Unanswered problem reports by maintainer
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Package Ref Subject
bcwhite@pobox.com (Brian C. White) (1 bugs):
gnats 3053 gnats: typo in postinst omits install-info
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de> (1 bugs):
gpm 2874 gpm will not work if the system is setup for a serial conso
Simon Shapiro <shimon@i-Connect.Net> (1 bugs):
rc 3206 rc terminates on CTRL-C
Gordon Russell <gor@dcs.napier.ac.uk> (1 bugs):
setserial 2892 setserial marked as Essential when it isn't
Wendal Catt <wendal@southwind.net> (1 bugs):
procmail 3197 wrong uid/gid in /usr/doc/procmail
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> (1 bugs):
login 3227 login refuses, and then allows, root login on tty?
Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wi.leidenuniv.nl> (1 bugs):
strace 2177 "strace -ff -o file dpkg --install foo.deb" causes dpkg to
Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us> (1 bugs):
autoconf 3172 Autoconf does not provide config.guess, config.sub etc.
Kevin Dalley <kevin@aimnet.com> (1 bugs):
findutils 1239 /etc/cron.daily/find: updatedb doesn't exclude cdrom and ot
mrn20@cam.ac.uk (Michael R. Nonweiler) (1 bugs):
ipx 2913 ipx bootup scripts are broken
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
Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl> (1 bugs):
info 889 Info 3.1-6
Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com> (1 bugs):
cvs 3178 cvs examples in wrong location, and contain wrong paths...
Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com> (1 bugs):
mime-suppo 1930 metamail wants xloadimage
Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de> (1 bugs):
netbase 3150 inetd started too soon
Erick Branderhorst <branderh@debian.org> (1 bugs):
mathpad 2231 mathpad problems
Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> (2 bugs):
xterm-colo 2353 postrm script broken
xterm-colo 2710 colour xterm has problems when resizing
Helmut Geyer, Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (2 bugs):
ghostview 1451 `ghostviewR6' conflict with ghostview &c
ghostview 2200 Description
Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> (2 bugs):
most 2205 Description
most 3158 most differs from man page
krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett) (2 bugs):
gcl 2865 gcl's Tk support is broken
tkdiff 3044 tkdiff -- calls wrong "wish" program
Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk> (2 bugs):
groff 2233 groff-1.09-4
groff 2970 soelim [in groff] is confused by .so in macros definitions
jimr@simons-rock.edu (Robinson, Jim) (2 bugs):
ifrench 1233 Bad french.hash file in ifrench.deb
ifrench 2605 #1233,#1793 (ifrench doesn't work...)
Mike Deisher <deisher@dspsun.eas.asu.edu> (2 bugs):
auto-pgp 2211 Description
auto-pgp 3216 auto-pgp doesn't remove info entry when removed
Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org> (2 bugs):
manpages 2861 glob(3) references glob(7); the latter doesn't exist
manpages 3165 fcntl(2) references nonexistent man pages
Stephen Early <sde1000@cam.ac.uk> (2 bugs):
xcompat 3246 Cant load library libXt.so.6
xcontrib 1981 xman fails to format ascii(7) correctly
Jim Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.edu> (2 bugs):
auctex 3217 auctex postrm has bad call to install-info
pbmplus 3126 pbmplus postinst
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> (2 bugs):
(debian-bu 2296 debian-bugs WWW doesn't say how to find out Debian version
(debian-bu 2966 bugs2ftp is broken
Dominik Kubla <kubla@uni-mainz.de> (2 bugs):
lsof 3065 lsof looks for /System.map
vgrind 2977 vgrind: name clash causes coredump (fix included)
Kenneth MacDonald <K.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk> (2 bugs):
ispell 2425 ispell thinks `formated' is correct
ispell 3196 ispell symlinks broken
debian-devel@pixar.com (2 bugs):
(general) 2481 /sbin/ldconfig in scripts
(general) 2717 conffiles in /usr
Christian Linhart <chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at> (2 bugs):
xarchie 887 xarchie barfs when ftp closes unexpectedly
xarchie 1275 xarchie clumsy with 2-button mouse
dgregor@gregor.com (D.J. Gregor) (3 bugs):
cdtool 2450 `cdir' prints out huge chunks of /etc/passwd !
