Unanswered problem reports by maintainer
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Package Ref Subject
Wendal Catt <wendal@southwind.net> (1 bugs):
procmail 1455 `procmail' dependencies wrt mail
Mark Shuttleworth <marks@thawte.com> (1 bugs):
apache 2426 apache overwrites existing home page
Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> (1 bugs):
most 2205 Description
Klee Dienes <klee@sedona.com> (1 bugs):
netatalk 2542 No default config files?
dgregor@gregor.com (D.J. Gregor) (1 bugs):
cdtool 2450 `cdir' prints out huge chunks of /etc/passwd !
Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> (1 bugs):
xterm-colo 2353 postrm script broken
Joe Kirby <kirby@utk.edu> (1 bugs):
grep 2047 grep segfaults when abused
Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wi.leidenuniv.nl> (1 bugs):
strace 2177 "strace -ff -o file dpkg --install foo.deb" causes dpkg to
Kenneth MacDonald <K.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk> (1 bugs):
ispell 2425 ispell thinks `formated' is correct
awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy) (1 bugs):
dchanges 2413 dchanges should be in section `devel'
Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com> (1 bugs):
diff 2312 Silly message from diff about fifos
Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us> (1 bugs):
autoconf, 1909 autoconf.h missing
Marcel Riedi <riedi@tik.ee.ethz.ch> (1 bugs):
rsynth 2206 Description
Andy Guy <awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca> (1 bugs):
libjpeg 2053 libjpeg doesn't have .so link for compiling...
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> (1 bugs):
(debian-bu 2296 debian-bugs WWW doesn't say how to find out Debian version
adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca (Andrew D. Fernandes) (1 bugs):
dlltools 2359 dlltools example
Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com> (1 bugs):
cfengine 2667 bad description in cfengine
Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de> (1 bugs):
netstd 1925 rusers causes segmentation fault
Kenny Wickstrom <kenny@kennet.com> (2 bugs):
tin 1619 tin depends on inn | inewsinn | inews
tin 1753 trn recommends, instead of depends
Helmut Geyer, Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (2 bugs):
ghostview 1451 `ghostviewR6' conflict with ghostview &c
ghostview 2200 Description
"Giuseppe Vacanti <Giuseppe.Vacanti@DeSelby.xs4all.nl>" (2 bugs):
diald 2355 diald cron script has wrong mode
diald 2424 diald maintainer field enclosed in double quotes
Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> (2 bugs):
elm 2557 add to elm manpage
elm 2562 elm manpage paths incorrect
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.com> (2 bugs):
psutils 2548 psutils cannot read from pipe
psutils 2553 psutils: fixmacps zero bytes.(with solution)
Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl> (2 bugs):
info 889 Info 3.1-6
mathpad 2231 mathpad problems
David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> (2 bugs):
magicfilte 2554 #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter
magicfilte 2558 HP-4m handling not robust enough for shared environment
Mike Deisher <deisher@dspsun.eas.asu.edu> (2 bugs):
auto-pgp 2211 Description
auto-pgp, 1672 non-free packages
Jim Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.edu> (2 bugs):
auctex 2441 auctex postrm calls /bin/perl
pari 1888 pari 1.39: a few minor Debian bugs
Steve Greenland <stevegr@neosoft.com> (2 bugs):
nvi 2382 would like `view' link for nvi
nvi 2428 nvi segmentation faults
joost witteveen <joostje@dds.hacktic.nl> (2 bugs):
xosview 2305 xosview doesn't work?
xosview 2412 xosview can't do -net nor -cua0
jimr@simons-rock.edu (Robinson, Jim) (3 bugs):
ifrench 1233 Bad french.hash file in ifrench.deb
ifrench 2605 #1233,#1793 (ifrench doesn't work...)
igerman, w 1793 german.hash has wron magic number
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> (3 bugs):
sysvinit 2439 rc?.d scripts sometimes not run
sysvinit 2586 sysvinit doesn't use replaces
sysvinit 2611 /usr/bin/mesg from sysvinit or bsdutils?
D.J. Gregor <dgregor@coil.com> (3 bugs):
nas 1747 nas: no manpages for au available
xwpe 1866 xwpe should depend on xcompat
xwpe 2486 Ghost packages
Robert Read <rread@ic.net> (3 bugs):
ftape 1615 ftape package contains only source
ftape 1983 ftape source has wrong permissions
ftape 2276 ftape-2.0.3 breaks under kernel 1.3.57
Kevin Dalley <kevin@aimnet.com> (3 bugs):
findutils 1239 /etc/cron.daily/find: updatedb doesn't exclude cdrom and ot
findutils 1255 Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and AL
findutils 2340 finds in cron.daily should be nice
gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca (Guy R. Thomas) (3 bugs):
dld 1488 dld control file dsccription problem
dld 2209 Description
hdparm 2197 hdparm -c switch
dgregor@bronze.coil.com (D.J. Gregor) (3 bugs):
workbone 1381 workbone postinst fails
workbone 1973 workbone postinst needs rewording
workbone 1984 dpkg won't install cdtool
debian-devel@pixar.com (3 bugs):
(general) 1510 prermission denied /usr/doc
(general) 2481 /sbin/ldconfig in scripts
(project) 1065 Debian Maintainers FAQ
Andrew Howell<andrew@it.com.au> (3 bugs):
ircii 981 irc package should ask for default server
ircii 1173 ircII bug? ircII.servers
ircii 1804 manpage of irc missing
Siggy Brentrup <bsb@uni-muenster.de> (3 bugs):
gcc 2140 "cpp" should be its own package
gcc 2374 gcc-2.7.2 dependency problem
gcc 2493 GCC -O3 produces unsatisfied external ref to static functio
Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.micro.umn.edu> (3 bugs):
gopher-cli 1851 gopher-client-2.1.1 has quotes around version and revision
gopherd 1717 gopherd recommends freeWAIS - nonexistent package
gopherd 1718 gopherd version has spurious quotes
dhs@firefly.com (David H. Silber) (4 bugs):
fortune 1118 fortune is setuid games ?!
