Release-critical Bugreport for August 27, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Aug 27 00:03 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 240
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Package: abiword (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
41980 abiword_0.7.3-1(unstable): m68k configuration missing
[STRATEGY] abiword and abi-fonts can be removed when abisuite is packaged
42778 abiword_0.7.4-1(unstable): build uses non-free unzip
Package: acroread (non-free)
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
42888 acroread: needs rw /usr with free disk space
Package: adduser (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
43345 adduser: addgroup creates a user
43461 Adduser with --system --group misbehaves with nscd running.
43540 adduser: chokes when using nscd
Package: apache (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
42741 info2www: Missing GIFs in /doc/info2www/
43100 php3: Apache still dumps core if I enable php3
Package: apsfilter (main)
Maintainer: Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
42157 apsfilter: apsfilter messes with $QUEUE
Package: base (pseudo)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
40853 base: current potato init seems to like rerunning rc2.d upon any logins (root or user)
[HELP] Someone needs to investigate this.
Package: base-files (main)
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>
43347 base-files: BSD ad clause dropped.
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.
[FIX] This is apparently a feature.
34717 bash: contains /bin/sh link
38804 bash broken $RANDOM behaviour
[FIX] This is probably a feature.
43050 reinstallation of bash fails due to preinst shell script
43096 BASH: upgrade from 2.01.1-3 to 2.02.1-1.5 removes bash from system
Package: bbdb (main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
40379 bbdb doesn't compile for xemacs21
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will fix these in 3 weeks; but NMUs are possible.
Package: boot-floppies (main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
35729 rootdisk: Installation from 5.25" floppies seems to require resc1440.bin
[STRATEGY] 5.25" floppy support will probably be dropped in potato.
36947 boot-floppies: base.tgz not found - no error message
[HELP] There is not enough sanity checking during the phase where base.tgz
is unpacked. Should be fixed for slink, too.
41866 [potato only and fixed in CVS] please recompile against libpopt0
Package: bootdisk (pseudo)
Maintainer: Maintainer Group <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
43057 bootdisk: rawrite uses 8.3 names
43058 bootdisk: root.bin gzipped on CDs.
Package: bplay (main)
Maintainer: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
21623 [FIXED(?)] brec: sometimes doesn't record anything
[HELP] Need someone to verify that this is fixed.
(Torsten Landschoff is able to reproduce it)
Package: bsdmainutils (main)
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
43413 gettext: While installing, got error on configure phase: "sh: tsort: command not found"
Package: cdgrab (contrib)
Maintainer: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
42997 cdgrab: cdgrab freezes after ripping one track
43579 cdgrab: CDgrab goes around and around in circles
Package: cmucl (main)
Maintainer: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>
38822 cmucl: Causes assert failure in dpkg
[STRATEGY] There is a workaround in the bug logs; the maintainer hasn't
applied it yet.
Package: communicator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
42259 [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
43376 communicator-smotif-461: Close -> Exit
Package: console-tools-data (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
42086 console-tools-data: Doesn't gracefully upgrade configuration
Package: cron (main)
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
42301 logrotate trashes wtmp
[STRATEGY] Move rotation of wtmp, btmp etc from /etc/cron.*/standard to
/etc/logrotate.conf
Package: cvs-buildpackage (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
43409 patch to work around bug 24585 in CVS
Package: debian-keyring (contrib)
Maintainer: James Troup <keyring-maint@debian.org>
43536 debian-keyring: Non self-signed keys
Package: debian-policy (main)
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
43529 debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
Package: debianutils (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
41636 debianutils: [patch] `mkboot' doesn't find LILO signature.
[STRATEGY] There is a plausible patch in the report
Package: dhcp (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
41974 dhcp: dhcp requires kernel 2.2??
Package: diald (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
32592 diald: Problems with dynamic addressing and 2.2.1 kernel
[STRATEGY] There is a new upstream version that fixes this.
Package: dpkg (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
28519 dpkg: creates circular symlinks [POSSIBLE WORKAROUND]
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity
41844 sgml-tools: creates invalid texinfo files
43060 gcj-2.95.1-0pre1 triggers assertion
9771 install-info name conflict
[STRATEGY] Our texinfo doesn't install its install-info, so problem isn't
release critical
Package: dpkg-dev (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
25405 xpm: builds libc5 package on powerpc
[FIX] Patch is supplied in #26954.
