Release-critical Bugreport for December 22, 1998
Bug stamp-out list for Dec 22 00:05 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 52
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Package: bash (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
30803 bsh bug causing segfault
Package: cmucl-defsystem (non-free)
Maintainer: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>
30158 cmucl-defsystem in non-free
Package: devscripts (main)
Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
30838 devscripts: uupdate: fails without warning!
Package: dhcp-client-beta (main)
Maintainer: Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>
18322 dhclient-script problem with "EXPIRE"
[PARTY] Johnie Ingram will fix this one hopefully
19767 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory
[PARTY] Guess what.. same as 18322!
Package: dpkg (main)
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
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
30891 dpkg: Patch for update-alternatives to fix jdk problems
Package: file-rc (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
30669 file-rc: rc is broken (starts too man start scripts)
[STRATEGY] Ben Collins prepared a NMU he would like people to check.
ftp://marcus.seva.net/pub/debian/file-rc_0.4.7_all.deb
Maintainer wants to okay this himself before uploading though.
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
25710 debian-cd should be removed from slink.
Package: g++ (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh-egcs@debian.org>
28626 Slink g++ ver 2.91 has a possable memory leak
Package: gdb (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
30315 gdb: can't complete build on Alpha (faure.debian.org)
Package: geda (main)
Maintainer: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
30832 geda: Geda requires guile 1.2 which no longer exists.
[STRATEGY] Package recompiles cleanly, maintainer should do that soon.
Package: general (pseudo)
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change.
Package: gmc (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
28154 Linking with gtk
Package: guile1.3 (main)
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
30725 guile1.3 critical bug with file loading
Package: jdk1.1 (non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
27097 jdk1.1: error in installing jdk1.1: links are in a mess
27330 jdk1.1: Files should be conffiles
Package: latex2html (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
30858 latex2html: Serious problems with links
Package: ldso (main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
30859 (no subject)
[STRATEGY] Wichert Akkerman made a patch for this, which is in bugreport 30865.
Packages are at http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/debian/party/
Package: libhdf4g-dev (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
28340 libhdf4g-dev: Depends on libjpeg-dev
Package: libncurses4 (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
29014 libncurses4: colours messed up
Package: loadlin (main)
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
30759 Loadlin Installation Files (and likley disks, too)
Package: netscape-base-407 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
30878 netscape-base-407: Security vulnerabilities in 4.07
Package: netstd (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
30672 netstd: Buffer overflow in bootpd (from Bugtraq)
[STRATEGY] Already fixed for i386 hamm, rest will follow soon.
Package: nonus.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
18785 nonus.debian.org: incoming backlog
Package: pcmcia-cs (main)
Maintainer: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
30739 /usr/X11R6/bin/cardinfo depends non-free/libforms0.88
Package: qt1g-dev (non-free)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
29051 package qt1g-dev depends on obsolete library libstdc++2.8
Package: snd (main)
Maintainer: Geiger Guenter <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>
30941 =?iso-8859-1?Q?snd_doesn=B4t_work_with_slink_version_of_lesstif_--_please?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_remove?=
Package: snmptraplogd (main)
Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher <Bernd_Schumacher@hp.com>
30855 snmptraplogd depends on old version of libsnmp
[STRATEGY] Package recompiles cleanly, maintainer should do that soon.
Package: splay (contrib)
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
30893 splay: Can't build from source
[FIX] A fixed package (version 0.8.2-3) is in Incoming.
Package: ssh (non-US)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
27415 ssh suddenly requires controlling tty
Package: syslinux (main)
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
30791 syslinux_1.42-1 "mtools enhancements" don't work
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will fix this in the weekend
Package: tcsh (main)
Maintainer: Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>
28959 meta keys in tcsh don't work anymore!
Package: telnet98 (non-US)
Maintainer: Ian Lynagh <ian@lynagh.demon.co.uk>
30926 telnet98: Telnet98 overwrites telnet and telnetd packages without conflicting
30927 telnet98: Telnet98 segfaults
Package: util-linux (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
30909 util-linux 2.7.1-3.2 has bad dependencies
Package: vrwave (main)
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
29311 vrwave depends on non-free package
[FIX] A new package (version 0.9-4) is waiting in Incoming.
30817 vrwave needs recompile with mesag3
[FIX] A new package (version 0.9-4) is waiting in Incoming.
Package: wmaker (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
28841 Problems upgradring from wmaker-superfluous to wmaker
Package: wu-ftpd-academ (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
30931 wu-ftpd-academ: Can't build from source!
Package: xbase (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
30090 xbase installation segfaults / Netscape bus error
Package: xdm (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking
Package: xserver-common (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g
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