uucp 1265 Misc. uucp bugs
uucp 2198 uuxqt can't execute rmail
uucp 2293 uucp should compress big files in /usr/doc/uucp
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> (4 bugs):
pine 2294 Spell checker in pine doesn't work
pine 2364 Pine wants to post my email reply (from Bug#933)
pine 2365 Pine erases message before I can read it
pine 2367 Pine supplies PATH line when posting news
joost witteveen <joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl> (4 bugs):
pixmap 2448 pixmap (in unstable) not rebuilt for xpm (in unstable)
screen 2216 screen re-maps DEL to C-h
screen 2308 screen is confused about location of screenrc
screen 2487 Screen makes emacs scrolling flicker horribly
(orphan) (4 bugs):
inewsinn 1441 `inewsinn' should provide virtual package
inewsinn 1752 inewsinn recommends trn
inewsinn 2511 inewsinn doesn't provide inews
inewsinn 2512 inewsinn configuration buglets
Anders Chrigstrom <ac@netg.se> (4 bugs):
sendmail 2107 Sendmail 8.6.12-9 and 8.6.12-8 problems
sendmail 2218 sendmail package parseaddr.c changes break my sendmail.cf
sendmail 2224 mail.local not setuid root
sendmail 2389 mail.local uses flock() mail file locking
Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk> (4 bugs):
groff 2233 groff-1.09-4
man 2607 man and mandb invocation error
man 2637 unstable/man loops building index with empty man pages
man 2638 unstable/man loops building index with empty man pages
Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> (4 bugs):
fdutils 2601 file conflicts: sysvinit vs. bsdutils, manpages vs. fdutils
fdutils an 2324 fdutils and miscutils both provide the setfdprm binary
modules 2588 "modprobe" returns 0 when a module fails to install
quota 2600 Quota and libc5-dev have conflicting problems
Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk> (5 bugs):
majordomo 1881 Majordomo UID wrong?
svgalib 798 svgalib gets control key mucked up after console switch
svgalib 2311 svgalib has undocumented setuid program in /usr/doc/example
svgalib1 2379 svgalib postinst broken
svgalib1 2455 can't install svgalib1-1.28-5
Christian Linhart <chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at> (6 bugs):
tgif 1407 tgifR6 prompts about paper size when /etc/papersize exists
tgif 1821 tgif should read /etc/papersize
tgif 1968 tgif's desc line is badly formatted
tgif 2203 Description
xarchie 887 xarchie barfs when ftp closes unexpectedly
xarchie 1275 xarchie clumsy with 2-button mouse
dgregor@coil.com (D.J. Gregor) (7 bugs):
gnuplot 1991 gnuplot has no 'fig' or 'bfig' terminal
gnuplot 2326 gnuplot /usr/bin/lasergnu requires csh
lpr 902 lpr can't print a PostScript file ?!
lpr 1061 /etc/printcap vs. /usr/man/man5/printcap.5
lpr 1923 lpr not de-installing
lpr 2555 lpd source files aren't clean
lpr 2556 "\031\1"
mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) (7 bugs):
cvs 2437 /usr/bin/cvsinit sets CVSLIB=/usr/local/lib/cvs
cvs 2647 cvs tag on nonexisting directory
cvs 2666 cvsinit uses wrong path for mkmodules in CVSROOT/modules
elv-vi 2458 elv-vi scripts always call update-alternatives
git 1848 git gets SIGV
indent 850 [indent] option mentioned in documentation not supported
mtools 1355 mformat does not work
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca> (7 bugs):
acct 1737 missing man pages for accouting commands
acct 2283 Badly sorted report /var/log/wtmp.report
efax 2594 efax uses wrong log directory
efax 2595 efax segmentation violation.
last 2587 last is obsolete
mirror 2629 mirror -- doesn't report failures
time 2269 /usr/bin/time has no manpage
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> (7 bugs):
bind 2081 named does not start
bind 2530 bind locks up system
bind 2598 Bind conflicts with early versions of image
motifnls 1964 motifnls desc should say how useful it is for Mosaic & Nets
mount 2304 umount calls gethostbyname() at consequence
mount 2482 Enhancement for nfsmount.c - deal with multihomed hosts...