cdtool 2923 CD-ROM device /dev/hdc permissions
xfig 3228 upgrading xfig clobbers app defaults link
Steve Phillips <sjp@cvfn.org> (3 bugs):
adduser 1711 adduser replaces NIS entries in /etc/passwd
adduser 2309 Multiple root accounts
adduser? m 1708 `passwd' not interruptible when invoked by `adduser'
D.J. Gregor <dgregor@coil.com> (3 bugs):
nas 1747 nas: no manpages for au available
nas 3107 nas postinst could use a warning
xwpe 2486 Ghost packages
joost witteveen <joostje@master.debian.org> (3 bugs):
screen 3201 screen ^a:exec ! doesn't clear TIOCPKT on filtered pty
xosview 2305 xosview doesn't work?
xosview 2412 xosview can't do -net nor -cua0
Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (3 bugs):
cern-httpd 1767 cern-httpd installation
cern-httpd 2268 stale documentation links
cern-httpd 3124 CERN httpd sends useless cron mail
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
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
Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> (3 bugs):
(base) 3146 1.1 installation: ae doesn't work
(bootdisk) 2937 Copyright message function key incorrect
(bootdisk) 3185 (no subject)
awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca (Andy W.P. Guy) (3 bugs):
dchanges 3101 dchanges warnings
dchanges 3104 binary only packages upload broken
dchanges 3237 dchanges is not y/-/_/ package-name aware
Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org> (3 bugs):
bsdmainuti 3085 bsdmainutils uses inappropriate `Conflicts bsdutils (<<...)
bsdmainuti 3219 col(1) does not pass 8-bit characters
bsdutils 988 `script' is insecure, and general tty insecurity
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> (3 bugs):
octave 3144 octave fails to dynamically load functions
pine 2365 Pine erases message before I can read it
pine 2367 Pine supplies PATH line when posting news
Joe Kirby <kirby@utk.edu> (4 bugs):
grep 2047 grep segfaults when abused
lxtools 3096 lxtools: user error (misuse of -r and filename) gives cored
taper 2891 taper documentation is missing
taper 3115 taper recommends ftape
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
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> (4 bugs):
bind 2530 bind locks up system
bind 2819 named loses (in an easily fixed way) on 1.2.13 kernels
mount 2304 umount calls gethostbyname() at consequence
sendmail 3151 Sendmail runs too late
Klee Dienes <klee@sedona.com> (4 bugs):
guile 3052 guile is missing slib.info.gz
guile 3223 guile installs entry for slib, but no info file
netatalk 2542 No default config files?
netatalk 2690 netatalk: a few small problems
(orphan) (5 bugs):
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
trn 3089 trn -- needs to depend on "inews" or "inewsinn"
Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> (5 bugs):
elm 2557 add to elm manpage
elm 2562 elm manpage paths incorrect
elm 2789 elm doesn't show rest of pgp-signed message
elm 2991 nfrm is not installed...
elm 3042 Elm produces bogus Content-Type header for PGP signed stuff
Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk> (5 bugs):
majordomo 1881 Majordomo UID wrong?
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
Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca> (6 bugs):
mailx 2009 mailx ignores ^C at Subject prompt
mailx 2010 mailx misses VM-generated From_ lines
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
mailx 2971 mailx doesn't quit on two successive C-c
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> (6 bugs):
genscript 3169 dvipsk doesn't use /etc/papersize
linuxdoc-s 3180 linuxdoc-sgml semantics and formatting problems
rcs 2302 RCS - problems with msdos filesystems
seyon 2701 seyon: dpkg --purge doesn't work
xonix 3175 xonix colors bad for colorblind
xonix 3184 xonix creates /var/lib/games world writable!
dhs@firefly.com (David H. Silber) (7 bugs):
fortune 1118 fortune is setuid games ?!
