Unanswered problem reports by maintainer
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message to debian-bugs-done@pixar.com or or `forwarded' by a
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Package Ref Subject
Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> (1 bugs):
most 2205 Description
Gordon Russell <gor@dcs.napier.ac.uk> (1 bugs):
setserial 2892 setserial marked as Essential when it isn't
mrn20@cam.ac.uk (Michael R. Nonweiler) (1 bugs):
ipx 2913 ipx bootup scripts are broken
Anders Chrigstrom <ac@netg.se> (1 bugs):
bison 2897 bison man page refers to /usr/local/lib
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
Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk> (1 bugs):
groff 2233 groff-1.09-4
CD Rasmussen <cdr@star.net> (1 bugs):
setterm 2873 setterm uses /etc/termcap
Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wi.leidenuniv.nl> (1 bugs):
strace 2177 "strace -ff -o file dpkg --install foo.deb" causes dpkg to
Stephen Early <sde1000@cam.ac.uk> (1 bugs):
xcontrib 1981 xman fails to format ascii(7) correctly
Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us> (1 bugs):
autoconf 2912 autoconf doesn't install info docs correctly
Kevin Dalley <kevin@aimnet.com> (1 bugs):
findutils 1239 /etc/cron.daily/find: updatedb doesn't exclude cdrom and ot
Kenneth MacDonald <K.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk> (1 bugs):
ispell 2425 ispell thinks `formated' is correct
mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) (1 bugs):
elv-vi 2458 elv-vi scripts always call update-alternatives
David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> (1 bugs):
magicfilte 2558 HP-4m handling not robust enough for shared environment
krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett) (1 bugs):
gcl 2865 gcl's Tk support is broken
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca> (1 bugs):
efax 2595 efax segmentation violation.
Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org> (1 bugs):
manpages 2861 glob(3) references glob(7); the latter doesn't exist
dgregor@gregor.com (D.J. Gregor) (1 bugs):
cdtool 2450 `cdir' prints out huge chunks of /etc/passwd !
adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca (Andrew D. Fernandes) (1 bugs):
dlltools 2359 dlltools example
Marcel Riedi <riedi@tik.ee.ethz.ch> (1 bugs):
rsynth 2206 Description
awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy) (1 bugs):
dchanges 2732 dchanges won't believe my Architecture field
Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (2 bugs):
cern-httpd 1767 cern-httpd installation
cern-httpd 2268 stale documentation links
Kenny Wickstrom <kenny@kennet.com> (2 bugs):
tin 1619 tin depends on inn | inewsinn | inews
tin 1753 trn recommends, instead of depends
Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> (2 bugs):
modules 2866 trailing LF required in /etc/modules
quota 2877 quota needs to be setuid root.
D.J. Gregor <dgregor@coil.com> (2 bugs):
nas 1747 nas: no manpages for au available
xwpe 2486 Ghost packages
Helmut Geyer, Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (2 bugs):
ghostview 1451 `ghostviewR6' conflict with ghostview &c
ghostview 2200 Description
Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de> (2 bugs):
netbase 2921 netstat -N : "read /dev/route: Bad file number"
netstd 1925 rusers causes segmentation fault
Joe Kirby <kirby@utk.edu> (2 bugs):
grep 2047 grep segfaults when abused
taper 2891 taper documentation is missing
Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> (2 bugs):
xterm-colo 2353 postrm script broken
xterm-colo 2710 colour xterm has problems when resizing
"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
Klee Dienes <klee@sedona.com> (2 bugs):
netatalk 2542 No default config files?
netatalk 2690 netatalk: a few small problems
Mike Deisher <deisher@dspsun.eas.asu.edu> (2 bugs):
auto-pgp 2211 Description
auto-pgp, 1672 non-free packages
Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org> (2 bugs):
bsdutils 988 `script' is insecure, and general tty insecurity
fvwm 2429 fvwm's modules don't work.
joost witteveen <joostje@master.debian.org> (2 bugs):
xosview 2305 xosview doesn't work?
