Release-critical Bug List for October 29
Bug stamp-out list for Oct 14 19:56 (CST)
Changes since Oct 8 08:00 (CST)
46 release-critical bugs were closed and 18 were opened.
Total number of release-critical bugs: 85
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Package: apache-common
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
25990 apache-common: apache expects passwd.db but not dbmmanage
Package: apache-ssl
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
26012 apache-ssl: usage of /tmp/ssl.log is a security hole
Package: apple2
Maintainer: Tom Lear <tom@trap.mountain-view.ca.us>
27590 apple2: should be in contrib, not main
Package: balsa
Maintainer: Ole J. Tetlie <olet@debian.org>
27726 balsa cannot be run
27894 balsa is linked against ancient version of gtk
Package: base-passwd
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
25882 various system users inherited my personal gid (100) !
Package: blt8.0-2.4e
Maintainer: Lars Steinke <lss@debian.org>
27935 multiple versions of blt2.4
Package: boot-floppies
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
26584 lomem install doesn't activate swap
27061 boot-floppies' .bash_profile for root prompt for pkgsel is confusing
Package: cron
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@master.debian.org>
26705 RedHat (possible) buffer overflow fixes
Package: cvs-pcl
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
22577 compile of pcl-cvs.el fails (cannot load "cookie")
Package: dhcp-client-beta
Maintainer: Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@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>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
1797 upgrade/downgrade dependency calculation problem
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any
Package: fakeroot
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
27794 fakeroot: fakeroot depends on missing library
Package: ftp.debian.org
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
26920 ftp.debian.org: package installation procedure problem
27381 libg++272-dev and libstdc++2.8-dev conflict, being both standard!!
27642 exim needs to be made standard, smail needs to be made optional
Package: gcc
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
26100 gcc: -dynamic is not default as it should be
Package: gnus
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge
Package: groff
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
27790 groff depends on missing libary.
Package: jove
Maintainer: Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>
27219 jove: Jove wants /usr/tmp
Package: junkbuster
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
25258 junkbuster: junkbuster has security holes
Package: lftp
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>
27932 lftp: tab completion is hosed
Package: libc6
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
26147 dlopen() corrupts heap, dlclose() reads free()'d memory
27314 libc6: wrong shlibs file
27334 libc6: breaks sendmail, probably problem in resolver
27403 libc6: fsck error occure after ldconfig
Package: libmagick4-dev
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
19332 libmagick: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67
Package: libpam0g
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
27514 libpam moved without warning!
Package: libpgjava
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
27753 libpgjava: depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which is now included in jdk1.1
Package: libreadlineg2
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
27762 libreadlineg2 links in old ncurses
Package: lists-archives
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
26384 lists-archives: Missing conffiles
Package: mozilla
Maintainer: Debian QA group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
27181 mozilla dumps core
Package: netstd
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
27789 netstd depends on libstdc++2.8
27942 rpc.nfsd doesn't allow (re-)exporting of samba shares
Package: nis
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
26294 package is out of date; makedbm does not handle "\" extended lines longer than 120 characters
Package: nonus.debian.org
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
18572 nonus.debian.org: remove des-solnet_1.03-5.deb
18785 nonus.debian.org: incoming backlog
18887 des-solnet: package description
20773 nonus.debian.org: please remove gnupg from frozen
21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions
22287 nonus.debian.org with incorrect layout
23642 Packages
25198 nonus.debian.org: Packages don't exist
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.0.34
Maintainer: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
27395 pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box
Package: perl
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5
27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5
Package: qftp
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <edmonds@freewwweb.com>
27791 qftp depends on missing libary.
Package: qps
Maintainer: Hanno Wagner <wagner@linux.de>
16635 qps: qps seems to be statically linked with QT and is in the wrong section
Package: rt
Maintainer: Kevin Poorman <ewigin@debian.org>
23583 rt: lacking copyright
Package: secure-su
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
26827 secure-su breaks findutils (And who knows what else)
Package: slang1
Maintainer: Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>
27385 slang1: Still no source package
Package: ssh
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
27415 ssh suddenly requires controlling tty
Package: tetex-base
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
27895 tetex-base config problem
Package: tkstep8.0
Maintainer: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
19255 Tkstep8.0 doesn't mention dependencies on tiff, jpeg and Xpm.
Package: vrwave
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
23436 vrwave should maybe go in contrib?
Package: xbase
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
26880 dpkg: Creating XF86Config during install freezes VT
Package: xemacs20-bin
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
25676 xemacs20-bin: GNUS: Insecure MIME extraction
Package: xswallow
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
25932 Xswallow should be in contrib
Package: zlib1g-dev
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
27961 Conflicting files
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