Release-critical Bugreport for April 7, 2000
Bug stamp-out list for Apr 7 03:04 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 147
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 2
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Package: animals (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jim Lynch <jwl@debian.org>
61825 animals: Doesn't start anymore
Package: aolserver (debian/main)
Maintainer: Brent A. Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org>
61361 aolserver chowns var/www
Package: apache (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
59365 cron script kills itself
60257 apache-ssl: upgrade changes DocumentRoot!
60486 Apache doesn't show README* in dir listings
60575 /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
Package: apt (debian/main)
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
61509 apt: apt-get rendered unusable with latest libstdc++2.10
[STRATEGY] due to sparc libstdc++2.10 breakage; see #61511
Package: arla (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Gregory S. Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
61706 arla packages are horribly outdated
Package: auctex (debian/main)
Maintainer: Davide G. M. Salvetti <salve@debian.org>
61878 xemacs21 is not good enough for auctex
Package: autoproject (debian/main)
Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
61919 autoproject must depend on mawk
Package: berolist (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jonathon D. Nelson <nels0988@tc.umn.edu>
61471 berolist: Berolist segfault with postfix
Package: bind (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
61129 base: bind upgrade leaves two named's running
Package: boot-floppies (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
58857 The boot floppies do not work with milex raid on root.
61679 Installation program suggests sr0 as cdrom device, which is not there
61861 DAC960: Assertion 'partition->name' failed.
Package: cdrecord (debian/main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
61250 cdrecord: Trashes cd's in Yamaha 4416S drive
Package: console-tools (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
60917 console-tools: preinst directory problem
Package: courier-imap (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
61674 Courier-IMAP is not usable with Netscape or Mozilla
Package: cvs-doc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@debian.org>
61517 Installation cvs-doc broken.
[HELP] maintainer can't reproduce
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Package: dbf2pg (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
61699 dbf2pg: libpg.so.2.0 not found
Package: debianutils (debian/main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
59121 [PATCH] run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs
[STRATEGY] Steve Greenland will do a NMU.
Package: dlocate (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
61789 dlocate: significant breakage, does not function as per man page at all
61790 dlocate: cron job apparently doesn't run?
Package: dpkg (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't run emacs20
[STRATEGY] switches to manual-mode too quickly, stat/lstat confusion;
partly fixed; maintainer promised to look at it
58091 package name "Eterm" --> "eterm"
[STRATEGY] dpkg is mixed case (in)sensitive, Wichert says it will be fixed,
but for woody?
Package: dpkg-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
61273 dpkg-dev STILL does not configure (emacsen-common interaction)
[STRATEGY] Already fixed in CVS
Package: emacsen-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
60314 emacs-package-install crashes with octave & psgml with emacs20&xemacs21
61133 emacsen-common: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
Package: epic4 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
61856 epic4: new epic crashes axur upon channel /join
Package: exim (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
61498 exim creates two root aliases
61770 exim: exim 3.12-7 doesn't send mail
Package: ftape (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
59502 raw ftape devices wrong
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
61495 Remove pilot-link-tcl from potato and woody
61830 non-free: debian-cd does not like trn manifest
Package: g2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
61124 g2 needs libgd, but doesn't declare dependency
Package: gdb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
58450 gdb: Won't compile on PowerPC
Package: glimpse (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>
60852 glimpse: full of temp races
Package: gmc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski <mc-debian@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
61401 gmc: convert-metadata.db doesn't work with libdb2-util
Package: gnome-session (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
61617 gnome-session: gome-wm fails
Package: gnome-think (debian/main)
Maintainer: Peter Teichman <pat@debian.org>
61608 gnome-think won't save files
Package: gnucash (debian/main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
60417 docs are split between /usr/doc/gnucash and /usr/share/doc/gnucash
60615 gnucash: LANG=de_DE does weird things
Package: gnuserv (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
61571 gnuserv: (void-function server-kill-buffer-query-function)
Package: gpm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>
60841 /etc/init.d/gpm can not launch /usr/sbin/gpm
Package: imagemagick (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ryuichi Arafune <arafune@debian.org>
60878 convert g3:filea png:fileb loops endlessly
Package: imho (debian/main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
60767 imho: bad scripting breaks roxen
Package: imlib-progs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
60052 imlib-progs: imlib_config segfaulting without /etc/imlib/imrc
[HELP] Should be fixed in 1.9.8-4; please someone verify
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Package: inn2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
61077 inn2: apparently all sorts of directory permissions are trash in inn2
Package: inn2-inews (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
61409 inn2-inews: rnews permissions break mail2news gateway setup
Package: irda-tools (debian/main)
Maintainer: NOKUBI Takatsugu <knok@daionet.gr.jp>
61614 irda-tools: irattach says 'Are you using an old kernel?'