xosview 2412 xosview can't do -net nor -cua0
Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl> (2 bugs):
info 889 Info 3.1-6
mathpad 2231 mathpad problems
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
Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> (3 bugs):
elm 2557 add to elm manpage
elm 2562 elm manpage paths incorrect
elm 2789 elm doesn't show rest of pgp-signed message
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> (3 bugs):
debian-uti 2887 installkernel(8) man page too short, bad title
login 2918 login: off-by-one error?
passwd 2871 vipw depends on vi
debian-devel@pixar.com (3 bugs):
(general) 2481 /sbin/ldconfig in scripts
(general) 2717 conffiles in /usr
(project) 1065 Debian Maintainers FAQ
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
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.com> (3 bugs):
psutils 2548 psutils cannot read from pipe
psutils 2553 psutils: fixmacps zero bytes.(with solution)
psutils 2800 psutils has zero-length fixmacps
gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca (Guy R. Thomas) (4 bugs):
dld 1488 dld control file dsccription problem
dld 2209 Description
dld 2758 dld: missing source file
hdparm 2197 hdparm -c switch
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
dhs@firefly.com (David H. Silber) (5 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
uucp 2810 uucp postrm should use -f flag to rm
dgregor@coil.com (D.J. Gregor) (5 bugs):
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"
Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> (5 bugs):
kbd 1901 `compose' keytable command not documented
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
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
Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de> (6 bugs):
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
Dominik Kubla <Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE> (6 bugs):
amd 2497 Fixes for amd-upl102
amd 2665 amd-upl102-2.deb won't install
amd 2820 amd doens't set up itself
amd 2864 serious bug in amd!
amd 2868 amd hangs on tcsh hostname completion
amd 2869 amd install script bug
Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org> (6 bugs):
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
man 2712 man fails to recover correctly from ^Cs
man 2799 mandb doesn't like manpage for dc
man 2862 man 9menu doesn't work
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> (6 bugs):
inn 2112 Submission for INN doc file
inn 2220 INN feed password interacts badly with trn XMODE READER
inn 2822 Some minor glitches with the inn package
sysvinit 2439 rc?.d scripts sometimes not run
sysvinit 2586 sysvinit doesn't use replaces
sysvinit 2908 mesg sets wrong permissions on /dev/ttyp*
Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk> (6 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
svgalib1 2876 svgalib will not work in a setup with serial console
Steve Greenland <stevegr@neosoft.com> (6 bugs):
nvi 2382 would like `view' link for nvi
nvi 2428 nvi segmentation faults
nvi 2797 nvi dumped core?
nvi 2825 restricted movement in nvi
nvi 2832 nvi likes turning auto-margins off
nvi 2855 nvi changes xterm settings...
Mark Shuttleworth <marks@thawte.com> (6 bugs):
Apache 2872 Apache starts several times
apache 2426 apache overwrites existing home page
apache 2703 apache: wrong location of icons and cgi-bins
apache 2802 apache tweaks
apache 2812 Apache server: SECURITY HOLE
apache 2814 Apache 1.0.3: wrong manpage
jimr@simons-rock.edu (Robinson, Jim) (7 bugs):
ifrench 1233 Bad french.hash file in ifrench.deb
ifrench 2605 #1233,#1793 (ifrench doesn't work...)
