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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999



On 99-11-29 Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 05:21:45PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
>  
> > > Package: base-passwd (main)
> > > Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
> > >   36007  update-passwd did many stupid things
> > 
> > We will open a task at the debian-qa package for this. Someone with a
> > good knowdlege of perl could take this task and provide us with a new
> > and better update-passwd

> There is already a task for this and iirc Wichert fixed this with the 
> current version. Funny that he did not update his rc-bugs list ;)

Well, read the mail from Wichert about this issue and you know why. :)

> > Matthias, when will you NMU bash 2.03 and close some of those bug
> > reports?

> bash will be ready when we release I am sure. He did another set of 
> packages and I will test them as soon as possible.

Could you please tell the URL again on Debian-QA, that also other
members from the QA Team can test the package.

> > > Package: boot-floppies (main)
> > > Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
> > >   43057  bootdisk: rawrite uses 8.3 names
> > 
> > I think the Team is already working on fixing this one.

> Sure. debian-boot seems to be pretty active right now. They will be happy 
> with more help anyway I guess ;)

I would like to help them, but at the moment I don't have enough time
here at home. Maybe I can do some work at the office.

> > > Package: ddd-smotif (contrib)
> > > Maintainer: Alexander Yukhimets <alexy@debian.org>
> > > [REMOVE] This package is no longer needed and can be removed.
> > >   34802  ddd-smotif: Generate core-dumps after start
> > 
> > Alexander, do you need some help to fix this bug? Has also been the new
> > uþstream version, mentioned in the BTS, packaged for Debian?

> I think this entry is absolutely correct. Let's get this out of Debian. It 
> works well with lesstif, no need to support some commercial Motif.

Okay, then could we please change the tag and submit a bug against
ftp.debian.org?

> > > Package: debian-policy (main)
> > > Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
> > >   43529  debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
> > 
> > And the Policy-Maintainer working on a fix?

> The? This is being discussed on debian-policy and the solution is already 

Right, but there are some people, that regulary work on the Policy.

> ironed out. Now somebody is needed to do the work and fix liblockfile. 
> Maybe I can do that this week. 

Okay, maybe this can also be done by someone else. 

> > What about this bug? Has it been fixed or not?

> It hasn't. And it really sucks...

Which bug? You quoted a bit to less.

> > > Package: diald (main)
> > > Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
> > > [SQUASH] taken (calc)
> > >   49324  diald depends on netstd which now is a fake package
> > 
> > Can be fixed by a recompilation. Philippe, when do you upload a fixed
> > version?

> Why is there a SQUASH entry on it and no upload has been done?

I don't know, but we can fix it now. :)

> > > Package: gnomba (main)
> > > Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
> > >   50399  XFree eat all the memory when i launch gnomba
> > 
> > Needs to be examined to see what's happening and how to fix.

> Timshel asked for more info and it seems he did not get any replies. I would 
> say it is a bug in the windowmanager and/or the x server...

May I then suggest closing this bug report. Or has someone seen this bug
too and can debug it?

> > > Package: screen (main)
> > > Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
> > >   50394  screen: It exits upon invocation with [screen is terminating] message.
> > >   51058  screen: Immediately quits
> > 
> > Can some confirm that there's still this bug?

> It sometimes occured on me. But I was unable to reproduce it :(

I have my self-compiled screen here and no such problem.

> > >   51088  screen doesn't work if home dirs are nfs-mounted
> > 
> > How much work would this be to fix?

> Works for me...

Anyone else there with problems? Otherwise please close the bug.

> > > Package: wmaker (main)
> > > Maintainer: Chris McKillop <cdm@debian.org>
> > >   41671  wmaker: WMaker segfaults when using gnome-pager to switch to other workspace and show (unminimize) window from other desktop
> > > [HELP] Any help is welcome, preferably patches.
> > 
> > Could someone from the QA-Team please help Chris to find a solution for
> > this bug?

> I tried to find the problem but I failed... I might try again with a faster 
> machine :)

I don't use gnome anywhere and so I can't help testing this. I think,
there are also other people that could help with examing and fixing such
bugs.

Ciao
     Christian
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