Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 21, 2000
Hi,
I did a bit sorting of the RC bugs. There a many bugs that seem to need a
NMU. I'm not yet a debian developer so I can't do this. :-(
It looks as if the number of RC bugs can go under 100 soon. :-)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 124
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 1
Problem is only in woody: 2
Perhaps only in woody: 1
Is this bug really RC? : 1
Patch is in the BTS / Easy to fix [NMU needed?]: 21
Perhaps easy to fix (but I'm not sure) [NMU needed?]: 12
Problem is only in woody:
Package: bluefish (debian/main)
Maintainer: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>
62736 [woody] bluefish: Bluefish doesn't work with Xkb
Package: gimp1.1 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
62560 Gimp always crashes when trying to use Select/By color tool
Perhaps only in Woody:
Package: lilypond1.3 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
62769 lilypond1.3: Overlapping staffs
Is this bug really RC?
Package: perl-5.005-base (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
61765 perl-5.005-base: crash with mhonarc
Patch is in the BTS / Easy to fix [NMU needed?]:
Package: animals (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jim Lynch <jwl@debian.org>
61825 animals: Doesn't start anymore
[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr9)
Package: apache (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
62721 apache: Error in the default apache config. Apache will not run.
62732 Broken config
62741 Apache source cannot be extracted
Package: blackbox (debian/main)
Maintainer: Brent A. Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org>
62421 blackbox: scripts broken, again
Package: dconfig (debian/main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
62578 dconfig: /etc/menu-methods/dconfig has wrong permissions
Package: dlocate (debian/main)
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
61789 dlocate: significant breakage, does not function as per man page
at all
Package: dwww (debian/main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
62726 dwww: dwww is unable to find packages with documentation included
in
/usr/share/doc/ (patch provided)
Package: festival (debian/main)
Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
62133 package available for powerpc, simple patch.
Package: jdk1.1 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
60857 Bad path to java-jdk11.1.gz in update-alternatives-jdk1.1
Package: libc6 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
62536 purging timezones removes /etc/timezone, should not happen.
[way 3. mentioned in the bug report]
Package: libdb2-util (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
62744 db_dump185 incorrectly linked against libdb2
Package: libglib1.2 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
62471 libglib1.2: Broken calc with french locale
Package: libpopt0 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
62314 libpopt should be in /lib
Package: mesag3+ggi (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
61705 Must pass --prefix to GGIMesa configure
Package: ncurses (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <ncurses-maint@debian.org>
56057 less_346-6(frozen): Error in build dependencies or in
libncurses5-dev
Package: pilot-manager (debian/main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
61931 pilot-manager: y2k issue - dates show as mm/dd/100
Package: util-linux (debian/main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
60734 util-linux: hwclock starts too late
62688 hwclock sets the time incorrectly if RTC is in local time
Package: xchat (debian/main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <edlang@debian.org>
60826 xchat: package has no copyright or changelog
Package: xserver-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
61021 [typo] xserver-configure doesn't call XF86Setup
[FIX] Patch included (MS, Apr 9)
Perhaps easy to fix (but I'm not sure) [NMU needed?]:
Package: apache-perl (debian/main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
62723 apache-perl: When replacing apache with apache-perl, apache is
unable
to run
[perhaps the same problem as in bug #62721 ?]
Package: gnomehack (debian/main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
53356 gnomehack: gnomehack has permission problems
61571 gnuserv: (void-function server-kill-buffer-query-function)
Package: gnuserv (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
62093 gnuserv: breaks emacs sub-policy
Package: libc6-dev (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
57914 libc6-dev: sys/io.h doesn't work with g++
Package: libdb2-util (debian/main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
61401 gmc: convert-metadata.db doesn't work with libdb2-util
[perhaps related with bug #62744 ?]
Package: lynx (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
59191 Have these buffer over flows in lynx been fixed?
[STRATEGY] should be fixed in latest lynx development versions
[there's a patch in the BTS; the submitter of this patch wasn't sure
if it really fixes the problem]
Package: sendfile (debian/main)
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
61423 sendfile: Can't receive files!
62025 sendfiled does not receive anymore
[there's a patch in #61423 that fixes probably both problems]
Package: sysvinit (debian/main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
60898 shutting down networking and unmounting NFS mounts
Package: webrt (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Lars Steinke <lss@debian.org>
62383 /etc/rt/config.pm shouldn't be world readable
Package: xemacs20 (debian/main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
55278 xemacs20: can't build from source
[STRATEGY] dres requested removal of xemacs20 from unstable (#61494);
perhaps it should be removed from frozen, too?
[this takes out: xemacs20-bin xemacs20-mule xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn
xemacs20-nomule xemacs20-support xemacs20-supportel]
cu,
Adrian
--
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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