Package: dwww (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
38821 dwww: dwww-txt2html output is always empty
43094 dwww config chowns entire system to 'www-data'
Package: e2fsprogs (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
43134 unstable mke2fs fails on big partitions (it worked in stable!)
Package: ean13 (main)
Maintainer: Jim Westveer <jwest@netnw.com>
43470 ean13_0.4-1(unstable): build tries install into filesystem
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
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will fix this next week.
Package: fetchmail (main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
Package: fileutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
39680 "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" still fails, it only suppresses the message
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
41274 Please remove the old netcdf packages
43370 bind is now non-free
Package: gdb (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
36341 gdb: Gives a parse error when casting an expression
[HELP] Can anyone reproduce this bug with the new version?
Package: gdm (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
35672 gdm tries to play 'init'... and is very bad at it.
42440 gdm doesn't show all accounts.
42636 gdm: the x-server (started by gdm) denies gdm to connect ("client not authorized...")
Package: ger-eng (main)
Maintainer: Matthias Kabel <mkabel@debian.org>
43339 Package ger-eng is the same as trans-de-en
Package: gmc (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
40943 gmc: mcedit link missing
[STRATEGY] New upstream version will probably fix this.
Package: gnome-panel (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
39632 gnome-panel: gnomepager_applet doesn't keep it's settings
[HELP] Can anyone reproduce this bug with the new version?
40251 cdplayer_applet dumps core
40478 gnome-panel: assertion failed (name_service!=CORBA_OBJECT_NIL) with the first launch
43180 gnome-panel: multiload-applet doesn't start
Package: gnome-panel-data (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
40712 asclock contains file also present in gnome-panel-data
Package: gnome-session (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
42937 gnome-session doesn't start gnome-panel
Package: gnome-terminal (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
41065 gnome-terminal grossly violates keyboard policy
Package: gnomeicu (main)
Maintainer: Stephen Crowley <crow@debian.org>
40805 gnomeicu: applet freezes panel when cannot connect to ICQ server
41716 gnomeicu: gnomeicu must not support Russian.
Package: gnotes (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
42707 gnotes: segfault
43362 gnotes: depends on libxml0, but that has been removed from archive in favor of libxml1
Package: gnu-pop3d (main)
Maintainer: Sean E. Perry <shaleh@debian.org>
42760 gnu-pop3d: inetd tries to invoke ids-pop3d
Package: gnumeric (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
43177 crashes when autofilling
43361 gnumeric: it depends on libxml0 where it should depend on libxml1. the result is it won't install.
Package: gpasman (non-US)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
43061 gpasman segfaults when opening database
Package: gphoto (main)
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
41236 gphoto: Doesn't compile on Alpha
[FIX] As 40778.
Package: grace (main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
41146 grace_5.0.1-1.1(unstable): doesn't build with newer t1lib
42115 grace: grace should conflict with xmgr
Package: gs (main)
Maintainer: Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>
41570 Can not handle kanji font PS
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
Package: gsl (main)
Maintainer: Michael J. Booth <booth@debian.org>
42116 gsl-histogram double counts last input
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report
Package: gtksee (main)
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <stu@novare.net>
42077 core dump
[HELP] Can anyone reproduce this?
Package: gxsnmp (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39611 gxsnmp crashes
Package: hylafax-server (main)
Maintainer: Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>
43218 Purging hylafax-server removes /var/spool/fax!
Package: iceconf (main)
Maintainer: Jules Bean <jules@debian.org>
39251 iceconf: iceconf uses old workspace commands
[STRATEGY] Could be fixed now; if not, probably next week.
Package: iitalian (main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
43350 iitalian: does not work with ispell3.1.20-04 (incomatibility between versions)
Package: imagemagick (main)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
43424 imagemagick: Jpeg support broken
Package: imp (main)
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
43516 imp: Error in /imp/index.php3
43531 imp: Call to unsupported or undefined function page_open() (everywhere!)
Package: ircd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
37103 ircd: potential security hole
Package: iroffer (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>
42770 iroffer_0.1b30-1(unstable): is arch specific
Package: jargon (main)
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@master.debian.org>
42747 jargon file has no tags table (?)
