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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000



On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600 , BugScan reporter wrote:
> Bug stamp-out list for Mar 24 03:07 (CST)
> 
> Total number of release-critical bugs: 190
> Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 5
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Package: apache (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
>   59365  cron script kills itself
>   60257  apache-ssl: upgrade changes DocumentRoot!
>   60486  Apache doesn't show README* in dir listings
>   60575  /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
> 
> Package: autofs (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Justin Maurer <justin@debian.org>
>   52132  autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon crippled
> [STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream
> 
> Package: bash (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
>   58404  bash: *ap++ == 0x55 , segmentation fault out of nowhere!

this one is likely to stay

> Package: bind (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
>   59649  bind: Gives core dump

fix in Incoming

> Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
>   60193  communicator: buss error when replying to message

normal communicator behaviour :(

> Package: communicator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
>   42259  [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
>   43849  communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error

see above

> Package: debconf (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
>   60160  Finnish mirrors not included

this is RC?

> Package: dhelp (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>
>   60853  dhelp: uses glimpse insecurely

fix in Incoming

> Package: dotfile-bash (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
>   60060  dotfile-bash doesn't start

Joy said he will do an upload

> Package: exim (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
>   60871  exim_3.12-6.deb depends on libdb1.85, a non-existent package

fix installed some time ago

>   60988  general: problem with ssh install due to lack of gmp2 package in frozen

this one should be closed, because user had stable in non-US sources.list

> Package: gpm (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>
>   59793  gpm: gpm won't start from remote telnet session

should be fixed now

> Package: lsof (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Jim Mintha <jmintha@debian.org>
>   57203  lsof does not build with 2.3 kernel headers [buildd@drow.res.cmu.edu: Log for failed build of lsof_4.48-1 (dist=frozen)]

this is a problem, but not RC (IMHO)

> Package: man-db (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
>   60339  How about testing packages before uploading them?  2.3.14 dies on unpack

new man-db installed, so maybe it fixes this

> Package: modconf (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Boot Floppies team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
>   60182  New screen is drawn on wrong tty if changing tty while module detection

RC?

> Package: netbase (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
> [STRATEGY] Maintainer has fixed upload ready, coordination with sysvinit
>  is required.
>   59282  networking killed too early

this should be fixed in Incoming and maybe others

>   59377  netbase: can't build
>   60367  portmap isn't started on changing runlevels, breaking NIS/YP and NFS startup
>   60374  netbase: networking doesn't play well with NFS root
>   60517  prerm of netbase hangs
>   60770  netbase: inetd upgrade breaks services
> 
> Package: netscape (debian/contrib)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
>   60619  netscape: Error message: 'Bus error' when trying to run netscape.

old story

> Package: python-base (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
>   61004  Python-base 1.5.2-9 still depends on libdb1.85

this is a SPARC build problem, on i386 it's OK

> Package: spamfilter (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
>   60704  spamfilter depends on nonexistent package

geez, filing 2 bug reports, because the previous had been tagged only as
normal, but grave? But yes, he's right about the wrong dependency.

> Package: tar (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
>   60824  tar: doesn't build from source (src/Makefile.in not up to date)

fix in Incoming

> Package: tetex-base (debian/main)
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
>   42698  tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken

fix should be in preparation

> Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
> [HELP] Christoph has set up a mailing list tetex-maint@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de
> to discuss work on these packages.
>   36671  tetex-bin: xdvi fails on gzipped files

				Petr Cech
--
Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
           cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz


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