Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

> Package: emacs19 (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
>   60977  emacs19_19.34-26.4(frozen): build error with setpgrp

Already NMU'd.

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

Binary only recompile fixes this, in incoming.

> 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

A solution for this was suggested. Needs to use `tty` instead of a
hardcoded /dev/tty.

> Package: saytime (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
>   60733  saytime only screeches almost ununderstandably

I've never had this problem. It even works on my sparc, and has worked for
my i386 since I first used it in bo. Perhaps this is a DMA problem that
the user has setup wrong with their mono?

> Package: scalapack (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org>
>   55272  scalapack: can't build from source
>   58386  scalapack_1.6-12(frozen): build error (undefined symbols)
>   60530  scalapack: fails to build on sparc

Checking into this as I write this email.

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