wgerman 2776 wgerman: missing source file
witalian 2779 witalian: missing source file
wnorwegian 2778 wnorwegian: missing source file
wspanish 2752 wspanish: missing source file
wswedish 2780 wswedish: missing source file
Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca> (7 bugs):
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
mailx 2733 /usr/bin/mail leaves lock files when disk full
(orphan) (8 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
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
trn 2783 trn needs to provide virtual package news-reader
Nils Rennebarth <support@building.pan-net.de> (8 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
gpm 2874 gpm will not work if the system is setup for a serial conso
David Engel <david@ods.com> (8 bugs):
binutils 1108 No manpage ar(5)
binutils 1303 `man 1 nm` slightly incomplete
dialog 2591 rootdisk
gcc 2493 GCC -O3 produces unsatisfied external ref to static functio
gcc 2909 GCC Info has funny formatting
gcc 2910 GCC accepts multi-line strings without \ or " " &c
gdb 660 GDB gets address of structure member wrong in memory breakp
tkman 2884 tkman doesn't use /var/catman
Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu> (9 bugs):
gsfonts 1112 a2gs output unusable by gs but usable by ghostview
mh 2334 MH scan -width dumps core
mh 2346 MH can lose mail
mh 2648
mh 2661 dist and mh both have a dist manpage
ncurses-ba 2398 ncurses: linux entry uses ich1
ncurses-bi 2076 reset(1)
ncurses-bi 2474 /usr/bin/reset does the wrong thing
ncurses-te 2158 new ncurses bug ?
Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> (10 bugs):
at 2144 at: prerm script regexp is too strict
at 2475 `at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date format
at 2901 Can't build package
at 2903 Cannot change to debian-tmp/var/spool/cron/atjobs/
cron 1681 Missing files
cron 1995 run-parts on laptops
cron 2052 find over NFS
cron 2338 finds in cron.daily should be nice
cron 2808 wrong crontab entry for atrun
pgp-i 1831 pgp-i bug..
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> (10 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 2773 adduser: missing source file
adduser? m 1708 `passwd' not interruptible when invoked by `adduser'
rcs 2302 RCS - problems with msdos filesystems
seyon 2701 seyon: dpkg --purge doesn't work
Martin Schulze <joey@linux.de> (12 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 2449 syslogd stops logging to VC
syslogd 2552 syslogd and race conditions
syslogd 2683 /dev/xconsole
syslogd 2836 Syslogd creates syslog.pid when syslogd.pid is expected.
syslogd 2837 Default syslogd.conf logs auth information where everyone c
syslogd 2881 syslogd doesn't treat pipes correctly
syslogd 2883 syslogd mysteriously stops logging to tty8
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> (14 bugs):
bind 2530 bind locks up system
bind 2598 Bind conflicts with early versions of image
bind 2819 named loses (in an easily fixed way) on 1.2.13 kernels
bind 2838 bind postinst doesn't handle # comments in resolv.conf well
figfonts 2735 figfonts: missing source file
maelstrom 2888 maelstrom-1.4.1-L6-3
mount 2304 umount calls gethostbyname() at consequence
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
sendmail 2781 sendmail-8.7.5-3
sendmail 2815 sendmail postinst fails on initial install
sendmail 2844 sendmail configuration: Cw $mailname dangerous
Andrew Howell <andrew@it.com.au> (16 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
xntp 2809 No manpages in xntp package
xtron 1703 xtron documentation
ytalk 2196 ytalk `shell' option can't run dpkg
ytalk 2575 ytalk lies about who you are talking to
ytalk 2698 ytalk links against libtermcap rather than libncurses
ytalk 2699 ytalk doesn't use FQDNs
Stephen Early <sde1000@debian.org> (17 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 2360 xdm cannot find a free VT
xbase 2544 xdm startup option not defined well enough
xbase 2882 xbase doesn't setup the server
xbase 2886 Xbase asks confusing question about config files
xserver-sv 1292 X locks up
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> (23 bugs):
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 1921 dpkg,update-alternatives: 3 problems and a suggested patch
dpkg 2531 install-info should use better locking strategy
dpkg 2536 dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed
dpkg 2576 base: selecting [A]ccess with dselect
dpkg 2603 dpkg-1.1.3 seg fault when installing xterm-color
dpkg 2654 libc5 predependancy on ld.so1.7.14-2
dpkg 2664 dselect problems with dpkg-1.1.3
dpkg 2720 base & modules file conflict (+another file conflict proble
dpkg 2828 have to install xosview twice to work
dpkg 2834 desect loses state if it can't find a pre-dependancy
dpkg 2894 dpkg guidelines info files not recognized
dpkg 2904 install-info doesn't cope with nonexistent /usr/info/dir fi
dpkg, ncur 2863 dselect and ncurses in select window
daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com (David P. Boswell) (25 bugs):
bash 818 bash builtin `echo' doesn't check write errors
bash 1009 bash problem with quoting/completioon
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 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
bash 2818 bash doesn't provide enough docs
bash 2856 fd leak in bash
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 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 1812 Cut in textutils with fields
Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> (27 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 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
perl 2691 new perl break suid scripts
perl 2917 strange torin user
Fernando Alegre <alegre@mars.superlink.net> (28 bugs):
mc 2823 mc segfaults on reconnect of ftpfs
mc (Midnig 2242 mc should depend on ncurses3.0
procps 1016 top has 3's in vt100
procps 1176 /usr/bin/top segfault with unknown terminal
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
procps 2721 free fails to understand recent kernels' /proc/meminfo
procps 2728 top coredump
procps 2841 top produces `$<3>' at end of each line !
