Release-critical Bugreport for December 10, 1998
Bug stamp-out list for Dec 10 00:03 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 65
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Package: base-passwd
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
25882 various system users inherited my personal gid (100) !
Package: binutils-multiarch
Maintainer: Christopher C. Chimelis <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu>
30507 binutils-multiarch breaks /usr/bin/as
Package: boot-floppies
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
26584 lomem install doesn't activate swap
28201 boot floppies for 2.0 do not make system bootable
Package: cvs-pcl
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
20625 cvs-pcl: Compilation of elc files fails
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: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
1797 upgrade/downgrade dependency calculation problem
20401 Problems updating bo -> hamm
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any
28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
29312 error in upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/include/linux/kerneld.h'
Package: dupload
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
30202 dupload: logs completion even if upload fails
Package: ethiop
Maintainer: Paul Seelig <pseelig@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
24573 ethiop is in main but is not DFSG-free
Package: expect5.24
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
30085 expect5.24 fails under cron - Debian 2.0 stable
Package: fakeroot
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
30317 fakeroot and dpkg-shlibdeps
Package: fbset2
Maintainer: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
29276 fbset2: should conflict with and replace fbset
[STRATEGY] James Troup will do a NMU to fix this in the near future.
Package: fetchmail
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
29101 fetchmail: segfault when retrieving mail
Package: ftp.debian.org
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
27381 libg++272-dev and libstdc++2.8-dev conflict, being both standard!!
29873 packages that depend on packages of lower priorities
29874 optional packages that should be extra
30019 installation order of libstdc++2.9
Package: g++
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh-egcs@debian.org>
28626 Slink g++ ver 2.91 has a possable memory leak
Package: gdb
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
30315 gdb: can't complete build on Alpha (faure.debian.org)
Package: guile1.2
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
29320 installation aborts
Package: guile1.3
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
29479 installing guile1.3 fails
Package: ircd
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
30504 ircd: segfaults with "/admin"
Package: jadetex
Maintainer: Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
28224 jadetex: depends on non-free package
Package: libc6
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
27334 libc6: breaks sendmail, probably problem in resolver
29662 sleep(2) doesn't sleep well
Package: libgtk1.1
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
29143 libgtk1.1: SNAFU
Package: libgtop0
Maintainer: Ian Lynagh <igloo@debian.org>
28910 libgtop0: soname
[STRATEGY] Remove this package since it has been replaced with libtop1
Package: libguile4
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
30550 New guile packages
Package: libncurses4
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
29014 libncurses4: colours messed up
Package: mawk
Maintainer: James Troup <awkmaint@nocrew.org>
28249 mawk doesn't check write errors
Package: nasm
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
21945 nasm: please update copyright file
Package: nonus.debian.org
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
18785 nonus.debian.org: incoming backlog
30527 Distributions missing on Dresden master site
Package: prcs
Maintainer: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>
30473 Prcs startup code doesn't work with xemacs20.
Package: premail
Maintainer: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@pacbell.net>
30476 Use of uninitialized value at /usr/bin/premail line 2807, <STDIN> chunk 1.
Package: squid
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
30330 squid: Squid crashes with Segment Violation
[HELP] Maintainer cannot reproduce this, help is appreciated.
Package: ssh
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
27415 ssh suddenly requires controlling tty
Package: tcsh
Maintainer: Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>
28959 meta keys in tcsh don't work anymore!
Package: tetex-extra
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
30509 tetex-extra: the french style is not dfsg
Package: v-bin
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
30448 v-bin: Depends on mesa lib not in frozen.
Package: wine
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
30218 wine: Wine is broken (__register_frame_info shared library error)
[FIX] Package should be recompiled with the new libc6
Package: wmaker
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
28841 Problems upgradring from wmaker-superfluous to wmaker
Package: wn
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
27966 wn doesn't start
Package: xbase
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
30090 xbase installation segfaults / Netscape bus error
Package: xcdroast
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
30540 xcdroast cannot be started by user
Package: xdm
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
27967 xbase: xdm can (frequently does) render machine unusable
29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking
Package: xf86setup
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
30425 xf86setup does not set the X server properly.
Package: xserver-common
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g
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