The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19
Welcome to a nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List.
Since Richar Braakman is currently on vacation, I will be maintaining
this for the next two weeks. This is my first post, so please excuse
any errors/oversights and report them to me.
Wichert.
Major changes:
- Fixes were uploaded for dosemu, dwww, libpaper*, libsocks4, metamail, ssh,
tetex-bin
- Application moved out of main: sniffit, rat, crafty, kbd
- Help requests were made for file-rc
- dwww has been taken by Joost Kooy, who uploaded a fixed version
- ftp.debian.org now has 21 bugs!
- Ray Dassen fixed the gcc/g++ /tmp-bugs
There are now 18 bugs marked `FIX', leaving 74 bugs to be looked at.
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Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:17:32 GMT: 92 release-critical bugs in hamm.
Package: a2ps
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
23671 a2ps: (texi2dvi4a2ps): insecure use of /tmp
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] install wnn 4.2-4, which is currently in Incoming.
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: dosemu
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
23596 dosemu: insecure use of /tmp
[FIX] Install dosemu 0.66.7-11, uploaded on June 18
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
22018 dwww: can't find _anything_
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
21039 ftp.debian.org: libc5-dbg probably shouldn't be in frozen
[FIX] There is now a libc5 (5.4.38-1.1) in hamm that does not generate
libc5-dbg, so it can be removed.
21819 sinuskey-login: libc5 version in hamm!
21832 sniffit is not DFSG free software
[FIX] sniffit is now in non-free, version in main should be removed.
21935 rat is not free software
[FIX] rat is now in non-free, version in main should be removed
21938 xarchie is not DFSG free software
22417 Please move premail to contrib.
22438 binkd: libc5 package in hamm
22490 two versions of base_passwd in hamm
22493 crafty is not DFSG free software
[FIX] use crafty 14.11-3, which is now to non-free, and remove the version
in main.
22548 jdk1.1-docdemo: obsolete?
22554 ftp.deb.org: ssg-dev still here
22635 ftp.debian.org: Please remove dwww from hamm/frozen
22757 ftp.debian.org: remove dhcp-client-beta from hamm
22808 ftp.debian.org: pine396-src and pine396-diffs
22832 ftp.debian.org: m68k Packages files not being updated
22885 ftp.debian.org: files to be removed
22939 Please remove old unixcw in hamm/main
22946 We have two priority: standard emacs.
23034 Remove cxhextris from binary-powerpc
23108 ftp.debian.org: Please move sniffit from main to non-free
23327 Please remove javalex from hamm
23668 kernel-image-2.0.34: crc error
23684 premail both in contrib and non-free
23704 ftp.debian.org: Please remove netatalk-asun
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: kbd
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
23639 postinst
[FIX] Yann Dirson added an additionnal test-and-remove on top of postinst
and uploaded 0.95-16 on June 19.
Package: kdebase (i386 contrib)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
23655 kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession
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.
[STRATEGY] "Depending on Ulrich's schedule we may have to release with
a beta version. I am working currently from the CVS archive,
and will soon be able to produce a package from the latest
upstream patches. At some point we will need to bite the
bullet and release the best library we have a that time."
20799 getgrnam does not return when group name does not exist
[HELP] "This has been worked on. If someone could test the -pre3-1
release in unstable and verify it as fixed, we can probably
close this one."
22626 netbase: bugtraq says: RPC services are subject to Denial o
[HELP] "This has also been worked on upstream and needs some testing."
22790 libc6: login(3) does not reuse dead entries
[STRATEGY] "This one is fixed in my current, unreleased version,
coming soon ;-)"
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
[STRATEGY] Joel Klecker has sent in some patches to fix this.
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: libsocks4
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
22469 libsocks4: no shared library .so link
[FIX] Christoph Martin uploaded a fixed version on June 18.
Package: libssl08 (i386 non-us)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
23169 libssl08 hangs while waiting randomness from /dev/random
[STRATEGY] "For the solution: I have to exchange /dev/random with
/dev/urandom and recompile."
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: metamail
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
23595 metamail [showpartial]: insecure use of /tmp/
[FIX] Install metamail 2.7-28, uploaded on June 18
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: python-dev
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
23168 Error in Python's Makefile.pre.in
[STRATEGY] "I'm currently evaluating one of the following solutions:
a) Again, only provide the upstream Makefile.pre.in. This won't make
life easier for users who don't want to build Debian packages,
but want to install the extension locally in /usr/local.
b) Provide both the upstream Makefile.pre.in for building Debian
packages and a modified Makefile-local.pre.in for installing
extensions locally.
c) Fix the problem in the modified Makefile.pre.in and provide both
a boot as well as a boot-deb target for preparing extensions for
local installation as well as for Debian packaging."
[HELP] "Feedback wanted!"
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: ssleay (i386 non-us)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
19410 ssleay: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file LI#146
[STRATEGY] "As ssleay is not in the main distribution, I delayed the
fix of this (which consists mainly of a repacking) in
favor of tetex-*."
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: tetex-bin
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
23605 tetex-bin (texi2dvi): insecure use of /tmp
[FIX] Install tetex-bin 0.9-7, uploaded on June 18
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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