fortune 3213 fortune need libc.so.4
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
uucp 3112 UUCP uses /usr/spool/uucp (and does not create it)
Mark Shuttleworth <marks@thawte.com> (7 bugs):
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
apache 2872 Apache starts several times
apache 2934 Some cgi scripts don't work
Dominik Kubla <Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE> (8 bugs):
amd 2497 Fixes for amd-upl102
amd 2864 serious bug in amd!
amd 2868 amd hangs on tcsh hostname completion
amd 3208 amd bug
kbd 1901 `compose' keytable command not documented
kbd 2217 loadkeys problem
kbd 2238 another loadkeys problem
kbd 3210 loadkeys infelicities
Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de> (8 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
smail 3046 Smail configuration problem?
smail 3164 runq dumps core
dgregor@coil.com (D.J. Gregor) (9 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"
lpr 3034 SOLVED: can't remove print jobs
lpr 3038 SOLVED: can't remove print jobs
lpr 3156 lpr and smail uuname returned -1
lpr, magic 3075 lpr, magicfilter, dvi-fonts failed
Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu> (10 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 2863 dselect and ncurses in select window
ncurses-ba 3163 disconnects between ncurses-base and xbase
ncurses-bi 2076 reset(1)
ncurses-bi 2474 /usr/bin/reset does the wrong thing
ncurses-te 2158 new ncurses bug ?
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> (10 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
inn 3153 inn ctlinnd not readable/executable, but /var/run/innd is !
sysvinit 2439 rc?.d scripts sometimes not run
sysvinit 2796 sysvinit makes obsolete symbolic link
sysvinit 2908 mesg sets wrong permissions on /dev/ttyp*
sysvinit 3130 sysvinit init.d/network script buglet
sysvinit 3140 /etc/init.d/boot has rm -f bugs
sysvinit 3143 sysvinit init.d/network script buglet
Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org> (11 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
man 2969 zsoelim [in man] is confused by .so in macros definitions
man 3098 man-2.3.10-11 segfaults
man 3109 man 9menu unpleasant
man 3181 apropos in package man depends on package bsdmainutils
man 3220 apropos dumps core
David Engel <david@ods.com> (11 bugs):
binutils 1108 No manpage ar(5)
binutils 1303 `man 1 nm` slightly incomplete
binutils 2161 elf-binutils 2.5.2l.20-1 ld can be made to segfault
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
ldso 3006 ldso message about cache warnings is avoidable
snmp 3108 snmpd provides too much information
tkman 2884 tkman doesn't use /var/catman
Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> (12 bugs):
at 2475 `at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date format
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
cron 3047 cron script problem?
cron 3099 /etc/cron.daily/standard security hole
cron 3114 cron.daily/standard script
cron 3148 Cron: Cannot stat in /var/spool/cron/atjobs/
cron 3182 cron's checksecurity runs find on NFS mounted filesystems
pgp-i 1831 pgp-i bug..
Steve Greenland <stevegr@neosoft.com> (12 bugs):
jargon 3222 Jargon info entry in wrong category
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...
nvi 3035 nvi dumps core
nvi 3166 SIGSEGV on TERM=dumb
nvi 3189 nvi over-cautious about .exrc?
nvi 3234 nvi segfaults if stty rows 0 columns 0
nvi 3235 nvi gives unhelpful message for unknown TERM type
Stephen Early <sde1000@debian.org> (19 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 3026 xbase et al postinst doesn't flush stdout
xbase 3073 xbase contains imake and xmkmf without their config files
xbase 3095 xbase kills xdm and *then* asks (politely, but belatedly)
xbase 3162 disconnects between ncurses-base and xbase
xbase? 3110 X servers muck up xdm when uninstalled
xserver-sv 1292 X locks up
Andrew Howell <andrew@it.com.au> (24 bugs):
ksmbfs 2045 smb[u]mount not suid root
ksmbfs 2204 Description
lynx 2067 lynx -source can't find documents
lynx 2295 (no subject)
lynx 2946 Lynx gives fatal error message
lynx 2964 lynx -dump fails through proxy
lynx 2965 lynxexec not compiled into lynx.
