Release-critical Bugreport for December 16, 1998
Bug stamp-out list for Dec 16 00:02 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 50
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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 <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
26584 lomem install doesn't activate swap
30758 boot-floppies: Install of base system (2.1.2 4 Dec) loops the install procedure
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
Package: dupload
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
30202 dupload: logs completion even if upload fails
Package: ethiop
Maintainer: Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org>
24573 ethiop is in main but is not DFSG-free
Package: fakeroot
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
30317 fakeroot and dpkg-shlibdeps
Package: fetchmail
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
29101 fetchmail: segfault when retrieving mail
Package: file
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>
22854 file: "\n"-style escapes don't work
Package: file-rc
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
30669 file-rc: rc is broken (starts too man start scripts)
Package: ftp.debian.org
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
30275 ftp.debian.org: Remove libguile3
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: general
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
30759 Loadlin Installation Files (and likley disks, too)
Package: guile1.3
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
30725 guile1.3 critical bug with file loading
Package: icq-java
Maintainer: Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>
27887 icq-java: depends on none existant jdk1.1-runtime
Package: jadetex
Maintainer: Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
28224 jadetex: depends on non-free package
Package: libapache-mod-auth-sys
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
30617 libapache-mod-auth-sys: conflicts with apache in slink
Package: libguile3
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
30606 compiled-with-bad-libc
[STRATEGY] Package should be removed once all packages that depend on it
are recompiled
Package: libncurses4
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
29014 libncurses4: colours messed up
Package: nasm
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
21945 nasm: please update copyright file
Package: netstd
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
30672 netstd: Buffer overflow in bootpd (from Bugtraq)
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: pcmcia-cs
Maintainer: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
30739 /usr/X11R6/bin/cardinfo depends non-free/libforms0.88
Package: prcs
Maintainer: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>
30473 Prcs startup code doesn't work with xemacs20.
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: wine
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
30218 wine: Wine is broken (__register_frame_info shared library error)
[FIX] A NMU (version 0.0.981018-1.1) is waiting in Incoming.
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
[FIX] Maintainer uploaded 0.96e-1 to fix this, which is waiting in Incoming.
Package: xdm
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking
Package: xserver-common
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g
Package: xsiag
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
30647 xsiag: Xsiag depends on deprecated version of libguile3
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