mount 2619 Architecture field to control
David Engel <david@ods.com> (7 bugs):
aout-gcc 2125 aout-gcc: dangling symlink
binutils 1108 No manpage ar(5)
binutils 1303 `man 1 nm` slightly incomplete
dialog 2591 rootdisk
gdb 660 GDB gets address of structure member wrong in memory breakp
ldso 2655 ld.so includes header file, clashes with old libc
ldso 2656 ld.so maintainer scripts not idempotent
Nils Rennebarth <support@building.pan-net.de> (7 bugs):
gpm 1669 shutdown hangs on gpm -k until mouse is moved
gpm 2215 gpm postinst
gpm 2232 gpm: postinst: missing character
gpm 2388 gpm doesn't preserve configuration over upgrades
gpm 2518 gpm: configuring on removal, huh?
gpm 2521 gpm: typo in postinst
gpm 2522 gpm installes texinfo in /usr/doc instead of /usr/info
Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org> (8 bugs):
manpages 844 readdir(3) should document struct dirent
manpages 985 struct dirent is not documented in opendir/readdir/closedir
manpages 1741 getservbyport doesn't work
manpages 2237 setsockopt(2) doesn't document struct linger
manpages 2245 signal(7) has many errors
manpages 2275 ctime(3) should be replaced by newctime(3)
manpages 2290 sysinfo(2) manpage patch
manpages 2635 exports.5 in manpages and netstd
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de> (8 bugs):
syslogd 786 syslogd gone awol
syslogd 835 syslogd dies, leaves system unfixable
syslogd 2156 syslogd postinst script disables syslogd
syslogd 2337 klogd sometimes re-logs old messages
syslogd 2421 syslogd stops working
syslogd 2422 syslogd package doesn't restart syslogd
syslogd 2449 syslogd stops logging to VC
syslogd 2552 syslogd and race conditions
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> (10 bugs):
tar 563 tar -x fails to overwrite or check for symlinks
tar 783 tar --same-order doesn't work
tar 817 tar -T /dev/null extracts whole archive !
tar 819 tar should have null-separated archive list option
tar 822 tar -t doesn't check write errors on stdout
tar 1110 tar coredumps when given incorrect arguments
tar 1144 tar --listed-incremental doesn't restore renames
tar 1174 tar gives `Visible longname error'
tar 1358 tar can't extract device numbers stored using cpio -Hustar
tar 2618 Architecture field in debian.control for tar
Charles Morgan <cdmorgan@uncc.edu> (11 bugs):
kbd 1029 compile failed (both a.out and ELF)
kbd 1048 kbd reinstall breaks console setup, setfont scrambles displ
kbd 1181 `setfont' screws up my console display
kbd 1785 Default font.
kbd 1901 `compose' keytable command not documented
kbd 2137 kbd: wrong conffile
kbd 2150 Shortcoming, missing Dvorak keyboard layouts.
kbd 2217 loadkeys problem
kbd 2238 another loadkeys problem
kbd 2299 serious security hole, chmod 755 /usr/bin/resizecons
kbd, xbase 759 /usr/bin/X11/showfont conflicts with /usr/bin/showfont
Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (12 bugs):
cern-httpd 1126 /usr/sbin/cgiparse -form doesn't work
cern-httpd 1655 world-writable httpd pid file
cern-httpd 1731 forwarded message from Cron Daemon
cern-httpd 1767 cern-httpd installation
cern-httpd 1778 Zombies from Cern-Httpd (solved)
cern-httpd 1886 cern-httpd 3.0-4: a couple of bugs
cern-httpd 1977 cern-httpd postinst needs to conform
cern-httpd 2014 httpd doesn't write to new logfile after rotate
cern-httpd 2080 cern-httpd or dpkg leaves log files after purge.
cern-httpd 2221 httpdconfig has stale links in sample
cern-httpd 2236 cern-httpd debian.rules
cern-httpd 2268 stale documentation links
Andrew Howell <andrew@it.com.au> (13 bugs):
ksmbfs 2045 smb[u]mount not suid root
ksmbfs 2204 Description
lynx 2067 lynx -source can't find documents
lynx 2295 (no subject)
rxvt 2510 rxvt-2.14 breaks old scripts
samba 1946 nmbd won't browse
tcsh 820 tcsh builtin `echo' doesn't check write errors
tf 2547 tf does not support visual mode
xntp 2051 /etc/ntp.conf is an auto-handled conffile
xntp 2403 xntpd fails with kernel 1.3.68
xtron 1703 xtron documentation
ytalk 2196 ytalk `shell' option can't run dpkg
ytalk 2575 ytalk lies about who you are talking to
Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk> (14 bugs):
bsdutils 988 `script' is insecure, and general tty insecurity
bsdutils 2141 Bsdutils should be broken up
bsdutils 2270 forwarded message from Cron Daemon
bsdutils 2385 bsdutils (priority=required) depends on libdb1 (priority=st
bsdutils 2407 `wall' mishandles overly-long line
bsdutils 2559 banner doesn't set progname correctly
bsdutils 2602 bsdutils contains files that sysvinit does as well
bsdutils 2616 (no subject)
bsdutils 2 2317 Output from mesg
fvwm 1503 How to remove fvwmr5
fvwm 2119 fvwm: m4 support
fvwm 2127 fvwm-1.24r-10.deb circular link
fvwm 2429 fvwm's modules don't work.
