Release-critical Bugreport for August 11, 2000
Bug stamp-out list for Aug 11 05:0 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 29
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 3
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Package: base (pseudo)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
67913 Handling of non-English characters screwed up
[IGNORE] No workaround or fix available for potato?
Package: berolist (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jonathon D. Nelson <nels0988@tc.umn.edu>
[REMOVE] Fairly blatant security problems, completely orphaned
68897 berolist: another one: it segfaults when log file not writeable
68901 berolist: ANOTHER one :-) berolist has wrong defaults compiled in (for web frontend)
Package: chess (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
67613 [PATCH] util.c assumes that little endian=i386 only
[IGNORE] Will need to wait for r1
Package: dedit (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
[REMOVE] Security risk
68743 dedit: dedit changes file permissions to 664
[FIX] Fixed by package dedit, version 0.5.9 in Incoming
Package: developers-reference (debian/main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
68929 /usr/doc
Package: emacs20 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
65208 Gnus broken by upgrade to 20.6-2
[IGNORE] Will have to wait for r1 (Rob Browning promised to fix ~23/7)
Package: emacs20-dl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
66616 emacs20-dl: Still does not build on powerpc
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
68465 Remove berolist entirely
[REMOVE] ftp.debia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hberolist will be removed
68933 ftp.de.debian.org is 80% gone
Package: gnomeicu (debian/main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <edlang@debian.org>
66841 Gnomeicu goes "online" and exits with code 01 on Alpha
[IGNORE] Will need to wait for r1
Package: hylafax-server (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>
67380 policy violation - h-s plays with other packages files
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato.
Package: i18ndata (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
62173 i18ndata: Contains non-free file.
[FIX] Relicensed upstream
Package: inn2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
66638 inn2 2.2.2.2000.01.31-4 DOS vulnerability
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato (!)
Package: libhoard1 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>
66790 Version 1.5.2 of libhoard won't compile on Alpha (patch)
[IGNORE] Will need to wait for r1
Package: liece (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
68717 M-x liece<RET> yields: Fontset `-Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-1' does not exist
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato
[FIX] Fixed by package liece, version 1.4.3.0.20000717cvs-2 in Incoming
Package: maildrop (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
67126 maildrop does not work, it can't create a dot-lock
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato
Package: mailx (debian/main)
Maintainer: Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>
68745 cat somefile | mail -s teste root@localhost segfaults
[FIX] Fixed in -10.1.3 ?
Package: mule-ucs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
[IGNORE] Will need to wait for r1
68781 mule-ucs install fails
[FIX] Fixed by package mule-ucs, version 0.63-3 in Incoming
Package: mule2-support (debian/main)
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org>
67157 error in pre-install script
[IGNORE] Will need to wait for r1
[FIX] Fixed by package mule2, version 2.3+19.34-7potato7 in Incoming
Package: netscape (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato
68697 [POTATO!] netscape vulnerable for brown orifice bug!
68760 netscape: JPEG COM Marker Processing Vulnerability in Netscape Browsers
Package: netscape-base-4 (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato
68340 netscape-base-4: wrapper has a security bug
Package: netscape-base-473 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[IGNORE] No fix available for potato
67748 netscape-base-473: netscape-4.73 has a buffer overrun problem.
Package: nscd (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
58367 nscd: 'broken pipe' error causes entire box to be unusable
[IGNORE] No fix or workaround available for potato (ajt)
Package: ntop (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
68418 FWD: [ Hackerslab bug_paper ] ntop web mode vulnerabliity
[FIX] Fixed by package ntop, version 1.2a7-10 in Incoming
Package: ssh (non-US/main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
51747 ssh: can't handle expired passwords
[IGNORE] No fix or workaround available for potato (ajt)
Package: tetex-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
65961 tetex-base/tetex-nonfree: serious license problems
[IGNORE] No fix or workaround available for potato (ajt)
Package: w3mir (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jay Kominek <jkominek@debian.org>
67768 w3mir: Can delete all files!
[REMOVE] Can cause fairly severe data loss...
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