Previously Brian White wrote: > After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it > will go into the "deep freeze" on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads > will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be > removed because of release-critical bugs still open against them: Unless someone fixes them before wednesday, right? (on a related note, wednesday in what timezone?). > boot-floppies 31099 the 'load modules' screen hangs > 31618 Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop. Already fixed in CVS, a new upload is waiting for Herbert Xu to release a new kernel-image with a tecra kernel. > cracklib-runtime 27511 crack_packer outputs numbers to stdout > dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! > 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any > 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks > 28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg > 30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity > 30891 dpkg: Patch for update-alternatives to fix jdk problems > dpkg-dev 25537 dpkg-dev: dpkg-genchanges does not allow "-" in the architecture > 31508 parsechangelog broken? Yaiks, I'll try to do some work on this later today. > fileutils 30184 fileutils: chown broken on symlinks This is only a problem for potato, not for slink. > ftp.debian.org 14898 courtney has problematic license > 31282 upgrade-1386 directory in Incoming > 31578 cfengine needs to be in frozen cfengine has been reuploaded for slink; this bug should probably be closed? > kernel-image-2.0 31516 kernel-image-2.0.36: please add these ISDN fixes Herbert Xu already uploaded a new kernel-image package which fixes this. > perl-suid 31904 Secuity hole with perl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux > tcsh 28959 meta keys in tcsh don't work anymore! This is already fixed with version 6.08.01-3 > xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. > xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking > xlib6 31610 xlib6: requires gcc but declares no dependency (dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture?) > xserver-common 29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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