xloadimage 2539 Debian Unstable Experiences
Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu> (14 bugs):
gs 1506 ghostscript does not honour -dX0
gsfonts 1112 a2gs output unusable by gs but usable by ghostview
lrzsz 2089 lrzsz hangs
mh 2334 MH scan -width dumps core
mh 2346 MH can lose mail
mh 2648
ncurses-ba 2398 ncurses: linux entry uses ich1
ncurses-bi 2076 reset(1)
ncurses-bi 2331 ncurses-bin should conflict with tput
ncurses-bi 2474 /usr/bin/reset does the wrong thing
ncurses-te 2158 new ncurses bug ?
ncurses-te 2287 ncurses-term conflicts: problem
ncurses-te 2435 ncurses-term conflicts with ncurses-base
ncurses-te 2445 unable to install ncurses-term
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> (17 bugs):
adduser 1534 adduser problems with home directories
adduser 1711 adduser replaces NIS entries in /etc/passwd
adduser 2285 adduser --system always uses 101!
adduser 2286 adduser can't specify initial group
adduser 2309 Multiple root accounts
adduser 2361 adduser man page
adduser? m 1708 `passwd' not interruptible when invoked by `adduser'
bigloo 1354 bigloo: several problems (ELF, packaging, manpage)
linuxdoc-s 1830 version of doc behind linuxdoc package
linuxdoc-s 2669 sgml2txt: <appendix> broken
mailx 1967 mailx desc should say something about /bin/mail
mailx 2009 mailx ignores ^C at Subject prompt
mailx 2010 mailx misses VM-generated From_ lines
mailx 2120 mailx: ^C can't abort message during composition
mailx 2284 mailx ^C at Cc: prompt sends mail !
mailx 2356 mailx -- problems with TMPDIR symlink
rcs 2302 RCS - problems with msdos filesystems
Stephen Early <sde1000@cam.ac.uk> (20 bugs):
xbase 725 twm places windows incorrectly
xbase 740 xclock leaves `droppings' in its window
xbase 773 xmh falls over if mh is not installed
xbase 775 twm reports errors on incorrect line numbers
xbase 1621 Xmark has no manpage
xbase 1690 XDM protection fault on X config error
xbase 1691 X config allows invalid numeric range
xbase 1819 X11 doesn't set a lock on the mouse port
xbase 1985 xdm won't redirect to remote machines.
xbase 2243 xterm vanishes when it's big (some escape sequence?)
xbase 2297 xterm gets mouse-paste and RETURN in wrong order
xbase 2313 xterm keymapping problems suspected
xbase 2351 xdm doesn't detect gpm mouse lock
xbase 2360 xdm cannot find a free VT
xbase 2409 xbase always asks question about xdm, and conffiles prompt
xbase 2509 xdm install writes over config files
xbase 2544 xdm startup option not defined well enough
xbase 2644 Xsecurity(1) manpage referred to but missing
xcontrib 1981 xman fails to format ascii(7) correctly
xserver-mo 1142 xmono 3.1.1-3
Jeff Noxon <jeff@router.patch.net> (21 bugs):
chfn 1667 chsh can change the login shell to anything
miscutils 918 mkboot and image packages
miscutils 1004 720/1200 Disk Format?
miscutils 1137 fdisk missing documentation
miscutils 1146 `mkfs' doesn't find /usr/local/bin/mkfs.msdos
miscutils 1206 fdisk doesn't exit on EOF
miscutils 1263 'login' doesn't work
miscutils 1352 getty man page example does not apply
miscutils 1520 mkboot won't make a boot floppy
miscutils 1521 mkboot won't make a boot floppy
miscutils 1523 Re-report of bug in /sbin/installkernel
miscutils 1659 MAKEDEV sets wrong tty perms
miscutils 1698 Where is which?
miscutils 1860 fdisk bugs
miscutils 1995 run-parts on laptops
miscutils 2025 [a]getty tty permissions bad at login: prompt
miscutils 2244 run-parts shouldn't complain about directories
miscutils 2253 mailx debian-bugs@pixar.com
miscutils 2480 wrong path for psupdate
miscutils 2579 more and return
miscutils? 1792 vipw, vigr missing
Fernando Alegre <alegre@mars.superlink.net> (22 bugs):
mc (Midnig 2242 mc should depend on ncurses3.0
procps 729 Bizarre corrupted output from top
procps 1016 top has 3's in vt100
procps 1176 /usr/bin/top segfault with unknown terminal
procps 1238 top fails to get terminal size from termcap/terminfo
procps 1240 ps(1) man page incomplete
procps 1246 ps man page does not agree with implementation
procps 1336 CFLAGS shouldn't be used when linking
procps 1533 `w' produces bogus login@, idle time &c for xdm login entry
procps 1713 procps: manpage doesn't tell the truth
procps 1853 top fails after 130 processes?
