Release-critical Bugreport for September 10, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Sep 10 00:05 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 288
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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: alsa-source (main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
42758 alsa-source-0.3.2-2 fails to compile with gcc-2.95
43959 alsa-source: Does not compile when letters are in kernel version
Package: amanda-client (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
44473 Cannot restore files with amrecover
Package: amd (main)
Maintainer: Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
44552 AMD has buffer overflows
Package: apache (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
44549 apache: no /var/www!
Package: apache-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
44046 apache-ssl: Broken Package
Package: apt (main)
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
44436 apt-get dumps core
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-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.
43050 reinstallation of bash fails due to preinst shell script
[STRATEGY] Anthony Towns provided a patch.
43096 BASH: upgrade from 2.01.1-3 to 2.02.1-1.5 removes bash from system
[STRATEGY] Anthony Towns provided a patch.
Package: bb (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
44362 package need to be recompiled against new slang
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: bison (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
43966 bison: postinst still refers to /usr/info/bison.info.gz
43969 bison: Refuses to upgrade
Package: blackbox (main)
Maintainer: Brent A. Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org>
44696 blackbox Japanese language support patch
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.
43799 2.1r1 Install kills bsd- and other partitions
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: bzip2 (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
43656 bzip2: bad shlibs file for libbz2
Package: cdtool (main)
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
44449 cdtool's did not work with SCSI cdrom drives
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
43794 communicator-smotif-461: Oops. netscape dumped core with libnsfix.
43849 communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error
Package: console-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 cron's standard weekly script has to stop rotating [wb]tmp
[STRATEGY] Move rotation of wtmp, btmp etc from /etc/cron.*/standard to
/etc/logrotate.conf
Package: crossfire-server (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
43614 crossfire-server: Creates logfile in /
Package: cvsup (main)
Maintainer: Mike Goldman <whig@by.net>
44520 cvsup: Unsatisfied dependency
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: 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: disc-cover (main)
Maintainer: Bart Warmerdam <bartw@debian.org>
43693 disc-cover: disc-cover doesn't work at all
Package: doc-base (main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
44623 doc-base: install-docs needs perl dependancy
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
42559 update-alternatives does not handle cross-device move of links
43060 gcj-2.95.1-0pre1 triggers assertion
43834 dpkg does not build on sparc64
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: dump (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
44061 dump: Appears to be unable to dump rev 1 ext2fses with sparse super
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>
44407 e2fsprogs: patches for the Hurd
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.
43803 emacs20: Depends on liblockfile0 but is not installable
Package: ethereal (main)
Maintainer: Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
44613 ethereal: Doens't build from source
Package: fakeroot (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
44447 fakeroot_0.4.3-3(unstable): doesn't compile
44543 fakeroot: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: fetchmail (main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
44744 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
Package: fileutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
26770 fileutils: ln does not work with dangling symlinks [PATCH]
39680 "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" still fails, it only suppresses the message
Package: freeamp (main)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
44455 freeamp_1.3.1-1(unstable): compile error in big-endian only code
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
38599 packages which should be moved to the base section
41274 Please remove the old netcdf packages
43370 bind is now non-free
43889 An experimental version of gnus was uploaded by mistake into main
44482 ftp.debian.org: uae has to be moved from "otherosfs" to "contrib/otherosfs"
44652 tkman is obsolete; please remove it from the distribution.
44659 ftp.debian.org: clanlib0-display-mesa-* renamed to clanlib0-display-glx-*
44680 netstd: Rlogin missing
Package: g++ (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
44446 mico-2.2.7_2.2.7-1(unstable): fails to compile due to disabled exceptions
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: gmc (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
40943 gmc: mcedit link missing
[STRATEGY] New upstream version will probably fix this.
