Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for July 10
Welcome to the new Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List.
As an added incentive to get all bugs fixed this list is now also
available online at http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs.html .
The page is updated every 4 hours.
Major changes since the last post:
- Security uploads for: netstd, libtool
- New release-critical bugs: 24278(cvs), 24256 & 24350 &
24355(ftp.debian.org), 24351(ilu-javadev), 24380(libc6),
24354(libc6-pre2.1-doc), 24392(ncurses3.4-dev), 24299(netstd),
24361(pilot-linux), 24342(sendmail)
- Closed/downgraded release-critical bugs: 24217(bigloo),
24184(bugs.debian.org), 1797(dpkg), 21186(dpkg-dev), 23867(general),
24205(imgstar), 23035(libreadlineg2), 23884(libtool), 23841(nas),
24115(proftpd), 23913(sox)
There are 6 bugreports marked FIX, leaving us 45 to work on.
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Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:48:19 GMT: 50 release-critical bugs in hamm.
Package: boot-floppies
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
23842 install.html missing from boot-floppies
[FIX] 2.0.8 has been installed, which fixes this bug.
24073 cannot install laptop from CD
Package: cvs
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
24378 cvs not Y2K-compliant
Package: cvs-pcl
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
22577 compile of pcl-cvs.el fails (cannot load "cookie")
Package: dpkg
Maintainer: Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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
Package: elib
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
23810 Emacsen add-on packages must depend on emacsen, not emacsen
[FIX] Tom Lees uploaded 1.0-8 on June 26, which fixes this.
Package: emacs20
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
24236 emacs20, postrm is broken..
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/
24256 emacs19-el should probably be optional.
24350 dbf2msql: depends on stuff outside of main
24355 ftp.debian.org: please remove libatalk-dev
Package: ilu-javadev
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
24351 ilu-javadev: depends on stuff outside of main
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
[STRATEGY] David Engel: "Remove kdebase from hamm or move the beta4 slink
packages from slink to hamm."
Package: kernel-image-2.0.34
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
24252 2.0 installation does not work with some Adaptec cards
[FIX] Herbert Xu uploaded version 2.0.34-4 on July 9, which fixes this.
Package: libc6
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
23893 libc6: "env LD_PRELOAD= ls" core dump
[STRATEGY] Dale Scheetz uploaded 2.07r-5 on July 4, which fixes this.
24066 libc6: rsh segfaults as a result of new libc 2.0.7r2
24380 Killer bug in libc6_2.0.7r-5.deb
Package: libc6-pre2.1-doc
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
24354 libc6-pre2.1-doc: unfulfillable dependencies on non-glibc-p
[STRATEGY] Juan Cespedes said he will build a corrected version.
Package: libreadline2
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
22941 libreadline2 depends on libc6
Package: libssl08 (i386 non-us)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
24022 libssl: Upstream security fix available
[FIX] Christoph Martin uploaded 0.8.1-7 on July 6, which fixes this.
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: menu
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
24221 Su-to-root can loop forever
Package: ncurses3.4-dev
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
24392 ncurses3.4-dev: ncurses3.4 without new -dev broke lxdialog
Package: netbase
Maintainer: Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
24187 netbase: wrong radius entry in /etc /services breaks radius
[STRATEGY] Miquel observed the entry is actually correct but Livingston
uses the wrong number. We might use the old (wrong) number
in hamm and switch to the correct number and update the radius
packges in slink.
Package: netstd
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
24299 in.telnetd shows garbage in ps.
Package: nonus.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@datom.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
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: pilot-link
Maintainer: Dermot Bradley <bradley@debian.org>
24361 pilot-link appears to do no error checking !!
Package: screen
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
24126 screen aborts with signal 11 in X
Package: sendmail
Maintainer: Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
24342 sendmail: Ignores "+" syntax after upgrade
Package: smail
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
23717 smail: smtp entry in inetd.conf gone after smail upgrade
Package: termcap-compat
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
24200 termcap: vulnerability
Package: wu-ftpd-academ
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
17401 netstd overwrites ftpd.8.gz
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."
23924 XF86Setup can't find some file
[STRATEGY] Branden Robison: "I'm adding stuff to the xbase preinst and
postinst to handle this, and it will appear in 3.3.2.2-2
24058 xbase: home/end xterm translation inversed
[STRATEGY] Branden Robinson fixed this is his source. The next release will
contain this fix (3.3.2.2-2)
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