Package: jdk1.1 (non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
37599 jdk1.1: no permission to distribute
Package: jikes (main)
Maintainer: Mike Goldman <whig@by.net>
43431 jikes_0.55-4(unstable): missing m68k support
Package: kerberos4kth (non-US)
Maintainer: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
40025 kerberos4kth: won't compile on glibc2.1
Package: kernel-image-2.0.36 (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
34328 Slink w. kernel 2.0.36 hangs during Adaptec 2940 init
39200 Hang on boot: after Adaptec 294x "412 instructions downloaded" (bug #34348?)
Package: kernellab (main)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
43392 kernellab: Bad arguments to fakeroot
43393 kernellab: Fakeroot should be required
Package: libc-client-dev (main)
Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
42390 libc-client-dev: c-client.a contains objects with PIC code
Package: libc6 (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
36050 Suspect problems in libc6
36584 nss' compat does not work with shadow nis
42898 libc6: db_dump185 links to libdb not libdb1
43549 libc6: system() call zombies process while using threads
Package: libg++272-dev (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
42443 libg++272-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev
42444 libg++272-dev conflicts with gcc
Package: libglade0 (main)
Maintainer: Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
43363 libglade0: glade (and glade-gnome) depend on libxml0, but should depend on libxml1
Package: libgnomeui32 (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
42340 libgnomeui depends on a specific gdk-imlib1 version
Package: libjpeg62-dev (main)
Maintainer: Mark Mickan <mmickan@debian.org>
41795 libjpeg62: Wrong JPEG library version: library is 62, caller expects 61
Package: libpam-doc (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
41608 libpam-doc: The postscripts files do not contain any text
Package: libpam-modules (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
38631 pam-apps: login doesn't handle expired passwords
Package: libpam0g (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
41845 in.ftpd causes kern.emerg messages on recently upgraded system
Package: libpanel-applet0 (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
39626 libpanel-applet0: patch to correct segfaults in gnomeicu and others...
Package: libreadlineg2 (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
36016 libreadlineg2 should use Pre-Dependencies on shared libraries
[STRATEGY] Change Depends to Pre-Depends in libreadlineg2 and libreadline2;
recompile for stable, too
Package: libssl09 (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
43196 SSL telnet sessions pause unexpectedly
Package: libstdc++2.10-dev (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
43462 stl_alloc.h breaks compilation with -fno-exceptions
Package: libxml1 (main)
Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
43519 libxml1: Conflict with libxml0
Package: linbot (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
41345 linbot: Remove versioned dependencies on python-net and python-misc
Package: listar (main)
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
42714 Wrong charset for text/plain content-type
42897 "." by itself on a message body line is not properly escaped.
Package: locales (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
42456 locales: Messages with German Umlaute disappear in Gnome and GTK
Package: login (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
38729 login: /etc/limits is world-readable
[HELP] Determine is program or manpage right
40398 login: Client host/address not logged when users telnet in.
Package: lprng (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
42914 lprng doesn't work with networked printer
Package: mailleds (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
37742 mailleds -x doesn't blink keyboard leds
[HELP] Any help is welcome, including proper NMUs.
Package: man-db (main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
38107 man-db Japanese support quick hack
Package: mercury (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
42016 Mercury does not work on Potato
42934 mercury_0.8.1.rotd19990809-1(unstable): cannot unpack source
43028 Simple example does not work
Package: mico-2.2.7-dev (main)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
43562 mico-2.2.7-dev: Contains no development files!
Package: mico-2.2.7-examples (main)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
43561 mico-2.2.7-examples: Contains no examples!
Package: moonlight (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
43565 moonlight: Won't compile with recent g++ (2.95.1)
Package: muffin (main)
Maintainer: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>
43174 muffin: muffin fails with kaffe
Package: mutt (main)
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
39030 bugs.debian.org: heavy problems with potato: loosing mail!
[HELP] Anyone who knows NFS?
Package: mysql-server (non-free)
Maintainer: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>
43455 mysql-server: Preinstall script errors
Package: navigator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
43539 navigator-smotif-461: netscape-java-461 is missing font.properties.* files
Package: netbase (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
43456 netbase: Inetd often fails to spawn telnetd on connection attempts.