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?
timezone 2275 ctime(3) should be replaced by newctime(3)
timezone 2671 timezone Mexico/General doesn't switch to DST
timezone 2682 Zoneinfo library has a name-clash with compression library
timezone 2785 Timezone has static library?
Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> (31 bugs):
arrl-infos 2737 arrl-infoserv: missing source file
ash 2604 ash: cc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal sign
base 1699 Install/Config quirks: Missing secondary DNS server, NIS se
base 1742 /dev/tty has wrong permissions
base 1855 packages adding entries to /etc/group
base 1885 base 0.93.6-13: doesn't create higher ttys
base 1954 setting up the network
base 1955 base discs still aren't creating /var/log/news
base 2001 Incorrect ownership of audio device files
base 2065 single user isn't
base 2070 /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
base 2524 problems with base package
base 2538 audio devices have different group id than audio group
base 2688 base: wrong group for rft* devices
base 2741 First booting with Debian 1.1
base 2840 Conflicting entries in login/group
base 2889 no NCR 53c810 driver in 1.1 boot-disk
base 2895 base -- incorrect passwd entry for 'gnats'
base 2920 incorrect entry for nobody in recent "base" package
boot-flopp 998 Can't Configure DOS Partitions
boot-flopp 1032 Linux Counter Project Info Not Included
boot-flopp 1041 Debian printing problem
boot-flopp 1372 rootdisk: no dvorak keytable
boot-flopp 1470 many base packages not Essential
boot-flopp 2569 bootdisk: Leading dot in dnsdomainname?
boot-flopp 2738 Installing Debian 1.1
boot-flopp 2739 Configuring Network with Debian 1.1
boot-flopp 2740 Configuring Network with Debian 1.1
boot-flopp 2850 nfs.o isn't loaded in clean debian 1.1 nfs install
boot-flopp 2893 forwarded 1.1 installation bugs
syslinux 2774 syslinux: missing source file
Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> (31 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 2692 kernel swap space problem
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 1909 autoconf.h missing
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> (36 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'
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)
ltxmisc 2749 ltxmisc: missing source file
ltxtool 1771 Legal problems with ltxtool
ltxtool lt 1502 Uniform lists in debian.control
mfbasfnt 2751 mfbasfnt: missing source file
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 ?
