Release-critical Bugreport for June 18, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Jun 18 00:07 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 184
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Package: adduser (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
37069 adduser: Adduser generates gids over 65535
Package: afterstep (main)
Maintainer: Jonathon D. Nelson <nels0988@tc.umn.edu>
38981 installs files in /usr/bin/X11
Package: alsalib0.3.0 (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
39274 alsalib0.3.0: Error when attempting to remove
Package: automake (main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
8828 automake can't 'make clean' with depends on generated files
Package: ax25-utils (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
39647 ax25utils tcpip part is i386 only
39649 ax25-utils patch for glibc
Package: base-passwd (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
36007 update-passwd did many stupid things
Package: bash (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
34138 Problem with collating, locales and intervals.
34717 bash: contains /bin/sh link
38804 bash broken $RANDOM behaviour
Package: biff (main)
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
39016 biff: any time mail arrives, in.comsat loops wildly in error; biff doesn't work
Package: bind (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
39161 bind: Bind needs to be updated to 8.2, preferably the most current beta
39518 (stable) named randomly dies...
Package: bitchx (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
39566 bitchx: problems with LATIN1 (not compiled with) and BASH 2.02 Unable to recover LATIN1 in BASH
Package: bnetd (main)
Maintainer: Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>
39259 bnetd_0.4.8-1(unstable): Really i386 specific?
Package: boot-floppies (main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
35729 rootdisk: Installation from 5.25" floppies seems to require resc1440.bin
36947 boot-floppies: base.tgz not found - no error message
Package: cdcd (main)
Maintainer: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
39677 cdcd: segfaults on startup
Package: clif (main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
39627 clif_0.92-1(unstable): src package comes with config.cache and break compilation
Package: cmucl (main)
Maintainer: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>
38822 cmucl: Causes assert failure in dpkg
Package: coda-manpages-client (main)
Maintainer: Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org>
35158 Dependency problem
Package: console-tools (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
39211 console-tools_1:0.2.0-2(unstable): Build problem: no utflist.long
Package: cvs (main)
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
38330 cvs: CVS causes currupts and deletes new files.
Package: debbugs (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
37120 debbugs: /etc/debbugs/* should be conffiles
Package: diald (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
32592 diald: Problems with dynamic addressing and 2.2.1 kernel
Package: dpkg (main)
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
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any
28519 dpkg: creates circular symlinks [POSSIBLE WORKAROUND]
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity
33618 dpkg: most recent hamm version, but *multiple* packages insist it be upgraded!
36385 consensus on stuff left to be fixed in slink
37254 dpkg: update-alternatives madness
37592 dselect automatically deselects libc6 and essential packages
39157 Eterm-backgrounds fails to unpack
9771 install-info name conflict
Package: dpkg-dev (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
25405 xpm: builds libc5 package on powerpc
Package: dwww (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
37378 dwww: menu-method out of date
38821 dwww: dwww-txt2html output is always empty
Package: eb-doc (main)
Maintainer: Susumu OSAWA <susumu-o@debian.or.jp>
39662 eb-doc: insufficient executing of install-info
Package: emacs20 (main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't run emacs20
38236 emacs can't find its info file
Package: enlightenment (main)
Maintainer: Laurence J. Lane <ljlane@debian.org>
39109 Segfaults upon startup
Package: erlang-base (main)
Maintainer: Mark Ng <ng@debian.org>
38119 [PATCH] SPARC port, debian/rules clean
Package: expect5.24 (main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
34283 expect5.24: alternatives bug on upgrade to slink
Package: exuberant-ctags (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
34666 [PATCH] glibc 2.1 fix
Package: fetchmail (main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
36677 Package fetchmail_5.0.1-1.dsc not extractable
Package: fileutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
39680 It's Back: rmdir -p is broken in 4.0 of fileutils
Package: freeamp (main)
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
38332 freeamp: [PATCH] glibc 2.1 fixes
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
37781 Maintainers index is incomplete for non-us packages.
38599 packages which should be moved to the base section
Package: gcc (main)
Maintainer: Debian EGCS maintainers <egcs@packages.debian.org>
38246 zsh: "read i" segfaults on Alpha because of compiler bug
Package: gdb (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
36341 gdb: Gives a parse error when casting an expression
Package: gdm (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
35672 gdm tries to play 'init'... and is very bad at it.
