Release-critical Bugreport for February 7, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Feb 7 00:02 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 22
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Package: apache (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files
Package: defrag (main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
32731 defrag: e2dump quits with check_block_location:6678674146834
Package: dpkg (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
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
30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity
Package: fileutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
31695 mv file1 file2 directory doesn't work anymore
31696 rmdir -p is broken in 4.0 of fileutils
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
28007 vat: vat has non-free code
Package: fvwm95 (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Martin <fizbin@debian.org>
32868 fvwm95 depends on "empty" xbase
Package: general (pseudo)
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs
[STRATEGY] All setuid applications using the non-libc6 gettext should be
recompiled with gettext 0.10.35-6.1.
32888 base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system
Package: mkhybrid (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
32992 mkhybrid: seg faults with HFS options on Debian 2.1 archive
Package: nonus.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@datom.de>
32884 ssltelnet security problem
Package: proftpd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
32686 proftpd: [security] is proftpd affected by the recent discovered path overflow bug ?
Package: smb2www (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
32131 smb2www: smb2www in slink incompatible with samba in slink
Package: util-linux (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
32916 hwclock freezes m68k system
Package: vlock (main)
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
32892 SECURITY - "vlock -c" is poor security
Package: vncserver (main)
Maintainer: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
32821 vncserver: Depends on xbase package which is no longer a real package.
Package: wdm (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
32529 Typo in Xsession
[FIX] A fixed version (1.0-7) is in Incoming
Package: xfree86-common (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
32713 error in /etc/X11/Xsession
[FIX] A fixed version (3.3.2.3a-10) is in Incoming
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