procps 1908 Top and tabs
procps 1933 w from procps gives wrong idle times
procps 2159 "ps pids" lists more than just pids
procps 2402 ps no longer understands `g' option
procps 2427 top d 60 fails
procps 2460 bizarre output from `free'
procps 2520 procps needs dependency on ncurses3.0
timezone 2167 timezone zdump for US zones gives GMT instead of local time
timezone 2169 timezone zdump utility should be able to dump files
timezone 2170 timezone: it needs more documentation
timezone 2171 timezone: how to determine zone setting?
Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> (26 bugs):
libgr 2342 libpng too old (0.71) for Arena
libgr 2343 libgz obsolete and confusing name for libz
libgr-dev 2529 libgr and libgr-dev both provide a common file
perl 1099 perl bug
perl 1170 perl fails to make headers first time...
perl 1201 perl doesn't know about includes
perl 1247 perl <...> globbing only works if (t)csh installed
perl 1411 perlconfig misses an opportunity to use xargs
perl 1519 perl postinst complains about not finding /usr/local/includ
perl 1856 creating perl header files
perl 1916 perl: wrong entries in Config.pm
perl 1972 perl should suggest kernel sources
perl 2182 perl shouldn't touch /usr/local
perl 2184 perl's sys/socket.ph causes warning
perl 2241 Perl 5.002-3 handles LANG and LC_* poorly
perl 2251 Perl coredumps while invoking adduser
perl 2254 perl doesn't initialize variable to 0 or something
perl 2405 perl postinst messages re unctrl.h
perl 2440 sys/socket.ph produces spurious message
perl 2495 perl requires tcsh (as it is currently configured)
perl 2501 (no subject)
perl 2502 configure fails if /vmlinuz is missing
perl 2589 perl can't load libdb.so.1
perl 2590 new revision of perl does not include suidperl
perl 2593 perl tries to install in /usr/local
perl 2658 Errors during perlconfig
daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com (David P. Boswell) (27 bugs):
bash 818 bash builtin `echo' doesn't check write errors
bash 1009 bash problem with quoting/completioon
bash 1151 bash exit status incorrect - seriously affects dpkg upgrade
bash 1549 bash should not have world-readable history
bash 1624 thermal run away problem
bash 1702 telnet+su root->thermal process
bash 1714 bash is confused when breaking lines
bash 1746 rsh <system> sh -i produces CPU hog
bash 1757 Bash doesn't quote correctly
bash 1834 [kubla@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de: /etc/profile on Debian Linux
bash 2110 Bash tab completion of non alphanumeric characters
bash 2265 bash `horizontal scroll' can't be turned off
bash 2301 bash doesn't document any way to safely create tmp file
bash 2362 bash (readline) dumps core on completion
fileutils 1854 cp -dpR doesn't preserve ownership of symlinks
fileutils 2030 fileutils should depend on libc5
shellutils 821 /bin/echo doesn't check write errors
shellutils 853 `nice' does not do anything
shellutils 1164 who --help uses /etc/{w,u}tmp
shellutils 1297 nohup doesn't seem to work
shellutils 1560 `su' produces incomplete log entries when not in ordinary s
shellutils 1616 'who' can't find utmp
shellutils 2068 su doesn't su.
shellutils 2292 date does not support dates past 2000 !
shellutils 2345 Inclusion of shadow breaks up some packages in the current
textutils 691 textutils package, fmt(1) program
textutils 1812 Cut in textutils with fields
Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> (29 bugs):
image 1020 kernel image hangs scsi controller
image 1028 image package doesn't remove image.dep when it is removed
image 1606 image*.deb source - and diff! - missing
image 1707 image 1.2.13-5 has no msdos.o
image 1744 dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/
image 1914 general protection in unix_proto_connect
image 1962 kernel needs sbpcd.h editing in some cases
image 1974 vmlinuz-1.2.13
image 1989 mmap bug?
image 2105 console error messages "Source Route Failed."
image 2463 "msdos" filesystem needed for bootstrapping
image 2470 in kernel Attached ether adapter driver interferes with lp
image (?) 579 missing /usr/man/man8 manpages
includes 1435 `includes' should provide virtual packages
includes 1463 `includes' should provide virtual package
includes 1826 `includes' creates /usr/doc/includes/COPYRIGHT
includes 1849 includes,source do not conflict
includes, 1216 kernel headers muck up /usr/src/linux
source 1530 Source doesn't seem to depend on bin86
source 1759 running out of swap causes deadlock
source 1777 Source not compiling properly?
source 1802 source.deb package has unexpected Debian subdirectory
source 1806 genksyms misplaced?