Package: netstd (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
41020 netstd: Fails to install: conflict
42238 netstd: the package has a bogus predependency to ncurses3.4
42885 netstd: Error during installation: unable to create `usr/bin/rcp': No such file or directory
Package: nfs-common (main)
Maintainer: Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org>
43448 nfs-common: --enable-secure-statd breaks fcntl() locking
Package: pd (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
43379 pd_0.26-1(unstable): Build error (dir obj/ missing)
Package: perlmagick (main)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
42855 perlmagick dies: undefined symbol: SetWarningHandler
Package: php3 (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>
42174 php3: apache doesn't restart with php3
42229 php3: Causes apache to segfault
Package: php3-mysql (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>
41634 php3-mysql: Apache won't start when mysql extension loaded dynamically in php3.ini
[HELP] Maintainer need access to a machine on which php3-mysql is broken
to debug apache, possibly with root access
Package: pilrc (main)
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
42339 /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/bin/pilrc: No such file or directory
Package: pingus (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
41768 ClanLib related pingus problem
Package: pkglist (main)
Maintainer: Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <kamop@debian.org>
43201 pkglist: correct_packages.pl does not care pre-depends packages.
Package: pm3 (main)
Maintainer: Mike Goldman <whig@by.net>
42848 pm3_1.1.13-2(unstable): i386 specific?
Package: pose (main)
Maintainer: Ben Darnell <bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu>
41288 pose_2.1d29-1(unstable): build error on m68k (union semun redefined)
[STRATEGY] New upstream version fixes it. If not, can revert to old one.
Package: powertweak (main)
Maintainer: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>
43243 my SCSI system locks up whenever I run powertweak
Package: ppp (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
42030 ppp: IPX support bug in ppp 2.3.8
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
42516 ls -lRat recurses infinitely
Package: python-pcgi (main)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
42467 undeclared dependency on python-bobo
Package: quota (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
41753 quota: repquota and quotacheck segfault
Package: rc (main)
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
41930 rc_1.6-2(unstable): build problem (undefined __va_copy)
Package: rpm (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
41864 rpm: still depends on popt
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: samba (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
40645 samba: build uses setresuid which doesn't work under 2.0.34 (does apparently under 2.2.x
[HELP] Incompatibility between glibc2.1/kernel2.2 and kernel2.0 ?
Package: sdc (main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
42563 depends on bigloo 2.0d
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
[HELP] Maintainer is away; NMU's shall be appreciated.
Package: shellutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
41144 incomplete or broken locale defns cause general chaos
43334 date dumps core with --file option
Package: slocate (main)
Maintainer: R Garth Wood <rgwood@itactics.com>
42560 slocate: chown: root.slocate: invalid group
Package: slrn (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
43477 slrn: Removes all subscribed groups when slrn thinks they're gone
Package: smail (main)
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
35092 smail crashes!
Package: smbfs (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
42764 smbfs: smbmount dies
Package: smbwrapper (main)
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
42566 smbsh segfaults after asking username and password
43122 smbwrapper: `ls' in an smb mounted directory leads to the error message: "error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/samba/smbwrapper.so: undefined symbol: real_readdir64"
Package: sox (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
43394 sox: The play and rec scripts are missing.
Package: sudo (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
43266 sudo: Long passwords are truncated
Package: swish++ (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
43417 swish++: Does not compile and is not up to date.
Package: sysklogd (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
38977 sysklogd: permissions for /dev/xconsole not fixed on upgrade
Package: t1lib0 (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
43215 incorrect shlibs file
43279 xpdf: xpdf: error in loading shared libraries: xpdf: undefined symbol: T1_TransformFont
Package: tao (non-free)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
35805 tao_idl fails to load shared libraries
[STRATEGY] The upgrade to forthcoming TAO 1.0 will correct the problem.
Package: tar (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
42522 tar: -X is broken
Package: telnet (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
43580 telnet: can't compile from source
Package: telnet-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
43577 telnet-ssl: does not compile from source
Package: telnet98 (non-US)
Maintainer: Ian Lynagh <ian@lynagh.demon.co.uk>
[REMOVE] Orphaned package, old maintainer can't even recompile it anymore.
Someone must [HELP] or it'll be removed.
40035 telnet98: can't extract source
42883 telnet98_98.02.16-3(unstable): bad source package
Package: theme-converters (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
42154 theme-converters: Error when running wmakerthemetodeb. Can't locate object method "new" via package "MD5".
Package: tkdesk (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Martin <fizbin@debian.org>
38949 tkdest patches for tcl/tk 8.0
[HELP] Tcl 7.6/tk 4.2 won't be in the potato release?