Package: jdk1.1 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
60857 Bad path to java-jdk11.1.gz in update-alternatives-jdk1.1
Package: jdk1.1-dev (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
60504 jdk1.1-dev: one more crufty old alternative to clean up
Package: jed-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>
60630 jed-common overwrites configuration file
Package: kbd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
61707 kbd: Installation of kbd fails when an empty directory /usr/local/share/keytables is present
Package: kernel-image-2.2.13-powerpc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@debian.org>
61032 kernel-source: when compiling 68K KERNELMAP_NOCACHE_SER doesn't exist. (is in ppc)
Package: libc6-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
57914 libc6-dev: sys/io.h doesn't work with g++
Package: libgcj (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
61843 libgjc: still doesn't build on sparc, rules error
Package: libggi (debian/main)
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
61177 libggi: svgalib target should not be built for all archs
Package: libggi2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
57568 libggi2 must depend on libggi-target-x | libggi-target
Package: libpam-modules (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
61644 a few problems since upgrading to potato
61724 logging password changes
61942 pam_unix logs unknown usernames to syslog
Package: libpam-smb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
61911 NT users with username greather than 15 characters can't login.
Package: libpam0g (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
61918 libpam0g: after apt-get upgrade, NO LOGONS POSSIBLE
Package: libpng0 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
[REMOVE] Obsoleted by libpng2
61188 libpng0: sparc no longer supports libc5
Package: libstdc++2.10 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
61511 [Sparc] latest libstdc++2.10 breaks binary compatibility
[FIX] libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-8.1_sparc.deb in Incoming
Package: libtool (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman <ossama@debian.org>
61314 libtool build hack breaks ports
[STRATEGY] BenC is preparing a NMU.
Package: libxml-parser-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>
61231 mod_perl segfaults child-processes in combination with XML::Parser::Expat
Package: lilo (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
61928 new LILO renders system unbootable
Package: linuxconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org>
61833 linuxconf: wrong group for /etc/shadow
Package: login (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
61480 su seg´faults after update from slink to frozen potato
[HELP] can't be reproduced
</FONT> 61643 a few problems since upgrading to potato
Package: lynx (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
59191 Have these buffer over flows in lynx been fixed?
[STRATEGY] should be fixed in latest lynx development versions
Package: mailman (debian/main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
61695 mailman: mail->news gw blows up on mails without subject
Package: makedev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
61862 makedev: [patch] scdN -> srN since "sr" is the canonical device name.
Package: mesag3+ggi (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
61705 Must pass --prefix to GGIMesa configure
Package: mgp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>
61385 mgp dumps a core for every file
Package: midentd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
60271 midentd: Default installation, improper permissions on logfile. daemon != identd user.
Package: modconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Boot Floppies team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
60182 New screen is drawn on wrong tty if changing tty while module detection
61464 boot-floppies: Still can't install ne module
61872 Modconf: can't load wd module
Package: mozilla (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian Mozilla maintainers <mozilla@packages.debian.org>
61270 mozilla: segfaults (not because of ~/.mozilla)
Package: mule2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
55261 mule2: can't build from source
Package: navigator-smotif-472 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
61793 Package netscape-smotif-472 not available for PPC
Package: navigator-smotif-472-libc5 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
60523 Can't run netscape: 'Bus error'
Package: ncurses (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <ncurses-maint@debian.org>
56057 less_346-6(frozen): Error in build dependencies or in libncurses5-dev
Package: ncurses4.2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <ncurses-maint@debian.org>
55263 [PATCH backported from 2.96 CVS] [alpha] can't compile ncurses 4.2
60531 ncurses4.2: fails to build when entering the Ada95 examples
Package: netatalk (debian/main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
60926 netatalk + lpr package higher than lpr_1%3a0.33-3_i386.deb
Package: netplan (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
61346 netplan: can't purge package!
Package: netscape (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
60619 netscape: Error message: 'Bus error' when trying to run netscape.
Package: nscd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
58367 nscd: 'broken pipe' error causes entire box to be unusable
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.2.14 (debian/main)
Maintainer:
61544 Missing Dependencies for pcmcia modules
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.2.14-ide (debian/main)
Maintainer:
61882 pcmcia-modules-2.2.14-flavor installs modules in wrong place
61884 unresolvable symbols in module
Package: pdl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
55268 [Strategy: use older version on alpha] PDL fails to compile on alpha
[HELP] someone needs to upload that older version for alpha already!
