules
24180 passwd: useradd violates base-passwd's rules
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.0.3
Maintainer: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
24157 pcmcia-modules-2.0.34: pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol
[STRATEGY] Brian Mays will upload a new package which is compiled with the
new 2.0.34 kernel image.
Package: proftpd
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
24115 proftpd: does not support NIS
Package: qpopper
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
24119 qpopper security vulnerability
[FIX] Miquel van Smooremburg has uploaded a patched version.
Package: screen
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
24126 screen aborts with signal 11 in X
Package: slang0.99.38
Maintainer: Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>
24120 Slang
Package: smail
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
23717 smail: smtp entry in inetd.conf gone after smail upgrade
Package: sox
Maintainer: Geiger Guenter <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>
23913 SOX doesn't work at all
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: 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: xadmin
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
23053 xadmin does not set perms correctly for /etc/shadow
[STRATEGY] Turbo Fredriksson: "I recomend we remove xadmin from Hamm, since I
don't have the time to fix the bugs..."
[FIX] This is fixed in xadmin 1.0.15-2, which has been installed in hamm.
Package: xbase
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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."
24058 xbase: home/end xterm translation inversed
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