Package: gnat (main)
Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>
44693 libgtkada1: libgtkada1 depends on libgnat-3.11p, not libgnat-3.11p-1
Package: gnome-apt (main)
Maintainer: Apt Packaging Team <apt@packages.debian.org>
44427 gnome-apt: Broken Package
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-print (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
44003 /usr/share/fonts/fontmap is missing
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
44487 gnomeicu: every contact listed as offline
Package: gnucash (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
43822 gnucash needs to declare a dependency on perl-5.005 and recompile
43823 gnucash: Unable to launch gnc-prices
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: gnupg (non-US)
Maintainer: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
44698 gnupg does not build on Sparc/Linux
Package: gpasman (non-US)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
43061 gpasman segfaults when opening database
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: gtksamba (main)
Maintainer: Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>
43763 Gratuitous conflict: 'gtksamba' and 'gtksamba-gnome'
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: hostname (main)
Maintainer: Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
44415 hostname: patch for hostnames/domainnames of arbitrary length
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>
43592 imagemagick: import segfaults
44490 imagemagick: convert segfaults
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: irssi (main)
Maintainer: Pekka Aleksi Knuutila <pa@debian.org>
44349 irssi_0.7.13-1(unstable): doesn't build (panel headers)
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>
44477 jikes: returns 0 on error
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
Package: kernellab (main)
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
43392 kernellab: Bad arguments to fakeroot
43393 kernellab: Fakeroot should be required
Package: libapache-mod-perl (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
44398 libapache-mod-perl: depends on apache-common (<< 1.3.7-0)
Package: libapache-mod-ssl (non-US)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
43700 SSL connections no longer work with libapache-mod-ssl
44047 libapache-mod-ssl: new apache was released
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: Debian GNU C Library Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
36050 Suspect problems in libc6
36584 nss' compat does not work with shadow nis
43549 libc6: system() call zombies process while using threads
43903 libc6: ldd not showing correct info for libc5 programs
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: libgimp-perl (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
44008 Reply-To: <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>
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-modules (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
44695 failure to authenticate
Package: libpam0g (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
43913 libc6: some strange interaction between libc6, libpam, apache and php
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: libtao0.2 (non-free)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
44505 this package is not native
Package: linbot (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
41345 linbot: Remove versioned dependencies on python-net and python-misc
Package: lintian (main)
Maintainer: Richard Braakman <lintian-maint@debian.org>
44116 lintian: dies trying to check an apparently valid .deb
44658 lintian: fails miserably
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: 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
44017 lprng install scripts don't disable old version of lpr{,ng}
44685 Dependency problem with LPRng
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: makedev (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
44734 makedev: installation fails
44735 installation of makedev 2.3.1-27 kills /dev directory
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: mesag-dev (main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
44489 mesag-dev: GLU_* constants incompatible with GLenum type
Package: mime-support (main)
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
42022 mime-support: bzip2, whitespaced filenames
Package: modutils (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
44729 modutilsexamples in wrong directory
Package: moon-buggy (main)
Maintainer: Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org>
44593 moon-buggy: Doesn't build on Alpha
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?
40360 mutt_0.95.6-2(unstable): Compilation problem (no keymap_defs.h)
[FIX] Porters already did the NMU.
44683 Mailbox is read-only.
Package: navigator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
43539 navigator-smotif-461: netscape-java-461 is missing font.properties.* files
43976 netscape 4.6 says 'bus error'
44094 Dynamically linked plugins don't load
Package: netbase (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
44090 netbase: portmap depends on /usr/lib but might be run before it exists
Package: nethack (main)
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
43764 Gratuitous conflict: 'nethack' and 'gnomehack'
Package: netpbm (main)
Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
43684 netpbm: Huge security hole in anytopbm
Package: octave (main)
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
44594 octave: Doesn't build from source (Alpha)
Package: oskit (main)
Maintainer: Ed Boraas <ed@debian.org>
43872 oskit: i586-oskit-gcc forks endlessly
Package: pcb (main)
Maintainer: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@debian.org>
43825 pcb_1.7.1-2(unstable): uses <varargs.h> and <stdarg.h>
Package: pd (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
43379 pd_0.26-1(unstable): Build error (dir obj/ missing)
Package: perl (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
44033 Perl exits with "Illegal instruction" when executing
Package: perl-5.005 (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
43930 perl-5.005: Perl gives -fpic as the compile option to _lots_ of packages
44067 telnetd: post-install script error
44375 perl-5.005: byteperl seems to be missing
Package: php3 (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
44701 php3 fails to load imap.so properly
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: 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>
43885 ppp: Dial-out now fails
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: premail (contrib)
Maintainer: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@pacbell.net>
44518 premail doesn't work on potato
Package: proftpd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
38229 normal users cannot login
42516 ls -lRat recurses infinitely
Package: python-numeric-tutorial (main)
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
44640 python-numeric-tutorial: versioned recommends on python-pil
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
43912 rsync removes "directory qualifications" from include/exclude list
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: screen (main)
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
43909 screen: needlessly setuid
Package: sdr (main)
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@debian.org>
43755 sdr wont compile, still requires files not present on a Debian system
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: sgml-tools (main)
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
44514 sgml-tools: can not convert Japanese characters with sgml2txt
44743 sgml-tools: unable to purge configuation files
Package: shellutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
43334 date dumps core with --file option
Package: slang1 (main)
Maintainer: Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>
44546 slang1: patch for GNU/Hurd
Package: slang1-ja (main)
Maintainer: Kikutani Makoto <kikutani@debian.org>
43987 slang1-ja now useless.