source 1850 includes,source do not conflict
source 1922 1.3.43 Kernel is too nice
source 2063 scsi driver sequence unreasonable
source 2064 aha1740 driver only supports one card
source 2083 machine hangs when ftping large file
source 2277 source 1.3.57 has no accounting patch
Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.pan-net.de> (31 bugs):
bibtex 2037 bibtex not searching $TEXINPUTS
bibtex, kp 1429 several TeX packages Provide themselves
dvipsk 1716 dvipsk recommends psfonts - nonexistent package
dvipsk 1816 dvipsk recommends psfonts
dvipsk 1873 dvipsk ignores /etc/papersize!
dvipsk 2097 Problem building dvips
dvipsk 2104 dvips doesn't provide color
dvipsk 2357 dvipsk generated PS causes `restore error'
knews 1822 knews should read /etc/news/server
knews 1861 knews does not use /etc/news/server
knews 1862 knews does not need to depend on X11R6
kpathsea 1858 kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R datab
kpathsea 1865 cmr10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
latex,xdvi 2054 no subject (file transmission)
ltxtool 1771 Legal problems with ltxtool
ltxtool lt 1502 Uniform lists in debian.control
mfbin 1686 psfonts.map can't be found
mfbin 1687 postinst command not found
mfbin 1934 font scaling problem
mflib 2185 texmf/metafont or texmf/mf ?
texbin 1647 dpkg can present incorrect info for virtual packages.
texbin 1653 Missing dvicopy(1) man page.
texbin 1663 TeX comes without configuration script
texbin 1664 TeX is lacking documentation on the setup
texbin 1823 texbin postinst failed with error 1, no message
texbin 2023 latex dumps core on -QUIT
texbin 2038 tex man page has unexpanded macros in it
texbin 2621 unstable/texbin install fails
texlib 2186 national hyphenation patterns
xdvik 1683 xdvik manpage in the wrong place
xdvik 2122 xdvik doesn't handle the `zcat convention
(unknown) (35 bugs):
2639 xloadimage is not elf binary
? 1794 /bin/sh is shell when none specified in /etc/passwd
? 2022 utmp corruption
a2ps 1874 a2ps ignores /etc/papersize!
ax25-kerne 1467 `ax25-kernel-source', `ax25-util' should use virtual packag
ax25-util 2099 slip module stops axattach
backup 1406 backup postrm can fail when it shouldn't
bin86 1281 bin86
debian/dev 2488 development distribution has bad ms-dos filename
dosemu 1791 dosemu troubles
dpkg-ftp 2128 problems with dselect ftp installation method
dvi2tty 2491 dvi2tty: disdvi segfaults
e2ctags, e 2503 elvis and emacs both provide ctags
elf-binuti 2161 elf-binutils 2.5.2l.20-1 ld can be made to segfault
elvis 2592 Elvis Compilation Peoblem
fort77 1988 New version of fort77 uploaded
inn 2112 Submission for INN doc file
inn 2220 INN feed password interacts badly with trn XMODE READER
kermit 2430 kermit configuration script is hard to read on a monochrome
libdb 2504 remove -m486 from Makefile
libdb1 2483 libdb1 uses not-yet-completely-supported >= syntax
libgdbm1 2484 libgdbm1 conflicts with some versions of perl5 and man
ncurses3.0 2085 /usr/lib/termcap/l/linux kbs Capname definition questioned
ncurses3.0 2130 ncurses3.0-dev misinstalls scr_dump man page
ncurses3.0 2306 xterm loses auto wraparound
ncurses3.0 2436 bash with shared readline library breaks ncurses3.0 postins
ncurses? d 2452 ncurses problem is related to "dpkg" bug
repair 1532 no revision number with repair
web2c 2027 tiny bug in web2c debian.rules
win32binut 2650 win32binutils has /usr/bin/flex++
win32libs 2651 win32libs has /usr/i386-unknown-cygwin32/lib/ldscripts/i386
xaw3d 2192 xaw3d prerm
xserver-ma 2039 X server font erosion
xserver-s3 1796 missing call to ntohs in X server
xserver-s3 2608 S3 XServer is not stripped
Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> (37 bugs):
at 1423 `at' dependencies wrt mail
at 2144 at: prerm script regexp is too strict
at 2475 `at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date format
cron 1681 Missing files
cron 2052 find over NFS
cron 2338 finds in cron.daily should be nice
dpkg 957 dpkg should automatically log everything
dpkg 1037 dselect user interface (was Re: debian 0.93pl5 installation
dpkg 1399 dselect error handling not consistent
dpkg 1480 start-stop-daemon doesn't check process status
dpkg 1526 man dpkg(5) dpkg(8) dselect
dpkg 1555 suggestion for dselect
dpkg 1642 dpkg recursive package listing doesn't do the right thing
dpkg 1670 start-stop-daemon is too slow
dpkg 1797 ELF conversion
dpkg 1818 Perl perlconfig message
dpkg 1844 md5sum has no manpage
dpkg 1921 dpkg,update-alternatives: 3 problems and a suggested patch
dpkg 2446 "dpkg" source depends on /usr/include/ncurses .