lynx 3105 lynx access to dot files is disabled
mandelspaw 2949 mandelspawn still a.out! (Depends: xlibraries)
mandelspaw 3176 mandelspawn slave problems
rxvt 2510 rxvt-2.14 breaks old scripts
rxvt 2989 rxvt source bug
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
xntp 2982 xntp calls ntpdate at start
xtron 1703 xtron documentation
ytalk 2196 ytalk `shell' option can't run dpkg
ytalk 2575 ytalk lies about who you are talking to
ytalk 2699 ytalk doesn't use FQDNs
ytalk 3232 ytalk dumps core with unknown terminal type
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> (28 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 2664 dselect problems with dpkg-1.1.3
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 2911 Conffiles are deleted too late ? (Re: Bug#2701: seyon: dpkg
dpkg 2929 dpkg-name 1.1.6 is broken.
dpkg 2939 Bad dpkg/ldconfig Interaction
dpkg 2973 install-info created 5 Development sections in my /usr/info
dpkg 3125 bug (and correction) in dpkg-1.1.6 scripts/install-info.pl
dpkg 3170 again dpkg --root=xxx
dpkg 3218 install-info adds Miscellaneous section badly
dpkg 3243 recommendations should not be requirements in dselect
daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com (David P. Boswell) (28 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
bash 3174 set -i doesn't work in bash
bash 3177 sh -nc <command> actually runs command (!)
fileutils 1854 cp -dpR doesn't preserve ownership of symlinks
fileutils 3157 df from fileutils calls sync() needlessly
shellutils 821 /bin/echo doesn't check write errors
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
shellutils 2959 date +Z bug
shellutils 3087 Bug in date.
textutils 1812 Cut in textutils with fields
Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> (31 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 3093 Perl dumps core
perl 3212 Perl recommends nonexistent packages
perl 3230 why the hell does perl depend on tcsh???
perl 3242 perl's dependencies are wrong
weblint 3028 bad weblint permission
Fernando Alegre <alegre@mars.superlink.net> (34 bugs):
mc 2823 mc segfaults on reconnect of ftpfs
mc 3128 mc-3.2.1-1 needs libgpm.so.1
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 !
procps 2938 libproc is in wrong place
procps 3080 error message in syslog caused by ps
procps 3102 top has problems when not on console
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?
timezone 3084 missing timezones
timezone?, 2942 Wrong timezone for Europe/Warsaw?
Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.pan-net.de> (36 bugs):
bibtex 2037 bibtex not searching $TEXINPUTS
bibtex, kp 1429 several TeX packages Provide themselves
dviljk 3198 dviljk is still aout! :-(
dviljk 3202 dviljk doesn't read stdin!!! :-(
dvipsk 1873 dvipsk ignores /etc/papersize!
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 1934 font scaling problem
mfbin 2972 MetaFONT linked against X libraries
mfbin 3077 gray font .mf files missing from MFBIN
mflib 2185 texmf/metafont or texmf/mf ?
mflib 2772 mflib: missing source file
psnfss 3135 psnfss has no Architecture field
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
xbmbrowser 3050 xbmbrowser man page installed as xbmbrowser.man
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> (49 bugs):
(ftp.debia 1672 non-free packages
(ftp.debia 2941 lots of hyphens in archive
(ftp.debia 3236 auto-pgp in non-free, mailcrypt in misc
(rootdisk) 2945 Bus Error given by rootdisk
(rootdisk) 3142 1.1 installation and large partitions
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 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
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)
emacs 3119 emacs font handling
emacs 3179 emacs ctags segfaults
emacs 3241 derived.el fails in emacs
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 3190 rlogin takes far too long when remote says Connection Refus
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
Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> (63 bugs):
arrl-infos 2737 arrl-infoserv: missing source file
ash 2604 ash: cc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal sign
ash 3056 ash-source contains objects
base 1699 Install/Config quirks: Missing secondary DNS server, NIS se
base 1742 /dev/tty has wrong permissions