Package: gicon (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
35912 gicon must be recompiled with GTK+ 1.2
[HELP] Discontinued upstream?
Package: gnome-panel (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
39380 gnome-panel dies horribly
39632 gnome-panel: gnomepager_applet doesn't keep it's settings
39634 gnome-panel: it aborts immediately
Package: gnome-stones (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
39102 gnome-stones: Tries to chown to bad username!
Package: gnomeicu (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Crowley <crow@debian.org>
39551 gnomeicu: gnomeicu segfaults with new libpanel_applet
39610 gnomeicu does not start at all
39651 gnomeicu: Please describe your problems using gnomeicu in one line.
Package: gnudip (main)
Maintainer: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
38430 gnudip: depends on libdbd-mysql-perl which is in contrib
39056 gnudip: Problems with new MySQL packages
Package: gqview (main)
Maintainer: Sean E. Perry <shaleh@debian.org>
38843 gqview: gqview dump a care with gif files
Package: grip (main)
Maintainer: Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org>
38947 grip: [PATCH] won't compile
Package: guile1.3 (main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
38812 slib: slib/format.scm redefines Guile's string-index and causes guile-scsh to fail
Package: gxsnmp (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
38427 gxsnmp: depends on libmysql6 which is provided by the non-free mysql-devel
39611 gxsnmp crashes
Package: html2ps (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
37614 html2ps does not start!
Package: hypermail (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
38341 hypermail_2.0b3-6(unstable): source package broken (probably)
Package: iceconf (main)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
39251 iceconf: iceconf uses old workspace commands
Package: ifmail (main)
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
38362 getopt.h patch for ifmail
Package: inn (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
38621 inn_1.7.2-6(unstable): fails to build on non-i386
Package: ipxripd (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
38735 ipxripd: glibc2.1 patch
39663 ipxripd_0.7-6(unstable): Can't compile under glibc2.0
Package: jdk1.1 (non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
37599 jdk1.1: no permission to distribute
Package: kaffe (main)
Maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler <ean@novare.net>
32521 New kaffe crashes immediately
38868 kaffe dies, probably because of libc6
39609 kaffe: Outdated gmp dependency
Package: kbackup (main)
Maintainer: Jens Ritter <grimaldi@debian.org>
33598 kbackup_1.2.11-2(unstable): Build errors again
Package: kbd (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
39000 kbd: can't configure keymap
Package: kernel-image-2.0.36 (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
34348 Adaptec 294x boot hangs after "419 instructions downloaded"
37074 Slink boot floppies hang machine after initalizing the Adaptec AHA2940UW
39200 Hang on boot: after Adaptec 294x "412 instructions downloaded" (bug #34348?)
Package: kernel-image-2.2.1 (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
36230 Compiler failure
[FIX] Fixed in kernel >= 2.2.5
Package: levee (main)
Maintainer: Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org>
39092 levee_0.6-1(unstable): doesn't compile under glibc2.0
Package: libc6 (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
36016 I tried a partial upgrade and hosed my system
36050 Suspect problems in libc6
36584 nss' compat does not work with shadow nis
38978 (libc6) signal 4, illegal instruction (on i386SX)
39582 ddd: segfaults
Package: libgnome32 (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
39459 libgnome32: (potato): gnome-* depends on libgnome* v 1.0.10-3, but it is not available
Package: libpanel-applet0 (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
39626 libpanel-applet0: patch to correct segfaults in gnomeicu and others...