dpkg 2531 install-info should use better locking strategy
dpkg 2536 dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed
dpkg 2603 dpkg-1.1.3 seg fault when installing xterm-color
dpkg 2613 dselect get SIG 11
dpkg 2654 libc5 predependancy on ld.so1.7.14-2
dpkg 2662 dpkg-divert can lose diversions
dpkg 2664 dselect problems with dpkg-1.1.3
dpkg 2668 dpkg-deb in dpkg-1.1.3 confusion about permissions requirem
pgp-i 1831 pgp-i bug..
smail 1481 smail paniclog suggestion
smail 1693 forwarded message from Harald T. Alvestrand
smail 1799 smail nameresloving problems
smail 1929 aliasinclude and forwardinclude directors missing
smail 2348 Smail fails to define NO_PETER_HONEYMAN
smail 2423 scattered sendmail links
trn 825 trn warning messages corrupt thread selector display
trn 1845 dead.letter and dead.article are world readable
trn 2298 trn bug with shell escaping
Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> (38 bugs):
(base) 797 /etc/termcap console keydefs for function keys
(base) 836 Possible bugs in termcap system
(base) 903 /dev miscellaney
(base) 945 clock (-u) question
(base) 997 Root Help Information Scrolls
(base) 998 Can't Configure DOS Partitions
(base) 1000 Reconfiguring and Duplicate Entries in /etc/networks
(base) 1002 Shell Help Text: / vs. /root during install
(base) 1003 Entry Not Added to fstab
(base) 1022 No message for 'easy' pasword
(base) 1032 Linux Counter Project Info Not Included
(base) 1041 Debian printing problem
(base) 1064 cfdisk problems with large drive
(base) 1072 Base Reboot Message
(base) 1077 /etc/init.d/boot cleanup questioned
(base) 1096 reset with terminal type 'linux' (termcap is broken)
(base) 1346 Extra files in /usr/doc
(base) 1376 base: dpkg warnings
(base) 1470 many base packages not Essential
(base) 1475 base disk (16th September) test install results
(base) 1496 dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP
(base) 1541 root can't login on /dev/tty2 4 and 6
(base) 1547 hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks
(base) 1550 hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks
(base) 1614 /etc/networks: localnet twice
(base) 1617 R6 intstall from R5
(base) 1814 Unexpected attempt to enable swap partition
(base) 2070 /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
(bootdisk) 1127 0.93R6 install disks mishandle root disk problems
(bootdisk) 1230 lilo-1.3.11 bootdisk 25th July fails
(bootdisk) 1258 Loading Bug
(bootdisk) 1373 bootdisk: BIOS32 message may confuse newbies
(bootdisk) 1546 boot disk won't
(bootdisk) 2561 boot disk
(bootdisk) 2566 bootdisk: Only one nameserver
(bootdisk) 2568 bootdisk: Configuring the timezone
(bootdisk) 2569 bootdisk: Leading dot in dnsdomainname?
(bootdisk) 2570 bootdisk: Making mistakes in network configuration
Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> (52 bugs):
ash 2604 ash: cc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal sign
base 1682 serious permissions problems with base discs
base 1699 Install/Config quirks: Missing secondary DNS server, NIS se
base 1742 /dev/tty has wrong permissions
base 1803 /etc/termcap linux definition incomplete
base 1855 packages adding entries to /etc/group
base 1885 base 0.93.6-13: doesn't create higher ttys
base 1953 dinstall doesn't put up "please wait" dialog
base 1954 setting up the network
base 1955 base discs still aren't creating /var/log/news
base 1961 dinstall "Installation Media" dialog has display bug
base 2001 Incorrect ownership of audio device files
base 2065 single user isn't
base 2524 problems with base package
base 2538 audio devices have different group id than audio group
base 2576 base: selecting [A]ccess with dselect
base? gzip 1883 "compress" missing?
base?, per 1745 /bin/perl
boot-flopp 2670 small changes needed
mbr 2098 MBR control information
ncurses-de 731 ncurses wgetnstr doesn't work
ncurses-de 841 dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: co
ncurses-de 927 dselect display bug
ncurses-de 1066 ncurses-devel leaves behind old header files
ncurses-de 1088 ncurses - segfault in wnoutrefresh in dpkg 0.93.53
ncurses-de 1314 ncurses fails in silly way on TERM=dumb
ncurses-de 1330 <ncurses/term.h> fails with C++, extern "C" missing
ncurses-de 1331 terminfo(3ncurses) says <term.h>, but nonexistent
ncurses-de 1332 ncurses tigetstr is not const-correct
ncurses-de 1338 ncurses apparently missing a man page
ncurses-de 1340 ncurses setupterm() handles unknown terminals badly.
