another look at release-critical bugs
I found the latest "gotta fix 'em" bug list to be a bit intimidating. So, I
sorted the packages by priority, putting issues with the FTP sites at the top
of the list. Somehow, it makes it more obvious to me what needs to get worked
on, and raises all sorts of questions about how it's possible for us to
consider a bug in an 'extra' package to be release-critical... much less bugs
in packages that aren't currently in the hamm binary-i386 tree!
Enjoy. (?)
Bdale
FTP site issues:
ftp.debian.org 21819 sinuskey-login: libc5 version in hamm! [30] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22390 Please move slink gcc packages to frozen [15] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22438 binkd: libc5 package in hamm [14] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22490 two versions of base_passwd in hamm [13] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22548 jdk1.1-docdemo: obsolete? [11] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22554 ftp.deb.org: ssg-dev still here [11] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22635 ftp.debian.org: Please remove dwww from hamm/frozen [9] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22757 ftp.debian.org: remove dhcp-client-beta from hamm [0] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22807 version 2.0.12.90 of octave sometimes dumps core [0] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22808 ftp.debian.org: pine396-src and pine396-diffs [0] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22832 ftp.debian.org: m68k Packages files not being updated [0] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
ftp.debian.org 22939 Please remove old unixcw in hamm/main [0] (Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>)
nonus.debian.org 15764 ftp.debian.org: Non-US Packages files are broken [170] (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
nonus.debian.org 18572 nonus.debian.org: remove des-solnet_1.03-5.deb [93] (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
nonus.debian.org 18785 nonus.debian.org: incoming backlog [86] (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
nonus.debian.org 20773 nonus.debian.org: please remove gnupg from frozen [52] (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
nonus.debian.org 22287 nonus.debian.org with incorrect layout [19] (Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>)
Bugs in 'required' packages:
base-passwd 19839 base-passwd foobars up my system! [72] (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
base-passwd 19946 base-passwd: Error on install [69] (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
debianutils 21372 debianutils: run-parts hangs on /etc/cron.weekily/lambdamoo [39] (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
dpkg 1797 upgrade/downgrade dependency calculation problem [936] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! [119] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
dpkg 20250 Overlapping files in glut-doc and glut-data. [63] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
dpkg 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any [43] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
dpkg 22940 dpkg stops after just 20 errors [0] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
libc6 20714 Current libc6 is a beta. [53] (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
libc6 20799 getgrnam does not return when group name does not exist [51] (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
libc6 22626 netbase: bugtraq says: RPC services are subject to Denial of Service attacks [9] (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
libc6 22790 libc6: login(3) does not reuse dead entries [0] (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
login 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore [21] (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
modutils 22612 modutils package is difficult to upgrade from bo [9] (Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>)
passwd 21275 passwd: useradd violates base-passwd's rules [41] (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
slang0.99.38 22269 ae: doesn't work without /usr mounted (ie in single user mode) [19] (Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>)
sysvinit 22945 Problems with last ( bug in sysvinit package)? [0] (Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>)
Bugs in 'important' packages:
dpkg-dev 20776 dpkg-dev: dpkg-dev does not use emacsen-commen method of installing .el files [52] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
dpkg-dev 21186 dpkg-dev: dpkg-dev has a file also provided in dpkg [43] (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
lilo 19821 lilo: liloconfig doesn't make the system bootable [72] (Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>)
perl 19805 perl: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion [73] (Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>)
smail 20780 smtp entry in inetd.conf not enabled! [52] (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
smail 21296 Smail fails to configure [41] (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
smail 22662 smail: inetd.conf still not configured correctly [8] (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
smail 22724 smail postinst should not reference /etc/rc2.d [7] (Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>)
Bubs in 'standard' packages:
cvs 19787 cvs: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion [73] (Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>)
dpkg-ftp 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions [38] (Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>)
emacs20 21364 GNUS's spool file is set to `/usr/spool/mail/loginname'. [40] (Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>)
file 22854 file: "\n"-style escapes don't work [0] (Nicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>)