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
43671 bad owner for Sparc build
44130 smbfs: failed mount is still mounted
44131 smbfs: no longer possible to set file and directory-modes
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: snarf (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
43858 snarf: snarf does not properly resume ftp transfers
Package: snmp (main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
44373 snmp: snmpcheck has /usr/local/bin/perl as interpreter
Package: sox (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
43394 sox: The play and rec scripts are missing.
Package: swish++ (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
38173 swish++ segfaults with libc6 2.1
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: 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
43826 tar still does not understand -X
Package: task-sgml (main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
44641 task-sgml: depends on non-existent package 'tei'
Package: tcpd (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
44408 tcpd: patch for the Hurd
Package: telnetd (main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
44687 telnetd: doesn't check for utmp group
Package: tetex-bin (main)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
44733 tetex-bin: Cannot run Swedish documents through LaTeX
Package: textutils (main)
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
43610 textutils: tsort behaves unexpectedly
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: toba (non-free)
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
40246 toba: Unresolved symbols.
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
43793 Support for both GMT and UTC default/rc.S setting is wrong
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: wdm (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
44699 Can't use longer login names
Package: wget (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
43857 wget: wget does not properly resume ftp transfers
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: wmakerconf (main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
44464 wmakerconf: Segmentation fault
Package: wmmail (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
44569 wmmail: wmmail: defaults domain HC!@HC!@card/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail corrupted
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: 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
43642 xaw-wrappers: update-xaw-wrappers eats up memory and crashes
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: xbl (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
44615 xbl: Doesn't build on Alpha
Package: xchat (main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <edlang@debian.org>
43760 Gratuitous conflict: B'xchat' and 'xchat-gnome'
Package: xemacs21-mule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
39768 xemacs21-mule: bad paths in binary
43740 xemacs21-mule: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
Package: xemacs21-nomule (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
39774 xemacs21-nomule: Post-installation script fails - bad path hardcoded
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: xemacs21-supportel (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
44423 xemacs21-supportel: doesn't include the language subdir.
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: xinetd (main)
Maintainer: Norbert Veber <nveber@debian.org>
43161 xinetd: obsolete /etc/init.d/netbase script included?
44099 xinetd copyright file does not show where downloaded from
44537 xinetd: Was deinstalled, and won't reinstall because of broken dependencies
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: xmountains (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
44616 xmountains: Doesn't build on Alpha
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: xpaint (main)
Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
43638 please recompile with libjpeg62
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)
43660 bashism in xscreensaver build rules
Package: xserver-i128 (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
44702 blank screen with XF86_I128
Package: xserver-svga (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
44501 xserver-svga: Support for Trident 3D-Image 975 AGP appears to be brokenPackage: xserver-svga
Package: xswallow (contrib)
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
44100 [PATCH] xswallow NMU diffs, for libc5 compile
Package: yard (main)
Maintainer: Tom Fawcett <fawcett@croftj.net>
44508 yard: dependency changed (incorrectly) from perl5 to perl
44711 yard: new version of yard depends on perl instead of perl5.
Package: zebra (main)
Maintainer: Alexander Koch and Endre Hirling <zebra@argh.org>
43432 zebra_0.77-1(unstable): ripng not built on m68k, build error
43603 zebra.log should be rotated
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