base 1794 /bin/sh is shell when none specified in /etc/passwd
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 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
base 2927 /usr/info/dir in base confuses install-info
base 2928 nobody has wrong login shell
base 2975 [base] missing /dev entries
base 2978 May 13 15:51:25 lohi wu-ftpd[345]: wtmp /var/log/wtmp No su
base 3002 majordomo has conflicting group id
base 3027 updatedb can't run properly
base 3036 automatic adduser/addgroup in postinst (was Re: fingerd)
base 3039 MAKEDEV script does not create the random/urandom devices
base 3070 base copyright string
base 3149 upgrading base truncates utmp
base 3183 permissions problems with /var/lib/games
base 3231 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib not present
boot-flopp 998 Can't Configure DOS Partitions
boot-flopp 1032 Linux Counter Project Info Not Included
boot-flopp 1372 rootdisk: no dvorak keytable
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
boot-flopp 2914 (no subject)
boot-flopp 3031 various boot-floppies nits
boot-flopp 3064 need a pointer in /usr/doc/boot-floppies
boot-flopp 3121 boot-floppies doesn't have basedisks.sh
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 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 2940 image-1.3.64-0 lacks scsi tape device
lilo 2926 Lilo: can't make documentation
lilo 3247 Lilo unpack removes boot.b
miscutils 3122 run-parts should ignore RCS
source 1759 running out of swap causes deadlock
source 1922 1.3.43 Kernel is too nice
source 2063 scsi driver sequence unreasonable
source 2064 aha1740 driver only supports one card
syslinux 2774 syslinux: missing source file
(unknown) (67 bugs):
2956 beta experience
3161 Newbie 1.1beta installation.
3225 dpkg-1.2.3 upgrade problems from 1.0.17
3233 dselect for 1.1 as of June, 2nd
3244 (no subject)
3245 mc should depend on gpm
3248 Bug: #1176 /usr/bin/top segfault with unknown terminal
(bug track 2998 bugs2ftp still flaky
? 2022 utmp corruption
a2ps 1874 a2ps ignores /etc/papersize!
apsfilter 3224 apsfilter doesn't configure on a read-only filesystem
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
dosemu 1791 dosemu troubles
dpkg-ftp 2870 dpkg-ftp-1.4.1 bug
dpkg-ftp 2933 dpkg-ftp needs perl 5.002
dvi2tty 2491 dvi2tty: disdvi segfaults
e2ctags, e 2503 elvis and emacs both provide ctags
elvis 2592 Elvis Compilation Peoblem
fort77 2919 very bad fort77 installation message
g77 2852 Bug 2711: g77 does not include info file
kermit 2430 kermit configuration script is hard to read on a monochrome
kernel-ima 3040 Sound module in 1.3.95 kernel not compatible with my SB16 c
kernel-ima 3106 v 1.1 beta kernel image not for i386
kernel-ima 3195 "/etc/rc.boot/0setserial" fails due to missing "serial" mod
kernel_ima 3019 no 386 support in kernel_image 1.3.100
libdb 2504 remove -m486 from Makefile
libdb 2896 postinst has bad permissions 644
libdb 3240 [libdb]: obsolete bugfix
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
lists.debi 3199 Bizarre message from debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
ncurses 3191 reset(1) doesn't bring an xterm out of alt charset mode
ncurses 3192 tset(1) man page problem
ncurses3.0 1314 ncurses fails in silly way on TERM=dumb
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 2806 ncurses man pages internal inconsistencies
ncurses3.0 2962 dselect arrow keys don't work after a search
ncurses3.0 3113 dselect provokes ncurses problem when window enlarged
ncurses3.0 3207 strange screen update choices from ncurses
repair 1532 no revision number with repair
rootdisk 3147 May 19 boot floppies...
spice 3155 spice still on my system
sysklogd 3060 problems with new sysklogd-1.3-3
sysklogd 3103 "/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart" does not restart klogd
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
various 3066 a.out binaries in various packages
web2c 2027 tiny bug in web2c debian.rules
win32binut 2650 win32binutils has /usr/bin/flex++
xaw3d 3067 broken libXaw3d
xemacs 2689 (no subject)
xemacs 2839 Xemacs problems
xfractint 3186 Can't chdir
xserver-ma 2039 X server font erosion
xserver-s3 1796 missing call to ntohs in X server
xsysinfo 3211 xsysinfo has no documentation
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