Release-critical bugs
Brian White - can you add these to your list, modulo discussion ?
Ian.
The following bugs are IMO too serious to release without further
investigation:
#4919: libc5-dev /usr/include/{asm,linux} are BROKEN!!
Package: libc5-dev; Reported by: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
#4902: Major security hole in xvmount
Package: xvmount; Reported by: Michael Meskes
<meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>.
#4897: loading NFS module (resub)
Package: kernel; Reported by: "Richard D. Hamlin" <rdhamlin@vegan.org>.
#4896: loading NFS module
Package: kernel; Reported by: "Richard D. Hamlin" <rdhamlin@vegan.org>.
#3999: nfs module fails to load
Package: kernel; Reported by: agw@mail.nerc-bas.ac.uk; 82 days old.
#4895: gcc installs before binutils and fails
Package: gcc; Reported by: "Richard D. Hamlin" <rdhamlin@vegan.org>.
#4849: /etc/passwd contains entries above 99
Package: base; Reported by: Lukas Nellen <lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx>.
#4837: Bad installation of cron in Debian 1.1.4
Package: cron; Reported by: Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>.
#4717: perl won't install
Package: perl; Reported by: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu; 16 days old.
#4331: [linux-security] [linux-alert] SECURITY FIX/UPDATE: anonftp (fwd)
Package: wu-ftpd; Reported by: Marek Michalkiewicz
<marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>; 55 days old.
#4245: S-96-48: Vulnerability in "bash" (fwd)
Package: bash; Reported by: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen); 61 days
old.
#4131: majordom -- 30 or 31?
Package: base; Reported by: Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>; 71 days
old.
#4075: Possible security problem with lrzsz
Package: lrzsz; Reported by: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>; 76 days
old.
Most of the following bugs ought IMO really to be fixed before we
release (most of these are here because they seem to be FAQs):
#4856: elm can't lock without sgid & can't send mail
Package: elm; Reported by: Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>.
#4845: elm wrong call to sendmail and missing sgid
Package: elm; Reported by: ecki@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels).
#4806: elm can't open /var/spool/mail/user
Package: elm; Reported by: Tony Finch <fanf2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>; 7 days old.
#4838: Bad installation of smail in Debian 1.1.4
Package: smail; Reported by: Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>.
#4298: arrow keys in dselect don't work after search
Package: ncurses3.0; Reported by: Joey Hess <joey@kite.preferred.com>;
merged with #2962, #3974; 58 days old.
#4820: dselect: cursor keys do not work after searching with /
Package: dpkg; Reported by: Anton Rebhan <rebhana@tph16.tuwien.ac.at>.
#4778: mailx use a bad file locking method
Package: mailx; Reported by: Loic Prylli <lprylli@mygale.org>; 10 days old.
#4752: majordomo quoting problem in advertisement decision
Package: majordomo; Reported by: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>;
12 days old.
#4675: libc5-dev: net headers are very incomplete
Package: libc5-dev; Reported by: Randy Gobbel <gobbel@cogsci.ucsd.edu>; 21
days old.
#4668: tar seg faults when multi volume is selected
Package: tar; Reported by: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>; 22
days old.
#4656: checksecurity script has incorrect regular expression.
Package: cron; Reported by: "David M. Cooke" <d.m.cooke@larc.nasa.gov>; 23
days old.
#4493: Installing perl
Package: perl; Reported by: behanw@verisim.com (Behan Webster); 39 days old.
#4453: Debian 1.1.4 deos not bootstrap with SCSI NCR53c810
Package: bootdisk; Reported by: Costantino Sertorio <sertorio@ira.uka.de>; 44
days old.
#4017: boot disk doesn't recognize NCR scsi
Package: bootdisk; Reported by: Richard Tietjen <rtietjen@kale.connix.com>;
80 days old.
#3185: Lack of NCR53c810 support on boot disk
Package: bootdisk; Reported by: Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.pan-net.de>; 143
days old.
#3905: base disks still install part packages
Package: base; Reported by: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>; 92 days
old.
#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict with it
Package: gcc; Reported by: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>; 96 days
old.
#2939: Bad dpkg/ldconfig Interaction
Package: dpkg; Reported by: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel); 168 days old.
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