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Package: perl-5.005-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
61765 perl-5.005-base: crash with mhonarc
Package: php4 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
61709 php4: No gdbm/db2 support?
Package: pilot-manager (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
61931 pilot-manager: y2k issue - dates show as mm/dd/100
Package: postfix-tls (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
61733 postfix-tls: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/905279.954: Permission denied
Package: qmail (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Jon Marler <jmarler@debian.org>
60665 qmail: Can't start QMail-POP3-Server
Package: roxen (debian/main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
60261 roxen: Wrong install perms on /etc/roxen
60766 roxen: configuration impossible
Package: satan (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
61557 satan uses wrong perl version
Package: scalapack (debian/main)
Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org>
55272 scalapack: can't build from source
58386 scalapack_1.6-12(frozen): build error (undefined symbols)
61757 scalapack_1.6-13(frozen): build error (unresolved symbols)
Package: sendfile (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
61423 sendfile: Can't receive files!
Package: siag-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Davide Barbieri <paci@prosa.it>
61174 siag-common: deps on arch any packages too strict to allow binary only recompiles
61744 siag-office is uninstallable in potato with newest siagoffice-common
Package: slocate (debian/main)
Maintainer: R Garth Wood <rgwood@debian.org>
61791 slocate: cron job apparently doesn't run?
Package: ssh (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
49944 sshd X11 forwarding fails
61723 ssh: ssh depends on outdated lib gmp2
61917 COMPATIBILITY: AllowHosts/DenyHosts/SilentDeny not supported in OpenSSH
Package: ssh-nonfree (non-US/non-free)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
[HELP] Please NMU. (with extreme care)
60355 missing slogin
Package: suidmanager (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
61859 suidmanager makes system management harder
Package: svgalib4libggi (debian/main)
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
61190 svgalib4libggi: bad dependencies for non-svgalib platforms
Package: sysklogd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
61869 postfix: unchecked data sent to syslog
Package: sysvinit (debian/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
60898 shutting down networking and unmounting NFS mounts
61227 Kernel panic/filesystem corruption if swapping started while software RAID resyncing
Package: task-chinese-t (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anthony Wong <ypwong@debian.org>
61949 task-chinese-t: dependency on chdrv doesn't allow installing on non-i386
Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
[HELP] Christoph has set up a mailing list tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de
to discuss work on these packages. (debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org ?)
61743 Some mess with *.info files
Package: timidity (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
61851 [woody only] 2.9.1-2 is broken for woody
Package: uisp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jefferson E. Noxon <jeff@debian.org>
61145 uisp: does not need to be only arch i386, it is needed to fulfill deps
Package: userv (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
60094 userv_1.0.0(unstable): build error (non-extisting debiandoc2ps)
[STRATEGY] debiandoc2ps -=> debiandoc2latexps
Package: util-linux (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
60734 util-linux: hwclock starts too late
Package: www.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: James Treacy <debian-www@lists.debian.org>
61702 german installation instrauctions not for sparc but x86
Package: x11iraf (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
61297 x11iraf: ximtool fails to open
Package: xchat (debian/main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <edlang@debian.org>
60826 xchat: package has no copyright or changelog
Package: xemacs20 (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
55278 xemacs20: can't build from source
[STRATEGY] dres requested removal of xemacs20 from unstable (#61494);
perhaps it should be removed from frozen, too?
Package: xemacs21-bin (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
61852 xemacs package alias should refer to xemacs21-[no]mule and not xemacs2[01]-bin
Package: xfractint (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
61654 /usr/X11R6/lib/xfractint/fractint.hlp wont be found
Package: xmcd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
61945 can't save CD info to local database
Package: xpvm (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
59816 xpvm_1.2.5-4(frozen): build fails due to root-owned files
61476 xpvm: can't build
Package: xsane (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
61836 xsane_0.50-4(frozen): Missing build dependencies
Package: xsane-gimp1.1 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
61837 xsane-gimp1.1_0.50-4(frozen): Missing build dependencies
Package: xserver-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
61021 [typo] xserver-configure doesn't call XF86Setup
Package: xviddetect (debian/main)
Maintainer: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
60472 xviddetect: does not create XF86Config, anXious does nothing, even with --force options
Package: zsh (debian/main)
Maintainer: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
60754 zftp completion broken when using mawk
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