Package: libtool (main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
37286 Again big-endian trouble with libtool
[STRATEGY] Fixed, but submitter has to verify
39422 Preinst Breaks Fresh Potato Install
Package: lilypond (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
39357 lilypond: Cannot display tutorial.dvi -- required fonts missing
Package: linuxconf (main)
Maintainer: Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org>
39612 linuxconf_1.16r1-1(unstable): needs keymap patch for m68k
Package: lists-archives (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
26384 lists-archives: Missing conffiles
Package: login (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
38729 login: /etc/limits is world-readable
[HELP] Determine is program or manpage right
Package: lprng (main)
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
38963 lprng: filenames with accented chars raise an error
Package: lsof-2.2 (main)
Maintainer:
39103 lsof-2.2: Doesn't install
Package: mailleds (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
37742 mailleds -x doesn't blink keyboard leds
Package: mailman (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>
39575 Mailman security problem
Package: mutt (main)
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
39030 bugs.debian.org: heavy problems with potato: loosing mail!
39337 mutt_0.95.6-1(unstable): build error: script not executable
Package: mysql-gpl-client (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>
39057 mysql-gpl-client: why conflict with mysql-server?
39432 mysql-gpl-client: no separate shared library package prevents correnct dependencies
Package: mysql-gpl-dev (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>
39431 mysql-gpl-dev: no libmysqlclient.so link
Package: netbase (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
39265 netbase: inetd goes into fast loop on udp time packets
Package: netstd (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
34849 netstd: Version of netstd in potato is missing security fixes from slink version
Package: nfs-client (main)
Maintainer: Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org>
39424 showmount already in nfs-server package
Package: nfs-server (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
36732 problem between nfs-server 2.2beta37-1 (slink) and netstd 3.07-2 (hamm)
37180 nfs-server: rpc.mountd hangs regulary
Package: nmap (main)
Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
38739 nmap patch
Package: nosql (main)
Maintainer: David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>
37906 nosql_2.1-1(unstable): build error: obsolete macro in configure.in
Package: omniorb (main)
Maintainer: Brent A. Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org>
36096 CORBA_sysdep.h does not define byte order
38547 /tmp race in package postinst
Package: orbit (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
39565 orbit_0.4.90-1(unstable): doesn't build with glibc2.0
Package: pam-apps (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
38631 pam-apps: login doesn't handle expired passwords
39018 su: strange behavior
Package: perl (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
37667 /usr/lib/perl5/powerpc-linux/5.004/asm points wrong on powerpc
Package: php3-cgi-mysql (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>
39688 php3-cgi-mysql: Package relies on old mysql.
Package: php3-mysql (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>
38829 php3-mysql: Does not work with newer MySQL packages
Package: pilot-link (main)
Maintainer: Dermot Bradley <bradley@debian.org>
32874 pilot-link_0.9.0-1(unstable): Links with shlibs from wrong path
37725 pilot-link 0.9.0-1 should require libpisock3 (>= 0.9.0-1)
Package: postgresql (main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
39081 postgresql_6.4.2-8(unstable): m68k patch lost
Package: ppp (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
39091 ppp_2.3.7-4(unstable): again glibc/Linux header troubles
39116 ppp: /etc/ppp ownerships
Package: ppp-pam (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
38639 ppp-pam auth. security problem
Package: prc-tools (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
37923 prc-tools manpage collisions
39425 prc-tools: File overlap with binutils
Package: proftpd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
38229 normal users cannot login
Package: python-pcgi (main)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
38944 python-pcgi: glibc 2.1 patch
Package: rexec (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
36466 rexec: always prompts for username/passwd
Package: rsync (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
36179 directory specification is ignored
Package: ruari-diff (main)
Maintainer: James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>
38952 ruari-diff glibc 2.1 patch
Package: s3mod (main)
Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
38948 s3mod: glibc2.1 patch
Package: scwm (main)
Maintainer: Francesco Tapparo <cesco@debian.org>
39093 xfree86-common will not upgrade
39261 scwm_0.99.1-1(unstable): bad source package
39442 scwm: syntax error in dependency version (scwm => 0.8a-8)
Package: sgml-base (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
28704 sgml-base: sgml entity handling should conform to Cees de Groot's proposed std
Package: silo (main)
Maintainer: Davide Barbieri <paci@debian.org>
34896 silo looks for kernel image in wrong place on sun4u
Package: smail (main)
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
35092 smail crashes!