mflib 2772 mflib: missing source file
psnfss 2851 corrupted tar archive in psnfss package
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
texlib 2766 texlib: missing source file
texpsfnt 2764 texpsfnt: missing source file
textfm 2763 textfm: missing source file
xdvik 1683 xdvik manpage in the wrong place
xdvik 2122 xdvik doesn't handle the `zcat convention
xdvik 2803 xdvi does not handle redraws of includedEPS files correctly
Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org> (48 bugs):
(ftp.debia 1772 boot, root, base disks need entries in ms-dos tree
(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
(ftp.debia 2796 sysvinit makes obsolete symbolic link
acm 1366 acm networking problems
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 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
emacs 2709 emacs should list /usr/lib/emacs/19.30/lisp/default.el as a
emacs 2714 Emacs and XEmacs share files
emacs 2731 emacs with gud creates ~/.terminfo/e/emacs
emacs 2829 emacs: gdb says: slashes aren't allowed (/etc/termcap)
glibcdoc 1468 `glibcdoc' should use `info-browser' virtual packages
glibcdoc 2759 glibcdoc: missing source file
glibcdoc 2906 Inconsistency in libc.info re snprintf
libc4 911 libc causes rsh to fail on commands with option arguments
libc4 1130 Stdlib.h problems when using gcc -O-traditional
libc4 1211 libc __nis_getgrnam() segfaults for dpkg when using NIS
libc4 1278 dpkg seg faults with NIS
libc4 1279 Strangeness involving <bsd/signal.h>
libc4 1378 weird ELF/a.out difference
libc4 1685 dpkg-split --msdos not correct
libc4 1774 <paths.h>: _PATH_DEFPATH contains `.'
libc4 2011 very silly messages from rsh
libc5 (and 2321 libc doesn't use **h_aliases (hostent)
libc5-dev 2387 gethostbyaddr(3) ill documented
libc5-dev 2573 sysinfo system call not in libc
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
(unknown) (54 bugs):
2849 Oh holy toledo, the /etc/init.d problem is real
2852 Bug 2711: g77 does not include info file
2854 Debian 1.1
2870 dpkg-ftp-1.4.1 bug
2911 Conffiles are deleted too late ? (Re: Bug#2701: seyon: dpkg
? 1794 /bin/sh is shell when none specified in /etc/passwd
? 2022 utmp corruption
a2ps 1874 a2ps ignores /etc/papersize!
ange-ftp 2479 ange-ftp is incredibly inefficient
ax25-kerne 1467 `ax25-kernel-source', `ax25-util' should use virtual packag
ax25-kerne 2762 ax25-kernel-source: missing source file
ax25-util 2099 slip module stops axattach
ax25-util 2765 ax25-util: missing source file
backup 1406 backup postrm can fail when it shouldn't
bin86 1281 bin86
bootfloppi 2914 (no subject)
debian-doc 1346 Extra files in /usr/doc
dosemu 1791 dosemu troubles
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 2919 very bad fort77 installation message
ftp.debian 2019 ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/ms-dos/xxxx/ has no files
kermit 2430 kermit configuration script is hard to read on a monochrome
libdb 2504 remove -m486 from Makefile
libdb 2896 postinst has bad permissions 644
libdb1 2483 libdb1 uses not-yet-completely-supported >= syntax
libgdbm1 2484 libgdbm1 conflicts with some versions of perl5 and man
libreadlin 2899 postinst has bad permissions 644
ncurses3.0 1314 ncurses fails in silly way on TERM=dumb
ncurses3.0 1800 missing terminfo keydefs
ncurses3.0 1936 ncurses stuffs up line wrapping
ncurses3.0 1997 ncurses linux terminal definition for kbs
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 2291 missing terminfo capabilities for xterm
ncurses3.0 2306 xterm loses auto wraparound
ncurses3.0 2806 ncurses man pages internal inconsistencies
ncurses? d 2452 ncurses problem is related to "dpkg" bug
repair 1532 no revision number with repair
termcap 797 /etc/termcap console keydefs for function keys
termcap 836 Possible bugs in termcap system
termcap 1045 tgetflag("hc") segfaults (fwd)
termcap 1803 /etc/termcap linux definition incomplete
tkdesk 2898 tkdesk defaults fonts problem
web2c 2027 tiny bug in web2c debian.rules
win32binut 2650 win32binutils has /usr/bin/flex++
www.debian 2686 Cannot connect to the original site
xemacs 2689 (no subject)
xemacs 2839 Xemacs problems
xserver-ma 2039 X server font erosion
xserver-s3 1796 missing call to ntohs in X server
zlib 2793 zlib files in binary
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