ncurses-de 1341 ncurses man pages confusing regarding #include files
ncurses-de 1344 ncurses should have symlink clearok.3ncurses
ncurses-de 1359 man tgetent fails to find anything
ncurses-de 1413 ncurses screen painting oddity in dselect
ncurses-de 1641 ^Z doesn''t do the right thing under dselect
ncurses-de 1645 termcap
ncurses-de 1677 tgetent() returns unexpected error return codes
ncurses-de 1893 ncurses man pages need to get tbl invoked
ncurses-de 2174 Two blue characters on description line
ncurses-ru 1138 ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow
ncurses-ru 1171 ncurses-runtime bug: clear
ncurses-ru 1329 ncurses manpages - two infelicities
ncurses-ru 1800 missing terminfo keydefs
ncurses-ru 1917 ncurses-runtime replaces tput's
ncurses-ru 1918 ncurses-runtime replaces tput's
ncurses-ru 1936 ncurses stuffs up line wrapping
ncurses-ru 1996 ncurses terminal defs and infocmp
ncurses-ru 1997 ncurses linux terminal definition for kbs
ncurses-ru 1999 ncurses-1.9.8a-1 missing terminals
ncurses-ru 2228 no terminfo entries for dec-vtXXX
ncurses-ru 2291 missing terminfo capabilities for xterm
Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org> (73 bugs):
(ftp.debia 1772 boot, root, base disks need entries in ms-dos tree
(ftp.debia 2019 ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/ms-dos/xxxx/ has no files
(ftp.debia 2062 ftp.debian.org:/debian/development ms-dos links are stale
(ftp.debia 2597 checksums needed for entire distribution
(ftp.debia 2642 ftp.debian.org contains weird mangled-ls-output filenames
(manual) 1987 No information on how to get started
(rootdisk) 1364 options 7 and 0 of install program don't work
(rootdisk) 1372 rootdisk: no dvorak keytable
(rootdisk) 1557 umount problem on install disks
(rootdisk) 1604 cfdisk: data loss and failed install
(rootdisk) 1808 No boot parameters available on final boot disk
(rootdisk) 2066 error opening terminal : linux
(rootdisk) 2086 installation bugs/inadequacies
(rootdisk) 2341 Install problems
(rootdisk) 2434 Can't install from /dev/fd1 with 0.93R6
acm 1366 acm networking problems
amd 2497 Fixes for amd-upl102
amd 2665 amd-upl102-2.deb won't install
emacs 808 Info anchors not active in emacs under X
emacs 1879 Emacs shell mode weirdness - looks like C code bug
emacs 2183 emacs shouldn't touch /usr/local
emacs 2235 emacs eats manual pages
emacs 2267 emacs ange ftp fails
emacs 2318 Emacs makes it hard for MTAs to do the right thing
emacs 2392 Emacs mishandles fonts under X.
emacs 2417 emacs inferior process buffers failing
emacs 2431 Emacs mishandles X fonts.
emacs 2476 emacs mucks up my email address
emacs 2477 annoying bug in emacs
emacs 2478 ange ftpd croaks on anonftpd
emacs 2479 ange-ftp is incredibly inefficient
emacs 2500 (no subject)
emacs 2532 Emacs fails to use `set -e' in postinst
emacs 2596 install-info (v1.1.2) creates bad emacs section
emacs 2609 (no subject)
emacs 2630 emacs package needs to break ctags-related files out separa
emacs 2634 emacs hung
glibcdoc 1468 `glibcdoc' should use `info-browser' virtual packages
libc 911 libc causes rsh to fail on commands with option arguments
libc 991 libc unknown server error
libc 1045 tgetflag("hc") segfaults (fwd)
libc 1130 Stdlib.h problems when using gcc -O-traditional
libc 1211 libc __nis_getgrnam() segfaults for dpkg when using NIS
libc 1236 no gdbm man page in libc package
libc 1279 Strangeness involving <bsd/signal.h>
libc 1378 weird ELF/a.out difference
libc 1432 `libc' should use `kernel-headers' virtual package
libc 1685 dpkg-split --msdos not correct
libc 1774 <paths.h>: _PATH_DEFPATH contains `.'
libc 2187 libc4
libc 2394 libc control file has wrong section now
libc4 2011 very silly messages from rsh
libc4 2278 MAP_FILE defined twice
libc4 2525 libc4 missing libdbm.a symlink
libc4 2623 unstable/libc-aout gethostbyaddr broken!
libc5 2550 libc5 won't build
libc5 (and 2321 libc doesn't use **h_aliases (hostent)
libc5 (and 2322 _checkhost (inet/rcmd.c) function will only work with long
libc5-dev 2126 libc5-dev: relative symlink can fail
libc5-dev 2375 libc5-dev should provide libc-dev
libc5-dev 2387 gethostbyaddr(3) ill documented
libc5-dev 2573 sysinfo system call not in libc
libc? NIS? 1278 dpkg seg faults with NIS
libg++27 2610 support for m68k-linux
librl 1971 librl should be in required
metamail 1930 metamail wants xloadimage
metamail 2058 showpicture requires csh
pmake 1637 pmake 1.0-1
pmake 2660 MAKE variable and recursive pmake
tput 2327 tput bel does not work (with vt220)
xboard 1459 `xboard' should depend on `X11R6'
xpm4.7 2406 Cannot install xpm4.7 as well as old a.out xpm shared libs
xsvga 1292 X locks up
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