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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999



On 99-11-27 Mark Baker wrote:
> [I'm sure this shouldn't really go to all those lists, but that's what the
> Mail-Followup-To: header said, so that's what I'm doing]

[ Cut the Cc­List down. Seems like the mailinglist-software allows a
Mail-Followup-To-header, which I should have set in my first mail.]

> On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 05:21:45PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:

> > > Package: chimera2 (main)
> > > Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
> > > [REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
> > >   50558  chimera2: sig sevs; libpng problems
> > 
> > Seems to be fixable, but just recompiling it. Mark, can you confirm this
> > and upload a fixed package?

> I'll have a look this afternoon once I've finished doing some work on exim.

Okay, exim seems to be the more important package.

> > > Package: exim (main)
> > > Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
> > >   50250  Exim bounces all email after upgrade
> > 
> > Mark, do you see some easy solution to this bug?

> Yes. Take the libwrap support back out; exactly what I'm doing in the
> package I'll be uploading this evening. It's a shame, as libwrap support

And this fixes the bug? Thanks for examing and fixing the package.

> would be useful to some people, but adding it at this stage breaks too many
> existing setups :(

Right and also libwrap-support would increase the security of the
system.

> > >   50435  exim_3.03-4(unstable): build problem with HAVE_IPV6 under glibc2.0
> > 
> > Is this one really release-critical or can't the severity be lowered by
> > building exim with ipv4?

> It could, but I don't want to lose functionality on all other architectures
> just so it can be built on m68k. And IPV6 support was originally a release
> goal for potato, wasn't it? I think I've worked out a solution: not ideal
> but it will have to do. I'll upload it this evening.

IPV6 is a release-goal? Oh, I must overseen this. But your goal is very
good and I appreciate your work.

> > > Package: libpcre1 (main)
> > > Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
> > > [REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
> > >   50046  libpcre1: does not build from source on sparc
> > 
> > Can we surely remove the package from the FTP-Servers or not?

> I've fixed the bug (already uploaded); whether we want to remove the package
> anyway is another matter.

That's the best news, we could have. A fixed package instead of a
removed package.

Ciao
     Christian
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