Orphaned bugs?? [Was: Unanswered problem reports]
Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up'
> by a message to done@bugs.debian.org or or `forwarded' by a
> message to forwarded@bugs.debian.org.
>
> The maintainer listed against each package is derived from the
> Maintainer field of the package as found in the development tree;
> [...]
>
> Variant versions of the Maintainer field for the same actual package
> maintainer will be listed separately.
Shouldn't we force the use of our debian.org address in the Maintainer
field, just to have coesion in this list (and avoid problems with
expired addresses found in old packages) ?
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> Package Ref Subject
>
> David Engel <david@debian.org> (1 bugs):
> localebin 6325 deb-check 0.2 report on /var/pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/deve
>
> David Engel <david@ods.com> (8 bugs):
> ldso 5794 Bug in ldso Version: 1.8.5-1
> ldso 6058 Cannot start fvwm.
> ldso 6175 Bug in ldso Version: 1.8.5-1
> ldso 6404 ld.so.8 is out-of-date
> networker 6262 deb-check 0.1 report on /var/pub/debian/non-free/binary/net
> tkman 2884 tkman doesn't use /var/catman
> tkman 5730 tkman should not depend on lpr
> xringd 6065 auto bugreport
> [...]
>
> (unknown) (216 bugs):
> ...
> libc5 1708 `passwd' not interruptible when invoked by `adduser'
> libc5 3190 rlogin takes far too long when remote says Connection Refus
> libc5 3244 (no subject)
> libc5 3541 rlogin blocks on ECONNREFUSED!
> libc5 3825 0x80e0d50 either misbehaves or misdocumented
> libc5 4086 rsh segfaults with baudrate=115200
> libc5 4585 passwd is not NIS compatible
> libc5 4898 libc5: Uninitialized call to adjtimex
> libc5 4923 utsname.domainname is not set
> libc5 4980 libc.so.5.4.7 breaks mcopy from ext2fs to win95
> libc5 5048 libc5 5.4.7 makes gnuplot and netscape coredump
> libc5 5486 libc5 segfault in strcoll
> libc5 5568 libc5_5.4.7 breaks libg++27_2.7.1
> libc5 5732 libc5 once again prints ypinfo to stderr
> libc5 5750 syslog doesn't provide stdarg interface
> libc5 5864 libpthreads missing functions
> libc5 6002 libc5 5.4.13-1 : .shlibs file problem
> libc5 6201 [Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>] Re: Perl 5.003_17 is avail
> libc5 6211 libc upgrade breaks upgrade process
> libc5 6377 floppy multivolume tar problem with libc 5.4.13
> 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
> libc5-dev 5569 setlocale() not working any more.
> libc5-dev 5609 libc5 breaks hostaliases
> libc5-pic 6329 deb-check 0.2 report on /var/pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/deve
Both libc5 and libc5-dev have the field
]> Maintainer: David Engel <david@ods.com>
I noticed that when I checked this list looking for a bug I raised to
David (#5569) at the end of November, that owner@bugs said
> Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s):
> David Engel <david@ods.com>
David: did you ever noticed that?
But more:
>
> Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> (14 bugs):
> man2html 5026 man2html doesn't install cgi-bin correctly
> man2html 5587 man2html gets options(n) wrong
>
But dpkg -s man2html says:
]> Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
So what ????
Maybe we all should scan those 216 bugs assigned to (unknown) and
reassign our own...
How to do that?
Fabrizio
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