Package: smb2www (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
32131 smb2www: smb2www in slink incompatible with samba in slink
33331 smb2www: smb2www incompatible with samba 2.0.x (not for slink)
Package: snmp (main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
37677 snmp: It does not work on alpha
Package: sudo (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
39255 unneeded information in sudo (fwd)
Package: sysklogd (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
38977 sysklogd: permissions for /dev/xconsole not fixed on upgrade
Package: tao (non-free)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
35805 tao_idl fails to load shared libraries
Package: ted (main)
Maintainer: Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>
39287 ted: ted crash
Package: textutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
36795 textutils: tail argument parsing is fubar [PATCH]
Package: tkdesk (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Martin <fizbin@debian.org>
38949 tkdest patches for tcl/tk 8.0
Package: tm (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
37739 gnus: Doesn't start
Package: util-linux (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
37657 util-linux: hwclock --systohc dangerous
Package: vrweb (main)
Maintainer: Fabien Ninoles <fab@tzone.org>
39580 vrweb does not start at all
Package: watchdog (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
34895 type conversion problem
Package: wine (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
39636 wine: doesn't startup
Package: wmglobe (main)
Maintainer: C. Thomas <chomsky@debian.org>
36961 wmglobe: inconsistently licensed
Package: wmifs (main)
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
37572 wmifs does noy work any more
Package: wmrack (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
38945 WMRack: source package name contains illegal character `W'
Package: wu-ftpd-academ (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
34206 User ftp must not be created without my permission
34418 wu-ftpd-academ: this ain't a licence!
[STRATEGY] It is mostly BSD, debian/copyright is bad
Package: xarchie (non-free)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
39413 xarchie: need to depend archie package
Package: xaw-wrappers (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
39598 xaw-wrappers: Can't upgrade xkeycaps to 2.44-2, conflict
Package: xaw3dg (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
3857 listres dumps core
Package: xcontrib (main)
Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
35181 xcontrib: please add xaw-wrappers workaround for #35105
Package: xemacs20-mule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
37545 Cannot Byte-compile el file on unset LANG
Package: xfingerd (main)
Maintainer: KELEMEN Peter <fuji@debian.org>
38736 xfingerd header missing
Package: xfmix (contrib)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <lear@debian.org>
39521 GPL is incompatible with XForms
Package: xisp (contrib)
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
39523 GPL is incompatible with XForms
Package: xldlas (contrib)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
39524 GPL is incompatible with XForms
Package: xli (main)
Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
39159 xli doesn't build on potato
Package: xlockmore (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
35468 xlockmore-4.1[23] -mode bug segfaults
Package: xmcd (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
35177 xmcd: bad default device and $XMCD_LIBDIR dependency
Package: xmhtml1-dev (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
35002 Linking statically breaks with new libc
Package: xmorph (main)
Maintainer: Larry Gilbert <irving@pobox.com>
38955 xmorph does not build from source
Package: xmysql (contrib)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
39522 GPL is incompatible with XForms
Package: xmysqladmin (contrib)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
39546 (xmysqladmin license problem) Re: Packages up for adoption
Package: xosview (main)
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
37851 xosview_1.7.1-1(unstable): doesn't build on m68k -- sys/perm.h
Package: xv (non-free)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
39176 xv: xv dump a core at launch
Package: xwatch (contrib)
Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
35157 xwatch is not distributable
[STRATEGY] Needs to get a Lyx-type licence addition
Package: yorick (main)
Maintainer: David H. Munro <munro@icf.llnl.gov>
37405 yorick_1.4-12(unstable): Uses i386 assembler
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