gcc 19453 altgcc still vulnerable to /tmp symlink attack. [79] (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
gcc 22292 CRITICAL: gcc 2.7.2.3-4 miscompiles libc6 2.0.7pre3-1 [18] (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
ispell 19795 ispell: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion [73] (Kenneth MacDonald <K.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk>)
libc6-dev 19797 libc6-dev: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion [73] (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
libc6-dev 21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs [29] (Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>)
lpr 22837 lpd dies without trace (severe!) [0] (Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>)
lynx 22165 lynx: [Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@BOSS.STASZIC.WAW.PL>] Lynx's 2.8 buffer overflow [22] (Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>)
Bugs in 'optional' packages:
boot-floppies 21772 boot-floppies: error creating bootdisk [30] (Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>)
crafty 22493 crafty is not DFSG free software [13] (olet@debian.org (Ole J. Tetlie))
cwnn 20539 Overlap between cwnn, wnn, and kwnn [56] (Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>)
dhcp-client-beta 18322 dhclient-script problem with "EXPIRE" [99] (Christoph Lameter <clameter@fuller.edu>)
dhcp-client-beta 19767 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory [73] (Christoph Lameter <clameter@fuller.edu>)
dwww 22018 dwww: can't find _anything_ [26] (Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>)
gobjc 22829 gobjc needs dependency on egcc [0] (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
hwtools 21288 hwtools: irqtune should be in /usr/sbin, or rc.boot script fixed [41] (Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org>)
ilu-base 21489 ilu-base: still linked with libc5 [37] (Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>)
ircii 21683 ircii: ircii is non-free! [32] (Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>)
jadetex 22688 jadetex: errors while configuring, does not work [7] (Christian Leutloff <leutloff@debian.org>)
javalex 16652 javalex: bad dependencies [142] (Michael Fletcher <zidj@geocities.com>)
libc5-dbg 21039 ftp.debian.org: libc5-dbg probably shouldn't be in frozen [46] (Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>)
libpaper 22942 libpaper depends on libpaperg [0] (Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>)
libreadline2 22941 libreadline2 depends on libc6 [0] (Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>)
p2c 21036 p2c: depends on libp2c1 which seems to have been fed to the byte-monster [46] (Andrew Howell <andrew@it.com.au>)
python-base 22783 recompile of _all_ *.py[co] files when installing any python module [0] (Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>)
python-doc 22944 python-doc in hamm refers to an ancient version of python [0] (Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>)
python-elisp 20261 python-elisp broke after emacs upgrade and even prevents exit [63] (Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>)
rat 21935 rat is not free software [28] (Chu-yeon Park <kokids@doit.ajou.ac.kr>)
sane 21983 sane: insecure use of /tmp [27] (Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>)
sniffit 21832 sniffit is not DFSG free software [30] (Damjan Marion <dmarion@debian.org>)
swish++ 22636 swish++: swish++ in hamm/frozen is busted [9] (Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>)
w3-el 22763 w3-el_4.0pre.14-4.deb was not placed in frozen [0] (Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>)
wxxt1-dev 21707 wxxt1-dev depends on deprecated libg++-dev [32] (Brian Bassett <brian@butterfly.ml.org>)
xbase 22329 Patch for #20685 prevents talk working [17] (Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>)
xbase 22668 TERM=xterm meaning has changed incompatibly [8] (Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>)
xbase 22877 xbase: xdm port, and X applications [0] (Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>)
xbase 22928 New upstream security fix release [0] (Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>)
xemacs19 20815 xemacs19: does not put /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp in load-path [51] (James LewisMoss <dres@dimensional.com>)
Bugs in 'extra' packages:
bind 17671 BIND 8 package does not preserve local configuration on upgrade [117] (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
bind 21743 bind: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d entry pops up without my consent! [31] (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
egcc 17768 libc6 bug in mathematical functions [114] (Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>)
p3nfs 21488 p3nfs: still linked with libc5 [37] (cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk (Billy C.-M. Chow))
sinuskey-login 21446 sinuskey-login: depends on libc5 but doesn't report that [38] (Skuli Davidsson <skuli@hi.is>)
Bugs in packages that aren't part of hamm's current binary-i386/Packages.gz:
gstep-make 22328 gstep-make configuration / gstep-* new versions [17] (Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>)
kdeadmin 22060 kuser removes all passwords and disables root account [25] (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
picon-users 22949 picon-users: deb file corrupt [0] (Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>)
premail 15680 Insecure /tmp file usage [173] (Karl Sackett <krs@debian.org>)
swish 6648 swish: doc file permissions wrong and no manpage [496] (Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>)
xexec 22927 xexec: unsatisfiable dependency [0] (Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>)
xinetd 19125 xinetd: mucking with /etc/init.d/netbase is a deep policy violation [81] ("Adam Heath" <adam.heath@usa.net>)
xinetd 20705 xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) [53] ("Adam Heath" <adam.heath@usa.net>)
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