43511 tkdesk: Slink-unfriendly library depends
Package: twm (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
42847 twm as default window manager
Package: ucbmpeg-play (non-free)
Maintainer: Malc Arnold <malc@thing.demon.co.uk>
39845 diff needed to compile on powerpc
Package: util-linux (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
37657 util-linux: hwclock --systohc dangerous
41263 hwclock --adjust doesn't work (temporary fix included)
42556 util-linux: hwclock: Continually messes up my clock
Package: vchkpw (contrib)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
43200 vchkpw: Problem in init.d script
Package: vim-perl (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
41978 gview.1.gz in vim-perl 5.4-1 and vim-rt-5.3. Update vim-perl fails
Package: vim-rt (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
41958 vim-rt: vim-rt installs files into /usr/share/vim/vim54 instead of /usr/share/vim
Package: vrweb (main)
Maintainer: Fabien Ninoles <fab@tzone.org>
39580 vrweb does not start at all
[HELP] If this isn't fixable, we'll have to pull it out.
Package: vtwm (main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
43474 vtwm: vtwm does not source system.vtwmrc on startup
Package: w3-msql (non-free)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
43169 [veille@NEUROCOM.COM: Stupid bug in W3-msql]
Package: watchdog (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
34895 type conversion problem
Package: wmaker (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
41434 Window Maker 0.60.0 "assertion failed"
[HELP] Any help is welcome, preferably patches.
41671 wmaker: WMaker segfaults when using gnome-pager to switch to other workspace and show (unminimize) window from other desktop
[HELP] Any help is welcome, preferably patches.
Package: wn (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
42143 wn: cron.daily/wn recurses infinitely and gives a segment violation
Package: wsoundserver (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
42647 wsoundserver: segfault in PLIsArray
Package: wyg (main)
Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
43021 wyg depends on perl instead of perl5
Package: xamixer (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
42935 xamixer: There are no widgets in the window
Package: xaw-wrappers (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
42294 xaw-wrappers: $data{program} is $wrapperfile
Package: xaw3dg (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
3857 listres dumps core
[STRATEGY] fix xaw3d to use xaw-wrappers just like other Xaw replacements
Package: xbase-clients (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
41375 xbase-clients: upgrade dependiency
42806 xbase-clients: xinit defaults are at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
Package: xemacs20-bin (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
42272 XEmacs death spiral when gpm dies - xemacs20-bin
Package: xemacs20-mule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
37545 Cannot Byte-compile el file on unset LANG
Package: xemacs21-mule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
39768 xemacs21-mule: bad paths in binary
Package: xemacs21-nomule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
39774 xemacs21-nomule: Post-installation script fails - bad path hardcoded
40155 xemacs21-nomule: Package cannot be configured
40238 xemacs21-nomule: fails to install: no directory /usr/share/xemacs21
40451 xemacs21-nomule: Installation error
40876 xemacs21-nomule: Fails to install
41371 xemacs21-nomule: Error from postinst script while installing xemacs21-nomule
42832 xemacs21-nomule: dpkg: error processing xemacs21-nomule (--configure)
43153 xemacs21-nomule: Unable to purge
43160 xemacs21-nomule: Missing dependency on emacsen-common
Package: xemacs21-support (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
39806 xemacs21-support: missing /usr/share/xemacs21 skeleton
Package: xfmix (contrib)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <lear@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39521 GPL is incompatible with XForms
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is trying to reach upstream authors.
Package: xldlas (contrib)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39524 GPL is incompatible with XForms
Package: xmcd (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
35177 xmcd: bad default device and $XMCD_LIBDIR dependency
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will fix this with forthcoming upstream release.
Package: xmhtml1-dev (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
35002 Linking statically breaks with new libc
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will recompile on a glibc2.1 machine.
Package: xmysql (contrib)
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39522 GPL is incompatible with XForms
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is talking to upstream authors about the
license addition.
Package: xmysqladmin (contrib)
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
39546 Is is redistributable? Do we comply with license?
[HELP] Verify that xmysqladmin's license is not GPL, and is compatible
with XForms' license.
Package: xpw (main)
Maintainer: Davide Barbieri <paci@prosa.it>
42974 xpw: pw segfaults on startup.
Package: xscreensaver (main)
Maintainer: Larry Daffner <vizzie@airmail.net>
43574 xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl don't appear to work (but do)
Package: xtokkaetama (main)
Maintainer: Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
43030 Hardcoded dependency on 'libc6'
Package: xtranslate (main)
Maintainer: Matthias Kabel <mkabel@debian.org>
43136 xtranslate: depends on translate, but translate is not in potato
Package: zebra (main)
Maintainer: Takuro KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
43432 zebra_0.77-1(unstable): ripng not built on m68k, build error
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